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SPRING VALLEY -- The funeral for Thorman "Thor" Jorgenson will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Spring Valley with the Rev. Jon Olson officiating. Military rites will be conducted by VFW Post 4114 and American Legion Post 68 of Spring Valley. Burial will be in Six Mile Grove Lutheran Cemetery in rural Lyle.
Mr. Jorgenson, 77, of Spring Valley, a longtime Spring Valley jeweler, died Sunday June 21, 1998 at Saint Mary's Hospital in Rochester of complications of hip surgery. He had been hospitalized since June 17.
Born Aug. 31, 1920, in Princeton, Minn., he later moved to Lyle and graduated from Lyle High School in 1938. From 1942 to 1946 he served in the Army Air Corps, was held prisoner of war and received the Distingished Flying Cross. On Sept. 16, 1944, he married Audrey Denison in Lyle and they lived in Austin before moving to Spring Valley in 1949. Mr. Jorgenson owned and operated Jorgenson's Jewelry in Spring Valley from 1955 to 1985 and, in addition, he and his wife owned Jornel's Inc. from 1967 until their retirement in 1985. Mr. Jorgenson was a member of the Masonic Lodge, VFW and American Legion, and was a member and past president of the Root River Country Club.
Survivors include his wife; four sons, Richard of Minneapolis, Steven of Lafayette, Colo., Jeffrey of Bozeman, Mont., and Brian of Boise, Idaho; a daughter, Marsha (Mrs. Robert) Campbell of Boise; two grandsons; two great-grandchildren; three brothers, Ernest of Vaughn, Wash., and Harold and Eugene, both of Austin, and three sisters, Carolacq Lang of Mesa, Ariz., Ione (Mrs. Ben) Lorenz of Penn Valley, Calif., and Darlene (Mrs. Larry) Fox of Layton, Utah. Two brothers preceded him in death.
Friends may call from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Hindt-Hutchins Funeral Home in Spring Valley and an hour before the service Thursday at the church.
Riley Funeral Home in Chatfield is in charge of arrangements.
SPRING VALLEY -- The funeral for Thorman "Thor" Jorgenson will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Spring Valley with the Rev. Jon Olson officiating. Military rites will be conducted by VFW Post 4114 and American Legion Post 68 of Spring Valley. Burial will be in Six Mile Grove Lutheran Cemetery in rural Lyle.
Mr. Jorgenson, 77, of Spring Valley, a longtime Spring Valley jeweler, died Sunday June 21, 1998 at Saint Mary's Hospital in Rochester of complications of hip surgery. He had been hospitalized since June 17.
Born Aug. 31, 1920, in Princeton, Minn., he later moved to Lyle and graduated from Lyle High School in 1938. From 1942 to 1946 he served in the Army Air Corps, was held prisoner of war and received the Distingished Flying Cross. On Sept. 16, 1944, he married Audrey Denison in Lyle and they lived in Austin before moving to Spring Valley in 1949. Mr. Jorgenson owned and operated Jorgenson's Jewelry in Spring Valley from 1955 to 1985 and, in addition, he and his wife owned Jornel's Inc. from 1967 until their retirement in 1985. Mr. Jorgenson was a member of the Masonic Lodge, VFW and American Legion, and was a member and past president of the Root River Country Club.
Survivors include his wife; four sons, Richard of Minneapolis, Steven of Lafayette, Colo., Jeffrey of Bozeman, Mont., and Brian of Boise, Idaho; a daughter, Marsha (Mrs. Robert) Campbell of Boise; two grandsons; two great-grandchildren; three brothers, Ernest of Vaughn, Wash., and Harold and Eugene, both of Austin, and three sisters, Carolacq Lang of Mesa, Ariz., Ione (Mrs. Ben) Lorenz of Penn Valley, Calif., and Darlene (Mrs. Larry) Fox of Layton, Utah. Two brothers preceded him in death.
Friends may call from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Hindt-Hutchins Funeral Home in Spring Valley and an hour before the service Thursday at the church.
Riley Funeral Home in Chatfield is in charge of arrangements.
