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Marjorie F. Pedersen, age 100 of Pipestone, MN passed away Sunday, March 2, 2008 at the Pipestone Good Samaritan Center. Memorial service will be at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, March 8 at First Lutheran Church in Pipestone. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the church. A private family interment will be held at a later date. The Tyler Area Funeral Home is handling the arrangements. Marjorie F. Pedersen was born to Chris and Alice (Olsen) Jensen on March 6, 1907 in LaPlatte, Nebraska at the family farm. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith and was a member of the First Lutheran Church of Pipestone, Minnesota. She attended school in Ruthton, Minnesota and Bellview, Nebraska. In 1923 she was united in marriage to Howard A. Collins of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Howard preceded her in death. In the summer of 1944 she moved to Ruthton, Minnesota to keep house for her father and to provide nursing care for her grandfather. In 1953 she moved to Red Wing, Minnesota where she clerked for a drugstore and later provided nursing care for the elderly for 12 years. On June 20, 1959 she was united in marriage to Chris B. Pedersen. They lived on a farm in Troy Township of Pipestone County and in August, 1986 they moved into Pipestone. Her husband, Chris preceded her in death in 1992. Marjorie was a member of the First Lutheran Church in Pipestone since 1960 and was a member of the Kindness Circle for 35 years. She also held membership and offices in the Pipestone Hospital Auxiliary (1960), V.F.W. Auxiliary (1953), and the Eastern Star (1945) in Ruthton, and in the past several years was a member of the Pipestone Calumet Order of the Eastern Star. She is lovingly remembered by her two sons, Harold Collins of Sun
City Center, Florida and Kenneth Collins of Woodland Hills, California;
one step-daughter, Arlis (Donald) Werner of Pipestone; one step-son
Harold (Pat) Pedersen of Cambridge, Minnesota; twenty-one grandchildren,
twenty nine great-grandchildren, and three great- great grandchildren. |
