Joyce Bensen
Anderson Olofson
Joyce Bensen was born on November 11, 1932 to parents Malton and Gunhild (Nornes) Bensen at their rural farm home at Erskine, MN. She attended country school for 8 years at Foot Lake School in rural McIntosh, MN after which she graduated from Erskine High School. She graduated from Bethesda School of Nursing and worked in hospitals in Ada, MN and Grafton, ND
In 1952 she married James H. Anderson and they had two children; Tim Edwin and Cynthia Jo. She was a stay at home mom until Tim was a senior in high school, at that time she began working for The Public Health Nursing Service in Ada, MN.
James Anderson died in Oct. 1983 and she married Leonard Olofson in 1987. Together they lived in Ashley, ND; Alice, ND; Ada, MN; Moorhead, MN and during the winter months each year Gold Canyon, AZ. She enjoyed any social activity from playing bridge, shopping with the girls, spending time with family & friends at the lakes, and especially dancing with her love; Leonard. As a nurse she always had a way of caring for others.
Joyce died on July 7, 2008 at Gold Canyon, AZ after a courageous battle with cancer.
She is survived by her husband: Leonard, her two children: Tim (Hiromi) Anderson, Pleasanton, CA; Cynthia (Steve) Rude, Halstad, MN; three step children: Marvin (Pat) Olofson, Gwinner, ND; Mike (Darbie) Olofson, Elk River, MN; and Morey (Tim) Leiseth, Moorhead, MN; and one foster daughter: Corina (Roger) Grancorvitz, Mesa, AZ. Two biological brothers: M. James (Nancy) Bensen and Kermit (Sandy) Bensen both Bemidji, MN and two cousins raised as her brothers: Floyd Lecy, Moorhead, MN and Roger (Barbara) Nornes, Ortonville, MN. She is also survived by 13 grandchildren ranging in age from 2 years to 27 years: Emi Anderson, Bentley Anderson, Jennifer Rude, Stefanie Rude, Kristine Rude, Johnathan Olofson & Sherri Suckow, Brittany Olofson, Robert Leiseth, Miles Olofson, Mason Olofson, Ella Olofson, McKenna Grancorvitz and Anika Grancorvitz.
She is preceded in death by her parents, infant sister: Meredith Bensen, first husband: James and a cousin raised as her brother: Art Lecy.
Joyce and Leonard are involved in the new Lutheran Church to be built in the Gold Canyon area as part of Our Saviors Parish. Memorials can be sent to: Our Saviors Lutheran Church; Building Fund, PO Box 6839, Mesa, AZ 85216. Unspecified memorials will be put toward the building fund.
Services will be held Saturday July 19th at 1 PM in Trinity Lutheran Church: 210 7th St South, in Moorhead, MN with a Prayer Service Friday, July 18th at 7PM also in Trinity Lutheran Church. Burial will be at The Ada Cemetery, Ada, MN.
Friday, July 18, 2008
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Melbo Relatives
Dear Anne Marie,
How are you? hope that all is well with you and your family. Next year we hope to be able to visit Minnesota and I have some question that I hope you can help me with.
I hope you can help with some information like when is the best month to travel the nearest airport and which hotel you can recommend for us.
We don't want to be a burden to you or any body else but we hope that we can meet some of our relatives and that some of you could show us where Malene Melbo lived.
My Mother, Father my husband Per and I we will try to find see and visit as much as we can.
We hope to be able to meet as many relatives as possible that would be for us a dream come true.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Med vennlig hilsen / Sincerely Anne Brynlund
How are you? hope that all is well with you and your family. Next year we hope to be able to visit Minnesota and I have some question that I hope you can help me with.
I hope you can help with some information like when is the best month to travel the nearest airport and which hotel you can recommend for us.
We don't want to be a burden to you or any body else but we hope that we can meet some of our relatives and that some of you could show us where Malene Melbo lived.
My Mother, Father my husband Per and I we will try to find see and visit as much as we can.
We hope to be able to meet as many relatives as possible that would be for us a dream come true.
