Douglas Jennings Ellingson

Douglas Ellingson, of Montevideo, died on Friday, May 14, 1999 at the Methodist Hospital in St. Louis Park, MN at the age of 49.

Funeral services will be conducted on Tuesday, May 18, 1999 at 10:30 AM at Trinity Lutheran Church in Montevideo with Rev. David Hoyme officiating.  Interment will be in the Sunset Memorial Cemetery.

Visitation will be Monday afternoon and evening with a prayer service at 7 PM at the Anderson Funeral Home in Montevideo.

Douglas Jennings Ellingson was born on August 6, 1949 in Montevideo, MN to Julian and Alma (Struxness) Ellingson. He was baptized and confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church near Watson, MN and graduated from Milan High School in 1967.  He graduated from Waldorf College in 1969 and graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN in1971 with degrees in Psychology & Sociology.  He served 3 years of active duty in the US Army and was stationed  in Germany for much of that time.  He also served as a member of the Army Reserves for a number of years until retiring in 1996 as a Staff Sgt.  On November 29, 1975 he was united in marriage to Donita Mae Morris in Hoffman Estates, IL.  He worked as the senior Rural Mail Carrier at the Montevideo Post Office and operated the Two Thumbs Up Massage & Bodywork as a massage therapist. He had been a member of Kviteseid Lutheran Church in Milan for a number of years and had taught Sunday School there.  He was currently a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Montevideo.  He belonged to the American Legion and had been a Gideon for several years.  He enjoyed life and was young at heart.  He loved helping people and visiting with them, reading, walking and nature, traveling, planting, gardening and mowing, the various school activities of his daughters and expanding the Two Thumbs Up business.

He is survived by his wife, Donita; two daughters: Birgit and Laura; his parents; two brothers: Victor Ellingson and his wife Charlotte of Shakopee, MN and their family and Luther Ellingson and his wife Paula of Eden Prairie, MN and their family; two sisters-in-law: Cindy Olson and her husband Arnie of St. Michael, MN and their family and Lisa Kelly and her husband Kim of Cambridge, MN and their family; as well as by 13 nieces and nephews, great nieces & nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins.

He was preceded in death by his grandparents: Jens and Ragna Ellingson and Mathias and Ingeborg Struxness.