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Wednesday, June 13, 2001
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   Clifford Lucio, 96, of Morton, died Tuesday, June 12, 2001, at the Redwood Area Hospital.
   Services are 1 p.m. Saturday at St. Cornelia's Church, Bishop Whipple Mission in the Lower Sioux Community, Morton with burial in the church cemetery.
   Visitation starts at 6 p.m. Friday at Redwood Valley Funeral Home and continues with an all-night vigil and at 8 a.m. Saturday at St. Cornelia's Hall.
   Redwood Valley Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

   Hilda Blank, 96, formerly of New Ulm and Countryside Apartments in Sleepy Eye, died Tuesday, June 12, 2001, at Sleepy Eye Care Center.
   Arrangements are pending with Minnesota Valley Funeral Home, New Ulm.

   Earl Jungers, 78, of Gibbon, died Monday, June 11, 2001, at Abbott-Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.
    Services are 11 a.m. Thursday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Gibbon with burial in the church cemetery.
   Visitation is 4-8 p.m. today and 7:30-8:30 a.m. Thursday at the Minnesota Valley Funeral Home in Gibbon and continues one hour before the service at the church on Thursday.
   He is survived by his wife, Clara Jungers of Gibbon; daughter and son-in-law, Susan and Ronald Kruggel of Winthrop; sons, Steven Jungers of Westminster, Colo., David Jungers of Shakopee, and Michael Junger of Lake Havasu City, Ariz.; grandchildren, Heather Kruggel of Chatfield, Matt Kruggel of Winthrop; great-grandson, Darren of Chatfield; sister, Marion Suppes of Moundsview; and nieces and nephews.
   He was preceded in death by his parents; sisters, Cecelia Dahlk and Frances Ruud; and a brother Clarence Jungers.
   He was born Feb. 24, 1923, in Hector to Nicholas and Helena (Scholla) Jungers. He attended country school and Hector Public School. On May 25, 1946, he married Clara Zackrison in Hector. He served in the United States Army from 1946 to 1948. He farmed in rural Gibbon and then worked for the Gibbon Meat Market and the Gibbon Creamery. He was the head custodian at the Gibbon Public School He was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Gibbon.