Janet
Offerdahl, 77
Fosston
- Janet Offerdahl, 77, died Monday, December
24, 2001 at First Care Hospital in
Fosston.
Funeral
services were held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, December
29, at Kingo Lutheran Church in Fosston with Rev.
Cheryl Berg officiating. Interment was in Kingo
Lutheran Cemetery with Carlin-Hoialmen Funeral
Service in charge of the arrangements.
Janet
Delores Espeseth was born on October 25, 1924 in
St. Paul, the daughter of Carl and Lillian (Amlee)
Espeseth. She lived in St. Paul until she was five
years old and moved with her family to Minneapolis
and then Edina. She was confirmed at Lake Harriet
Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. Janet attended
Riley School and graduated from West High School
and Miss Woods Teachers School, all in Minneapolis.
During World War II, she spent a summer in
California working at a center for children of
defense workers. Janet returned to Minnesota and
taught first grade in Hanley Falls for a year
before moving to Fosston where she taught first
grade for two years.
On
December 27, 1947, Janet married Clarence Offerdahl
at Lake Harriet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. The
couple resided in Fosston where they owned the
Hartz grocery store for many years.
Janet
and Clarence traveled to Norway, Sweden, Denmark,
Hawaii, Trinidad and Tobago, Germany and Spain and
wintered in Texas for 14 years. They owned a cabin
at Roy Lake for many years and a farm near Fosston
where her parents spent many summers.
Since
the time of her marriage, Janet was a member of
Kingo Lutheran Church. She taught Friday school,
was a Girl Scout leader and was president of the
American Legion Auxiliary for two years.
Survivors
include her husband, Clarence; a daughter, Mary Jo
(Dennis) Rud of Fosston; a son, Jim (Ann) of
Fosston; six grandchildren; two sisters, Eleanore
McBrian of California and Lorraine Sullivan of
Connecticut; and several nieces and
nephews.
Janet
was preceded in death by her parents.
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