OBITUARY-
SPRING VALLEY -- The funeral for Thorman "Thor" Jorgenson will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Spring Valley with the Rev. Jon Olson officiating. Military rites will be conducted by VFW Post 4114 and American Legion Post 68 of Spring Valley. Burial will be in Six Mile Grove Lutheran Cemetery in rural Lyle.
Mr. Jorgenson, 77, of Spring Valley, a longtime Spring Valley jeweler, died Sunday June 21, 1998 at Saint Mary's Hospital in Rochester of complications of hip surgery. He had been hospitalized since June 17.
Born Aug. 31, 1920, in Princeton, Minn., he later moved to Lyle and graduated from Lyle High School in 1938. From 1942 to 1946 he served in the Army Air Corps, was held prisoner of war and received the Distingished Flying Cross. On Sept. 16, 1944, he married Audrey Denison in Lyle and they lived in Austin before moving to Spring Valley in 1949. Mr. Jorgenson owned and operated Jorgenson's Jewelry in Spring Valley from 1955 to 1985 and, in addition, he and his wife owned Jornel's Inc. from 1967 until their retirement in 1985. Mr. Jorgenson was a member of the Masonic Lodge, VFW and American Legion, and was a member and past president of the Root River Country Club.
Survivors include his wife; four sons, Richard of Minneapolis, Steven of Lafayette, Colo., Jeffrey of Bozeman, Mont., and Brian of Boise, Idaho; a daughter, Marsha (Mrs. Robert) Campbell of Boise; two grandsons; two great-grandchildren; three brothers, Ernest of Vaughn, Wash., and Harold and Eugene, both of Austin, and three sisters, Carolacq Lang of Mesa, Ariz., Ione (Mrs. Ben) Lorenz of Penn Valley, Calif., and Darlene (Mrs. Larry) Fox of Layton, Utah. Two brothers preceded him in death.
Friends may call from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Hindt-Hutchins Funeral Home in Spring Valley and an hour before the service Thursday at the church.
Riley Funeral Home in Chatfield is in charge of arrangements.
SPRING VALLEY -- The funeral for Thorman "Thor" Jorgenson will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Spring Valley with the Rev. Jon Olson officiating. Military rites will be conducted by VFW Post 4114 and American Legion Post 68 of Spring Valley. Burial will be in Six Mile Grove Lutheran Cemetery in rural Lyle.
Mr. Jorgenson, 77, of Spring Valley, a longtime Spring Valley jeweler, died Sunday June 21, 1998 at Saint Mary's Hospital in Rochester of complications of hip surgery. He had been hospitalized since June 17.
Born Aug. 31, 1920, in Princeton, Minn., he later moved to Lyle and graduated from Lyle High School in 1938. From 1942 to 1946 he served in the Army Air Corps, was held prisoner of war and received the Distingished Flying Cross. On Sept. 16, 1944, he married Audrey Denison in Lyle and they lived in Austin before moving to Spring Valley in 1949. Mr. Jorgenson owned and operated Jorgenson's Jewelry in Spring Valley from 1955 to 1985 and, in addition, he and his wife owned Jornel's Inc. from 1967 until their retirement in 1985. Mr. Jorgenson was a member of the Masonic Lodge, VFW and American Legion, and was a member and past president of the Root River Country Club.
Survivors include his wife; four sons, Richard of Minneapolis, Steven of Lafayette, Colo., Jeffrey of Bozeman, Mont., and Brian of Boise, Idaho; a daughter, Marsha (Mrs. Robert) Campbell of Boise; two grandsons; two great-grandchildren; three brothers, Ernest of Vaughn, Wash., and Harold and Eugene, both of Austin, and three sisters, Carolacq Lang of Mesa, Ariz., Ione (Mrs. Ben) Lorenz of Penn Valley, Calif., and Darlene (Mrs. Larry) Fox of Layton, Utah. Two brothers preceded him in death.
Friends may call from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Hindt-Hutchins Funeral Home in Spring Valley and an hour before the service Thursday at the church.
Riley Funeral Home in Chatfield is in charge of arrangements.
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