Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14 at the Bethany Methodist Church in LaMars Township, N.D., with the Rev. Fern Bailey officiating.
Visitation will be from 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13 followed by a Masonic service at 7 p.m. by the Fairmount Tri-State Masonic Lodge No. 37 at the Eggers Funeral Home in Rosholt, S.D. Visitation will continue Wednesday one hour prior to the service at the church.
 Lowell F. Caulkins, 91 Advertisement |
Military honors will be provided by the Read-Veflin American Legion Post 180 of New Effington, S.D.
Music will be provided by organist Nancy Jastram and vocalist Janny Pohl.
Honorary pallbearers will be all of Lowell’s friends and neighbors. Active pallbearers will be Danny Walter, Bruce Sturgess, Gary Osborn, Rick Snyder, Steve Jastram and Ray McLaren.
Lowell Fern was born Aug. 12, 1918, in Bordulac, N.D. He was the second child born to Orin Fern and Hazel (Mourer) Caulkins. The family returned to Greendale Township, N.D., in 1920. They moved to the farm that Lowell presently lived on in 1928.
Lowell graduated from Wahpeton High School in 1935. That summer he went to Washington State to pick strawberries. After returning home, he worked on the construction of the White Rock Dam. In 1941 he went to California and worked for the Lockheed Aircraft Company.
While in California, Lowell married Christine Cora Matteson on May 16, 1942, in Hollywood, and joined the U.S. Army Air Corps that fall. He was a B-17 and B-29 crew member during World War II.
After his discharge in 1946, Lowell worked as an auto mechanic in Wahpeton, N.D., Breckenridge, Minn., and Wyndmere, N.D. In 1948 Lowell went back to the farm and was a farmer for the remainder of his life. He was working at Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative when Cora suffered a stroke, which caused him to retire early to take care of her. Cora died March 20, 1985.
Lowell was an avid reader. It took a lot to keep him supplied with books. His happiest memories were of Alaska fishing with his cousin, Carl Caulkins. In his later years, he faithfully cared for his garden spots and loved giving sweet corn to family and friends. God forbid you offered to pay him!
Lowell was a responsible husband and loving father whose life was dedicated to caring for his wife and daughter.
Lowell is survived by: his daughter, Margie Jo (Myron) Kluge of Hankinson, N.D.; two granddaughters, Wendy (Lloyd) Moore of Dupont, Wash., and Leann Stavig of Watertown, S.D.; one grandson, John Louis Pervin III of Spring Valley, Minn.; seven great-grandchildren; two sisters, Mildred Davis of Virginia, Minn., and Bethel Caulkins (Harvey Glanzer) of Mineral Point, Wis.; and many friends and neighbors of LaMars Township.
Lowell was preceded in death by: his parents, wife, and sister Cleo.
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