Obituaries
Randall "Randy" Edwin Qualey
Jan 12, 2026
Randall Edwin Qualey, passed away peacefully at his home on Monday, January 12, 2026, of natural causes, due to a massive heart attack in June 2025. Born September 21, 1951, in Austin Minnesota, to Alden and Doris (Hage) Qualey. An Austin High School graduate, along with an associate’s degree from Austin Jr. College. Employed by Anderson Construction and Hage Construction....
Carol Marie Belden
Mar 12, 2026
Carol M. Belden, age 85, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away on Thursday, March 12, 2026, at Mayo Clinic Health System Austin, with her children by her side. Carol Marie Augustin was born on December 25, 1940, at home in Austin, to Rinhold and Frances (Stevens) Augustin. She attended St. John’s School until 9th grade and then graduated from Austin High...
Khing Aye
Mar 7, 2026
Khing Aye, age 74, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away on Saturday, March 7, 2026, at Mayo Clinic Hospital Rochester, Methodist Campus.
ဟ် ခ့ဉ်အ့အသးသမူအအကျိုး ယဟ်အမံၤ ချဉ် အိဉ်ဖျဉ်ထီဉ်ဖဲလါမ့ၤ-၄သီ,၁၉၅၁နံဉ်,ဖဲသဝီကီးကူး သဝီဖိတဖျ၊ဉ်အပူၤလီၤ. တခရံာ်ဖိသဝီတဖျ၊ဉ်ဘဉ်. ၦၤဘါသီခါသဝိတဖျ၊ဉ်လီၤ. စံဉ်စိၤတဲစိၤအိဉ် ဒဉ်လ၊ၦၤခရံာ်ဖိလဲၤလၢအသ န့ဉ်မၤသံက္ခံာ်ဝဲခဲလက်လီၤ. ယလ၊ဒိဉ်ထီဉ်လ၊တ၊်လီ၊်ဖဲ ဉ်ဒီးမၤလိတ၊်လ၊သီခါဖွဉ်အပူၤလီၤ. ယဟ်ဒိဉ်ထီဉ်သီအဆ၊က ၦၤယိၤ မှၤလၢအိဉ်ဒီး၊်ဆူဉ်ဘါဆူဉ်. အတ သးစဲတခီ တ ်တမ်းစုခိဉ်(လဲးဝ့း)တဂၤလီၤ. ဖဲ ဉ်အဆ၊က၊်အဝဲ နုာ်လီၤတ တမ်းစုခိဉ်အတ၊်ပြı လၢအမၤနၤတ ထီဘိတဂၤလီၤ. လၢခံကတဂ်တ အdမၤနၤတာ်ဒီးမၤတာ်တမ်းစုခိဉ်အတ မၤနၤအနီာ်တယ ်လ၊ဘဉ်တ ်မၤလၤကပီၤအီၤန္ဉ်လီၤ. ၦၤလၢအတမ်းစုခိဉ်ဒီးအီၤတဂၤသံက္ခံာ်ဝဲဒဉ်လာ်နဉ်လီၤ. အဝဲ စဉ်ကီးအစုလ၊အထွဲတခ်ိဳ င်္ကျာ်ဝဲဒဉ် ဉ်လီၤ. စးထီဉ်ဖဲန့ဉ်အဝဲအိဉ်ဘုံးၤလၢအတ၊်တမ်းစုခိဉ်အတ၊်လိဉ်ကွဲနဉ်လီၤ.
စးထီဉ်ဖဲန့ဉ်အဝဲမၤသ့ၤအသးလၢတ၊်စုသ့(လဲးသမါ)အ ဖုံးတာ်မၤဒီးလုပ်အီဉ်အသးသမူ လ၊တ စုသ့အတ၊်ဖုံးတ၊်မၤတဖဉ်လီၤ. အဝဲ...
Lois Mae Auringer
Mar 7, 2026
Lois Mae Auringer, née Olson, of Austin, Minnesota, passed into the arms of Jesus on Saturday, March 7, 2026, at the age of 93.
Lois was born to Martin and Eleanor Olson, née Meyer, on March 30, 1932, in St. James, Minnesota. She was baptized on May 31, 1932, and confirmed her faith in Jesus Christ on June 16, 1946, at...
Barbara Kay Hylle
Mar 6, 2026
Barbara Kay Hylle, age 71, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away peacefully on Friday, March 6, 2026, at St. Mark’s Lutheran Home with family by her side after a short battle with cancer. She was born on October 13, 1954, in Austin, Minnesota, the daughter of Bernard and Doris Hylle. Barb grew up in Austin and graduated from Austin High School...
Ronald "Ron" John Hoag
Mar 6, 2026
Ronald “Ron” John Hoag, age 83, of rural Oakland, Minnesota, passed away on Friday, March 6, 2026, at his home. Ron was born on July 23, 1942, in Muscatine, Iowa. He was the oldest son of John and Esther (Beatty) Hoag. In 1950, Ron and his family moved to a farm south of Austin, where he attended Excelsior Country School,...
Dayle William Goskesen
Mar 5, 2026
Dayle William Goskesen, 65, of Austin passed away at his home on Thursday, March 5, 2026.
The youngest of six Children, Dayle was born on April 21st, 1960, to Quentin and Bernice Goskesen in Austin, Minnesota.
In 1982, Renae Wiste joined Dayle on a motorcycle ride to Cedar Falls, Iowa, along with his friend John and her sister Rhonda. What began as...
