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Friday, October 19, 2001
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Verona R. Wilking, 78, of rural North Mankato, died Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2001, at Immanuel-St. Joseph's Hospital in Mankato of cancer.
Services are 2 p.m. Monday at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Mankato. Burial will be in Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery in Mankato.
Visitation is 1-4 p.m. Sunday at Mankato Mortuary; and continues one hour before services Monday at the church.
Memorials are preferred to the Nicollet County Cancer Society, Immanuel-St.Joseph's Hospice or St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Mankato.
Stanley Plumley, 80, of Bird Island, died at his home.
Services are 10:30 a.m. Monday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Bird Island with burial in Hector City Cemetery.
Visitation is 5-8 p.m. Sunday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Bird Island and one hour prior to the service on Monday.
Hughes Funeral Home in Hector is handling the arrangements.
He is survived by his wife, Gladys, of Olivia; daughter, Joyce and husband Craig Bangston of Leitchfield, Ky.; sons, Larry and wife Natalie of Owatonna, Randy of St. Paul, Les and wife Mary Jo of Olivia, Lynn and wife Kelly of Bird Island; 11 grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; brother, Kenneth; sister and brother-in-law, Marzada and Ralph Wegener; and granddaughter Kristin Plumley.
He was born on July 28, 1921, in Montevideo to Claude and Amy (Lathrop) Plumley. He lived on a Carlton Lake farm in Montevideo and later moved to Maynard and Sleepy Eye before moving to Bird Island. He graduated from Sleepy Eye High School in 1939. He served in the U.S. Army from 1943-45 as a heavy construction operator for air landing strips. He served in the South Pacific from Australia to the Philippines. He began farming in the Hector area in 1945. He married Gladys Arndt on June 24, 1950 at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Hector. They lived in Hector for 12 years. The family moved to a farm 10 miles south of Bird Island in 1962, where he farmed until retirement in 1991. He served on the St. Paul's Lutheran Church council.
Veronica A. Rathmann, 95, formerly of 1016 N. State St., New Ulm, died Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2001, at Fairfax Community Home.
Mass of Christian burial is 10 a.m. Saturday at Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New Ulm with burial in the Catholic Cemetery.
Visitation is 4-8 p.m. today and continues 7:30-9:30 a.m. Saturday at Minnesota Valley Funeral Home. The Christian Mothers Society will pray the rosary at 4 p.m. today at the Cathedral. There will be a combined rosary by the St. Elizabeth Catholic Aid Society and the St. George Catholic Aid Society at 6:30 p.m., and a parish prayer service at 7:30 p.m. today at the funeral home.
She is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Ernestine and Linus Neidecker of New Ulm, Arline and Stanley Klingler of rural New Ulm, and Margaret Rathmann of Minneapolis; a son and daughter-in-law, Raymond and Judy Rathmann of rural New Ulm; 16 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter; and sisters-in-law, Helen Biebl a resident of the Fairfax Community Home and Verona Rathmann of Gibbon.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Edwin G. Rathmann on March 4, 1980; daughters, Mary Sprenger on Nov. 10, 1981 and Shirley Portner on Sept. 9, 2000; and son, Edwin Rathmann Jr. on March 10, 1976.
She was born on April 20, 1906, in West Newton Township, Nicollet County to Albert and Margaretha (Schwab) Huelskamp. She attended country school in West Newton Township, Nicollet County. She married Edwin G. Rathmann on Oct. 18, 1927, at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church in New Ulm. They farmed in West Newton Township, Nicollet County, until 1964 when they retired and moved into New Ulm. She worked at the Kaiserhoff Restaurant for 20 years as a cook. She was a member of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity in New Ulm, Christian Mothers Society, St. Elizabeth Catholic Aid Society, and St. George Catholic Aid Society of St. George.