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Wednesday, March 14, 2001
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Frieda Schiroo, 83, of Buffalo Lake, died Monday, March 12, 2001, at Hutchinson Care Center.
Services are 11 a.m. Saturday at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Buffalo Lake with burial in the church cemetery.
Visitation is 4-8 p.m. Friday and one hour before the service Saturday at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Buffalo Lake.
Hughes Funeral Home handled arrangements.
She is survived by her son Roger and his wife Kathy of Buffalo Lake; daughter Lois and husband Lowell Grams of Gaylord; grandchildren, Jennifer and Jason Schiroo and Dan Grams; sister, Renate Anderson of Rush City; sisters-in-law, Agnes Krosting, Louisa Krosting of Pilot Rock, Ore., Beverly Reese of Pilot Rock, Ore., Esther Krosting of St. Paul; Evelyn Schiroo of Gaylord, Vanna Schiroo of Winthrop; brothers-in-law, Herman Schiroo and wife Margaret of Hutchinson, Walter Rickheim of Winthrop;and nieces and nephews,.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Clarence; brothers, Paul, Renold, Felix Rudy and Laverne Krosting; sisters; Alma and her husband Daryl Johnson and Regina and husband Fred Kemple; and other relatives.
She was born on Sept. 16, 1917, at Arlington to Paul and Elizabeth (Hagen) Krosting.
She married Clarence C. Schiroo on June 8, 1941, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Gaylord. They farmed in rural Brownton, Stewart and Buffalo Lake. In 1981 they retired in Buffalo Lake.
Alfred Macheledt, 88, of Rush City, formerly of Fairfax, died Tuesday, March 6, 2001, at Methodist Hospital, St. Louis Park.
Services were held Saturday, March 10, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Rush City. Burial was in Calvary Catholic Cemetery.
He is survived by his wife, Catherine; daughters, Pamela and husband, Michael Mitchell of Hopkins; Colleen and husband, John Remer of Minnetonka; Maureen and husband, Tim Sheridan of Eagan; five grandchildren; brother, George Macheledt of Redwood Falls; sister, Agnes and husband Leonard Dietz of Sleepy Eye; nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, George and Anna Macheledt; sister, Marie and husband, Herman Rothenbacher; and sister-in-law, Mary Macheledt.
He was born Aug. 23, 1912, in Fairfax. He grew up on the family farm and attended country school and St. Andrew's Catholic School. He married Catherine Heinz on Nov. 10, 1952. They farmed near Rush City and continued to live on the farm after retirement.
Violet Zucco, 91, of Redwood Falls, died Sunday, March 11, 2001, at the Wood Dale Nursing Home in Redwood Falls.
Services are 2 p.m. today at Nelson Funeral Home in Redwood Falls with burial in the Redwood Falls Cemetery.
Visitation is one hour before the service at the funeral home.
She is survived by her husband, Francis of Sun City West, Ariz; brothers; John Griffin of Tustin, Calif., and Curtis Griffin and wife Emily, of South Milwaukee, Wis., and three nieces.
She was born on March 5, 1910, in Redwood County, Minnesota, to Harry and Edith (Heimer) Griffin. She attended Redwood Falls schools graduating in 1927. She received a Registered Nurse degree from Anchor Hospital in St. Paul. She worked at University California Berkley as a head registered nurse retiring in the early 1960s. She and her husband returned to Redwood Falls for the summers and wintered in Sun City West, Ariz. She became a resident of Wood Dale Nursing Home in 1996.
Herbert H. Drews, 96, of 785 Birch Ave. in Gibbon died Friday, March 9, 2001, at Gaylord Lakeview Nursing Home.
Services are 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Moltke Township, Sibley County, with burial in the church cemetery.
Visitation is 4-8 p.m. Wednesday at Minnesota Valley Funeral Home in Gibbon and will continue one hour before the service at the church on Thursday.
He is survived by his daughters and sons-in -law, Donna and Kenneth Raitz of Commerce City, Colo., Delores and Edgar Schuft of Arlington, and Noreen and Norbert Schwecke of Norco, Calif.; 13 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren; and a special friend, Amelia Rieger.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Mabel Drews, on Dec. 29, 1988; ten sisters; and granddaughter, Lisa Schuft in June 1980.
He was born Jan. 8, 1905, in Moltke Township, Sibley County, to Adolph and Emma (Berger) Drews. He attended country school. On June 3, 1928, he married Mabel Buerkle at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Moltke Township. They farmed in Moltke Township until retiring in 1984 and then moved into Gibbon. He was a lifetime member of St. Peter;s Lutheran Church.
Mary Louise Dahl, 71, of Glenwood and formerly of New Ulm, died Tuesday, March 6, 2001, at Lakeview Good Samaritan Center, Glenwood.
Services were held March 10 in Glenwood. Hoplin Funeral Home, Glenwood, handled arrangements.
She is survived by her husband, Eldon "Swede" Dahl of Glenwood; son, Bryon and wife, Wendy, of Robbinsdale; daughter, Amy Dahl of Chicago; two grandchildren; brother, Robert and wife, Marlene Fasick of Mount Prospect, Ill.; several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Ruth.
She was born June 30, 1929, in Chicago, to Augustas and Gladys (Inman) Fasick. Her family lived in Mount Prospect, Ill. She later attended Arlington Heights High School, graduating in 1947. On Oct. 28, 1949, she married Eldon Dahl in Mount Prospect, Ill. They lived in Arlington Heights and in the Mount Prospect area for 18 years. In 1967, they moved to New Ulm. In 1990, they moved to Glenwood.