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
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Marvelle A. Peterson, age 82 of Waseca, went home to be with her precious Lord and Savior on Monday, October 13, 2014 at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis.

Born and raised in faith on the family farm near Garretson, SD, she was the daughter of Ralph and Agnes (Andersen) Sorenson. She attended rural country school and graduated high school from Augustana Academy in Canton, SD. She then attended Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD, where she met her future husband. Marvelle married Raymond Peterson on June 7, 1950 at Palisade Lutheran Church in Valley Springs, SD. After getting married, they lived in various cities in South Dakota, New York, and Minnesota.

Mary Jo Wallace was born on August 16, 1977, in Waseca, MN. She was the daughter of Brad and Kathy Wallace. Mary Jo was baptized as an infant and later confirmed in her Catholic faith as a youth at St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Gaylord. She received her education in New Richland and Arlington, MN, and was a graduate of the Sibley East High School Class of 1996. 

Leon Franklin Piltz, age 91, of Waldorf, MN, died Monday, October 6, 2014 at Traditions of Waterville. Funeral services will be held Saturday, October 11, 2014 at 2 p.m. at the First Lutheran Church in Waldorf.  Visitation will be Friday, October 10, from 4-7 p.m. at First Lutheran Church in Waldorf.  Visitation will continue one hour prior to the service at the church on Saturday. Pastor Larry Sipe will officiate, and interment will be in the St. Joseph Community Cemetery in Waldorf.

Funeral services for Donald Bartness will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 16, 2014 at Trinity Lutheran Church, New Richland. The Reverend Paul Andree will officiate. Visitation will be from 4-7 on Wednesday at the Friedrich Funeral Chapel New Richland, and again one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment will be at the Hartland Cemetery. Military honors will be accorded by the New Richland American Legion.

Donald passed away on October 12, 2014 at Mayo Clinic Health Systems, Albert Lea. He was 88 years old.

A memorial service will be held at 10:30 on Saturday, October 18 at the Community Lutheran Church in Geneva for 77-year-old Ruth E. Neidermeier. Ruth passed away on September 26 in Macclenny, Florida.

Ruth was born on August 14, 1937 in Windber, PA to parents, Emmanuel and Edna Leighow Crew. 

Ruth married Wesley Neidiermeier, and in the 1980s, Wesley served as pastor of the Assembly of God Church in Ellendale. The Neidermeiers moved to St. Paul after they left the Ellendale and Geneva area. In 2009, Wesley and Ruth moved to Florida, settling in Mcclenny and attended the Christian Fellowship Temple.