Delmer Earl Tapp
Mar 5, 2026
Delmer Earl Tapp, age 93, of Dexter, Minnesota, passed away on Thursday, March 5, 2026, at St. Mark’s Living in Austin.
Delmer was born on October 7, 1932, to Harvey and Julia (Kruse) in Brownsdale, Minnesota. He married Ardythe Krull on June 14, 1957, at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Brownsdale. Together they had five children.
Farming wasn’t a livelihood it was...
Ojoye Okello Akane
Mar 4, 2026
Ojoye Okello Akane, age 50, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away on Wednesday, March 4, 2026, at Mayo Clinic Hospital Rochester, Methodist Campus.
Ojoye was born in a small village in South Sudan. During the split of Sudan, he made his way to Kenya to avoid becoming one of the Lost Boys. At a young age, he began building a life for...
Janette Kay Butts
Mar 4, 2026
Janette “Jan” Kay Butts, age 83, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away on Wednesday, March 4, 2026. She was born on February 16, 1943, in Austin, Minnesota, to Keith and Irene Wakefield.
Jan spent her life in Austin, where she was united in marriage to her late husband, Gary Butts. She will be remembered for her kindness, caring heart, and the love...
Bradley John Newman
Mar 3, 2026
Bradley “Brad” John Newman, age 58, of Rose Creek, Minnesota, passed away on Tuesday, March 3, 2026, at Mayo Clinic Hospital Rochester, Saint Marys Campus, due to a heart attack. Brad was born at St. Olaf Hospital in Austin on July 16, 1967, to Leslie and Anne (Drucker) Newman. He grew up on Hwy 218 South of Austin, where he...
David Charles Nystel
Feb 28, 2026
David Charles Nystel, age 69, of Mapleview, Minnesota, passed away on Saturday, February 28, 2026, Comforcare Nursing Home in Austin. Dave was born on September 12, 1956, in Austin, Minnesota, to John and Virginia (Mauer) Nystel. Dave was a house painter and did apartment maintenance. Dave was a social butterfly and enjoyed fishing, mowing and any activities pertaining to the...
Emil "Butch" Carl Laack
Feb 28, 2026
Emil “Butch” Carl Laack Jr., age 75, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away Saturday, February 28, 2026, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota. Butch was born on June 23, 1950 to Emil and Maxine (Bly) Laack in Austin, Minnesota. He was raised in Austin and graduated from Austin High School in 1968. He went on to study auto mechanics at...
Sharon Rae Watkins
Feb 27, 2026
Sharon Rae Watkins, age 75, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away Friday, February 27, 2026, at Mayo Clinic Hospital Rochester, Saint Marys Campus. Sharon was born on September 9, 1950, to Ray and Gladys (Milks) Besco in Albert Lea, Minnesota. She worked for many years as a healthcare aide at Sacred Heart Nursing Home and volunteered at the Senior Center in...
Doris Virginia Samuelson
Feb 26, 2026
Doris V. Samuelson, age 97, of Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, passed away on Thursday, February 26, 2026, at Prairie Manor Care Center in Blooming Prairie. Doris Virginia Hanson was born on December 10, 1928, in Austin, Minnesota, to Aldine and Aura (Berg) Hanson. She was raised on the family farm near Blooming Prairie. She was baptized, confirmed, and married at Red...
Jerenne "Jerri" Beverly Blaser
Feb 22, 2026
Jerenne "Jerri" Beverly Blaser, age 94, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away on Sunday, February 22, 2026, at Sacred Heart Care Center in Austin. Jerenne was born in Austin on December 20, 1931, to Alvin and Hildred (Hanson) Erickson. She married Clifford "Cliff" Blaser on May 29, 1957. Together they had four children. Some of her happiest years were spent in...
Michael Allen Marcks
Feb 21, 2026
Michael Allen Marcks, age 70, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away on Saturday, February 21, 2026, at Mayo Clinic – St. Mary’s Campus. Michael was born on July 29, 1955, in Austin to Marlin and Sonya (Schreiber) Marcks. He attended Austin Public Schools through 8th grade before moving to a farm outside of Austin where he then graduated from Hayfield High...
Michael "Mike" Casimir Stenzel
Feb 21, 2026
Michael "Mike" Casimir Stenzel, age 45, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away Saturday, February 21, 2026, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Mike was born on April 6, 1980, in Glendale, California to Kenneth and Patricia Kay (Simpson) Stenzel. Mike was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. He graduated from USC High School in Wells, Minnesota in 1998. He went on to...
Gary Richard Hessenius
Feb 18, 2026
Gary Richard Hessenius, age 79, of Rose Creek, Minnesota, passed away, Wednesday, February 18, 2026, at Good Samaritan Society - St. Ansgar, Iowa.
The family is planning a memorial gathering for Gary the weekend of August 15, 2026. More information to come as family plans. Worlein-Hoff Funeral Homes of Austin are assisting the family with arrangements.
Robert "Bob" Vern Shatek
Feb 17, 2026
Robert “Bob” Vern Shatek, age 83, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away on Tuesday, February 17, 2026, at Our House Senior Living – Memory Care in Austin. Bob was born on January 15, 1943, at an Army base in Gulfport, Mississippi to his parents, Vern and Marie (Hanson) Shatek. He attended and graduated from Austin High School in 1961 and went...
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