Obituaries

Delores Mae (Dolla) was born September 20, 1942, to Martin and Selma (Karvonen) Ness at home in Cedar Township in rural Middle River. She attended school in Middle River where Delores and her siblings would walk 2 miles to school. They would have to do chores prior to going to school. She graduated in 1960 from the school in Middle River. At the age of 17 she met Harf Wiskow. On October 8, 1960, they were married in Strandquist, MN. They had one child, Mae in 1961. They raised both beef and dairy cattle. In 1970 they sold the beef cattle as Harf’s asthma was worsening. Delores and Harf enjoyed snocatting, hunting, bonfires, playing cards, birthdays and visiting with friends and neighbors. They continued to dairy farm until eventually their daughter, Mae and husband Phil took over the farm. Delores always helped on the farm: milking, feeding, bedding straw, delivering calves, raking hay, driving her 4-wheeler to get the cows to the barn for milking time, clean the bulk tank, wherever help was needed she went.

Edith Yvonne Kilen Werman Zahn was born March 9th, 1951 in NW Minnesota to Alfred and Corinne Kilen.

On June 2, 1937, Eileen was born to Hilmer and Emma (Graff) Swenson at their home in East Valley Township, the first of twins—Eileen and Eldon. Eileen was baptized and confirmed into the Lutheran faith. She attended country school where her mother taught before attending high school in Newfolden, graduating in 1955. She attended nursing school in Thief River Falls and worked in Minneapolis, MN.