Lorna M. Meyer
Feb. 19, 1922 - June 4, 2000
Lorna M. Meyer, 78, a retired staff member of the Waubun Public Schools, died at MeritCare Hospital in Fargo on Sunday, June 4.
The funeral was at 2 p.m. on Friday, June 9, from Trinity Lutheran Church in Waubun.
Rev. Melody Kirkpatrick officiated at the funeral, Sue Heisler was the organist and special music was by Lloyd Benson.
Interment was at Riverside Memorial Park Cemetery in Mahnomen, with the Mattson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Serving as the pallbearers were John Gomall, Bill Gomall, Delmar Gomall, Walter Buetow, David Buetow and Paul Treichel.
Lorna Treichel, daughter of Emil and Hulda Brueshoff Treichel, was born in Norman County on Feb. 19, 1922, and grew up in that area, where she attended the Adams School.
On Oct. 24, 1940, she and Francis W. Meyer were married in Ogema.
They lived in
Washington from 1943 - 48, where they worked picking strawberries, and then returned to
Minnesota and farmed near Waubun until Mr. Meyer’s death in 1963.
In the late 1960’s, Mrs. Meyer attended the Detroit Lakes Area Vocational Technical Institute, where she was enrolled in the secretarial course and then she worked a short time as a teacher’s aide in the Waubun school system.
She later was a cook in the Waubun Public Schools and also cooked during the weekends and summer months for several years at the White Earth Lutheran Camp. She retired from her duties with the Waubun schools in 1992 after being on staff for 24 years.
Upon retiring from the school position, she worked as a cook and helper for the senior citizens program until last fall.
A member of Trinity Lutheran Church and Ogema Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary No. 9880, she enjoyed cooking and baking, was an avid quilter and enjoyed gardening and playing bingo.
Surviving are five sons - George (Sally), Kelso, Wash.; Willard (Barb), Fairbanks, Alaska; Richard and Ronald (Ginger), both of Longview, Wash., and David (Doreen), Moorhead; a sister - Lucille Cannon, Naples, Fla., and a son - in - law - Terry Balzum, Moorhead. There are 14 grandchildren and seven great - grandchildren.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Meyer also was preceded in death by her parents, a daughter (Judy Balzum), three brothers (Herbert and Walter Gomall and Gilford Treichel) and a sister (Esther Buetow).
Feb. 19, 1922 - June 4, 2000
Lorna M. Meyer, 78, a retired staff member of the Waubun Public Schools, died at MeritCare Hospital in Fargo on Sunday, June 4.
The funeral was at 2 p.m. on Friday, June 9, from Trinity Lutheran Church in Waubun.
Rev. Melody Kirkpatrick officiated at the funeral, Sue Heisler was the organist and special music was by Lloyd Benson.
Interment was at Riverside Memorial Park Cemetery in Mahnomen, with the Mattson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Serving as the pallbearers were John Gomall, Bill Gomall, Delmar Gomall, Walter Buetow, David Buetow and Paul Treichel.
Lorna Treichel, daughter of Emil and Hulda Brueshoff Treichel, was born in Norman County on Feb. 19, 1922, and grew up in that area, where she attended the Adams School.
On Oct. 24, 1940, she and Francis W. Meyer were married in Ogema.
They lived in
Washington from 1943 - 48, where they worked picking strawberries, and then returned to
Minnesota and farmed near Waubun until Mr. Meyer’s death in 1963.
In the late 1960’s, Mrs. Meyer attended the Detroit Lakes Area Vocational Technical Institute, where she was enrolled in the secretarial course and then she worked a short time as a teacher’s aide in the Waubun school system.
She later was a cook in the Waubun Public Schools and also cooked during the weekends and summer months for several years at the White Earth Lutheran Camp. She retired from her duties with the Waubun schools in 1992 after being on staff for 24 years.
Upon retiring from the school position, she worked as a cook and helper for the senior citizens program until last fall.
A member of Trinity Lutheran Church and Ogema Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary No. 9880, she enjoyed cooking and baking, was an avid quilter and enjoyed gardening and playing bingo.
Surviving are five sons - George (Sally), Kelso, Wash.; Willard (Barb), Fairbanks, Alaska; Richard and Ronald (Ginger), both of Longview, Wash., and David (Doreen), Moorhead; a sister - Lucille Cannon, Naples, Fla., and a son - in - law - Terry Balzum, Moorhead. There are 14 grandchildren and seven great - grandchildren.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Meyer also was preceded in death by her parents, a daughter (Judy Balzum), three brothers (Herbert and Walter Gomall and Gilford Treichel) and a sister (Esther Buetow).
