Joel Andrew Elwood
Sep 14, 2022
Joel Andrew Elwood, 57 of Vancouver, WA, formerly of Rochester, MN passed away on September 14, 2022 of natural causes.
Joel was born on March 2, 1965 in Faribault, MN to Robert and Rosemarie (Truman) Elwood. He grew up in Rochester and attended grade school at St Francis of Assisi Catholic School. He was a mischievous young...
Arlene Marie Spitzer
Sep 8, 2022
Arlene Marie Spitzer, 86 of Rochester, MN. passed on to eternal life on Thursday September 8th, 2022. She died peacefully surrounded by loved ones at Mayo-Methodist Hospital. Arlene was proceeded in death by her two older brothers Donald and Robert Lewis. She is survived by her beloved husband Paul Spitzer of 62 years; sons Michael (Colette), Jeffrey (Katie) and...
Ervin Lawrence Arendt
Sep 7, 2022
Ervin was born July 20, 1929 in Red Wing, MN to Peter and Susan (Miller) Arendt. Ervin was the youngest of 14 children. He grew up in rural Bellchester, MN, attended country school and then proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War, where he was stationed in Stuttgard, Germany. After discharge, Ervin married Mary Ellen...
Douglas J. Kliewer
Sep 6, 2022
Douglas J. Kliewer, 75, of Rochester, MN, passed September 6, 2022, of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and gained his angel wings at home surrounded by his loving family.
Doug was born September 8, 1946, in Mt. Lake, MN, to Willard and Melrose Kliewer. He attended high school in Mt. Lake, MN, and culinary school in Florida, and he...
James Donald Boege
Sep 5, 2022
James Donald Boege was born on September 26, 1948 in Rochester, MN to Don and Meryl Boege. He suffered cardiac arrest on August 26, 2022 and was in intensive care on life support. He died September 5th, 2022.
He graduated from John Marshall High School in 1966. He received both an undergraduate and MA degree in History...
William “Bill” Karnes, M.D.
Sep 3, 2022
William E. Karnes, Sr. of Rochester, MN, died Saturday, September 3, 2022, two days short of his 92 nd birthday at his home in Charter House.
Bill was born September 5, 1930 in San Antonio, TX to Virginia and William Karnes. He moved frequently as a child, giving him his love of travel.
He received...
Daniel “Boone” Laures
Sep 2, 2022
Daniel David "Boone" Laures, 61 of Rochester, passed away unexpectedly of natural causes on September 2, 2022 at his home. Dan was born on February 6, 1961 in Torrance, CA to Lyle and Marilynn (Breski) Laures. As a baby, the family moved to Rochester, MN where he graduated from John Marshall High School in 1979. On May 13, 1989...
Janice Arlene Hartwich
Sep 2, 2022
Janice Arlene Hartwich, age 92, of Rochester died Friday, September 2, 2022 at her home, surrounded by family.
Janice was born November 10, 1929 in Wykoff, MN, the daughter of Ernest and Thera (Evans) Schroeder. She graduated from high school in 1947. She worked as a bookkeeper for the Rochester Utilities Building, and for an insurance company...
Lori Ann Phillips
Sep 2, 2022
Lori Phillips, age 66 of Rochester passed away on Friday September 2, 2022 in Rochester.
She is survived by her husband Darrell, her son Dain (Kelly), her granddaughter Morgan, her sister Lisa (Keith) Hustad, her mother Suzanne Carpenter and many nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her sister Lynda Preston, her father, her stepfather,...
Lloyd Robert Broadwater
Sep 1, 2022
Lloyd Robert Broadwater, 75, of Kellogg, MN died peacefully on Thursday, September 1, 2022 in hospice care at Mayo Clinic Hospital Methodist Campus.
Lloyd was born wearing a plaid flannel shirt and pocket tee with work boots and a John Deere hat on November 14, 1946, in Preston, MN. His parents Raymond and Marjorie (Leland) Broadwater welcomed...
