Obituaries
John Richard Bolstad
Dec 23, 2025
John R. Bolstad, age 78, of La Crosse, Wisconsin, passed away on Tuesday, December 23, 2025, at his home. John was born on August 23, 1947, in Austin, Minnesota, to Vernon and Frances (Groebner) Bolstad. He attended Sumner Grade School and graduated from Austin High School in 1965. John received an AA degree from Riverland Community College in 1967 and a...
Michael David Hansen
Feb 2, 2026
Michael David Hansen, age 74, of Hayward, Minnesota, passed away on Monday, February 2, 2026, at Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix in Phoenix, Arizona. Mike was born on December 29, 1951, in Austin, Minnesota, to Richard and Sharlene (Ellison) Hansen. He graduated from Pacelli High School. Following graduation, he entered the United States Army on July 17, 1970, and served...
Albino Almanza Aguirre
Apr 5, 2026
Albino Almanza Aguirre, age 91, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away on Sunday, April 5, 2026, at the Cedars of Austin. Albino was born on December 16, 1934, in Guanajuato, Mexico, to Alfonso Almanza and Aurelia Almanza de Aguirre. Albino lived in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, and Laredo, Texas, for many years before setting his family roots in Minnesota. Albino was united...
Steve Edward Stoltenberg
Apr 4, 2026
Steve Edward Stoltenberg, age 79, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away Saturday, April 4, 2026, at the Cedars of Austin. He was born April 26, 1946, in Fairmont, Minnesota, to Edwin and Adelia (Rave) Stoltenberg. Steve graduated from Welcome High School in 1964 and went on to earn an associate’s degree in accounting from Jackson Vo-Tech. He began his career at Hormel...
Allen "Butch" Anderson
Apr 1, 2026
Allen "Butch" Charles Anderson, a devoted husband, proud father and grandfather, loyal friend, skilled craftsman, and lifelong outdoorsman, passed away peacefully in his home surrounded by family on April 1, 2026, at the age of 75. Butch was born on August 2, 1950, in Owatonna, MN, to Gerth "Bud" and Phyllis Anderson. He grew up in Blooming Prairie, MN, and...
Sharon Lynn Pfeifer
Mar 30, 2026
Sharon Lynn Pfeifer, age 87, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away on Monday, March 30, 2026, at St. Mark’s Living in Austin.
A private interment for Sharon will be in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin. Worlein-Hoff Funeral Homes of Austin are assisting the family with arrangements.
Earling Kenneth Opsahl
Mar 30, 2026
Earling Kenneth Opsahl, 97, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away on March 30, 2026, at home with his family.
Earling was born on a farm near Mabel, Minnesota, on March 9, 1929, to Roy and Ida (Nelson) Opsahl. At the age of 12, his family moved to Austin. He attended Austin Central High School until the 8th grade, when he left school...
Zetta Marie Simpson
Mar 26, 2026
Zetta Marie Simpson, age 99, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away Thursday, March 26, 2026, at Truman Senior Living in Truman, Minnesota. Zetta was born on April 15, 1926, to Leroy and Sarah (Knutson) Dixon in Lyle, Minnesota. Zetta attended high school in Austin before working for Hormel for three years. There, she met the love of her life, Robert Simpson,...
Jerome Max Jakobson
Mar 23, 2026
Jerome Max Jakobson, age 82, of Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, passed away Monday, March 23, 2026, at St. Mark’s Living in Austin, Minnesota. Jerome was born to Arlo and Marion (Christiansen) Jakobson on January 6, 1944, in Albert Lea, Minnesota. He graduated from Albert Lea High School and furthered his education by earning an associate’s degree in accounting from Mankato. He...
Barbara Lee Finley-Shea
Mar 21, 2026
Barbara Lee Finley-Shea was born at St. Olaf Hospital in Austin, Minnesota, on September 19, 1955, just 15 minutes after her mother arrived in labor. At this very same hospital, 70 years, 6 months, and 2 days later, she passed away here, after a fall in her home the morning of March 21, 2026. The family really appreciates the kind...
Ella Rita Kohn
Mar 20, 2026
Ella Rita Kohn, age 89, of Hollandale, Minnesota, passed away Friday, March 20, 2026, at her home. Ella was born August 6, 1936, in Preston, Minnesota, the daughter of Rollie and Marie (Mangan) Arnold. She graduated from Spring Valley High School and dedicated 22 years of her life to the Albert Lea Clinic, where she worked as a medical records...
Myrwood Andrus Bagne
Mar 18, 2026
Myrwood Andrus Bagne, age 94, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away, Wednesday, March 18, 2026, at Birchwood Cottages in Owatonna, Minnesota. Myrwood was born on June 16, 1931, in Waseca, Minnesota, to Ernest and Florence (Anderson) Bagne. On July 6, 1952, he was united in marriage to Helen Ruth Anderson at Vista Lutheran Church. Myrwood graduated from St. Olaf College in...
Tamara "Tammy" Sue Srock
Mar 15, 2026
Tamara “Tammy” Sue (Alwes) Srock, age 67, of rural Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, died on Sunday, March 15, in Owatonna, Minnesota. She was born on October 5, 1958, at St. Olaf Hospital in Austin, Minnesota, to Elvin and Celia (Hogan) Alwes. She was the youngest of nine siblings. Tammy graduated with the class of 1977 from Blooming Prairie High School. Shortly...
Kenneth Frederick Silvey
Mar 13, 2026
Kenneth Frederick Silvey, age 96, of Austin, Minnesota, passed away on Friday, March 13, 2026, at Prairie Manor Care Center in Blooming Prairie. Kenneth was born on November 8, 1929, in Manson, Iowa to George and Elma (Meier) Silvey. He graduated from Havelock High School in 1947. Kenneth then went on to attend Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, Northwestern...
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 School...
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
Services for Barb have been postponed and rescheduled for 11:00 a.m. on Saturday April 4, 2026 at Worlein-Hoff Funeral Home in Austin. Visitation will take place for one hour prior to the service.
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...
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...
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