Leslie
Getchell, Jr., 79
Park
Rapids - Leslie Getchell, Jr., 79, died on
Sunday, April 20, 2003 at St. Joseph's Hospital in
Park Rapids.
Funeral
services were held on Wednesday, April 23 at the
Jones-Pearson Funeral Home in Park Rapids with the
Rev. Harvey Kietzman officiating. Casketbearers
were grandchildren: Shane Nelson, Harvey Moseng,
Jr., Nathaniel Mackay, Rusty Mackay, Tami Nelson
and Michelle Hunt. Honorary casketbearers were
grandchildren: Laura Moseng, Leslie Kruft, Scott
Fritz, Lori Goebel, Jerome Iverson, Morris Sliger,
Paul Mackay, Jr., and Leslie's great-grandchildren
and great great-grandchildren. Interment was in the
Getchell Family Plot at the Glenwood City
Cemetery.
Leslie
Garfield Getchell, Jr. was born on September 14,
1923, the son of Leslie, Sr. and Margaret (Smith)
Getchell. His mother died when Leslie was two years
old. Later, his father married Laura Pearson, who
helped raise Leslie. As a child, he moved to the
communities of Hoffman, Kensington, Herman and
Glenwood. He attended schools in these communities
and graduated from Elbow Lake Public School.
On April
3, 1944, he married Lucille Helen Michaels in
Webster, S.D. He began farming in the Glenwood
area. He also drove school bus and worked as a
switchman for the Soo Line Railroad. In 1955, they
sold the farm and moved to Minneapolis, where he
worked for the Chicago Great Western Railroad. They
returned to Glenwood and Leslie resumed farming. He
also started his own trucking operation, which he
was actively involved in for many years.
After
Lucille's death in 1975, Leslie moved to Nevis,
where he operated a hobby farm and continued to run
his trucking company until his retirement in 1991.
Leslie loved the outdoors. He was an avid hunter
and fisherman, loved animals of all kinds, and
enjoyed planting his vegetable garden, which he
shared with his family, friends and special friend,
Patty Neft. He liked to keep busy with carpentry
work and did all of his own mechanical work. Leslie
loved his family.
Survivors
include four daughters, Katherine (David)
Rutherford of Park Rapids, Kay (Buzz) Nelson of
Thief River Falls, Korene (Paul) Mackay of St.
Cloud, and Margaret (Harvey) Moseng of Redwood
Falls; 12 grandchildren; 20 great-grandchildren; 11
great great-grandchildren; and many nieces,
nephews, other relatives and friends.
Leslie
was preceded in death by his wife; his son,
Kenneth; his daughter, Karen; his parents; his
step-mother; and an infant grandson.
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