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Cedric Austin Pressnall
Cedric Austin Pressnall, 85, a native of Detroit Lakes, died Saturday, April 22, at the Camelot Care Center in Forest Grove, Ore.
The son of Purl and Lelah Austin Pressnall, he was born in Detroit Lakes on Feb. 5, 1915, and moved with his family at an early age to homestead a farm in northern Montana. They later returned to Detroit Lakes, where he attended school.
He operated a radio and fix - it shop and worked with his father as a carpenter.
On Sept. 22, 1940, Mr. Pressnall and Grace Elizabeth Maulsby were married and moved to Tacoma, Wash., where he worked in a co - op.
During World War II, he was employed as an electrician and welder at the Todd Shipyards on Puget Sound.
The Pressnalls later moved to Auburn, Wash., where he was a machinist at the Auburn Seventh - day Adventist Academy Furniture Factory and they also lived in Puyallup, Wash., for a number of years and then moved to Gaston, where they purchased a farm and raised Charolais cattle.
Mr. Pressnall also worked at the Laurelwood Furniture Factory and set up machines so students could earn their way through school. He also invented jigs and other items to improve and speed up work at the factory before retiring in 1978.
They lived in Hillsboro for a number of years after he retired and moved to Beaver in 1995 so he could enjoy fishing on the Big Nestucca River. They moved to Forest Grove in 1999.
A member of the Seventh - day Adventist Church, he enjoyed playing the accordion, the mouth organ and listening to music. Until the age of 60, he was able to walk on his hands up and down stairs.
While in Detroit Lakes, Mr. Pressnall lived across from the high school skating rink and sharpened skates and was said to have skated enough to equal a trip around the world.
Surviving are his wife - Grace; two sons - Don (Judy) Pressnall, Bonners Ferry, Idaho, and Ron (Jeanne) Pressnall, Forest Grove, and a sister - Zelda (Viv) Andrus, Puyallup, Wash. There are six grandchildren, seven great - grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
Preceding him in death were two brothers (Art and Leonard).
At his request, there was no funeral service. The Fuiten, Rose and Hoyt Funeral Home had charge of arrangements.
Eleanor Ann “Elly” Peterson
Eleanor Ann “Elly” Peterson, 70, a prominent Staples resident and the former Eleanor Bengtson of Audubon, died at Tri - County Hospital in Wadena on Tuesday, May 16.
There will be a memorial service at 4 p.m. on Monday, May 22, from the Staples - Motley High School Centennial Auditorium, with Rev. Randy Tabor officiating.
Interment will be at Richwood Lutheran Cemetery north of Detroit Lakes, with the Cremation Society of Minnesota in charge of arrangements.
Eleanor Peterson, daughter of Oscar and Helen McKeegan Bengtson, was born in Fargo on Jan. 23, 1930, and moved with her family to Lake Park at an early age.
She attended a rural one - room school through the fourth grade and then attended school in Audubon, graduating from Audubon High School as the class salutatorian.
Following high school graduation, she attended the Detroit Lakes Business College and worked from 1949 - 90 as a secretary, accounting clerk and administrative assistant.
Eleanor was diagnosed with scoliosis and ataxia at the age of two - and - a - half and underwent a series of stays at Gillette Hospital in St.Paul, where she would live from 9 - 12 months at various intervals until she was a high school freshman. She seldom saw her parents during those stays.
After completing business college, she worked at the State Bank of Lake Park, at the Peterson - Biddick Co. in Wadena and for the Wadena Clinic. She was a secretary and administrative assistant in the Staples School District for 22 years and worked and lived in Wadena before moving to Staples.
Eleanor Bengtson and Richard I. Peterson, a retired U. S. Air Force veteran, were married in 1966. He died in 1980.
She was an active community volunteer in Staples and worked on a wide variety of projects for over 30 years. She compiled historical information for the Staples Diamond Jubilee celebration (1964) and the Staples Centennial (1989) and worked on the all - school reunions in 1989 and in 1995. Mrs. Peterson also was involved with the Reunion 2000 committee at the time of her death.
Her other project involvements included the Centennial Auditorium, Staples Jaycees and Staples Rotary projects, serving as a volunteer coordinator for the Staples Food Shelf, the Star City project and with the Republican party.
In 1984, she was the first recipient of the Outstanding Layperson in Education award given by the Staples Education Association and she also received a special recognition from the Minnesota Arts Council in 1998 for her work with Arts Across Minnesota.
Two cousins survive.
In addition to her husband, she also was preceded in death by her parents and several cousins. Among those who preceded her in death were a cousin (Phil Bengtson), who served as an assistant coach and as head coach of the Green Bay Packers football team, and an uncle (J. P. Bengtson), who once served as assistant secretary of state for Minnesota.
Lena M. Walberg - Luthi
Lena M. Walberg - Luthi, 91, died at her home in Detroit Lakes on Wednesday, May 17.
The funeral will be at 11 a.m. on Monday, May 22, from Bakke Lutheran Church.
Rev. John W. Lee will officiate at the funeral, Jennifer Turnwall will be the organist and the soloist will be Farey Enget.
Interment will be at Bakke Lutheran Cemetery, with the West - Kjos Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Serving as the pallbearers will be Richard Walberg, Bob Walberg, Tom Walberg, Steve Walberg, Sandy Westerman, Kathy Walberg, Nancy Nelson, Scott Walberg and Sharon Ferguson.
Lena Moser, daughter of John and Margaret Kahl Moser, was born Sept. 10, 1908, in Holmesville Township of Becker County and grew up and attended the District No. 77 School near Rochert.
On Nov. 12, 1927, she and Carl Robert Walberg were married at Lake Park and farmed in Richwood Township at rural Detroit Lakes. Mr. Walberg died July 24, 1975.
