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Raymond Dallum
WANNASKA, Minn. -- Raymond Dallum, 65, died Sunday, Oct. 8, 2000, at home in Grimstad Township, Roseau County, Minn.
Raymond Ambrose Dallum was born Jan. 15, 1935, the son of Benard and Amy (Olson) Dallum, in Nereson Township, Roseau County. He grew up in Grimstad Township and attended school in Wannaska and Roseau. He started driving truck at the age of 16. He worked in the western states for a few years, before moving back to Roseau in 1965. He continued over-the-road driving in addition to his electronic sales and service business and farming.
He is survived by his mother, Wannaska; and brothers and sisters, Bernie (Wanda), Wannaska, Joanne (Franklyn) Rykken, Roseau, Allan (Carol), Buck Lake, Minn., and Lenay (Gary) Knepper, Camby, Ore.
He was preceded in death by his father.
Services: 1 p.m. Friday, Helgeson Funeral Chapel, Roseau.
Visitation: 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, and one hour before services, all in the funeral chapel.
Burial: Palmville cemetery.
Naida Brinkman
WANNASKA, Minn. -- Naida Brinkman, 91, Wannaska, died Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2000, in Sheltering Oaks Manor, Roseau, Minn.
Naida Vernice Goodsell was born Aug. 15, 1909, the daughter of Clarence and Ethel (Farnsworth) Goodsell, in Eagan, S.D. She grew up and graduated from high school in Osakis, Minn. She graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1935 with a degree in nursing and public health. She worked for Hennepin County Public Health. She married
Ralph Brinkman on June 22, 1935, in Goodhue, Minn. They moved to a farm in Wannaska. She worked as a nurse and later as director of nursing at the Roseau Community Hospital until retiring in 1979.
She is survived by children, Bill (Ione), Wannaska, and Mary (Gordon) Long, St. Peter, Minn.; four grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and a sister, Clarine Piotrowski, Long Beach, Calif.
She was preceded in death by her husband; a brother, Vincent; a sister, Elwyn; and a stepbrother, Perry.
Services: 10: 30 a.m. Saturday, Riverside Lutheran Church, Wannaska.
Visitation: 4 to 7 p.m. today, with a 7 p.m. prayer service, Helgeson Funeral Chapel, Roseau, and one hour before services.
Burial: Mickinock cemetery, Wannaska.
Esther Glewwe Stassen
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. -- Funeral services were set for Wednesday for Esther Glewwe Stassen, who entertained U.S. presidents, diplomats and heads of state as wife of former Minnesota governor and U.S. presidential candidate Harold Stassen.
Esther Stassen died Saturday at her home in this Minneapolis suburb. She was 94.
During the writing of the United Nations charter in 1945 in San Francisco, where Harold Stassen was a delegate, Esther Stassen was instrumental in keeping negotiations from breaking down, her husband said Sunday.
As hostess to the other delegates' wives, she learned that the Soviet diplomats couldn't freely negotiate because of an order from dictator Josef Stalin.
Stassen told her husband, who got word to President Harry Truman. The president flew a diplomat to Moscow to meet with Stalin, who gave new orders to his delegates. The deadlock was broken and the negotiations continued.
"It was all because of her and what she was able to find out, " said Harold Stassen, who served as Minnesota's governor from 1939 to 1943.
Belinda Evenson
McINTOSH, Minn. -- Belinda Evenson, 93, McIntosh, formerly of Winger, Minn., died Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2000, in McIntosh Manor Nursing Home, where she had lived since 1996.
Belinda Mork was born May 2, 1907, the daughter of Ole and Anna (Villand) Mork, in Winger, where she attended school. She lived on the family farm and worked as a telephone operator. She married
Edwin Evenson on Nov. 28, 1931, in Winger. They farmed near Winger. Edwin Evenson died in 1972. She moved into Winger in 1979.
She is survived by sons, Allen (Jane), Glasgow, Mont., and Lyle, Winger; a daughter, Beverly (Waldo) Thompson, Thief River Falls; six grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by a brother, Nills.
Services: 10: 30 a.m. Saturday, Calvary Lutheran Church, Winger.
Visitation: 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, with a 7 p.m. prayer service, Mattson Funeral Home, Winger.
Burial: Winger cemetery.
Ernest Selle
GRYGLA, Minn. -- Ernest Selle, 94, Grygla, died Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2000, in Northwest Medical Center, Thief River Falls.
Ernest Henry Selle was born May 26, 1906, the son of August and Mary (Eickschen) Selle, in Jessenland Township, Sibley County, Minn. He grew up and attended school in Washkish, Minn. He worked in the logging, gravel and trucking business. He married
Connie Hill in 1929. She preceded him in death. He married
Mae Svenpladsen in 1938. She preceded him in death. He married
Aile Kujanson on June 23, 1945, in Grygla. He worked for Beltrami County driving the road maintainer.
He is survived by his wife; four daughters, Mary (Willard) Zarnott, Gaylord, Minn., Louis Ziegler, Plymouth, Minn., Vera Teetzel, Spring Lake Park, Minn., and Carol Grossfield, Plymouth, Minn.; several grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; and a brother, Marvin Bellview, Broken Horn, Idaho.
He was preceded in death by sisters, Maime Wekop, Ann Schaunberg, Lillian Anderson and Della Murray; and a brother, Ervin.
Services: 1 p.m. Friday, Grace Lutheran Church, Grygla.
Visitation: 4 to 7 p.m. today, with a 5 p.m. prayer service, Green Funeral Home, Thief River Falls, and one hour before services in the church.
Burial: Lone Oak cemetery, Minnie Township, Beltrami County, Minn.
Marlene Mountain
REDBY, Minn. -- Marlene "Debbie" Mountain, 48, Redby, died Monday, Sept. 18, 2000, in North Country Regional Hospital, Bemidji.
Marlene Marie Mountain was born June 4, 1952, the daughter of Herbert and Ruth (Fairbanks) Mountain, in Red Lake, Minn., where she attended school. She married
Kenny Hanson in Red Lake. She worked as an assistant manager at the Red Lake Fisheries and later as manager until retiring.
She is survived by daughters, Billie Jo Mountain and Wyona Mountain; her parents; sisters, Marilyn Mountain and Shirley Mountain; and brothers, Herbert Jr. and Carson.
Services: 10: 30 a.m. Friday, St. Mary's Catholic Church, Red Lake.
Visitation: Will begin today in the Red Lake Community Center.
Burial: St. Mary's Catholic cemetery, Red Lake (Olson-Schwartz, Bemidji).
Shirley Sherman
CLEARBROOK, Minn. -- Shirley M. Sherman, 63, Clearbrook, died Friday, Nov. 17, 2000, in Good Samaritan Center, Clearbrook.
Shirley M. Sherman was born Dec. 20, 1936, the daughter of Arthur and Betsy (Larson) Sherman, in Gonvick, Minn. She graduated from high school in Clearbrook. After her father's death in 1967, she moved to the Good Samaritan Center.
She is survived by cousins.
She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Orville.
Services: 1 p.m. Tuesday, Chapel of the Good Samaritan Center, Clearbrook.
Visitation: One hour before services in the center.
Burial: United Lutheran cemetery, Berner, Minn. (Cease, Bagley, Minn.).
