Adelle Virgene Tesarek, 56

Roseau - Adelle Virgene Tesarek, 56, died on Tuesday, March 9, 2004 at the Roseau Area Hospital.

Funeral services were held on Saturday, March 13 at the Helgeson Funeral Chapel in Roseau. Interment will be at the Beaver Cemetery in rural Roseau.

Adelle Collins, the daughter of Donna Mae (Wiskow) and William Collins, was born on February 7, 1948 in Rockford, Ill. She moved to Greenbush at the age of 12.

She was married to Ralph Dorion. After his death in 1982, she and William "Willy" Tesarek were married on July 2, 1983. They lived on a farm in Beaver Township of Roseau County, farming dairy cows. The last six years, both had worked at Marvin Windows and Doors. Adelle enjoyed vegetable gardening and canning, sewing dolls, driving tractors and other machinery on the farm, camping and ice fishing. She also loved her dogs.

Survivors include her husband; her mother Donna of Rockford, Ill.; her brother William (Lori) Collins of Byron, Ill. and sisters, Patty Steel of Milton, Wis. and Gail (Dale) Loonis of Beloit, Wis.

She was preceded in death by her father William and husband Ralph. A00003B2004MR17

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