Hope to hear from you soon.
Med vennlig hilsen / Sincerely Anne Brynlund
Joyce Olofson
I wanted to let Mom's "health update group" know that Mom died thisafternoon. She and Dad made it out to California to Tim's this pastweekend and her last big goal was to attend Jill's wedding! It was herbiggest goal! She's now dancing in heaven! We'll let you know more asplans are set. Hugs and Prayers! Cindy
Monday, June 9, 2008
Joyce and Jill Update
It is time to add a few lines about how things are going with us. If Icould feel as good as I do every morning, for the rest of my life Iwould be satisfied. After a good nights sleep I feel perfect. By noonmy heart is tired and I need a nap. I have had to quit the afternoonbridge group as I am tired by that time, I have very little paincompared to most cancer patients and the Megace has shrunk the tumors sothat I have gone from 143 lbs to 117 lbs. Now I have to worry aboutgetting skinny lookig, I am getting a little of the cortisone look but Ican put up with that, it just fills in a few wrinkles. The Dr. didn'twant us to go North this spring as the tmors are surrounded by fluid andthe pressure in the plane affects that. The ride is too long withouthaving oxygen handy (which I am off right now) I do have a machne that Ican plug in, will need to look into getting a converter for the car. Weare going to go to San Francisco if I am in good enough health, for JillBensens wedding, she is 47 and a civil engineer, and we like the womanshe is getting married to. The laws in Calif have changed and now theycan have a wedding ceremony besides the dedication for the insurancesand other work benefits. We are excited to be going west, she is one ofthe special people in my life.We will take three days taveling each way,it is 13 hrs of driving and we will get out and walk each aft, exerciseseems to be the best reliefe from pain for me, we are still playingcards, dancing, eating out and of the potlucks all the time. I think theprayers on all the church chains and the personal ones have to be doinga lot of good because I was given 3 mo last Nov 5 and I am still up andat them but just not quite as fast. Joyce
Monday, May 5, 2008
2008 Reunion
Nornes Family
72nd Reunion
August 10, 2008
AmericInn, Fergus Falls
DATE & SITE CHANGE: At the 70th reunion it was decided to hold reunions every 3 years, but at the 71st in 2006, that decision was modified to every 2 years, thus the 2008 reunion. The site had to be changed from Alexandria because, as Connie Jeffers said, “We barely got out of there without washing the dishes” in 2006. In other words, it became too expensive. So the officers have secured a meeting room at the AmericInn in Fergus Falls for Sunday morning, August 10th.
ACTIVITIES: Saturday—For those who arrive on Saturday night, August 9th, we can gather in the AmericInn lobby for conversation and making dinner plans. The AmericInn has a swimming pool for motel guests. Bring your own snacks. If meeting sites and times can be pinned down more precisely later, I will try to contact as many people as I can with dinner reservations whom I suspect will arrive on Saturday. In any case, Connie and I will power up our cell phones (see page 2) and you can call us if you can’t find us after you arrive.
Sunday —Because the Silent Auction and Bake Sale were so successful at the last reunion and because funds might again be short, we will repeat these events on Sunday morning in the AmericInn meeting room. We need you to donate an item of your handicraft, a collectible, CD’s or DVD’s, items with sports logos, travel souvenirs, etc. Any home baked food item will be more than welcome. At the last reunion, the Scandinavian baked goods were sold within minutes, so if you can, help keep these traditions alive. Volunteers are also needed to help set all this up: see Connie Jeffers or Tammy Anderson.
DINNER: A chicken lunch will be catered by Dairy Land of Fergus Falls at a cost of $5.50 plus tax and gratuity. Please note that we will need you to bring a few desserts for dinner as well. The cost of the meeting room is $100, which means that a charge of $10 per person should get us out of there without trouble and leave a little change for postage.
MOTEL RESERVATIONS: The following motels are located near the AmericInn in a cluster off 210 just east of the 210-I-94 intersection. You will have to make your own reservation—do it immediately as reservations are tight at this late date.
