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Vera Scanlan studied and received her degree in mortuary science from the Worsham School, located in Chicago, IL in 1959. In 1923, Leonard Aune sold an interest in his funeral home and furniture store to Frank A. Schottle. Mr. Schottle was born in Iowa and came to Cottonwood County with his parents at the age of nine. He went through the Windom Public School system and then went on to become a funeral director. And Elsie Meyer on a farm southwest of Okabena in Alba Township, Jackson County, Minnesota. He lived on the farm until the family moved to Kinbrae.
Lee and Doris moved to the country to their farmhouse in Milaca, MN in 1995 and enjoyed the country life until her passing in 2014. He fought cancer 3 times, and moved back to Coon Rapid, MN in 2018 to Margaret Place Senior Apartments. Lee lived independently until September of this year, and he enjoyed the fun activities at the apartments and joined in the activities and was loved by all who knew him.
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Beaufort Berry died on June 25, 1968, and he is buried in Lakeview Cemetery in Windom. Ronnie married Carol Jacobson on January 20, 1968, at the American Lutheran Church in Windom. The couple raised and loved two sons, Mike and Joey, along with their foster son, Steve Riordan.
After his death his wife continued to be active in the business for a few years. In 1935 and 1936 the Aune-Schottle firm employed a young man by the name of Arthur Hanson, who would later return to Windom and buy into the business. In 1937 a young man by the name of Gerald Stempfley became employed as a mortician.
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Our mission at LaCanne Funeral Home is to help families celebrate a life lived and loved. Our caring professionals will help to create lasting memories for your family, relatives and friends. We specialize in Celebrations of Life for those that choose either burial or cremation as their final disposition. We also offer families the ability to plan their Celebrations of Life before the time of need. After co-owning together for a year, Mr. Schmidt elected to sell his shares of stock in the corporation and divest himself of ownership, but to continue to be active on a part-time basis. Mr. LaCanne was now the sole shareholder and owner of the funeral home business.
He enlisted in the United States Army in November 1953. He served two years, stationed at White Sands Proving Grounds Missile Range, Las Cruces, NM, then was transferred to the U.S. His hobbies included cooking, finishing, and refinishing furniture, and traveling. He enjoyed listening to music, attending concerts, and very much appreciated art. Jerry loved cats and enjoyed taking care of his cat, Max, who was real good company. Ardoth Ann Kraetsch was born September 2, 1929, to the late August and Frieda Jauert, in Luverne, Minnesota.
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Lee and his dog Luigi could be seen taking walks around the apartment and socializing with his friends he made there. Lee worked as a Surveyor in Owatonna MN, Golden Valley, MN and Anoka, MN; he was a proud member of the Anoka Carpenters Union for many years. Lee was also a long haul Truckdriver for many years with Dart Transit, and proudly racking up over 1 million miles over the years driving as a Truckdriver. He enjoyed cooking and listening to country music; he loved to watch Minnesota Twins and Minnesota Vikings games on TV, as well as running the beer truck at the Anoka County Fair for Shortstop owners Souki and Kay.
Shortly after purchasing the business the funeral home was completely redecorated and permanent steel siding was applied to the outside along with energy efficient windows and doors. Mr. Anderson was a native of Sioux Falls, SD., and a graduate of the California College of Mortuary Science. He had been employed at the Miller Funeral Home in Sioux Falls and at the Engebretson Funeral Home in Luverne, MN, prior to coming to Windom with his wife, Mary, and family. On January 1, 1970, Philip J. Anderson joined Mr. Witt as a licensed employee.
At one point he employed, on a part-time basis, a Windom man by the name of Vincent Thorstad. Mr. Thorstad liked the funeral service so well that he studied for, wrote, and passed the State Board Examination to receive a funeral director’s license. In 1951, Mr. Thorstad purchased the hardware store in Storden, MN, and moved there with his family. Shortly thereafter, he opened the Storden Funeral Home in his residence. Holding only a funeral director’s license, Mr. Thorstad called upon Mr. Scanlan to do the embalming and preparation for him and help him on funerals in the Storden area.
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Prior to coming to Windom he worked for a large ambulance company in Detroit, Michigan, and the McDivitt-Hauge and Strobeck-Hauge funeral home in the Twin Cities. Beaufort Berry was born in North Carolina and came to Windom in 1913. As best as can be determined, he opened a funeral home in Windom about 1920. It was located on the northwest corner of 5th Avenue and 14th Street. Them building still stands and is an apartment complex.
Darrel attended Jackson Public Schools and then enlisted in the U.S. Darrel was honorably discharged and returned to Windom. Her health was declining, and she was placed in hospice care in her home. She passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on December 10, 2022, at her home in rural Jackson. A Listing of those who have helped or assisted the funeral directors in the Windom, Storden and Jeffers areas in one way or another over the years. We apologize in advance if there is someone who has been unintentionally omitted.
The funeral director’s license required studying and mastering the laws regarding arranging and conducting funerals and the required legal paperwork involved and then writing the State Board Exam. After a year of apprenticeship under a licensed funeral director one then received his license as a funeral director. To obtain a mortician’s license, one needed to go to mortuary science school for a year, work under a licensed mortician for one year, and then write and pass the State Board Exam for the mortician’s license. Because Mr. Thorstad was only licensed as a funeral director, it required a licensed mortician to do the embalming and preparation work. This was handled by Mr. Scanlan and then when Mr. Witt bought the Scanlan Funeral Home he took over those duties. When Mr. Witt and Mr. Hanson merged their businesses in 1961, they took o those duties.
In the early 1960′s Mr. Thorstad became a full time rural mail carrier out of the Storden Post Office and this required that he turn over the complete operation of the Storden Funeral Chapel to the Hanson-Witt firm. As much as was possible, Mr. Thorstad would continue to assist the Hanson-Witt firm on funerals in the Storden area when his mail carrier duties did not interfere. In 1955 Mr. Scanlan sold the funeral home to a Storden native, Kenneth L. Witt. Mr. Scanlan then purchased the McCauley Funeral Home in Mason City, IA where he relocated with his wife, Vera.
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