Eleanor Isola (Wallace) Tostenson

Eleanor Tostenson, formerly of Montevideo, died Tuesday July 1, 2003 at Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar, at the age of 79.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 P.M. Sunday, July 6, 2003 at Immanuel Lutheran Church , rural Watson, with the Rev. Larry Olson officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Visitation will be  Saturday afternoon and evening, with the family from 5-7 P.M. with a   prayer service at 7:00 P.M.  at the Anderson Funeral Home in Montevideo as well as  one hour prior to service at the church.

Eleanor Isola Tostenson was born, July 21, 1923 at Asbury, MN to Guy and Margaret (Warren) Wallace.  She was baptized at the Montevideo United Methodist Church.  She attended school District # 8 in rural Montevideo and graduated in 1940 from Montevideo High School.  In 1941 she graduated from Minneapolis Business College.  She was confirmed and entered membership in Immanuel Lutheran Church of rural Watson prior to being united in marriage to Ernest (Bud) Tostenson on  February 21, 1943 in Chippewa County at the home of her parents.  Over the years she was employed at the Leary Grain Company of Minneapolis, Union Oil Company in Montevideo, Campbell Implement Company in Montevideo, and over 20 years at the Western Plains Library System of Montevideo.  She was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, was an avid reader, loved music and doing jigsaw puzzles, and loved cats.

She is survived by two daughters: Carolyn Gehrke and her husband Ron of Spicer, MN and Elizabeth Tostenson of Edina, MN; four granddaughters: Debra Yotter, and Vicki Krismer, both of San Diego, CA,  Margaret Eastman and her husband Edward of St Louis Park, MN and Elizabeth Gehrke of Spicer, MN;  two great-granddaughters: Amanda and Jennifer Krismer, both of San Diego, CA; one sister, Joyce Anderson of Montevideo; three brothers: Warren Wallace of  Clarkfield, MN, Roger Wallace and his wife Gudrun of Montevideo, and Archie Wallace of Montevideo; as well as by a number of nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Ernest, in 1997; one daughter, Nancy Tostenson in 1996; one sister, Edith Blakesley; her stepmother Eva; four sisters-in-law and two brothers -in-law.