Lorna M. Meyer
Feb. 19, 1922 - June 4, 2000
Lorna M. Meyer, 78, a retired staff member of the Waubun Public Schools, died at MeritCare Hospital in Fargo on Sunday, June 4.
The funeral was at 2 p.m. on Friday, June 9, from Trinity Lutheran Church in Waubun.
Rev. Melody Kirkpatrick officiated at the funeral, Sue Heisler was the organist and special music was by Lloyd Benson.
Interment was at Riverside Memorial Park Cemetery in Mahnomen, with the Mattson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Serving as the pallbearers were John Gomall, Bill Gomall, Delmar Gomall, Walter Buetow, David Buetow and Paul Treichel.
Lorna Treichel, daughter of Emil and Hulda Brueshoff Treichel, was born in Norman County on Feb. 19, 1922, and grew up in that area, where she attended the Adams School.
On Oct. 24, 1940, she and Francis W. Meyer were married in Ogema.
They lived in
Washington from 1943 - 48, where they worked picking strawberries, and then returned to
Minnesota and farmed near Waubun until Mr. Meyer’s death in 1963.
In the late 1960’s, Mrs. Meyer attended the Detroit Lakes Area Vocational Technical Institute, where she was enrolled in the secretarial course and then she worked a short time as a teacher’s aide in the Waubun school system.
She later was a cook in the Waubun Public Schools and also cooked during the weekends and summer months for several years at the White Earth Lutheran Camp. She retired from her duties with the Waubun schools in 1992 after being on staff for 24 years.
Upon retiring from the school position, she worked as a cook and helper for the senior citizens program until last fall.
A member of Trinity Lutheran Church and Ogema Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary No. 9880, she enjoyed cooking and baking, was an avid quilter and enjoyed gardening and playing bingo.
Surviving are five sons - George (Sally), Kelso, Wash.; Willard (Barb), Fairbanks, Alaska; Richard and Ronald (Ginger), both of Longview, Wash., and David (Doreen), Moorhead; a sister - Lucille Cannon, Naples, Fla., and a son - in - law - Terry Balzum, Moorhead. There are 14 grandchildren and seven great - grandchildren.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Meyer also was preceded in death by her parents, a daughter (Judy Balzum), three brothers (Herbert and Walter Gomall and Gilford Treichel) and a sister (Esther Buetow).
Feb. 19, 1922 - June 4, 2000
Lorna M. Meyer, 78, a retired staff member of the Waubun Public Schools, died at MeritCare Hospital in Fargo on Sunday, June 4.
The funeral was at 2 p.m. on Friday, June 9, from Trinity Lutheran Church in Waubun.
Rev. Melody Kirkpatrick officiated at the funeral, Sue Heisler was the organist and special music was by Lloyd Benson.
Interment was at Riverside Memorial Park Cemetery in Mahnomen, with the Mattson Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Serving as the pallbearers were John Gomall, Bill Gomall, Delmar Gomall, Walter Buetow, David Buetow and Paul Treichel.
Lorna Treichel, daughter of Emil and Hulda Brueshoff Treichel, was born in Norman County on Feb. 19, 1922, and grew up in that area, where she attended the Adams School.
On Oct. 24, 1940, she and Francis W. Meyer were married in Ogema.
They lived in
Washington from 1943 - 48, where they worked picking strawberries, and then returned to
Minnesota and farmed near Waubun until Mr. Meyer’s death in 1963.
In the late 1960’s, Mrs. Meyer attended the Detroit Lakes Area Vocational Technical Institute, where she was enrolled in the secretarial course and then she worked a short time as a teacher’s aide in the Waubun school system.
She later was a cook in the Waubun Public Schools and also cooked during the weekends and summer months for several years at the White Earth Lutheran Camp. She retired from her duties with the Waubun schools in 1992 after being on staff for 24 years.
Upon retiring from the school position, she worked as a cook and helper for the senior citizens program until last fall.
A member of Trinity Lutheran Church and Ogema Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary No. 9880, she enjoyed cooking and baking, was an avid quilter and enjoyed gardening and playing bingo.
Surviving are five sons - George (Sally), Kelso, Wash.; Willard (Barb), Fairbanks, Alaska; Richard and Ronald (Ginger), both of Longview, Wash., and David (Doreen), Moorhead; a sister - Lucille Cannon, Naples, Fla., and a son - in - law - Terry Balzum, Moorhead. There are 14 grandchildren and seven great - grandchildren.
In addition to her husband, Mrs. Meyer also was preceded in death by her parents, a daughter (Judy Balzum), three brothers (Herbert and Walter Gomall and Gilford Treichel) and a sister (Esther Buetow).
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