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Daisy
Stauffenecker, 85
Greenbush
- Daisy E. Stauffenecker, 85, died on Saturday,
November 2, 2002 at Greenbush Nursing Home in
Greenbush.
Funeral
services were held on 
Tuesday,
November 5 at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in
Greenbush with Rev. Don Brauckmann officiating.
Mitch Walski was the organist. Ernie Stauffenecker
was the reader and Christine Stanislawski and Jane
Harders were the Eucharistic ministers. Special
music included "Rock of Ages," "At This Sacrifice,"
"Mother Dear, O Pray For Me" and "Lord of All
Hopefulness." Honorary casketbearers were the
Greenbush Nursing Home staff. Casketbearers were
Daisy's grandchildren. Interment was in Blessed
Sacrament Catholic Cemetery in
Greenbush.
Daisy
Elnora Johnson was born on February 8, 1917, the
daughter of John and Elsa (Puttbrese) Johnson in
Benwood. She grew up and attended school in Badger,
graduating from Badger High School. Daisy then
attended and graduated from the Deaconess Hospital
School of Nursing in Grand Forks, N.D. She worked
as a registered nurse in Thief River Falls,
Greenbush and Kansas City, Kan. On March 30, 1940,
she was united in marriage to Clarence
Stauffenecker in Crookston. The couple made their
home in Greenbush, where they operated the City
Meat Market, Greenbush Locker Plant and the
laundromat. Daisy worked as a registered nurse at
the Greenbush Hospital and became the first nursing
supervisor of the Greenbush Nursing
Home.
She
was a member of the Blessed Sacrament Catholic
Church of Greenbush and of St. Ann's Sodality.
Daisy enjoyed spending time at their lake home at
Rocky Point with her husband. Clarence died in 1994
and since then, Daisy has resided at the Greenbush
Nursing Home.
Survivors
include a son, Ernest (Jeanette) of Duluth; two
daughters, Eileen (Keith) Kilen of Greenbush and
Rosanne (Val) Johnson of Grantsburg, Wisc.; 12
grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; three
brothers, Norman (Mary) of Thief River Falls,
Harley (Verna) of New London and Harlan of Willmar;
and several nieces, nephews and other
relatives.
Daisy
was preceded in death by her parents, her husband,
and a sister, Joyce, in infancy.
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