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Karen Gimberline passed away Tuesday, June 15, 2021. A memorial service will be held at 10 a.m., Saturday June 26, 2021 at Open Doors United Methodist Church in Wells (595 1st Avenue SW, Wells, MN). Visitation will be held Friday, June 25 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Bayview Freeborn Funeral Home 1415 Hwy13 N., Albert Lea) and for one hour prior to service at the church. Interment will be at Freeborn Cemetery. Karen's Service will be live streamed. Please select either the link below to watch the service via Youtube or copy and paste the following website link to watch via Facebook https://www.facebook.com/opendoors.umc.
Karen Marie Gimberline passed away Tuesday, June 15, in the comfort of her own home after a courageous three-and-a-half-year battle with ovarian cancer. Karen was surrounded by her husband Don Gimberline, her two sons, Derek and Dave Chicos, and her cat Norton.
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Constance “Connie” A. Holland went to walk with the angels on Aug. 26, 2020 at age 82. She passed peacefully at her home in Laguna Woods, California, while surrounded by her family.
Connie, a native of Minnesota, was born on Nov. 3, 1937 in Albert Lea to Chester and Adeline Herbst of New Richland, Minnesota.
Connie lived 35 years in Babbitt, Minnesota. She enjoyed raising her two children and the family’s miniature poodle named Jacque. The beloved organist loved playing the keyboard at her Evangelical Lutheran Church in Babbitt.
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Dolores Hemingway, 90, passed away Monday, June 7, 2021 at her home in Geneva, MN. Memorial Services for Dolores will be held on June 25, 2021 at 10 a.m. at United Methodist Church, Ellendale, MN. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church. Funeral Service will be livestreamed on Bayview Freeborn Funeral Home’s Facebook page.
Dolores Beatrice (Johnson) Hemingway was born February 16, 1931 in Austin, MN to Ivan and Beatrice (Underdahl) Johnson. She grew up in Moscow Township and graduated from Austin High School. She then attended teacher’s normal training. Dolores attended and graduated from Mankato State College and taught in Gordonsville and Ellendale – Geneva schools for many years.
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Leonard George Wacholz, age 90, of New Richland, MN, died June 17, 2021 at St. John’s Lutheran Community on Fountain Lake in Albert Lea. He was blessed with 90 years of mostly good health and lived at home on the farm until March. Despite dementia taking away his ability to speak, in his last days he enjoyed visits (most in person, but some necessarily virtual) from scores of his extended family members and friends who were so dear to him and who will miss him terribly.
A Memorial Service was held at St. Peter Lutheran Church in New Richland on Tuesday, June 22 at 11 a.m. with Rev. Scott Williams officiating. Visitation was June 21 from 4-7 p.m. at the church, and one hour before the service. Bonnerup Funeral Home is assisting the family.
Leonard was born October 20, 1930, the son of George and Marie (Richter) Wacholz of rural Kiester, MN, and baptized at Mansfield Lutheran Church. He graduated from Kiester High School in 1949 and was married to Arlene Hoelz of New Richland in 1957. They purchased a farm near New Richland where they raised their three children.
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On June 10, Lettie Ann Georgia (Petersen) Anderson passed at the age of 98 – just short of her 99th birthday on June 25.
Lettie Ann was born June 25, 1922, in Mellette County, White River, South Dakota to Peter and Katherine Petersen.
She graduated from Albert Lea High School in 1941.
On May 27, 1945 she married Lyle Anderson.
They raised three children Verlaine (while living in Lerdal), Carl (while living in Glenville) and Eric (while living in Clarks Grove). And then they stopped moving.
Her longest professional tenure was as a clerk at State Bank of Clarks Grove – surviving the often-shared story of the bank robbery of 1981. Other positions were held at the Albert Lea Public Library, Wallace’s in Albert Lea, Albert Lea Co-op Creamery and Lerdal Telephone Company.
She was a dedicated member of East Freeborn Lutheran Church, North Freeborn Lutheran Church/Central Freeborn Lutheran Church having served in many volunteer capacities including the various Church Women Committees, Altar Guilds, and as children’s choir director at East Freeborn for nine years.