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
email: steagle@hickorytech.net
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Funeral services for Duane G. Skov, age 84, of New Richland will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, January 15, 2016 at St. Peter Lutheran Church in New Richland. Rev. Scott Williams will officiate. Interment will be at Carlston Cemetery. Military honors will be accorded by the VFW and American Legion Honor Guard. Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Thursday, January 14, 2016 at Bayview/Freeborn Funeral Home and one hour prior to the service at the church.  Online condolences are welcome at www.bayviewfuneral.com.

Duane died January 10, 2016 at the Albert Lea Good Samaritan Society.

Shirley M. Frederick, age 85, of Waseca passed away on Saturday, January 9, 2016, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester. 

Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Friday, January 15, 2016 at 11 a.m. at Sacred Heart Catholic Church with Father Gregory Leif officiating. Interment will be held at Calvary Cemetery in Waseca. 

Visitation will be held on Thursday, January 14, 2016 from 4 to 7 p.m. at McRaith Funeral Home & Crematory in Waseca, with the rosary being said at 3:45 p.m. and a prayer service starting at 7 p.m. Visitation will continue on Friday for one hour prior to services at the church.

Funeral services for Donald E. Myhre will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, January 16, 2016 at the Cross of Glory Church, Hartland. The Rev. Dr. Mark Hillmer will officiate. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the church. 

Donald passed away at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, MN on Friday, January 8, 2016. He was 83 years old.

Thomas George David, 71, of Owatonna, died Thursday, January 7, 2016 at his home. 

Tom was born April 7, 1944 in Waseca, Minnesota the son of James and Agnes (Hoffman) David. He was a 1962 graduate of Ellendale High School. He moved to Owatonna and worked at Spitzack Lumber Company. Tom was drafted into the United States Army in 1965 and was stationed one year in Germany. He was honorably discharged in 1967. After returning from the service, he drove truck for Medford Distribution. In 1967, he started hauling gravel for Owatonna Aggregates and retired after over 49 years of driving truck.

Margaret Ann Crumb passed away at home with her husband and four children by her side on January 7, 2016 at 8:30 a.m. at the age of 83.

Margaret is survived by her devoted husband, Bill of 64 years. Bill married his dear, Maggie on June 26th, 1951, on Margaret’s 19th birthday at the First Presbyterian Church in Albert Lea, MN.

Margaret is lovingly remembered by children, Christine (Tom) Meyer of St. Paul, MN, Dennis of Duluth, MN, Rex (Collette) of Mahtomedi, MN and Rebecca (Jeff) Crumb-Johnson of Washburn, WI. She is survived by her grandchildren, Nick and Anne Meyer, Jake, Mackenzie and Will Crumb and Ida and Seth Johnson. She is also survived by her sister Marie Hall in Kanawah, Iowa, and many nieces and nephews.