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Catherine Bennett

Catherine Bennett

Jul 15, 2015

Catherine A. Bennett, age 73, Duluth, died Wednesday July 15, 2015 at Viewcrest Health Center. She was born in Duluth on March 26, 1942 to Merrill and Esther Ward. Cathy was a 1960 graduate of Denfeld High School. She married Bryan J. Bennett in Duluth on January 26, 1963. Cathy retired from the Mortgage Loan Dept. at North Shore...

Russell Wedin

Russell Wedin

Jul 13, 2015

Russell Gordon Wedin, 72, Duluth, died Monday July 13, 2015 at his home. He was born in Duluth on Oct. 25, 1942 to Gordon and Blanche Wedin. He was a Viet Nam Era Army veteran, serving in Germany. Russell married Mickaleen Draeger on Sept. 5, 1964. Over the years he worked many jobs at the waterfront, with his last...

Marilyn Harty

Marilyn Harty

Jul 13, 2015

Marilyn J. Harty, 85, Hermantown, died Monday July 13, 2015, at St. Mary's Medical Center. She was born in Duluth on Jan. 3, 1930, to Arthur and Myrtle Archambeau. She was a 1947 graduate of Hermantown High School. Marilyn worked at the former Marshall-Wells prior to starting her family. She married Kenneth Harty on July 11, 1953. She loved...

Tracy Replogle

Tracy Replogle

Jul 6, 2015

Tracy Marie (Kroll) Replogle, 31, of Superior, WI, formerly of Duluth, died Monday, July 6, 2015. She was born on March 1, 1984 to Robert and Linda (Sjoblom) Kroll in Duluth. Tracy graduated from Lake Superior High School and married Thomas Replogle in Duluth on December 20, 2003. Tracy was a homemaker to her three children filling her days...

Evelyn McVean

Evelyn McVean

Jul 3, 2015

Evelyn Fay McVean, 73, Proctor, died July 3, 2015 at Ecumen Lakeshore. She was born in Duluth on April 9, 1942 to Perry and Dorothy Allie. She graduated from Proctor High School in 1960. She then married and made her home in Munger. Evelyn also graduated from Lake Superior College with a degree in Occupational Therapy. She worked at...

Virginia Carlson

Virginia Carlson

Jun 27, 2015

Virginia Doris Carlson, 91, of Hermantown, went home to be with her Lord Saturday, June 27, 2015. Born in Duluth on January 7, 1924, she was the second child of Edward and Eleanor (Lundberg) Anderson. Virginia graduated from Denfeld High School in 1942. After graduation she worked at the Minnesota National Bank until her marriage to Bert Carlson on...

Myrtle Biles

Myrtle Biles

Jun 20, 2015

Myrtle M. Johnson Biles, age 92, Duluth, passed away peacefully June 20, 2015. She was born in Duluth on May 26, 1923 to Carl and Ina Johnson and grew up in Hermantown and Maple, WI. Myrtle was a 1941 graduate of Proctor High School and the Young and Hursh Business College in 1942. She married Robert Biles on September...

Leonard VanGuilder

Leonard VanGuilder

Jun 11, 2015

Leonard L. VanGuilder, 85, of North 66th Ave West, passed away Thursday, June 11, 2015 in Essentia Health Miller Dwan surrounded by family. Leonard was born on November 29, 1929 to Floyd and Crystal VanGuilder in Clear Creek Township, MN. Leonard was a millwright, working for various grain elevators, retiring in 1992 from Cargill Grain Elevators. He was a...

Loius Kanuit

Loius Kanuit

Jun 9, 2015

Louis Leo Kanuit, 96, of Duluth, died Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at Bayshore Health Center. Louis was born on May 16, 1919 to Laura and Albert Kanuit in Duluth. Following graduation from Civil Service School, he accepted a position in Washington D.C. with the government. In 1942 he entered the U.S. Army and saw action in France, Belgium, Holland,...

Delphine Mankowski

Delphine Mankowski

May 31, 2015

Delphine "Dell" Mankowski, 90, formerly of West Duluth, went to her "happy home" to be with her precious Lord, Jesus on Sunday, May 31, 2015 at Keystone Bluffs surrounded by her family. She was born on November 16, 1924 to Frank and Rozalia Kuznia in Stephen, MN. Dell married Chester Mankowski on October 26, 1946 in St. Mary's Star...

