Swanson Peterson Funeral Home

Memorial service Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 4:00 PM at Swanson Peterson Funeral Home in Howard Lake.

Faye W. Kwilinski was born January 11, 1944 in Worthington, Minnesota to Ernest and Luvilla (Dittman) Vaux.  Faye passed away at St. Therese Nursing Home
in New Hope, Minnesota on August 4, 2011 at the age of 67.

Faye grew up in Brewster, Minnesota, she met Ronald Kwilinski and they were married June 1, 1963.  They moved to
Minnetonka and raised their two children, Joline and Tjaart
before retiring and moving to Howard Lake.

Faye enjoyed doing crossword
puzzles, crocheting, reading and eating burritos at Taco Johns.  Spending time with her grandchildren, Luke
and Jack was very special to her.

Faye is survived by son,
Tjaart Kwilinski; daughter, Joline (Dan) Castaneda; grandchildren Luke and
Jack; sister, Darlene (Al) Paskert, nieces, nephews, friends, family and cat –
Larry.

Faye was preceded in death by
her husband, Ronald; parents and sister, Patricia Cassens.

Funeral service will be held Tuesday, August 9th, 10:00 AM at St. James Lutheran Church in Howard Lake.  Visitation will begin at 9:00 also at church.  Interment will be at Howard Lake City Cemetery.

Gruenhagen, Dorothy Yvonne, age 89 of Howard
Lake passed away peacefully on

August 5, 2011
at the Howard Lake
Good Samaritan Care
Center.

Dorothy was born July
16, 1922 in Cokato, Minnesota
to Erick and Hazel Anderson.  Raised in
Cokato, she later married Orville Carlen in 1943.  This marriage was blessed with 2 children,
Barbara and Dwight.  Dorothy later
married Otto Gruenhagen in 1953 and was blessed with four children, Gerald,
Kathy, Susan and Janet.

Dorothy spent many years as a dedicated mother and later in
life worked in the Cokato and Howard Lake
nursing homes.  Dorothy enjoyed reading,
crocheting, cooking and sewing.  She
cherished spending time with her grandchildren.
Dorothy was a long time member of the St. James Lutheran Church and the
LWML.

Dorothy is survived by children, Barbara (Don) Lambert of
Riverton, WY, Gerald (Connie) Gruenhagen of Howard Lake, Kathy Steffes of St.
Cloud, Susan (Joe) Snyder of St. Cloud, Janet (Tim) LePage of Waverly, daughter
in law Janet (Mike) Ewert of South Haven; thirteen grandchildren, Steven
Mohring, Stacy Strasser, Rhonda Bakko, Melissa Feigum, Joseph Carlen, Christina
and Matthew Gruenhagen, Derek and Heather Steffes, Laura, Ellen and Chet Snyder
and Calvin Hugo; ten great grandchildren and brother, Myron Anderson of Luling,
TX.

Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents, husbands,
Orville and Otto; son, Dwight; son in laws, Jerry Hugo and Les Steffes;
granddaughter, Angela Carlen and great granddaughter Amelia Feigum.

Thank you to the Howard
Lake Good Samaritan
Care Center
for the years of loving care Dorothy received while a resident.

Memorial service for Tammy will be held Tuesday, August 9, 2:00 PM at Gethsemane Lutheran Church, Dassel, MN.  Time of gather will begin at 12:00 also at church.

Tammy Lou Lueders was born October 18, 1961in New Ulm,
Minnesota to Dennis and Bonnie Havemeier.
She attended parochial school in
Green Isle, MN and graduated

with the class of 1980 from Arlington
High School.

Following high school, Tammy worked in Arlington
at a facility for the mentally handicapped.
Then took a position in Victoria, Minnesota
at another home for the mentally handicapped.
She then worked in Buffalo, Minnesota
at an adult day care facility for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia.  After that she was the manager of an assisted
living facility in Buffalo, called
Kensington Cottages.  After that she went
to Econo foods pharmacy in Litchfield, then to Staples Chiropractic in Cokato
and was currently employed at Nesseth chiropractic in Cokato.

On July 13, Bret Lueders asked Tammy’s father if he could
propose to her, he agreed and the couple were married November 25, 1988 in Arlington.  Bret and Tammy have made their home in Dassel
ever since.  The couple has been blessed
with three boys.

