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Andrew
Foldesi, 89
Greenbush
- Andrew Foldesi, 89, died Friday, May 11, 2001
at Greenbush Nursing Home in Greenbush.
Services
were held on Tuesday, May 15, at 10 a.m. at Blessed
Sacrament Catholic Church in Greenbush with Father
Don Braukmann officiating. Andrea Foldesi and
Nicole Foldesi were the readers, and the
eucharistic ministers were Patty Truscinski, Jane
Harders and Henryka Evans. Special music was
provided by Jeanne Novacek and Mitch Walski.
Casketbearers were David Schires, Mark Foldesi,
Jeffrey Wittak, Michael Walsh, Dean Shafer and Tim
Truscinski. Interment was in Blessed Sacrament
Catholic Cemetery in Greenbush with Gieseke Funeral
Chapel of Greenbush in charge of the
arrangements.
Andrew
Steve Foldesi was born on August 11, 1911 in
Barnett township of Roseau county near Greenbush,
the son of Michael and Agnes (Meier) Foldesi. He
was baptized and confirmed in the Catholic faith
and graduated from the eighth grade.
On
July 27, 1937, he married Bertha Wittak. At an
early age, Andrew and a friend went to Dakota to
work as farm hands. He also worked at a Hibbing
taconite plant for one summer. Andrew worked at the
sugar beet plant in Drayton, N.D. and then at
Polaris Industries in Roseau for seven years before
his retirement. Through the years, Andrew and his
wife shared their home with 24 foster
children.
Survivors
include his wife, Bertha; three sons, Richard
(Marianne) of Monticello, Kevin (Kathy) of New
Brighton and John (Debbie) of Moorhead; two
daughters, Carol Brouwer of Golden, Colo. and
Kathleen (Gerald) Murray of Los Angeles, Calif.;
seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; a
brother, Leopold (Louise) of Greenbush; and two
sisters, Laura Shafer of Greenbush and Euphemia
"Helen" Stevens of Minneapolis.
Andrew
was preceded in death by his parents; eight
children, Harold Gene, Harry Steven John, Sharon
Marie, Andrew Steve and four infants; two brothers,
George and Emil; three sisters, Rose Foldesi,
Myrtle Smith and Applone Schires; and a
half-sister, Minnie Van Brunt. A00003B2000MY23
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