Online Obituaries Saturday, June 5, 1999 June obits by date  June obits by name May obits by date  May obits by name Click here for today's obituaries    Rev. Emil E. Geistfeld, 84, died Thursday, June 3, 1999, at St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester, during open heart surgery.    Services will be 1 p.m. Monday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Mankato, with burial in St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Truman.    Visitation will be 2-6 p.m. Sunday at Mankato Mortuary and one hour before services Monday at the church.    He is survived by his wife Carmen; sons and daughters-in-law, Vinton and Claire of Mountain Iron, Thomas and Theresa of Prescott, Wisc., Theodore and Judith of Lewisville and Luther and Nancy of New Ulm; daughters and sons-in-law, Ruth and Joel Hansen of Newark, Del. and Faith and Scott Bergemann of Northfield; step-daughters, Georgann Hiller and husband David of Apple Valley, Gail Armstrong of Gaylord, and Nancy Cloeter and husband Rev. Paul of Sauk Rapids; 23 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; a brother and sister-in-law Victor and Viola of Truman; nephews and nieces.    He was preceded in death by an infant daughter, five brothers and three sisters.    He was born Dec. 16, 1914 in South Branch Township south of Lewisville, to Ernst H. and Louise (Lichhardt) Geistfeld. He attended parochial school at St. John's Lutheran School, South Branch Township. He attended Concordia College in St. Paul for four years of high school and two years of college, graduating in 1937. He entered Concordia Seminary, Springfield, Ill., in the fall of 1937, graduating in 1941. He was ordained Nov. 15, 1942, in Danbury, Conn. He married Viola A. Wolter on Aug. 24, 1941 in Northrop. Viola died March 22, 1980 in Rochester. He married Carmen A. (Kroehler) Wiedenheft on Aug. 29, 1981 in Good Thunder.    During his years of ministry he served at Pleasant Valley Lutheran Church, Racine; Immanuel Lutheran Church, Lewiston; Grace Lutheran Church, Escondido, Calif.; St. John's Lutheran Church, Atwater; St. Martin's Lutheran Church, Winona; St. Peter's Lutheran Church, Vernon Center; St. Paul's Lutheran Church, rural Ceylon; and Zion Lutheran Church, Lewisville. He served as visitation pastor for Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Mankato, for a number of years.    Clarence E. Kottke, 88 of Gaylord, formerly of New Auburn and Winthrop, died Wednesday June 2, 1999 at the Gaylord Lakeview Home in Gaylord.    Private funeral services will be 2 p.m. Monday at the Gaylord Lakeview Home chapel with burial in the Winthrop Cemetery.    Visitation is 1-2 p.m. Monday at the Gaylord Lakeview Home chapel.    He is survived by his daughters and sons-in-law, Germaine "Geri" and Sam Shult of Winthrop, and Lottie Ann and Harlow Schultz of New Auburn; a son and daughter-in-law, Michael and Arlette Kottke of Glencoe; 8 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.    He was preceeded in death by his wife Della in 1992; brothers Roland, Herbert, Wilbert and Lester Kottke.    He was born May 2, 1911 in Sumter, Penn Township, McLeod County, to Albert and Louise (Michaelis) Kottke. He married Della Schleeter in 1934 at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Brownton. After their marriage he owned and operated the Kottke Nursery and Sodding company in New Auburn. He also worked as the head groundsman for the Schmidt Brewing company. He also did carpentery work in Minneapolis on several apartment construction projects.    Jan Symmonds, 84, formerly of New Ulm, died Thursday, June 3, 1999 in Lebanon, Ore. Funeral arrangements are pending with Minnesota Valley Funeral Home in New Ulm.