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Last modified: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 2:43 PM CDT
Alden S. Thykeson, 88
Alden S. Thykeson, 88, Breckenridge, Minn., died Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009, at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Fargo, N.D.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 30, at Breckenridge Lutheran Church, Breckenridge, with the Rev. Mark Manning officiating.
Gathering of friends and relatives will be one hour prior to the time of service on Wednesday at the church.
Burial will be at Ft. Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn.
Arrangements are with the Vertin-Munson Funeral Home, Wahpeton.
Alden Sylvester Thykeson was born June 30, 1921, at Portland, N.D., the son of Christian and Anna (Hoff) Thykeson. He grew up and attended school at Portland until 1932 when he graduated from the seventh grade to eighth grade. In 1932 he and his dad, mother, sister and brother moved to Clifton, Texas. When Al started school in the fall of 1932, he had to take the seventh grade over because he had not had Texas history. He moved back to the Portland area in 1935. He graduated from Portland High School in 1939. He then attended and graduated from Fargo Business College. Al’s first job out of business school was with the Lillegard Chevrolet Dealership in Wahpeton, N.D. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943 and was sent to the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, N.D., for Signal Corp Training. He was sent from Grand Forks to Camp Kohler in Sacramento, Calif. From 1943 until 1946 he served overseas in the China-Burma-India Theater Signal Corp building communication lines from Calcutta, India, and KunMing, China. Al was discharged in 1946 from Ft. Lewis, Wash. At this time he returned to his job with Lillegard Chevrolet in Wahpeton. Al married Lois Leinen in Wahpeton on June 6, 1947. In 1952 they moved to Detroit Lakes, Minn., and Al got a job with Baker Buick. The couple moved to Phoenix, Ariz., in 1957. They got lonesome for family and friends in the area so moved back to Detroit Lakes where Al worked for Schiller Insurance. Al started his own account/bookkeeping business in 1960s.
Al retired in 1987, at which time he became secretary/treasurer of the Recreation Bowling League until 1997. In 1998, when Lois retired, they sold most of their belongings and home in Detroit Lakes and did what they had always planned to do —and that was to travel, while both of them were in good health. In their travels since 1998 they had visited many states, families and friends. They moved to Breckenridge in 2003, where they have since resided.
He was a member of First Lutheran Church, Detroit Lakes, and was a member of Breckenridge Lutheran Church, John Bridges American Legion Post No. 15, in Detroit Lakes and enjoyed bowling and golf.
Alden is survived by: his wife Lois, Breckenridge; his sister, Dorothy Halvorson, Omaha, Neb.; his two nephews, Curt Halvorson, Omaha, and Stephen Thykeson, Texas; his two nieces, Kristie Blegen, Woodbury, Minn., and Regie Ann Thykeson, Dallas, Texas; and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by: his parents; his brother Trygve Thykeson; his brother-in-law, Darvin Halvorson.
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