AmericInn, 526 Western Ave., 218-739-3900
Best Western, 925 Western Ave., 218-739-2211
Comfort Inn, 425 Western Ave., 218-736-5787
Super 8, 2454 College Way, 218-739-3261
PROGRAM: Anything besides the usual hymns and genealogy reports has not yet been determined. If you can let me know in advance of marriages and births in your family, I would appreciate it. I would also like to take some time to discuss technology issues with knowledgeable attendees. In addition, the site for the next reunion will need to be determined.
WEB SITE OR BLOG: A Nornes Family Circle website has not yet been set up. I tried but failed. Instead I have started a Nornes blog on which I have posted all the e-mails I have received in regard to deaths and illnesses in the family over the past two years. You can access it at www.NornesFamilyCircle.blogspot.com. Down in the lower right-hand corner, you can click on “Comments” that will get back to me. The comments can also be accessed by anyone else reading the blog. The blog can be one way for us to keep in touch until something more suitable is established. To verify the addresses I do have, I will e-mail this reunion letter to you via this method as well. If you do not receive an e-mail notice, please send me your address via the blog or aanden@aol.com.
ADDRESSES: Which brings up another point. I have 200 names and addresses in my mailing list, but that number does not reflect how many I should have. I hope, however, that it is sufficient to reach at least one member of a family who will communicate this information with his/her children and/or siblings. And then I beg of you, please send me - or have them send me—their addresses — regular mail, e-mail or both. With every mailing, we waste an awful lot of postage money on envelopes returned to me with addresses no longer valid.
Anne Marie Aanden (aanden@aol.com) 952-944-1826, Cell—952-270-7039
Connie Jeffers (cjeffers@q.com) 763-434-3101, Cell—612-245-2521
Lowell Bennes (Lowell@lowellbennes.com) 218-236-9468
72nd Reunion
August 10, 2008
AmericInn, Fergus Falls
DATE & SITE CHANGE: At the 70th reunion it was decided to hold reunions every 3 years, but at the 71st in 2006, that decision was modified to every 2 years, thus the 2008 reunion. The site had to be changed from Alexandria because, as Connie Jeffers said, “We barely got out of there without washing the dishes” in 2006. In other words, it became too expensive. So the officers have secured a meeting room at the AmericInn in Fergus Falls for Sunday morning, August 10th.
ACTIVITIES: Saturday—For those who arrive on Saturday night, August 9th, we can gather in the AmericInn lobby for conversation and making dinner plans. The AmericInn has a swimming pool for motel guests. Bring your own snacks. If meeting sites and times can be pinned down more precisely later, I will try to contact as many people as I can with dinner reservations whom I suspect will arrive on Saturday. In any case, Connie and I will power up our cell phones (see page 2) and you can call us if you can’t find us after you arrive.
Sunday —Because the Silent Auction and Bake Sale were so successful at the last reunion and because funds might again be short, we will repeat these events on Sunday morning in the AmericInn meeting room. We need you to donate an item of your handicraft, a collectible, CD’s or DVD’s, items with sports logos, travel souvenirs, etc. Any home baked food item will be more than welcome. At the last reunion, the Scandinavian baked goods were sold within minutes, so if you can, help keep these traditions alive. Volunteers are also needed to help set all this up: see Connie Jeffers or Tammy Anderson.
DINNER: A chicken lunch will be catered by Dairy Land of Fergus Falls at a cost of $5.50 plus tax and gratuity. Please note that we will need you to bring a few desserts for dinner as well. The cost of the meeting room is $100, which means that a charge of $10 per person should get us out of there without trouble and leave a little change for postage.
MOTEL RESERVATIONS: The following motels are located near the AmericInn in a cluster off 210 just east of the 210-I-94 intersection. You will have to make your own reservation—do it immediately as reservations are tight at this late date.
