Merle
Lundeen, 69
Thief
River Falls - Merle Lundeen, 69, died Friday,
December 19, 2003 at his home in Thief River Falls.
Funeral
services were held 
Tuesday,
Dec. 23 at Zion Lutheran Church in Thief River
Falls with Rev. Frank Ehling officiating. Casket
bearers included Vincent Lundeen, Kelly Lundeen,
Kory Chervestad, Arden Lundeen, Gary Lundeen and
Terry Hagen. Military honors were provided by Thief
River Falls American Legion post 117 and Veterans
of Foreign Wars post 2793. Interment was held at
Ebenezer Cemetery in Mayfield Township of
Pennington County.
Merle
LuVerne Lundeen was born December 25, 1933, in Deer
Park Township, the son of Emil and Luella (Urdahl)
Lundeen. He was baptized and confirmed at Oak Park
Lutheran Church. He attended Oak Park Country
School. He also attended the Crookston Agricultural
College. Merle served in the United States Air
Force from 1955 until his honorable discharged in
1958.
On
December 21, 1957, Merle was united in marriage to
Armilla Pugh at Oak Park Lutheran Church. In 1959,
Merle bought the family farm where he lived and
farmed until 1994. He also worked at Arctic
Enterprises, Inter County Weatherization, was a
resident manager for Broadway Apartments in
Crookston and also worked for River View Tower in
Minneapolis. He retired in 1998.
Merle
held membership in the Farmers Union, National
Farmers Organization, Democratic-Farmers Labor,
Catholic/Lutheran rural Life Commission, church
council and Sherwood Forest Advisory Board. He
liked to fish, hunt, snowmobile and church
activities.
Survivors
include his wife, Armilla; seven children, Gayle
(Greg) Hilgeman of Oklee, Timothy (Candyce) Lundeen
of Lancaster, Tony (Dee) Lundeen of Oklee, Barbara
Lundeen of Fargo, N.D., Perry (Sally) Lundeen of
Trail, Jeffrey (Patricia) Lundeen of Oklee, and
Dale (Sandra) Lundeen of Clifton, Ariz.; 26
grandchildren; a great-grandchild; a brother,
Erling (Melba) Lundeen of Spicer; an aunt, Gayle
Urdahl, of California and uncle, Dayton (Arlyne)
Silk, of Thief River Falls; and numerous cousins,
nieces, nephews and friends.
He
was preceded in death by his parents.
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