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
email: steagle@hickorytech.net
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Funeral services for Lyle (Fred) Byrne of New Richland will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 30, 2013 at All Saints Catholic Church in New Richland. Father Swami will officiate. Interment will be in the Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. on Monday at Friedrich Funeral Service in New Richland.

Lyle Byrne died peacefully on Friday, April 26, 2013. He was 81 years old.

Lyle was born on March 8, 1932 in West Otisco, MN. The youngest son of Earl and Esther (Mortensen) Byrne, he lived in Waseca County his whole life. After the death of his parents and four years of farm work, Lyle enlisted in the United States Air Force where he spent time in Texas and Kansas before returning home. On October 12, 1954 he was united in marriage to Mary Banashak in Wells. Together they had two children.

Funeral services for Cordelia N. Bethke will be held at 11 a.m. at St Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church on Wednesday, May 1, 2013. Pastor Scott Williams will officiate. Interment will be in the Woodville Cemetery in Waseca. Visitation is one hour prior to the service at church.

Cordelia Bethke passed away on Thursday, April 25, 2013 at County Neighbors in New Richland. She was 96 years old.

Funeral services for Doris E. Christensen, age 92, of Hartland will be held on Wednesday, April  17, 2013 at 11 a.m. at Cross of Glory Lutheran Church, Hartland, MN. Pastor Dennis Frank will officiate. Burial will be at the Hartland Cemetery. Visitation will be Tuesday from 5–7 p.m. at Bayview/Freeborn Funeral Home and one hour prior to the services at the church. Online condolences are welcome at www.bayviewfuneral.com

Doris died on Thursday, April 11, 2013 at the Good Samaritan Center.

Emily “Polly” Streitz, age 86 of Waseca, died on Sunday, April 21, 2013 at Colony Court Care Suites in Waseca.

Born in Waseca on October 21, 1926, Polly was the daughter of William and Mary (Erwin) Matz. She was baptized November 21, 1926 at the First Congregational Church in Waseca. She attended country school through grade five and later graduated from Waseca High School in 1944.

Allan Nesbitt Hite, age 80, of New Richland, died April 12, 2013.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Elizabeth Ann Juengling; son, Allan Charles; parents, Elizabeth Cameron and George Hite; brother, George; grandparents, Ora and Helen Nesbitt Hite and Allan and Martha Jane Cameron; son-in-laws Dale Peterson and Ken Neumann; and grandson Brian Renstrom.