Edward Leonard
Dec 9, 2015
Edward "Ed" Neil Leonard, 75, of E 4th St. died Wednesday, December 9, 2015 at BeeHive Homes of Duluth, with his family by his side. Ed was born January 14, 1940 in Duluth to Dell and Kathryn Leonard. He graduated from Cathedral High School and Marquette University with a degree in Chemistry. Ed retired from the EPA lab in...
Theodore Griak
Dec 1, 2015
Theodore "Ted" Griak, 82, of Gary New Duluth, passed away on Tuesday December 1, 2015 at the Solvay Hospice House with his loving wife by his side. He was born in Duluth to Stojan and Dorothy Griak on September 13, 1933. Ted graduated from Morgan Park High School Class of 1951. He married Carol Matetich in St. George Serbian...
Susan Flattery
Nov 29, 2015
Susan "Sue" Marie (Sander) Flattery, 58 of Duluth, died November 29, 2015 at home surrounded by her loving family. , after living by God's grace with soft tissue sarcoma for the past five years. Susan was born on September 4, 1957 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Richard James and Jeanne Anne (Dickoff) Sander. She was raised by her parents with...
Virginia LaBud
Nov 26, 2015
Virginia I. Hantz LaBud, 90, of Duluth, passed away Thursday November 26, 2015 in St. Luke's Hospital. She was born in Duluth on March 22, 1925 to Samuel and Mary Hantz. Virginia had worked for Diamond Match Company in Cloquet, and at Lepak Lumber as a bookkeeper. She was a member of St. Raphael's and St. Joseph's Catholic Church's,...
Kita Rose
Nov 24, 2015
Kita Ley Rose, 55, of Duluth, passed away on Tuesday November 24, 2015. She was born in San Francisco, CA on May 20, 1960. Kita had worked as an in home Phlebotomist for several years. She was preceded in death by her mother Lucille Brotman. She is survived by her daughter Savannah Rose of Minneapolis, father Howard Brotman of...
Miriam Larson
Nov 20, 2015
Miriam Lee (Kobus) Larson, 53, of Duluth, died Friday, November 20, 2015 in Duluth. She was born in Duluth November 26, 1961 to Shirley C. (Reed) and Michael W. Kobus. Miriam was a graduate of Duluth Central High School. She had been employed by St. Louis County for 30 years. Miriam was preceded in death by her parents, and...
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...
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