NRHEG Star Eagle

137 Years Serving the New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva Area
Newspaper of Record for NRHEG School District
Newspaper of Record for Waseca County, MN
PO Box 248 • New Richland, MN 56072

507-463-8112
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Memorial services for Marilynn Pauline Nelson will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 29, 2014 at Bayview/Freeborn Funeral Home. Rev. Clayton Balsley will officiate. Interment will be at Clarks Grove Cemetery.  Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Online condolences are welcome at www.bayviewfuneral.com 

Marilynn died Sunday, June 1, 2014 at the Wellstead of Rogers.  

A Mass of Christian Burial was held Friday, May 2, 2014 at St. Teresa Catholic Church in Lincoln, Nebraska, for Mariana Hill, who died on April 27, 2014, after a brief hospitalization in Lincoln. Monsignor Joseph Namec Officated. Interment was at Calvary Cemetery in Lincoln.

Remembering the life of Rickie D. Waknitz

Funeral Services for Rickie D. Waknitz, of Ellendale, will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at First Lutheran Church in Ellendale. The Reverend Richard L. Sliper will officiate. Interment will be in First Lutheran Church, Ellendale. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. on Monday at First Lutheran Church, Ellendale, and continuing one hour before services. Bonnerup Funeral Service is assisting the family.

Rickie died peacefully, surrounded by his family, at his home on Thursday, May 15, 2014. He was 61.

Funeral services for Daryl V. Clausen will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 28, 2014 at LeSueur River Lutheran Church, New Richland. The reverend Brian Gegel will officiate. Visitation will be held from 4–8 p.m. on Wednesday at Friedrich Funeral Home, and again one hour prior to the service at the church.

Daryl passed away suddenly at his family farm on May 21, 2014. He was 52 years old.

Daryl V. Clausen was born on October 19, 1961 to Ronald and Lois (Brandvold) Clausen, in Waseca. Daryl attended and graduated from New Richland High School. He graduated with honors from Vermillion Community College and South Central College. He was united in marriage to Patti on August 6, 1983, and was blessed with two daughters, Callie Jo and Hailie Rae.

LeRoy Vernon Sutlief, 88, of Owatonna, died Wednesday, May 14, 2014 at Koda Living Community. 

He was born January 27, 1926 in New Richland, Minnesota to William and Ida (Kraude) Sutlief. LeRoy was baptized on April 11, 1926 at First Congregational Church in New Richland and was confirmed on June 1, 1941 at St Peter’s Lutheran Church, New Richland. On March 12, 1943, he enlisted in the U.S. Navy, serving in the Aleutian Islands during World War II. On February 15, 1948, he married Alice Neumann at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in New Richland. In 1950, they moved to Albert Lea where LeRoy worked for Concrete Minnesota as a truck driver. Upon retirement in 1998, they moved to Rochester and to Owatonna in 2013.