Obituaries

Luvern Ernest Quandt

Luvern Ernest Quandt

Dec 29, 2019

Luvern (Vern) Ernest Quandt, 87, of Rochester, died on Sunday, December 29, 2019 from injuries sustained in an auto accident. Vern was born to Harold and Bertha (Redemske) Quandt in Rochester. He grew up and worked on the family farm in Pleasant Valley Township. He graduated from Rochester High School and went on to serve his country in the United...

Bertrand Romel Davis

Bertrand Romel Davis

Dec 29, 2019

Bertrand Davis, 48 of Rochester, MN died Sunday, December 29, 2019. Obituary coming soon.

Dean Klauer

Dean Klauer

Dec 26, 2019

Dean Richard Klauer, age 74, of Rochester, passed away from complications of pneumonia on Thursday, December 26, 2019 at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus of Rochester. He was born on March 3, 1945 in the town of Berlin, Wisconsin, the youngest son of three children by Paul and Clara (Pigorsch) Klauer. Dean graduated from Berlin High School in 1963...

Jill Ann Buley

Jill Ann Buley

Dec 22, 2019

Jill Ann Buley, age 48 passed away on Sunday, December 22, 2019 at Methodist Hospital Rochester, Minnesota. Jill was born on September 22, 1971 in Denver, Colorado to Susan and Robert Micklick. Jill grew up with her brother John and her parents in Conifer and Evergreen, Colorado, as well as Decorah and Clear Lake, Iowa with many close-knit relationships to...

Antanas "Tony" Bivainis

Antanas "Tony" Bivainis

Dec 22, 2019

A Mass of Christian Burial for Antanas "Tony" Bivainis, 94, of Rochester will be at 11:00 am on Friday, December 27, 2019 at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Rochester. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church. Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery. Antanas Bivainis was born on February 18, 2019 in Utena, Lithuania....

Sharon "Shari" Radke

Sharon "Shari" Radke

Dec 22, 2019

Sharon "Shari" Ruth Radke, 75, of Rochester, passed away unexpectedly at St. Mary's Hospital on December 22, 2019. Shari was born on December 11, 1944 in Rochester to Arval and Ruth (Voll) Witter. She went to country school through 4th grade. In 5th grade she started in Stewartville Public School where she graduated in 1962. She went on to earn...

Leo Corfits

Leo Corfits

Dec 19, 2019

Leo D. "Dale" Corfits, 98, of Rochester, MN died Thursday, December 19, 2019 at Eden Brook. Leo Dale Corfits was born November 27, 1921, to Chris and Hazel (Dvork) Corfits, in Genoa Township, Olmsted County, MN, and attended grade school at Northrup School in Rochester, On February 20, 1942, he married Helen Timmerman in St, Charles, MN, while working for...

Audre Quandt

Audre Quandt

Dec 19, 2019

Audre Luise Quandt, 82, of Rochester Minnesota, died on Thursday, December 19, 2019 in an auto accident. Audre was born to Paul and Leona (Stuemke) Hiller in Mankato and grew up in Good Thunder where she graduated from Good Thunder High School in 1954. She went on to attend Mankato State College. She married Luvern (Vern) Quandt on March 9,...

Nancy Stanley

Nancy Stanley

Dec 18, 2019

Nancy Lee Stanley, 84, of Rochester, passed away on December 18, 2019 at St. Marys Hospital. Nancy was born December 7, 1935 in Lancaster, WI to Levi and Mabel (Flaherty) Winfrey. She graduated from Wapello High School and went on to obtain her nursing degree from Hamline University and her B.S. from the College of St. Francis in 1988. On...

Alfred William Grunklee

Alfred William Grunklee

Dec 17, 2019

Alfred William Grunklee, age 88, died peacefully at his home on Tuesday, December 17, 2019. Al was born in Claremont on January 6, 1931, to parents Alfred and Alma (Schley) Grunklee. He was the youngest of four children. Al graduated from Dodge Center High School in 1948. He served in the Army for two years and then he got a...

