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Friday, June 22, 2001
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   Clarence Blumhoefer, 76, of Fairfax, died Wednesday, June 20, 2001, at the Sunwood Care Center, Redwood Falls.
   Mass of Christian burial will be 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Andrew's Catholic Church, Fairfax, with burial in the church cemetery.
   Visitation will be 5-8 p.m. Friday and 7:30-8 a.m. Saturday at the Hauser-Hantge Funeral Chapel, Fairfax and one hour prior to services at the church. A rosary service will be at 6 p.m. and parish prayer service at 7 p.m. Friday at the funeral chapel.


   Adolph A. Bussler, 86, of Winthrop, died Wednesday, June 20, 2001, at Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park.
   Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday at St. John's Lutheran Church in Bismarck Township, Sibley County, with burial in the church cemetery.
   Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Friday and 7:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday at the Dalin-Hantge Funeral Chapel in Winthrop and one hour prior to services at the church.
   He is survived by his wife Ruth of Gaylord Lakeview Home; sons, Dennis of Winthrop and Jerry and his wife Annie of Rapid City, S.D.; seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.
   He was preceded in death by a daughter, Janice, in infancy; parents; brothers Albert, Edward, Richard, Rudolph, Waldemar and Harold; and sisters, Minnie, Alma, Adella, Elsie and Viola.
   He was born March 31, 1915, in Transit Township, to August G. and Emma Ottilie Maria (Schiroo) Bussler. He grew up in Transit Township, where he attended country school.
   He married Ruth E. Rickert on Sept. 24, 1937, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Brownton. He did carpentry work with his brothers. The couple farmed with relatives for a few years. They moved to Fairfax in 1940 and managed a farm operation there. In 1943, they rented Milton Frank's farm in Bismarck Township. In 1944 they rented a farm in Transit Township, which they later purchased. They lived there until 1969, when they purchased the Martin Becke farm in Bismarck Township. They moved to Winthrop in 1995. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Bismarck Township. He served as council president, church treasurer, church council member, cemetery board member and Sunday school board member. He served as supervisor for eight years on the Transit Township Board.


   Nettie Goudy, 92, of Wabasso, died Wednesday, June 20, 2001 at the Wood Dale Nursing Home in Redwood Falls.
   Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at New Avon United Methodist church in New Avon Township, with burial in the Crestlawn Memorial Gardens, rural Redwood Falls. Visitation will be 5-7 p.m. Sunday at the Nelson-Martin Funeral Home in Redwood Falls and one hour prior to services at the church.
   She is survived by her husband, James of Wabasso; and children, Donna Newman and husband Paul, of Huntingdon, Tenn., Merlin of Wabasso, Patricia Keener of Sioux Falls, S.D. and Phyllis Judson of Wabasso; 10 grandchildren; five great grandchildren; brother Lendale Berg of Prior Lake and sister Alice Campbell of Redwood Falls,
   She was preceded in death by her parents; brothers, Jesse, Clinton, Glen and Russell Berg, and a brother and sister in infancy.
   She was born July 17, 1908 in Charlestown Township, Redwood County, to Leander and Emma (Weldon) Berg. She lived in Charlestown Township until 1913 when she moved with her family to Vail Township and attended Wabasso Public Schools. She married James N. Goudy on April 24, 1930, at the New Avon United Methodist Church. They farmed in Vail Township two miles north of Wabasso until 1986 when they moved into Wabasso. She entered the Wood Dale Nursing Home in September 1998. She was a member of the New Avon United Methodist Church, served as youth director from 1959 until 1961 and was a member of the United Methodist Women.


   Adela Wallow, 86, of 300 N. Broadway, New Ulm, died Monday,
   June 18, 2001, at Oak Hills Living Center in New Ulm.
   Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at Redeemer Lutheran Church in New Ulm, with
   burial at 2 p.m. at St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery in Green Isle.
   Visitation will be 5-8 p.m. Sunday and 7:30-8:30 a.m. Monday at the Firle Funeral Home in New Ulm, and one hour prior to services at the church.
   She is survived by daughter and son-in-law, Joanne and Ronald Mehlhop of New Ulm; two grandchildren and five great grandchildren; sister, Gertrude White, of New Ulm; her ex-husband, Vern Wallow of Winona; and two nephews.
   She was preceded in death by a brother and sister in infancy.
   She was born April 14, 1915 on a farm near Hamburg, to August and Anna (Masemann) Bruesehoff. She attended rural parochial school and Central High School in Norwood Young America, graduating in 1935. She worked as a waitress for many years at Mudcura Sanitarium for Arthritic People. She also worked at Brown & Bigelow in the Twin Cities. She married Vern Wallow on Nov. 17, 1954 at Ida Grove, Iowa. They lived in New Ulm where she worked for J.C. Penney and Ben Franklin. She worked in the dining room and coffee shop at Sioux Valley Hospital for seven yers, retiring in 1977. She lived above Marv's Barber Shop in New Ulm for 20 years, moving to the Broadway Haus Apartments Oct. 1, 1989. She became a resident of Oak Hills Living Center in New Ulm in August 2000. She was a member of Redeemer Lutheran Church in New Ulm.