Harriet Irene Thompson

HARRIET IRENE DISTAD THOMPSON
The memorial service for Harriet Irene (Distad) Thompson will be 11:00 a.m. January 19, 2009, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Hayfield with Reverend Paul Hauschild officiating. Spring inurnment will be in Fairview Cemetery in Hayfield, MN.
Harriet Irene (Distad) Thompson, 88, died on January 9, 2009, at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, MN.
Harriet Irene Helleckson was born on September 21, 1920, the daughter of Henry and Inger (Ulefoss) Helleckson in Wanamingo, MN. She attended two years at Augsburg College in Minneapolis and one year at Minneapolis Business College. Harriet was a police woman in Austin, a secretary from 1957-1967, in the Austin school system and Mower County Veterans Office. She and Paul owned the Viking House Café in Hayfield, MN. Harriet married Robert Distad in Hayfield on December 27, 1941. They moved to Austin in 1956. Robert died in 1961. She married Paul Thompson in December 1967, and moved back to Hayfield and he passed away in 1996.
Harriet is survived by Robert (Linda) Distad, Minneapolis, MN; Thomas (Shirley) Distad, Reno, NV; Richard (Linda) Distad, St. Paul, MN; John (Sonja) Distad, Federal Way, WA; Dorothy (Phil) Haukom, Mazeppa, MN; and Sandra (Richard) Burkhardt, Yuma, AZ; 12 grandchildren and many great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; 2 husbands, 2 brothers and 2 sisters.
Visitation will be from 4:00-7:00 p.m. Sunday, January 18, 2009, at Czaplewski Family Funeral Home in Hayfield and one hour before the service at Trinity Lutheran Church on Monday.
Blessed be her memory.