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Funeral services for Iris W. Bell will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, February 22, 2016 at Hartland Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Reverend Shawn Stafford will officiate. Visitation will be from 2–5 p.m. on Sunday at the Hartland Evangelical Lutheran Church, as well as one hour prior to the service on Monday. Interment will take place at Hartland Cemetery.

Iris passed away on Thursday, February 18, 2016 at St. John’s Lutheran Home. She was 91 years old.

Ardella Frances Dinneen, age 101, of Wells, MN died Saturday, February 6, 2016 at Parkview Care Center in Wells. Mass of Christian Burial will be held Thursday, February 11 at 10 a.m. at St. Casimir Catholic Church in Wells, MN, with Fr. Andrew Vogel officiating. Visitation will be Wednesday, February 10 from 4-6 p.m. at Bruss-Heitner Funeral Home is Wells, and for one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment will be at St. Joseph’s Community Cemetery in Waldorf, MN. Bruss-Heitner Funeral Home in Wells is handling the arrangements. To leave an online condolence, please visit www.brussheitner.com

Ardella Frances was born October 18, 1914 to William and Mary Buschow in Matawan, Minnesota.

With family at her side Mary Ann (Peterson) Knutson, age 76, died peacefully on February 2, 2016 at the Avera Dougherty Hospice House in Sioux Falls from a brain tumor.

She was born on May 14, 1939 at Naeve Hospital in Albert Lea, MN, the eldest child of Stanley Waldemor Nathanial Peterson and Anna Mae (Jacobson) Peterson and reared to adulthood on a three-generation Minnesota Centennial Farm near New Richland, MN. She attended the one-room District 48 rural school for eight years and graduated from New Richland High school in 1957 with her desire to become a nurse. She was awarded the American Legion Citizenship Award.

Memorial services for Roger Craig Solberg of Hartland, MN, will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, February 13, 2016 at Trinity Lutheran Church in New Richland, MN., Pastor Paul Andree will officiate. Friends may greet the family one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment will be in St Olaf Cemetery, New Richland, MN.

Roger died Saturday, February 6, 2016 at St Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, MN. He was 71 years of age.

Roger was born March 1, 1944 in Waseca, MN, the son of Joseph and Alma (Sigurdson) Solberg Sr. He graduated from public high school and attended Mankato Commercial College and the Waseca Ag School for Horticulture. Roger was united in marriage to Cathy Chicos on October 25, 1961 in Mankato, MN. He was an active member of the Trinity Lutheran Church where he had served on Church Council and volunteered many hours on various projects.

Harold Beyer, age 89 of Springfield, formerly of Comfrey, died Monday, February 1, 2016, at St. John Lutheran Home in Springfield.

Visitation will be on Saturday, February 6, 2016 from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the Chapel of the Good Shepherd, St. John Lutheran Home in Springfield. Service will be held at the Chapel of the Good Shepherd, St. John Lutheran Home, on Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 10:30 a.m. The clergy will be Pastor Brian Nehring and Chaplain Noel Wetter. Interment will be at the St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery in Faribault County north of Wells. Arrangements are with the Sturm Funeral Home in Springfield.

On line condolences may be left for the family at www.sturmfh.com.