She moved into Detroit Lakes and was married to William Luthi in Detroit Lakes on Feb. 28, 1981.
Lena Walberg - Luthi was a member of Bakke Lutheran Church.
Surviving are three sons - Milton (Joan) Walberg, Arlington Heights, Ill.; James Walberg, Mounds View, and Jerome (Pat) Walberg, Detroit Lakes, and a brother - George (Bess) Moser, Clear Lake. There are nine grandchildren and nine great - grandchildren.
In addition to her first husband, she also was preceded in death by her parents, her second husband (who died July 1, 1993), six brothers and a sister.
Visitation: Sunday, May 21, 4 - 8 p.m., at West - Kjos Funeral Home and also one hour prior to funeral at Bakke Lutheran Church.
Norma E. Rossbach
Services were at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 20, from the West - Kjos Chapel in Detroit Lakes for Norma E. Rossbach.
Mrs. Rossbach, 80, died at Dakota Heartland Hosital in Fargo on Tuesday, May 16.
Rev. Tim Cook officiated at the funeral.
Interment was at the Canaan Fellowship Cemetery in Height of Land Township of Becker County, with the West - Kjos Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
The pallbearers included Mike Malm, Richard Jones, Kenneth Cole, Dustin Cole, Darvin Jahnke and Ira Jahnke.
Norma Jones, daughter of Joseph and Myrtle Smith Jones, was born in Fertile on Nov. 7, 1919, and moved with her family to Fargo at the age of five. The family moved to Moorhead and then to St. Paul when she was nine and she graduated from St. Paul Mechanic Arts High School (Class of 1937).
She was employed by Montgomery Wards in St.Paul and - on Sept. 16, 1939 - married Wallace J. Rossbach in Hudson, Wis.
Mrs. Rossbach was employed by A.O. Smith in St. Paul during World War II and, while her husband served with the U. S. armed forces, they lived in Louisville, Ky.; West Point, Ky.; Salzburg, Austria; Fort Knox, Ky., Duluth; Tacoma, Wash., and Anchorage, Alaska, before returning to St. Paul
The Rossbachs owned and operated the Little Club, she worked at First National Bank for seven years, then had Norma’s Dairy Store and - for eight years - owned and operated Norma’s Encore Store (a clothing store), all in St. Paul.
Mrs. Rossbach retired in 1976 and they moved to Height of Land Lake. She entered St. Mary’s Nursing Center on April 8, 1998.
Surviving are her husband - Wallace, rural Detroit Lakes, and a sister - in - law - Violet Jones. There are two nieces and a nephew.
Preceding her in death were her parents, a daughter (Maxine, who died Oct. 25, 1989), a sister (Carol Whitcomb, who died April 12, 1994), and a brother (Richard Jones, who died April 2, 1997).
Irene Brakob
Services were at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 13, from Zion Lutheran Church at Twin Valley for Irene Brakob, a lifelong Norman County resident.
Mrs. Brakob, 78, died at MeritCare Health Center in Fargo on Wednesday, May 10.
Interment was at Syre Lutheran Cemetery, rural Twin Valley, with the Anderson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Irene Thoreson, daughter of Ole and Anna Olson Thoreson, was born north of Syre on May 27, 1921.
She attended School District No. 70 (the Sandy Lane School), graduated from Twin Valley High School and married Hans Brakob in Strand Township on Feb. 9, 1946, and they lived in Strand Township.
Mr. Brakob died in 1965 and she continued to live there until entering Lutheran Memorial Retirement Center in Twin Valley in 1992.
In addition to being a homemaker, Mrs. Brakob was employed as a housekeeper at Lutheran Memorial Retirement Center and Nursing Home, she cleaned for the Twin Valley School System each summer and assisted with the potato harvest at Ada each fall.
A member of Zion Lutheran Church of Twin Valley, she belonged to the ELCA circles and enjoyed cooking, canning, baking and gardening.
Surviving are three sons - Lyle (Margaret), Newport Beach, Calif.; Edward (Kathy) Chesapeake, Va., and Hans, Albuquerque, N. M.; four daughters - Anna (Curtis) Pribula, Fridley; Colleen Boe, Ada; Carol Halvorson, Hendrum, and Carolyn Halvorson, Bismarck, N. D., and two step - children - Herman (Colleen) Brakob, Plymouth, and Doris (Arly) Volker, Crookston. There are 10 grandchildren, four great - grandchildren and a number of step - grandchildren.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Brakob also was preceded in death by her parents, brothers, sisters and a step - son.
John Illg
Services were at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, May 23, from Immanuel Lutheran Church at Shell Lake (rural Osage) for John Illg.
Mr. Illg, 84, rural Frazee, died Friday, May 19, at his home.
Rev. Bill Meyer officiated at the funeral.
Interment was at Oak Grove Cemetery in Detroit Lakes, with the Furey Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
John Adam Illg, son of Adam and Anna Frederick Illg Jr., was born in Silver Leaf Township of Becker County on Feb. 15, 1916.
He was raised and attended school there and then worked on the family farm.
On Dec. 31, 1935, Mr. Illg and Selma “Sally” Feldt were married at rural Frazee.
In addition to farming, he drove truck for a few years and he and his wife also operated a greenhouse from 1978 - 85.
Mrs. Illg died Dec. 14, 1995.
Surviving are a son - Ken (Kathy), Frazee, and a sister - Caroline (Harvey) Pankonin, Minneapolis. There are two grandchildren and one great - grandchild.
In addition to his wife, Mr. Illg also was preceded in death by his parents, a son (who died in infancy), a daughter (who died in infancy) and a grandson.
