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Merle
A. Gunnarson, 72
Lake
Bronson - Merle A. Gunnarson, 72, Lake Bronson,
died Wednesday, March 14, at home.
Funeral
services were held Monday, March 19, at Zion
Lutheran Church, Lake Bronson, with Pastor Mitch
Tolpingrud officiating. Interment will be at
Riverside Cemetery in Lake Bronson. Arrangements
were with Collins Funeral Homes of
Karlstad.
Merle
Alvord Gunnarson, the son of the late Albert and
Myrtle (Lundberg) Gunnarson, was born on December
31, 1928, in Jupiter township, Kittson county. He
was baptized at the Zion Evangelical Lutheran
Church in Lake Bronson and attended country school
in Jupiter township and Lake Bronson High school.
On September 29, 1951, Merle was united in marriage
to Verna Wright at Warroad. They resided in Arveson
township north of Karlstad where they raised
cattle, and in 1968, they bought their present farm
in Deerwood township where they have made their
home for the past 33 years. Merle had a variety of
jobs over the years, including hauling pulpwood and
gravel, over the road trucking, and working for
several area farmers while managing his own farm.
He especially enjoyed hunting and fishing, and was
an avid gardener and shared his love of flowers
with everyone. Merle and Verna enjoyed traveling,
especially to Arizona where they had spent the past
several winters.
Merle
is survived by his wife, Verna; sons: Larry of
Halma, and LaMar (Kay), of Nisswa; daughters:
Connie, Mrs. Kevin Swenson, and Cathy, Mrs. Kevin
Waller, both of Hallock; 15 grandchildren; three
great-grandchildren; step-mother: Pearl Gunnarson,
Rockford, Ill.; brothers: Dale (Marilyn), Dallas,
Texas, and Donald (Norma), Lakewood, Colo.;
sisters: Ida, Mrs. Lawrence Heuchert, Grand Forks,
N.D., and Darlene, Mrs. Lynn Zaugg, Rockford, Ill.;
foster sister: Bernice, Mrs. David Ward, Glyndon;
sister-in-law: Shirley Gunnarson, Lake Bronson; in
addition to many nieces, nephews and other
relatives.
He
was preceded in death by his parents, brother:
Wallace, and two nephews.
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