Clarence Cragin
Nov 18, 2015
Clarence "Clay" Cragin, 68, formerly Superior, WI died Wednesday, November 18, 2015 in St. Paul after a short illness. Clay was born November 15, 1947 in Superior to Robert and Johanna Cragin. He was a Superior Senior High grad. Clay worked at Sears and Kmart as an Electronics salesman. He enjoyed reading and tinkering with anything mechanical. He was...
Maj. ret.
Nov 14, 2015
Maj. Aloysius "Al" M. Cismowski, USAF ret. 94 died Saturday, November 14, 2015 at Lakeshore with his family by his side. Al was born July 8, 1921 in Duluth in to Agnes and Adam Cismowski. He joined the US Air Force, where he was a pilot who served in World War II and retired in 1965 as a Major....
Gloria Nylund
Nov 8, 2015
Gloria Mae Nylund, age 90, of Duluth, MN, passed away peacefully on November 8, 2015 at Keystone Bluffs. Gloria was born May 9, 1925 to Victor & Bertha Sundberg. Gloria met her husband Clarence at Western Electric and they owned a side-business called Warning Lites for many years. Gloria also worked as a cook at Bayview Elementary School. While...
Ronald Wiseman
Nov 8, 2015
Ronald Eugene Wiseman, 77, of Duluth, died peacefully in his sleep at St. Mary's Essentia Hospice, the evening of Nov. 8 2015, with his family by his side. Ronnie attended Clover Valley High School graduating 1956, and enjoyed Football, Baseball, and Basketball, and as an adult looked forward to golfing. He married his childhood sweetheart, Frances Marylee Cooke on...
Gloria Parendo
Nov 7, 2015
Gloria Marjorie (Holmes) Towle Parendo, 88, died peacefully on Saturday November 7, 2015 at the Chris Jensen Health and Rehabilitation Center. She was born on June 15, 1927 to Adolph and Amelia "Millie" Holmes in Duluth. Gloria grew up on South Lake Avenue where the Canal Park Lodge is now located. Her grandmother Katrina emigrated from Finland and opened...
Dr. George Jennings
Nov 5, 2015
Dr. George Louis Jennings, 44, died Thursday November 5th just shy of his 45 birthday on November 8th, in Duluth Minnesota after a 28 month struggle with glioblastoma stage four brain cancer. The third of four boys, George was born in Burlingame, California on November 8th, 1970 to Dr. Leonard Patrick Jennings and Mary Lou (Hagen) Jennings. George attended...
David Furo
Nov 3, 2015
David Eric Furo, 65, of Duluth passed away Nov. 3, 2915 among family members after a long, brave battle with pancreatic cancer. He was born Sept. 1, 1950 to Gordon and Virginia Furo. David was a lifelong resident of Duluth and a 1968 graduate of East High School. In 1969 David began working at Minnesota Surplus Store with his...
Carolyn Vekich
Nov 1, 2015
Carolyn B. Vekich, of Phoenix, AZ, formerly of Duluth, died Sunday, November 1, 2015 at St. Luke's Hospice, Duluth. Carolyn was born November 9, 1933 in Duluth to Anne and Peter Vekich. She graduated from Cathedral High School and St. Joseph's School of Nursing in Phoenix, where Carolyn retired as a Surgical RN after many years of service. She...
Thelma Schaumberg
Oct 31, 2015
Thelma May Schaumberg, 86, of Duluth, died Saturday, October 31, 2015 at home. She was born May 25, 1929 in Duluth to Irene (Wick) and John Peterson. Thelma married Carl Simon Schaumberg on June 9, 1951 in Duluth. She had worked at St. Luke's Hospital in the X-Ray Department, as well as St. Mary's in Housekeeping. Thelma enjoyed old...
John Schulte
Oct 31, 2015
John "Jack" Melvin Schulte, 80 of Pike Lake, passed away peacefully on Saturday October 31, 2015 with his family by his side. He was born in Duluth to Melvin and Amelia Schulte on October 13, 1935. John was a member of the National Guard, he had worked for General Foods, Phillip Morris, and Kraft Foods for 25 years. He...
