PINE ISLAND -- A funeral for Stella Durst will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Pine Island Assembly of God Church, with the Rev. Daniel Ashpole officiating. Burial will be in Berne Cemetery in Berne.
Mrs. Durst, 85, of Pine Island, died Thursday (Dec. 20, 2007) at Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester.
Stella Angeline Walker was born Jan. 9, 1922, in Pine Island Township, Goodhue County. She attended rural schools in the Pine Island area and married Gerald "Gary" Durst on June 14, 1939, in Rochester. The couple worked for her husband's father on the family farm before moving to the Moulton farm seven miles west of Pine Island in 1952. The couple farmed there until April 2007, when they moved to Pine Island. They raised a son of their own and fostered six other children, including her brothers and sisters and her husband's niece and nephew. She was a member of Pine Island Assembly of God Church and was active in Christians in Action. She enjoyed cooking, baking, crocheting and playing cards and other games.
Survivors include her husband; a son, Milo (Dirk van Sloten) of Mequon, Wis.; two sisters, Lorraine (Ruben) Bakken of Appleton, Minn., and Wava (Delbert) Zeitlow of Boyd, Minn.; two brothers Clyde (Carol) Oswald of Caldwell, Idaho, and Clayton Oswald of Coco Beach, Fla.; a nephew, Larry of Rochester; and a niece, Virginia Ginny Tripp of Saigon, Vietnam. She was preceded in death by two sisters and a brother.
Friends may call from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. today at Mahn Family Funeral Home -- Mahler Chapel in Pine Island and an hour before the service Sunday at the church.
Memorials are suggested to Pine Island Assembly of God Church.
Mrs. Durst, 85, of Pine Island, died Thursday (Dec. 20, 2007) at Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester.
Stella Angeline Walker was born Jan. 9, 1922, in Pine Island Township, Goodhue County. She attended rural schools in the Pine Island area and married Gerald "Gary" Durst on June 14, 1939, in Rochester. The couple worked for her husband's father on the family farm before moving to the Moulton farm seven miles west of Pine Island in 1952. The couple farmed there until April 2007, when they moved to Pine Island. They raised a son of their own and fostered six other children, including her brothers and sisters and her husband's niece and nephew. She was a member of Pine Island Assembly of God Church and was active in Christians in Action. She enjoyed cooking, baking, crocheting and playing cards and other games.
Survivors include her husband; a son, Milo (Dirk van Sloten) of Mequon, Wis.; two sisters, Lorraine (Ruben) Bakken of Appleton, Minn., and Wava (Delbert) Zeitlow of Boyd, Minn.; two brothers Clyde (Carol) Oswald of Caldwell, Idaho, and Clayton Oswald of Coco Beach, Fla.; a nephew, Larry of Rochester; and a niece, Virginia Ginny Tripp of Saigon, Vietnam. She was preceded in death by two sisters and a brother.
Friends may call from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. today at Mahn Family Funeral Home -- Mahler Chapel in Pine Island and an hour before the service Sunday at the church.
Memorials are suggested to Pine Island Assembly of God Church.
PINE ISLAND -- A funeral for Stella Durst will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Pine Island Assembly of God Church, with the Rev. Daniel Ashpole officiating. Burial will be in Berne Cemetery in Berne.
Mrs. Durst, 85, of Pine Island, died Thursday (Dec. 20, 2007) at Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester.
Stella Angeline Walker was born Jan. 9, 1922, in Pine Island Township, Goodhue County. She attended rural schools in the Pine Island area and married Gerald "Gary" Durst on June 14, 1939, in Rochester. The couple worked for her husband's father on the family farm before moving to the Moulton farm seven miles west of Pine Island in 1952. The couple farmed there until April 2007, when they moved to Pine Island. They raised a son of their own and fostered six other children, including her brothers and sisters and her husband's niece and nephew. She was a member of Pine Island Assembly of God Church and was active in Christians in Action. She enjoyed cooking, baking, crocheting and playing cards and other games.
Survivors include her husband; a son, Milo (Dirk van Sloten) of Mequon, Wis.; two sisters, Lorraine (Ruben) Bakken of Appleton, Minn., and Wava (Delbert) Zeitlow of Boyd, Minn.; two brothers Clyde (Carol) Oswald of Caldwell, Idaho, and Clayton Oswald of Coco Beach, Fla.; a nephew, Larry of Rochester; and a niece, Virginia Ginny Tripp of Saigon, Vietnam. She was preceded in death by two sisters and a brother.
Friends may call from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. today at Mahn Family Funeral Home -- Mahler Chapel in Pine Island and an hour before the service Sunday at the church.
Memorials are suggested to Pine Island Assembly of God Church.
Mrs. Durst, 85, of Pine Island, died Thursday (Dec. 20, 2007) at Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester.
Stella Angeline Walker was born Jan. 9, 1922, in Pine Island Township, Goodhue County. She attended rural schools in the Pine Island area and married Gerald "Gary" Durst on June 14, 1939, in Rochester. The couple worked for her husband's father on the family farm before moving to the Moulton farm seven miles west of Pine Island in 1952. The couple farmed there until April 2007, when they moved to Pine Island. They raised a son of their own and fostered six other children, including her brothers and sisters and her husband's niece and nephew. She was a member of Pine Island Assembly of God Church and was active in Christians in Action. She enjoyed cooking, baking, crocheting and playing cards and other games.
Survivors include her husband; a son, Milo (Dirk van Sloten) of Mequon, Wis.; two sisters, Lorraine (Ruben) Bakken of Appleton, Minn., and Wava (Delbert) Zeitlow of Boyd, Minn.; two brothers Clyde (Carol) Oswald of Caldwell, Idaho, and Clayton Oswald of Coco Beach, Fla.; a nephew, Larry of Rochester; and a niece, Virginia Ginny Tripp of Saigon, Vietnam. She was preceded in death by two sisters and a brother.
Friends may call from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. today at Mahn Family Funeral Home -- Mahler Chapel in Pine Island and an hour before the service Sunday at the church.
Memorials are suggested to Pine Island Assembly of God Church.
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