Mabel Amanda HAARSTAD
- Born: 11 Nov 1899, Mower County, MN
- Marriage: Alfred BAKKEN on 22 Jun 1922 in Dexter, Mower County, MN
- Died: 23 Jun 1991, Olmsted County, MN at age 91 1
Noted events in her life were:
• Census: Dexter > District 85, 1900, Mower County, MN. line 54
156 157 Haarstad Andrew O 55 i1882 Norway
--- Martha 48 MN
--- Ida O 27 MN
--- Alma H 23 MN
--- Mabel A 20 MN
--- Olga E 18 MN
--- Otto I 12 MN
--- Thelma V 7 MN
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• Census: Fremont, District 6, 1930, Winona County, MN. line 81
16 16 Baken Alfred B 34 m26
Mabel A 30 m22
Arlida M 6
Allwon K 5
Evangeline J 3 11/12
Dorthy A 2 11/12
Magdile K 7/12 [note: Magdeli and Elvira mixed]
Elwera K 75 mother
Woxland Agnes 19 boarder
Johnson Henry 17 boarder
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• Cemetery: Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery, Sargeant, 1991, Mower County, MN.
• Obituary, 1991, Mower County, MN. Mabel A. Bakken, 91, of Route 3, Rochester, a longtime area farm homemaker, died Sunday at St. Marys Hospital.
Born Mabel A. Haarstad on Nov. 11, 1899, in rural Dexter, she grew up there. On June 21, 1922, she married Alfred Bakken in Dexter. They lived in Kasson for a time before moving to rural Rochester in 1949. Her husband died in March 1976. Mrs. Bakken was a member of Bethel Lutheran Church.
Survivors include four sons, David and Allwyn, both of Rochester, Donald of Cannon Falls and A. Everett of Wykoff; six daughters, Arlida (Mrs. James) Long and Billie (Mrs. Jack) Croll, both of Zamora, Calif., Evangeline (Mrs. William) Cannell of Virginia, Dorothy (Mrs. Donald) Morgan of Morristown, Minn.; Elvira Bakken of McQueeny, Texas, and Ruth (Mrs. Clifford) Boyum of St. Paul; 35 grandchildren; 46 greatgrandchildren; a brother, Otto Haarstad of Dexter; and two sisters, Mrs. Olga Tebay of Le Roy and Thelma (Mrs. Elmer) Kirchner of Hayfield. She was preceded in death by an infant daughter, two sisters and a granddaughter.
The funeral will be 1 p.m. Thursday at Bethel Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Jack Friedli officiating. Burial will be in Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery in Dexter.
Friends may call from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Ranfranz Funeral Home and an hour before the service at the church.
Memorials are suggested to Bethel Lutheran Church missions.
Mabel married Alfred BAKKEN, son of Knud Knudsen BAKKEN and Magdeli Hansdatter BOYUM, on 22 Jun 1922 in Dexter, Mower County, MN. (Alfred BAKKEN was born on 15 Oct 1895 in MN and died on 15 Mar 1976 in Olmsted County, MN 2.)
Noted events in their marriage were:
• Alt. Marriage, 21 Jun 1922, Dexter, Mower County, MN.
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