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Mary <I>Giere</I> Valsvik

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Mary Giere Valsvik

Birth
Sargeant, Mower County, Minnesota, USA
Death
27 May 1966 (aged 91)
Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota, USA
Burial
Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA Add to Map
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Obituary published in the Rochester Post Bulletin on May 27, 1966:

Mrs. Valsvik, 91, Rochester, Dies

Mrs. Mary Valsvik, 91, of 19 6th St. NW, died today in the Seminary Rest Home in Red Wing where she had been a patient for about six years. She had been ill six months.

She was born April 18, 1875, at Sargeant, Minn., moved to Hayfield after her husband, Ole, died in 1901 and then moved to Rochester in 1915.

She was the former Mary Giere. She was married in the West St. Olaf Lutheran Church near Rock Dell in the mid-1890s.

She is survived by a son, Joseph of Rochester; a sister, Mrs. Fred L. Koenig of Rochester; a brother, Martin Giere of Menomonie, Wis.; two grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter.

Prayer service will be at the Vine Funeral Home at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and funeral services will follow at 2 p.m. in the Zumbro Lutheran Church. The Rev. John P. Trelstad will officiate and burial will be in Grandview Memorial Gardens.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 9 a.m. Sunday.
Obituary published in the Rochester Post Bulletin on May 27, 1966:

Mrs. Valsvik, 91, Rochester, Dies

Mrs. Mary Valsvik, 91, of 19 6th St. NW, died today in the Seminary Rest Home in Red Wing where she had been a patient for about six years. She had been ill six months.

She was born April 18, 1875, at Sargeant, Minn., moved to Hayfield after her husband, Ole, died in 1901 and then moved to Rochester in 1915.

She was the former Mary Giere. She was married in the West St. Olaf Lutheran Church near Rock Dell in the mid-1890s.

She is survived by a son, Joseph of Rochester; a sister, Mrs. Fred L. Koenig of Rochester; a brother, Martin Giere of Menomonie, Wis.; two grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter.

Prayer service will be at the Vine Funeral Home at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday and funeral services will follow at 2 p.m. in the Zumbro Lutheran Church. The Rev. John P. Trelstad will officiate and burial will be in Grandview Memorial Gardens.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 9 a.m. Sunday.


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  • Created by: Kevin Baase
  • Added: Jun 30, 2016
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166284155/mary-valsvik: accessed ), memorial page for Mary Giere Valsvik (18 Apr 1875–27 May 1966), Find a Grave Memorial ID 166284155, citing Grandview Memorial Gardens, Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA; Maintained by Kevin Baase (contributor 46835420).