Stella Gertrude Fjerstad

STELLA GERTRUDE FJERSTAD
The funeral service for Stella Gertrude Fjerstad will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, January 31, 2009, at West St. Olaf Lutheran Church with Reverend Darby Lawrence officiating. Interment will be in West St. Olaf Lutheran Cemetery in the spring.
Stella Gertrude Fjerstad, 106, died Monday, January 26, 2009, at Field Crest Care Center in Hayfield. Stella Gertrude Himle was born the daughter of Edland and Olianna (Boyum) Himle in Dodge County, MN. She married Howard Fjerstad February 1922. Stella was a nanny for Mayo Clinic doctors in Rochester. She also worked at Libby’s Canning Factory in Rochester, farmed with the family and baked lefse for the Oslo Store for many years. She enjoyed traveling, and specially traveling by train.
Stella is survived by one son, Glenn (Marietta) Fjerstad, Isle, MN; one daughter, Phyllis Putz, Redding CA; five grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband in 1938; one son, Oden; two brothers and six sisters.
Visitation will be one hour before the service at the church on Saturday.
Blessed be her memory.