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Last modified: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 3:07 PM CST
Dorothy Mae Mathiesen, 72
Dorothy Mae Mathiesen, 72, Harris, Minn., died Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009, at the Abbott-Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis, Minn.
Funeral services were at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 14 at the First Lutheran Church of Harris, with the Rev. Richard Mork officiating.
Visitation and a viewing was one hour prior to the service and from 5-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13 at the Olson Chapel in Rush City, Minn.
Burial was at the Sunrise Cemetery in Sunrise, Minn.
Born in Breckenridge, Minnesota on Jan. 29, 1937, Dorothy was the daughter of Ransom and Beatrice (Trinka) Mallinger. Raised on a farm in rural North Dakota, she attended “country school” and in 1955 graduated from Lidgerwood High School at Lidgerwood, N.D. In Iowa on Dec. 23, 1955, Dorothy was united in marriage to Duane Mathiesen. They later lived in Minneapolis and purchased their first home in Coon Rapids, Minn. In 1967 Dorothy and Duane moved to Rush City and in 1974 they moved once again, this time to rural Harris. Dorothy retired from the Harris Post Office as a rural mail carrier in 1996. Dorothy loved country living and enjoyed planting and caring for her many beautiful gardens. She also enjoyed sewing and caring for her home and family.
She is survived by: her children, Laurie Bromwich of Harris, Kelly Ann Hokanson and her husband Kelly Paul of Rush City, daughter-in-law Lisa Mathiesen of Harris, grandsons Michael Bromwich of Braham, Christian and Gregory Mathiesen of Harris, her mother; Beatrice Halverson of Wahpeton, North Dakota, her sister Margie Hook and husband Carl of Bountiful, Utah, her brother George Mallinger and wife Kathy of Lidgerwood, North Dakota, mother-in-law Ella Mathiesen of Wahpeton, North Dakota, sister-in-law Sandra Hanson of Milnor, North Dakota and many nieces and nephews.
Dorothy is preceded in death by her father Ransom Mallinger, husband Duane Mathiesen, son David Mathiesen and her daughter Renee Marable.
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