AmericInn, 526 Western Ave., 218-739-3900
Best Western, 925 Western Ave., 218-739-2211
Comfort Inn, 425 Western Ave., 218-736-5787
Super 8, 2454 College Way, 218-739-3261
PROGRAM: Anything besides the usual hymns and genealogy reports has not yet been determined. If you can let me know in advance of marriages and births in your family, I would appreciate it. I would also like to take some time to discuss technology issues with knowledgeable attendees. In addition, the site for the next reunion will need to be determined.
WEB SITE OR BLOG: A Nornes Family Circle website has not yet been set up. I tried but failed. Instead I have started a Nornes blog on which I have posted all the e-mails I have received in regard to deaths and illnesses in the family over the past two years. You can access it at www.NornesFamilyCircle.blogspot.com. Down in the lower right-hand corner, you can click on “Comments” that will get back to me. The comments can also be accessed by anyone else reading the blog. The blog can be one way for us to keep in touch until something more suitable is established. To verify the addresses I do have, I will e-mail this reunion letter to you via this method as well. If you do not receive an e-mail notice, please send me your address via the blog or aanden@aol.com.
ADDRESSES: Which brings up another point. I have 200 names and addresses in my mailing list, but that number does not reflect how many I should have. I hope, however, that it is sufficient to reach at least one member of a family who will communicate this information with his/her children and/or siblings. And then I beg of you, please send me - or have them send me—their addresses — regular mail, e-mail or both. With every mailing, we waste an awful lot of postage money on envelopes returned to me with addresses no longer valid.
Anne Marie Aanden (aanden@aol.com) 952-944-1826, Cell—952-270-7039
Connie Jeffers (cjeffers@q.com) 763-434-3101, Cell—612-245-2521
Lowell Bennes (Lowell@lowellbennes.com) 218-236-9468
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Latest on Joyce Olofson
Hey all,I talked to Joyce again this morning.They are 100% staying in Arizona.I’m not sure if the word has gotten around, so here it is:Mom went to the doctors yesterday. It was not a good prognosis.Joyce’s body is no longer producing red blood cells. She was told by the doctor to make a choice with in a couple of weeks as to where she want to spend her days. The doctors were very frank.Joyce has fought prenious anemia (sorry about the spelling Corina) most of her life. But it has gotten much worse the last couple of years.Mom and Dad did go back an forth a bit, but decided to stay in Arizona. Dad felt very strongly about staying there. From the good health care and all the friends around there it makes sense. And a number of the arrangements have been made out there already.Joyce went into the doctors again today for meds to thicken her blood, again.This is the choice the two have made.Please support Mom and Dad in this decision.Mom is fairly week at this point
Friday, March 21, 2008
Ronald Dyer
From Marsha Dyer Waind
I received news yesterday that my brother, Ron passed away in his home. He has lived on Farm Island lake in Minnesota since Sandy passed away. He was found by one of his close friends after not showing up for the paper at the local store. Ron has been having some issues with diabetes and not always the most attentive to his health-ruled as a cardiac arrest, probably occurring sometime Monday night-Tuesday morning. Ron has 1 daughter, Shelly (yep, named after the town) Argenbright, who has 2 children, and 1 step-daughter, Judy Christy, who lives in San Diego. The body is being cremated and a memorial service will be around April 26. Date yet to finalized as to when girls can come home. I spent the evening with Mom, who received the news with stoic reality. She is doing well soon to be 89. Interested to going's on and active as she can be.
I received news yesterday that my brother, Ron passed away in his home. He has lived on Farm Island lake in Minnesota since Sandy passed away. He was found by one of his close friends after not showing up for the paper at the local store. Ron has been having some issues with diabetes and not always the most attentive to his health-ruled as a cardiac arrest, probably occurring sometime Monday night-Tuesday morning. Ron has 1 daughter, Shelly (yep, named after the town) Argenbright, who has 2 children, and 1 step-daughter, Judy Christy, who lives in San Diego. The body is being cremated and a memorial service will be around April 26. Date yet to finalized as to when girls can come home. I spent the evening with Mom, who received the news with stoic reality. She is doing well soon to be 89. Interested to going's on and active as she can be.
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