Arnold Larson

Arnold Larson

May 25, 2015

Arnold W. Larson, 87, died May 25, 2015 at the Minnesota Veterans' Home in Silver Bay, MN. Arnie was born September 14, 1927 to Arnold G. and Ruth Larson in Albert Lea, MN. He grew up in Albert Lea and was active in sports. He attended St. Olaf College and left to serve in World War II. Afterwards, he...

Cleo Larson

Cleo Larson

May 23, 2015

Cleo A. Larson, 85, Duluth, died May 23, 2015 at Solvay hospice house with her family at her side. We will all miss her infectious smile. She was born in Duluth on May 27, 1929 to Gaudias and Laura Royer. Cleo was a 1947 graduate of the former St. Jean deBaptiste Catholic Church. She married James A. Larson in...

Theresa Wallen

Theresa Wallen

May 19, 2015

Theresa F. Wallen, age 85, Duluth, died May 19, 2015 at Golden Oaks in Hermantown. She was born in Duluth on January 2, 1930 and was a 1949 Graduate of Denfeld High School. Theresa married Orville Wallen in Duluth in October, 1951. She had worked at Minnesota Woolen for 17 years and later had a home daycare for 10...

Genevieve Beaudoin

Genevieve Beaudoin

May 9, 2015

Genevieve Beaudoin, age 95, Duluth, died MAY 9, 2015 at Bayshore Residence. She was born in McKinley, MN, on September 1, 1919 to John and Mary Mushinski. She later married Russell Beaudoin at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Duluth. Gen had worked in the bakery department at the former Denfeld Super Valu for over 20 years. She was...

Eva Andersen

Eva Andersen

May 5, 2015

Eva Helaine Andersen of Duluth passed away on May 5, 2015. Helaine was born June 8, 1921 in Bark River, Mich., to Ruth and Rudolph Dahlberg. She grew up in Bark River and graduated from Bark River Harris High School, Class of 1939. She moved to Duluth in 1941, working for Northwestern Bell Telephone Company as an Operator (A...

Gilbert Johnson

Gilbert Johnson

May 2, 2015

Gilbert W. "Gil" Johnson, 91, of Edgewood Vista, passed away peacefully on Saturday, May 2, 2015 in Miller Dwan Hospital. Gil was born in Duluth on June 16, 1923 to Gilbert and Amy Johnson. He was a 1941 graduate of Central High School and served in the Army Air Force in Kunming, China where they supplied oxygen for the...

Dorothy Stone

Dorothy Stone

Apr 22, 2015

Dorothy Leona Stone, 94, of Duluth passed away April 22, 2015 at St. Mary's Hospital. Dorothy was born on July 3, 1920 to Joseph and Theresa Vogel, and grew up in Melrose, MN. She graduated from Melrose High School and moved to Minneapolis, where she met Chester A. Stone. They married on December 13, 1940 and moved to Duluth,...

Vera Lick

Vera Lick

Apr 15, 2015

Vera A. Lick of Duluth died April 15, 2015, at Evergreen Knoll in Cloquet. She was 96. Vera was born in Superior, Wis., March 23, 1919, to Julius and Hulda Olson. She was a graduate of Willow River High School and teachers college. On May 6, 1939, she married Albert Lick of Hinckley, Minn., where the couple lived until...

Thelma Liebertz

Thelma Liebertz

Apr 9, 2015

Thelma Marguerite (Dickinson) Liebertz, 99 of Duluth, MN, passed away Thursday April 9, 2015 at Essential Health St. Mary's, after a brief illness. She was born in Marion Twp, Michigan on November 20, 1915, the oldest of five children, to William and Mina (Stoner) Dickinson. She graduated from Owosso High School, in Owosso Michigan, in 1933. Thelma was employed...

Kathleen Stevens

Kathleen Stevens

Apr 7, 2015

Kathleen Rae (Hermanson) Stevens, age 68, Duluth, died April 7, 2015 in Duluth. She was born in Duluth on October 9, 1946 to Carl and Betty Hermanson. Kathy was a 1964 graduate of Duluth Central High School. After graduation, she worked for St. Louis County Social Services, retiring in 2008. During her working years Kathy was involved in union...

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