Lorraine D. Nutting
Sep 1, 2022
Lorraine Day Nutting, 97, of Rochester, MN, died Thursday, September 1, 2022 at the Rosemount Senior Living at Steeple Center in Rosemount, MN.
Lorraine was born July 3, 1925 in Rochester, MN to Walter W. and Cecilia (Jacobs) Day. She graduated from Rochester Central High School in 1942. On June 3, 1944, she married Norris Frank Nutting...
Mong Quang Do
Aug 31, 2022
Mong Quang Do, 88, of Rochester MN passed away peacefully at his home on August 31, 2022 surrounded by his loving family.
A native of Phu Xuyen, Ha Noi, Vietnam, Mong migrated to South Vietnam in 1954 at the age of 20. He married his wife, Tuoi Tran, at the age of 37. They were blessed with...
James Peter Rockers
Aug 29, 2022
James "Jim" Rockers, age 78, of Stewartville, MN, died Monday, August 29, 2022 at Regency Hospital in Golden Valley, MN.
Jim was born January 3, 1944 in Austin, MN, the son of Harold and Dolores (Gahagan) Rockers. He attended St. Mary's College in Winona. He was united in marriage to Patty Butlin at St. Mary's Catholic Church...
Arthur Dunne
Aug 27, 2022
On Saturday, August 27, 2022, Arthur (Art) Joseph Dunne, loving husband and father of three daughters, passed away at the age of 87 in Pine Island, MN after a brief illness with cancer.
Art was born on January 4, 1935 in Perth Amboy, NJ to James and Mary (McNally) Dunne. He grew up on Pershing Ave. in...
David Evan Stoner
Aug 25, 2022
David Stoner, 64, of Rochester, MN died August 25, 2022 at home surrounded by family.
He was born in Fort Dodge, IA on December 15, 1957 to Lillian and Raymond Stoner. Raised in Rochester, he graduated from John Marshall High School in '76, then graduated with a BS in Anthropology from UM Minneapolis. He later got his...
Julie Knauss
Aug 24, 2022
Julie Ann Knauss, 77, of Rochester, MN, died Wednesday August 24, 2022, at Mayo Clinic Hospital, St. Mary's Campus.
Julie was born March 14, 1945, in Albert Lea, MN to Marvin J. and Mildred E. (Hovland) Thompson. Julie and her four siblings were raised in a hardworking, music loving home on a farm near Waseca, MN. Julie...
Gary Robert Smith
Aug 23, 2022
Gary Robert Smith died unexpectedly on August 23, 2022 at his home in Vadnais Heights, Minnesota. He was born to Marlene Koehler Smith and Sandy Robert Smith in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on December 7, 1955. He graduated from John Marshall High School in Rochester, Minnesota, and from Dunwoody College of Technology in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Following his father's footsteps...
Mary Galuska
Aug 22, 2022
Mary (Kohner) Galuska, 89, passed away on August 22, 2022 peacefully, at her home.
She was born in Winona, MN on September 21, 1932 to Edward and Marie (Lucas) Kohner. Mary attended St. Thomas grade school and Cathedra High School in Winona, graduating in 1950.
In 1955, she married Donald Galuska from Arcadia, WI. In...
Herman A. “Bumpy” Sense Iii
Aug 21, 2022
Herman A. "Bumpy" Sense III left his earthly place on August 21, 2022 after being a resident at the Pine Haven Care Center in Pine Island, MN.
He was born in 1934 to Herman A. Sense II and Marion Gallagher Sense in Ashland, WI, living in Bayfield, WI, until moving to Arcadia in 1942. He attended Arcadia...
Gerald “Jerry” Roth
Aug 21, 2022
Gerald "Jerry" John Roth, age 88, formerly of Rochester (Simpson), MN joined the saints in Heaven on Sunday, August 21st, 2022 at Gundersen Tweeten Care Center in Spring Grove, MN with his son and daughter by his side.
Jerry was born on November 25, 1933 in Pepin, WI to Nick and Vera (Olsen) Roth. As a young...