Emil "Herb" Pelnar

Emil "Herb" Pelnar

Dec 13, 2019

Herb was born in the township of Carlton in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin on May 7, 1938. His parents were Hedwig (Wetterling) and Emil Thomas Pelnar. He had seven brothers and sisters, worked the family farm and hired out to neighboring farms at the tender age of 14. He also worked at the cheese factory, where he gained his love for...

John Juergens

John Juergens

Dec 13, 2019

John Louis Juergens, 94, of Rochester, passed away peacefully at his home in Charter House on Friday, December 13, 2019. He was a kind and loving father, a devoted husband, a champion of women, and a great doctor and teacher. Juergens was a pioneering cholesterol researcher and cardiovascular specialist at Mayo Clinic for 37 years, treating farmers from Iowa, oil...

Beverly Joan Huneke

Beverly Joan Huneke

Dec 12, 2019

A Celebration of Life for Beverly J. Huneke, 93, of Burnsville, MN (formerly of Rochester) will be at 11:00 am on Tuesday, December 17, 2019 at Ranfranz and Vine Funeral Homes. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Burial will be at Grandview Memorial Gardens. Beverly Joan Haack was born on March 10, 1926...

Donald Christner Mcilrath

Donald Christner Mcilrath

Dec 7, 2019

Donald Christner McIlrath died peacefully, on Saturday, December 7, 2019, at Charter House in Rochester, Minnesota. He was 90. Donald McIlrath (Mac) was born in Hutchinson, Kansas to Donald and Lera McIlrath on Groundhog Day, 1929. He was raised in Great Bend, Kansas and graduated from Great Bend High School, where he played football, basketball, baseball, ran track and sang...

Joyce Marie Thompson

Joyce Marie Thompson

Dec 7, 2019

Joyce Marie Thompson, 78, of Rochester, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family on Saturday, December 7, 2019 at Seasons Hospice House. Joyce was born February 27, 1941 on a farm near Troy, MN to Cyril and Thea (Narveson) Ahern. She was a graduate of Spring Valley High School. Joyce did secretarial work for The University of Minnesota in the...

Deborah Butruff

Deborah Butruff

Dec 7, 2019

Deborah Kay Butruff, 68, of Rochester, passed away peacefully on Saturday, December 7, 2019, at her home surrounded by her loving family and her golden retriever Riley, by her side. Deb was born on August 22, 1951 at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, MN. She graduated from Mayo High School and went on to work in the Billing Department of...

Amy Beth Greising

Amy Beth Greising

Dec 5, 2019

Amy Beth Greising (nee Showalter) of Rochester, died after a brief and sudden illness on Thursday, December 5 at Saint Mary's Hospital at the age of 44. Amy was born September 25, 1975 in St. Paul, Minnesota to Sandra (Foss) and William Showalter. She spent her childhood in Alexandria, Minnesota before moving with her family to Rochester. Amy was a...

Letha Schleusner Odman

Letha Schleusner Odman

Dec 5, 2019

Letha Schleusner Odman, 96, of Olmsted County, Minnesota died Thursday, December 5, 2019 at Fairview Care Center in Dodge Center, Minnesota. Letha was born February 21, 1923 to John and Marie (Christianson) Lien in Rock Dell, Minnesota. She graduated Rochester High School in 1940. She married Ernest Schleusner on August 17, 1940 and they farmed on several farms in Southeast...

Emilio Loiacono

Emilio Loiacono

Dec 3, 2019

Mr. Emilio A. LoIacono, of Rochester, MN, passed away on Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at Shorewood Senior Living Communities at the age of 92. He was born in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, NY on March 11, 1927. He was orphaned at age eight, at which time his relations brought him to St. John's Home for Boys in Brooklyn, NY,...

William "Bill"  Weatherly

William "Bill" Weatherly

Dec 3, 2019

William "Bill" Weatherly, 85, of Rochester, MN passed away peacefully Tuesday, December 3, 2019 surrounded by his family at Saint Marys Hospital. William "Bill" Weatherly was born on November 15, 1934 and grew up in Kasson, MN. On July 7, 1956 he married Kathryn Gannon and they had four children. Bill retired from A.E. Conrad Company out of Minneapolis, MN...