It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our mother, Rita Teresa Jacobs.  Mom entered into eternal life on December 3, 2023 at Green Prairie Place in Plainview, Minnesota at the age of 93. She was born on January 25th, 1930 to Frank and Mary Deming on their farm that was 2.5 miles west of Plainview.   Mom was the youngest of seven children, having 3 brothers and 3 sisters. She would often tell stories about going to Mass on Sundays in the winter by horse and...

Johanna (Hanna) Eleonore Krenik, age 80, was born on January 24th, 1943, in Altenmittlau Kreis Gelnhausen, Germany to Ernst and Dorothea Müller. Hanna passed away at Seasons Hospice House on November 28th, 2023. She was loved by many and will be missed dearly.  Hanna grew up in Altenmittlau and attended grade school there. She furthered her education in Somborn and Hanau. At 17, Hanna went to work in Großauheim at BBC where she did bookkeeping for the company. Hanna met a...

Wauneta E. Stevens-Ortez, 96, went home to her Lord on November 18, 2023.  She had fought a long and valiant battle with Alzheimer’s.   She was the child of Richard U. Stevens and Ellen Pearl (Pinkerton) Stevens.  Richard has descendants going back to the Mayflower.  Pearl, as she liked to be called, has descendants going back to the Salem Witch Trials and beyond.  Wauneta secretly married Pierre Ortez December 28, 1946, in a small Church in Minneapolis,...

            Frances Kay Miller, 80 of Kellogg, Mn passed away on 11/13/2023. Kay was born on 2/2/43 in Arthur, North Dakota to Francis and Sarah (Plank) Drake. Kay spent most of her life in the Kellogg area. She married Richard (Dick) Miller on 10/15/1960. Together they had 5 children, Geraldine, Mary, Brenda, Jodi and Marty.             Kay was preceded in death by her husband...

Jesse James Mussell, 41, passed away at his home in rural Oronoco, MN, Wednesday, November 8, 2023, of complications of Diabetes. Jesse was born on March 15, 1982, in Rochester to Milon and Kathy (Jorgenson) Mussell. Jesse graduated from Plainview High School in 2001. He had worked for Adamson Motors, House Chevrolet and Star Limousine in their body shop. Jesse loved the outdoors and the Whitewater Valley. He enjoyed fishing, shooting trap, grill outs and spending time with family and...

Donald Joseph Murphy, 97, of Plainview, passed away at St. Mary’s Hospital, Rochester, MN, on November 6, 2023. Don was the eighth of eleven children born to Martin and Marie (Gludt) Murphy on January 21, 1926. On September 27, 1951, he married Lorraine Kruger. They had eight children. Don and Lorraine farmed in Conception. Don also held jobs with Reiter Implement, Plainview Liquor Store, Lakeside Packing Co. and did custodial and care taking at the Conception Church. Don sold the...

After a long battle with Parkinson’s disease, Ellen Esther Bratberg passed away Friday, November 3, 2023 at Edenbrook care facility in Rochester, MN. Born October 16, 1944 to Marvin and Olivia Skibbe in the Elkader, Iowa area, Ellen and her family moved to Minnesota and eventually settled in the Stewartville, MN area.  She graduated from Stewartville High School in 1962.  She then attended Methodist-Kahler School of Nursing and became a registered nurse (RN) in 1965. ...

Stanley Karl Bartsh, 87, of Plainview and formerly St. Charles, MN, died October 31, 2023, at Green Prairie Rehabilitation center in Plainview. Stanley Karl Bartsh was born September 14, 1936, to Chester & Avis (Sherwood) Bartsh at their home in Elba, MN. He attended Fischer Hill School and then went to St. Charles High School where he was active in football and basketball. He was baptized at the former Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church in Elba, MN. He served in the Navy from...

William “Bill” Wohlers, 88, died Thursday, October 26, 2023, at Green Prairie Rehabilitation Center in Plainview. Bill was born on October 26, 1935, in Lake City, MN to Elmer and Lorena (Cordes) Wohlers. He graduated from Bethany Lutheran College in Mankato in 1957. On July 13, 1957, he married Yvonne Piipke in Boyd, MN, and they were blessed with 5 children and 1 foster child. During their 66 years of married life, Bill and Vonnie lived in Elgin, Morristown, Arlington, Lake...

Thomas Calvin Eckdahl was born June 26th, 1964, to Raymond and Eva Lee (Devinney) Eckdahl in Watertown, MN. He grew up on a dairy farm outside of Maple Plain, MN, the 7th of 8 children. He graduated from Mound West Tonka High School in 1982, and the U of M, Waseca in 1984 where he studied Dairy Management. Following graduation, he worked on Raylore Farm in Hutchinson, MN. From there, he did missions work in the Philippines for two and a half years. After he came back to the states he moved...