Martin
"Bill" Rehm, 89
Goodridge
- Martin "Bill" Rehm, 89, died Thursday, March 25, 1999 at
Northwest Medical Center in Thief River Falls.
Funeral
services were held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, March 29 at Faith
Lutheran Church in Goodridge with Reverend Robert Dahlen officiating.
Margie Iverson was the organist, and Van Swanson was the soloist.
Casketbearers were Richard Jenson, Roger Hoffman, Richard Parnow,
Galen Dahlen, Ronald Haugen and Lowell Swanson. Burial was in
Greenwood Cemetery in Thief River Falls. The Green Funeral Home was
in charge of the arrangements.
Martin "Bill" Rehm was
born on March 9, 1910 in an adobe in Stratton, Colorado, the son of
Otto and Carrie (Shepler) Rehm. The Rehms raised cattle on the free
range near Stratton until the government discontinued the free range
and opened it up for homesteading. At that time the family decided to
sell their cattle, and in 1917, they made their way to Nebraska by
train. From Omaha they boarded an immigrant train with Minnesota as
their destination. They rode in a boxcar with all of their
possessions including wagons, household goods, farm machinery and ten
horses. The family eventually settled seven miles east of Hazel in
Kratka township. There, young Bill helped his dad and brothers clear
brush and trees and build the family home.
On November 8,
1936 Bill was united in marriage to Olive Nelson at Bethany Lutheran
Church. For many years the couple made their home and farmed in
Smiley township. They later moved to Goodridge before moving to their
current home in Highlanding township.
Bill enjoyed hunting,
fishing, welding, working with animals and
farming.
He is survived by his wife, Olive; one sister, Dorothy Kingsbury of
Hastings; two sisters-in-law; one brother-in-law; and several nieces
and nephews.
Bill was preceded in death by his parents; two brothers, Joe and
Allen; and two sisters, Elsie Spillman and Marie Hafdahl.
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