Swanson Peterson Funeral Home

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.

Evelyn Myrtle (Jauss) Zander was
born July 10, 1917 at her
grandparents’ farm in Taylor, North
Dakota, to Fred and Ella (Christensen) Jauss.

Evelyn was baptized on July 29, 1917, at the Evangelical Lutheran
Church of Taylor, by Rev W.H. Larson and confirmed

April 20, 1930, at Christ Lutheran Church 19
miles Southeast of Dickinson, North Dakota, by Pastor William Geners.

On April 8, 1942, Evelyn was united in marriage
to Edward Bernard Zander, at Christ Lutheran Church, by
Pastor Geners, in Dickinson.  As a bride, she came to Howard Lake with
her husband and resided north of Howard Lake for 48
years.  When Edward passed away, she
moved to the Howard Lake Apartments on July 4, 1990.

While living on the farm, she
helped with the farm work.  Evelyn also
helped with the trucking business they operated the last 25 years they were on
the farm.

She was active in her church, St.
John’s Lutheran of Howard Lake, which she was a
member of since 1942.  She belonged to
what was then called the Ladies Aid, which did alot of sewing.  In later years, it was called WELCA and they
made many quilts for the needy.  Her
family was all remembered with quilts.
In later years, she took up crocheting as her eye sight was
failing.  She made afghans for little
children (Project Linus), prayer shawls and always had dish cloths for the
annual Christmas Brunch.  She taught
Sunday school for 25 years, helped with children’s choir, sewed gowns and sang
in the church choir.

Evelyn passed away at Good
Samaritan Home of Howard Lake on June 18, 2011 having reached the age of 93
years, 11 months and 8 days.  Survivors
include:  her children, Leroy (Sandra)
Zander and Lowell (Jeanne) Zander both of Prescott, AZ;
grandson Jason (Marjorie) Zander of Woodinville, WA; great
grandchildren; Michael, Eric and Madeline Zander; granddaughter Jill (Keith)
Tutewohl of Farmington, MN and her sister Ethel and family.

She was
preceded in death by her parents; husband, Edward; grandson to be Shane Elsen,
niece Linda and husband Robert Vaughn

Funeral service was held Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at St.
John’s Lutheran Church in Howard Lake with
Rev Joel Swedberg officiating.  Music was
provided by Grant Judd and Jon Benson.
Interment at the Howard Lake City Cemetery.