Obituaries

Bradley Harold Jenkins, 71, of Crookston, MN, passed away early Saturday morning, May 20, 2023, in the Benedictine Living Community Crookston, where he had been a resident since January 13, 2022. Brad was born on May 16, 1952, in Fargo, ND, one of four sons of the union of Harold and Angela (Erickso…

Ralph Vigoren, age 70, of Fosston, MN, passed away on Monday, May 22nd, at Essentia Hospital in Fosston. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 31st, at Bethel Assembly Church in Fosston with Pastor Seth Johnson officiating. Interment will be in Froen Cemetery, rural Fosston. V…

Heather Irene Nelson passed away unexpectedly at her home on May 8, 2023, in Crookston, at the age of 39. Heather was born on June 21, 1983, in Minneapolis, Minnesota to her loving mother, Betty (Isum) Fitzpatrick and her father Winston Minor; Heather was also welcomed into the family by her two old…

Conrad Kvamme, 88, of Arlington, MN died Saturday, May 13, 2023. Funeral Services will be held Tuesday, June 6, 2023, at 10:00 am, with visitation 1 hour prior, at the Zion Lutheran Church in Twin Valley, MN.   Arrangements entrusted to Anderson Family Funeral Home in Twin Valley, MN www.anders…

Henry ‘Hank’ Aaby Jr., 90, of Twin Valley, MN, passed away on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, at the Viking Manor Nursing Home in Ulen, MN. Funeral Services will be held Friday, June 2, 2023, at 2:00 pm, with visitation 1 hour prior, at the Zion Lutheran Church in Twin Valley. Interment will be…

Sr. Mary Ellen Proulx, age 80, of Wichita, KS passed away on Saturday, March 4th at Mount St. Mary. A Memorial Mass will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Friday, May 26th, at St. Peters Catholic Church in Gentilly, MN with Monsignor David Baumgartner presiding. The interment will be in the parish cemetery. T…

Arlo Lampton, 74, of Twin Valley, MN, died unexpectedly on Saturday, May 13, 2023, from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Funeral Services will be held Monday, June 5, 2023, at 2:00 pm, with visitation 2 hours prior, at the Gary Lutheran Church in Gary, MN Arrangements are entrusted to A…

Ann M. Tucker, 79, Fertile, MN, died peacefully on Friday, May 12, 2023, at Fair Meadow Nursing Home in Fertile, surrounded by her family. Ann Tucker was born to Paul & Ruby Rasmussen in Fertile, MN. She lived on a farm with her 6 brothers and sisters. She attended Fertile-Beltrami school until …

Nicholas Adrian ‘Nick’ Anderson, 28, of Duluth, MN, and a rural East Grand Forks-Fisher, MN native, passed away unexpectedly of natural causes at Essentia St. Mary’s Medical Center in Duluth early Monday morning, May 15, 2023, as God called him home to heaven. Nick was born and bap…

Rita Henriette Plante (Desrosier) died on Nov. 7th, 2022 in Fort Myers, FL at the age of 85. Rita was born in Kertsonville Township, near Crookston, MN, on May 29, 1937, one of 8 children of the union of Albert and Stella (Perreault) Desrosier.  The family farmed in the Kertsonville area until the d…