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PO Box 248 • New Richland, MN 56072

507-463-8112
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Funeral services for Clara K. Jensen White will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, December 12, 2015 at United Methodist Church in Ellendale, MN. Pastor Randy Cirksena will officiate. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment will be in Geneva Cemetery.

Clara K. Jensen White, who was 105 years and 4 months old, died December 5, 2015 at the Care Center in Onalaska, Wisconsin where she had lived for several years.  

Clara was born a full-blooded Swede on July 26, 1910 in Kiron, Iowa, to John and Anna Sward. She grew up in Iowa and attended school in Ida Grove. She married Gordon Jensen at the First Baptist Church in Clarks Grove on November 30, 1927, and they made their home in Geneva. Gordon died in 1961. Three years later, Clara married Reverend John White, the United Methodist pastor in Geneva. They were married for 29 years until his death in 1993. Clara was an active member of the Geneva Methodist Church for many years. She was spiritual and devoted to her bible reading and studies. Her closeness to God was undoubtedly her strength and devotion and why she lived so long.

Elaine E. Wondra of rural Blooming Prairie died December 7, 2015 at Prairie Manor Care Center in Blooming Prairie. Mass of Christian Burial is set for 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015 at Holy Trinity Catholic Church at Litomysl. Friends may greet the family on Friday, Dec. 11, from 4-7 p.m. at the Brick–Meger Funeral home (1603 Austin Road, Owatonna) and one hour before the funeral liturgy at the church on Friday. A parish rosary will be recited at 3:45 Friday at the funeral home.

Clausen, Dr. Craig, age 80, of Ellendale MN, passed away peacefully surrounded by family November 19. He is survived by his loving wife, Clarice, sons David (Lori) Clausen, Steven (Jean) Clausen, and Christopher (Shelly) Clausen, and grandchildren: Samantha, Dain, Adyn, Benjamin, and Anna.  He is preceded in death by his parents, Clayton and Oma (Halling) Clausen of Albert Lea.

“He planted more than he cut.”

Paul James Thompson, age 84, passed away peacefully in the early morning hours on Monday November 23, 2015, due to heart complications. He had been in hospice care for fourteen days at Pathstone Living in Mankato, Minnesota.

 Paul was born to Guy and Esther Thompson at home in rural Waseca County January 6, 1931. His only sibling, Roger, died in 1939 of an unknown illness. He was raised on a farm outside of New Richland, Minnesota where he attended a one room school and graduated from New Richland High School in 1949. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Luther College in Decorah, Iowa in 1953. He was drafted into the US Army and served in the Counter Intelligence Corps from 1954 to 1956. He went on to earn graduate degrees from the University of Minnesota and the University of Iowa.

It is with great sadness that the family of Warren Arnold Wayne share the news of his death on November 13, 2015 in Lake Havasu, Arizona.

Warren was an amazing husband and father and very proud of his service in the U.S. Coast Guard in WWII. His belief in God, family, and country made him the outstanding person that he was.

He will be greatly missed by his entire family and friends.

Services to be held at a later date.