Finnish-American expert Hazel Barberg, 80, dies at Cokato nursing home
Hazel E Barberg, 80, of Cokato, Minn., an amateur historian of Finnish people in Minnesota, died Monday at the Cokato Manor Nursing Home. She recently had undergone cancer surgery.
Barberg was bom in Eveleth, Minn., and at age 4 moved with her family to the Cokato area, where her great grandfather had settled more than 100 years earlier. She attended Suomi College in Hancock, Mich., worked in Minneapolis for a short time and returned to Cokato in 1936 to marry Vernon Barberg. She was fluent in Finnish, compiled a detailed family history and collected many stories of daily life from the 1860s and 1870s. She was an expert on early Finnish residents of the Cokato area. She was a member of the Wright County Historical Society, the Cokato Finnish-American Historical Society and the Cokato Historical Society. In 1986 she fulfilled a lifelong dream and visited Finland, where she met many people she had corresponded with for years.
She is survived by daughters Carolyn Ruble and Mary Ellen Carlson, both of Minneapolis; sons Robert and Daniel, both of Cokato; sisters Ellen Nelson, of Seattle, Emma May, of Cokato, Edith May, of Richland, Wash., and Margaret Hauslauden and Evelyn Brass, both of Minneapolis; a brother, Peter Nelson, of Cokato, and 10 grandchildren.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday Our Savior's Lutheran Church French Lake, Minn. Visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Swanson-Peterson Funeral Home Cokato.
Star Tribune
Minneapolis, Minnesota
27 Sep 1989, Wed • Page 8
Hazel E Barberg, 80, of Cokato, Minn., an amateur historian of Finnish people in Minnesota, died Monday at the Cokato Manor Nursing Home. She recently had undergone cancer surgery.
Barberg was bom in Eveleth, Minn., and at age 4 moved with her family to the Cokato area, where her great grandfather had settled more than 100 years earlier. She attended Suomi College in Hancock, Mich., worked in Minneapolis for a short time and returned to Cokato in 1936 to marry Vernon Barberg. She was fluent in Finnish, compiled a detailed family history and collected many stories of daily life from the 1860s and 1870s. She was an expert on early Finnish residents of the Cokato area. She was a member of the Wright County Historical Society, the Cokato Finnish-American Historical Society and the Cokato Historical Society. In 1986 she fulfilled a lifelong dream and visited Finland, where she met many people she had corresponded with for years.
She is survived by daughters Carolyn Ruble and Mary Ellen Carlson, both of Minneapolis; sons Robert and Daniel, both of Cokato; sisters Ellen Nelson, of Seattle, Emma May, of Cokato, Edith May, of Richland, Wash., and Margaret Hauslauden and Evelyn Brass, both of Minneapolis; a brother, Peter Nelson, of Cokato, and 10 grandchildren.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday Our Savior's Lutheran Church French Lake, Minn. Visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Swanson-Peterson Funeral Home Cokato.
Star Tribune
Minneapolis, Minnesota
27 Sep 1989, Wed • Page 8
Finnish-American expert Hazel Barberg, 80, dies at Cokato nursing home
Hazel E Barberg, 80, of Cokato, Minn., an amateur historian of Finnish people in Minnesota, died Monday at the Cokato Manor Nursing Home. She recently had undergone cancer surgery.
Barberg was bom in Eveleth, Minn., and at age 4 moved with her family to the Cokato area, where her great grandfather had settled more than 100 years earlier. She attended Suomi College in Hancock, Mich., worked in Minneapolis for a short time and returned to Cokato in 1936 to marry Vernon Barberg. She was fluent in Finnish, compiled a detailed family history and collected many stories of daily life from the 1860s and 1870s. She was an expert on early Finnish residents of the Cokato area. She was a member of the Wright County Historical Society, the Cokato Finnish-American Historical Society and the Cokato Historical Society. In 1986 she fulfilled a lifelong dream and visited Finland, where she met many people she had corresponded with for years.
She is survived by daughters Carolyn Ruble and Mary Ellen Carlson, both of Minneapolis; sons Robert and Daniel, both of Cokato; sisters Ellen Nelson, of Seattle, Emma May, of Cokato, Edith May, of Richland, Wash., and Margaret Hauslauden and Evelyn Brass, both of Minneapolis; a brother, Peter Nelson, of Cokato, and 10 grandchildren.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday Our Savior's Lutheran Church French Lake, Minn. Visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Swanson-Peterson Funeral Home Cokato.
Star Tribune
Minneapolis, Minnesota
27 Sep 1989, Wed • Page 8
Hazel E Barberg, 80, of Cokato, Minn., an amateur historian of Finnish people in Minnesota, died Monday at the Cokato Manor Nursing Home. She recently had undergone cancer surgery.
Barberg was bom in Eveleth, Minn., and at age 4 moved with her family to the Cokato area, where her great grandfather had settled more than 100 years earlier. She attended Suomi College in Hancock, Mich., worked in Minneapolis for a short time and returned to Cokato in 1936 to marry Vernon Barberg. She was fluent in Finnish, compiled a detailed family history and collected many stories of daily life from the 1860s and 1870s. She was an expert on early Finnish residents of the Cokato area. She was a member of the Wright County Historical Society, the Cokato Finnish-American Historical Society and the Cokato Historical Society. In 1986 she fulfilled a lifelong dream and visited Finland, where she met many people she had corresponded with for years.
She is survived by daughters Carolyn Ruble and Mary Ellen Carlson, both of Minneapolis; sons Robert and Daniel, both of Cokato; sisters Ellen Nelson, of Seattle, Emma May, of Cokato, Edith May, of Richland, Wash., and Margaret Hauslauden and Evelyn Brass, both of Minneapolis; a brother, Peter Nelson, of Cokato, and 10 grandchildren.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Friday Our Savior's Lutheran Church French Lake, Minn. Visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Swanson-Peterson Funeral Home Cokato.
Star Tribune
Minneapolis, Minnesota
27 Sep 1989, Wed • Page 8
Family Members
Siblings
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