Violet Norman
Oct 31, 2015
Violet L. Norman, 101, of Duluth, passed away peacefully Saturday, October 31, 2015 at Essentia Health. Violet was born in Duluth on January 10, 1914, to B.W.K. and Gjerda Lindau. Violet attended Arnold and Central High School, graduating in 1931. She was a nanny for Hiram Elliott's family before her marriage to John F. Norman, in 1938. They lived...
James Skurla
Oct 28, 2015
James A. (Jim) Skurla, 63, of Duluth passed away on Wednesday, October 28, 2015, in St. Luke's Hospital, Duluth. Jim was born on September 12, 1952, in Duluth to John and Mavis (Alto) Skurla. Jim attended St. Michael's Catholic School and Cathedral High School in Duluth. While in high school he and his family moved to Chisholm, where he...
Sister Mary OSB
Oct 28, 2015
Sister Mary Martin (Bernice) Beringer, OSB, of St. Scholastica Monastery, age 93, died at 1:15 a.m. on October 28. She was born April 19, 1922, in Perham, Minnesota, to Martin and Regina (Silbernagel) Beringer, the youngest of five children. She attended Perham High School. After she entered the Duluth Benedictines on September 8, 1939, she earned a B.S. degree...
Genevieve Rutka
Oct 27, 2015
DOUGHERTY FUNERAL HOME 600 East 2nd Street phone (218) 727-3555 Duluth, Minnesota 55805 Fax (218) 727-7514 Genevieve "Gen" D. Rutka, 94, of Duluth passed away peacefully October 27, 2015 at Golden Oaks, Hermantown after a brief illness. She was born in Duluth February 3, 1921. Genevieve always reminded friends that she was delivered by a female doctor, Dr. Mary...
Francis Juten
Oct 25, 2015
Francis "Fran" E. A. Juten, 88 of Duluth, died Sunday, October 25, 2015 in Eden Prairie with his family by his side. Fran was born March 25, 1927 in Duluth to Axel and Cecelia. He served in the Army during WW II. Fran worked for many years as a mechanic at Maney International and enjoyed farming and any kind...
John McLennan
Oct 21, 2015
John J. McLennan, 75, died Wednesday, October 21, 2015 in St. Mary's Hospital of complications from lymphoma. Born July 4, 1940 in Superior, Wisconsin, he was the only child of John C. and Florence McLennan. John graduated from Superior Central High School in 1958. He spent two years in the Navy, graduated from Superior State with a four year...
James Perrault
Oct 17, 2015
James A. "Jim" Perrault Sr., 83, passed into Jesus arms while surrounded by his loving family and caring staff of the Franciscan Health Center on Saturday October 17, 2015. He was born in Duluth on January 1, 1932 to Theodore and Mary Perrault, and lived his first nine years in Remer, MN. Jim attended Duluth Cathedral and St. Jean...
Richard Gastler
Oct 15, 2015
Richard Henry Gastler, 79, passed away at Solvay Hospice House on Thursday October 15th, 2015 with family by his side. He was born on November 12th, 1935 to Otto and Erna Gastler of Chaska, MN. After graduating from St. John's Lutheran School, and Chaska High School, he received his Bachelor's degree from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1957. Dick married...
Lorraine Rodman
Oct 14, 2015
Lorraine F. (Daly) Rodman, 97, of Duluth died Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at Chris Jensen Health Center with her family by her side. Lorraine was born June 17, 1918 in Duluth to Frank and Rose Daly. She graduated from Duluth Denfeld and the College of St. Scholastica. Lorraine worked as a clerk for the Northern Pacific RR for ten...
Jeanne Vecchi
Oct 11, 2015
Jeanne Arlene Vecchi, of Duluth died Sunday, October 11, 2015 in Duluth. A much beloved wife, mother, grandmother, aunt and friend, joined our Lord in Heaven on Sunday, October 11, 2015. Jeanne was born on March 1, 1933, the daughter of Ethel and Clarence Dugdale, in Huron, South Dakota. She spent her childhood in Minneapolis, near Lake Calhoun, and...
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