Cooking, gardening, landscaping flowers, collecting rocks
and scrap booking were hobbies Tammy enjoyed.
Spending time with family and attending their boys events have always
been the most important thing in Tammy’s life.
Tammy was a member of Gethsemane
Lutheran Church
in Dassel and served in the youth program and Sunday School.

Tammy was taken from us at the Sanford
Medical Center
in Fargo following an accident on August 2, 2011 between Detroit
Lakes and Park Rapids she was 49
years old.

Tammy is survived by her loving husband, Bret; three sons,
Tyler, Garret and Pierce; her mother, Bonnie Havemeier of Cokato and sister,
Connie (Dave) Huber of Le Seuer, MN.

Tammy was preceded in death by her father, Dennis Havemeier,
and grandparents, Elmer and Eleanor Guetzko and Paul & Mary Havemeier.

Funeral Service for Ethel Hess will be at 11 AM on Monday July 11, at the Stockholm Lutheran Church

Visitation will be from 5-8 PM on Sunday at Swanson-Peterson Funeral Home of Cokato and 1hr prior to service at church on Monday

Paryer service at 7PM on Sunday

Ethel Irene Hess was born June 26, 1923 in Cokato to Carl and Anna (Nevala) Terning.  She grew up in Cokato was baptized and
confirmed at the Finnish Apostolic Lutheran Church.

Ethel married Omar Hess in
1940 at The Little Brown Church in Iowa.  She attended Anoka Ramsey Community
College
earning her LPN degree.  She worked at
the Hutchinson Hospital for a number of years.  Omar and Ethel did dairy farming in Glenwood City, Wisconsin and crop farming in Minnesota areas.  They
moved to town in 1980 and spent winters at their home in Tucson,
Arizona.

Ethel enjoyed sewing, music
and gardening.  She enjoyed spending time
with her birthday club and sewing club friends.
She was involved in her church and community.

Ethel passed away on July 6, 2011 at Birchwood Hospice House in Hutchinson.  She had
reached the age of 88 years and 10 days.

Ethel is survived by her five
daughters, Mary Ann (James) Ryan of Cokato, MN, Katherine Jolin of Springboro, OH, Jane Ray of St. Paul, MN, Carolyn (Dr. Carl) Cole of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands and Brenda Hess of Redondo Beach, CA; nine grandchildren and nine great grandchildren.

Ethel was preceded in death
by her parents, husband, seven brothers & sisters and son in law Dr.
Timothy Jolin.

Lorraine ‘Lori’ Carlson, age 87, of Howard Lake, died Thursday, June 29, 2011, at the Howard Lake Good Samaritan Care Center. She was born Aug. 14, 1923, on a farm northwest of Kingston, the fourth oldest child, having four brothers and five sisters. Lori attended school at District 44, and also in Watkins. She worked at many different jobs including cooking, cleaning, and factory work at Precision. Lori married Bill Carlson Aug. 23, 1944, in Kingston. Bill was serving in the Army Air Corps, and they lived in Midland, TX and Spokane, WA during his years of service. Following his service, they lived in Kingston, Minneapolis, and Navarre. When Bill retired, he and Lori enjoyed a summer home at Carefree Country Club in Big Lake, and spent the winters in Arizona. Five years ago, they sold their home in Arizona and bought a home on Dutch Lake Trail in Howard Lake. Bill was in poor health and passed away in October 2007. Lori has been a resident at Howard Lake Good Samaritan Care Center since December 2007.

Her hobbies included tending to her flowers, traveling, golf, snowmobiling, and visiting friends and relatives. In addition to her husband, Lori was preceded in death by her parents, Oscar and Hulda Peterson; and a brother, Alden Peterson.

She is survived by brothers Wilbert, Arnold, and Roger (Maxine); sisters Margie Mueller, Margaret (Bill) Hendrickson, Dorothy (Ernest) Larson, Estella Merriman, and Marlene (Roger) Ahlm; and several nieces and nephews. A memorial service took place Thursday, July 7 at 10 a.m. at Good Shepherd Free Lutheran Church in Cokato, with visitation for one hour prior to the service at the church.