Obituaries

Earl J. Lanoue, 86, dieD October 5 at Prairie Home Hospice House in Marshall, MN, the community where he made his home for nearly all of his adult life. He fought a long 20 year plus battle with congestive heart failure/heart disease. He was born July 9, 1924, to Elric and Ethel Lanoue on the family farm in rural Marshall,...

Emilee LaVanche Olson was born on November 2, 1998, in Anhui Province, China. At ten months old, she was adopted by the Charlie and Traci (Poffenberger) Olson family in Cottonwood. Emilee was in the third grade at Lakeview Elementary School in Cottonwood when her life was tragically cut short as the result of a bus accident. Emilee was a very...

Florence was born September 1, 1919 to August and Irene (Dobbelaere) Buysse. She attended St. Eloi Catholic School until her sophomore year when she became the housekeeper for her father and brothers for nine years. On November 13, 1943 she was united in marriage to Jules Van Keulen at St. Eloi Catholic Church in Ghent. They lived on the Van...