Sunday, November 21, 1999
 


   Vernon Hall, 86, of Fairmont, formerly of New Ulm, died Friday, Nov. 19, 1999 at the Lakeview Methodist Health Care Center in Fairmont. Funeral service will be 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in New Ulm, with burial to follow in the church cemetery.
   Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the church. Firle Funeral Home of New Ulm is handling arrangements.
   Survivors include his son, LeRoy Hall and his wife Darlene of Fairmont; daughter, Diane Keute and her husband Lester of Palmdale, Calif.; grandchildren, Ryan Hall of Minneapolis, Kimberly Hall of St. Paul, Jamie Keute of Palmdale, and Tonya Gotcher and her husband Casey of Meridian, Idaho; two great grandchildren; and nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife Clara in 1998; a daughter-in-law Elaine Hall; two brothers and one sister.
   He was born Nov. 13, 1913, in Colgate, Okla., to William and Viola Hall. His parents died when he was four years old. At 13, he moved with his foster family to Kansas, where he attended school. He married Clara Fenske on Dec. 3, 1939 in New Ulm. Together, they farmed in Blue Earth County for several years, moving to New Ulm in 1957. He then worked for the former Union Hospital for ten years and later worked for New Ulm High School as a custodian for 12 years. His wife died in August of 1998. He was a member of St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church in New Ulm.

   Wilsie Froland, 89 of rural Echo, died Friday, Nov. 19,1999 at the Parkview Home in Belview.
   Services will be 10: 30 A.M. Monday at the Assembly of God Church in Granite Falls with burial in the Hillside Cemetery, rural Echo.
   Visitation will be 4-9 p.m. today at the Sunset Funeral Home in Echo and continue Monday one hour prior to services at the church in Granite Falls.
   Wilsie Lenora Froland was born Wednesday, July 6,1910 in Sioux Agency Township, Yellow Medicine County, to Christ and Bertha (Anderson) Iverson. She was baptized Aug. 7,1910 in the Rock Dell Lutheran Church and confirmed on Oct. 11, 1925 in the Rock Valle Lutheran Church. Wilsie attended Country School District # 93. On Oct. 9, 1929 she married Ole A. Froland in the Parsonage in Belview. Ole died on Sept. 30, 1999 just nine days before their 70th wedding anniversary. They lived near Echo after their marriage until moving to Granite Falls in in 1938 where they lived until moving to St. Paul in 1942 and then moved to the Froland Century Farm North of Echo in 1943. They continued to live on the farm until entering assisted living in Clara City in 1996 before entering the Parkview Home in Belview in 1997. She was a member of the Assembly Of God Church in Granite Falls, active in the Women's Group, attended adult Sunday School and Bible Study.
   She is survived by two sons: Gene Froland and his wife Marlene of Hastings, and Donald Froland and his wife Dorothy of Dayton, a daughter Wanda Luepke and her husband Alvin of Echo; 10 grandchildren, seven great grandchildren; sisters, Hazel Schroeder of Danube, Irene Hartzell of Montevideo, and Gladys Holm of Fridley, and three sisters-in-law. She was preceded in death by her husband Ole, her parents Christ and Bertha, brothers, Elmer, Arlie, and Erwin, and sisters, Cora, Tina, and Gertina.