Brainerd - Myrtle O. Thoreson, 92, died Friday, September 8, 2000 at Bethany Good Samaritan Village in Brainerd.
Services will be held today (Wednesday, September 13) at Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Baxter with Rev. Darrell Pedersen and Rev. Jennifer Wilson officiating. Interment will be in Forest Cemetery in Kimberly township with Halvorson-Johnson Funeral Home of Brainerd in charge of the arrangements.
Myrtle O. Mellem was born on August 21, 1908 in Rosewood, the daughter of Peter and Caroline (Lappegaard) Mellem. She married Lincoln Thoreson on July 2, 1927 in Minneapolis. He died on July 31, 1993.
Myrtle was a longtime member of Bethesda Lutheran Church in Malmo prior to moving to Brainerd. She was currently a member of Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Baxter and VFW Post 1647 Auxiliary of Brainerd.
Survivors include one daughter, Marvella Larson of Baxter; three grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; two brothers, Alvin Mellem in California and Clarence Mellem of Libby, Mont.; and three sisters, Joyce Nielson of Libby, Mont., Florence Moore of Missoula, Mont. and Pearl Thoreson of Kalispell, Mont.
She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; and two brothers, Roy and Vernon Mellem.
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