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Lois M. Gekeler, age 65 of Janesville, died on Monday, July 30, 2012 at Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, August 4th at 11 a.m.. at Trinity Lutheran Church in Janesville, with Rev. Dr. Larry Griffin, officiating. Interment will be in the St. John’s Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, Iosco Township, Waseca County.

Visitation will be held on Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Arnoldt-McRaith Funeral Home & Crematory in Janesville, and will continue on Saturday morning for one hour prior to services at church.

Remembering the life of Anne A. Casterton…

Funeral Services for Anne A. Casterton, of Albert Lea, will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, July 25, 2012 at All Saints Catholic Church in New Richland, MN. Father Swami will officiate.

Interment will be in Calvary Cemetery, New Richland. Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. on Tuesday at Bonnerup Funeral Service, Albert Lea, and one hour before the service at the church.

Anne died on Saturday, July 21, 2012 at ThorneCrest Retirement Community in Albert Lea. She was 92.

The funeral service for Vernon I. Moe of Ellendale, Minnesota will be 10 a.m. Saturday July 21, 2012 at St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Richland, MN. The Reverend Scott Williams will officiate.  Interment will be in Medo Cemetery, Pemberton, MN.

Visitation will be 4-7 p.m. Friday at Friedrich Funeral Home, New Richland, MN and one hour before the service at the church.  Memorials are suggested to St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church, New Richland or Medo Lutheran Church Pemberton, MN.

Vernon died Monday, July 16, 2012 at the Mayo Health Center Albert Lea. He was 92 years old.

Gilbert "Zig" Ziegler, age 79 of Waseca died on Thursday, July 19, 2012 at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato.

Born on October 10, 1932 in Owatonna, Minnesota he was the son of Phillip and Harriet (Kroeger) Ziegler.  He graduated from Janesville High School and studied accounting at Mankato State.  Gilbert served in the United States Air Force from 1950 until his discharge in 1954. He married Joann Michaelis on July 27, 1957 at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in New Richland.   He was employed with Birds Eye in Waseca from 1954 until 1960 when he began working for the U.S. Postal Service in Waseca. Gilbert retired from the USPS in 2002.  He enjoyed gardening, snowmobiling, coin collecting and going to the casinos.  He also enjoyed traveling especially his trips to Germany and Las Vegas.  He was a member of St. John Lutheran Church in Waseca and the American Legion and VFW of Waseca.

Anne E. Walsh, age 48 of Mankato, died July 9, 2012 at her home.

Memorial service will be 3 p.m. Saturday, July 14, 2012 at Centenary United Methodist Church in Mankato. Visitation will be held on Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. at Mankato Mortuary and continue one hour prior to service at the church. Burial will be in Fort Snelling National Cemetery at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to Minnesota Ovarian Cancer Alliance, 4604 Chicago Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55407, www.mnovarian.org, 612-822-0500. Casual Attire is preferred at the visitation and service.

Following is the obituary that Anne wrote herself: