Gertrude Norman, 86, of Montevideo, died August 16, 1994 at Luther Haven Nursing Home in Montevideo.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, August 20, at 2:00 P.M. at Saron Lutheran Church. Rev. Wayne Mensing and Rev. James McCalmant will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be held Friday afternoon and evening at the Anderson Funeral Home in Montevideo and with the family from 3-5:30 P.M.
Gertrude Marie Branum was born March 15, 1908 in Wheaton, MN the daughter of Ole and Laura (Halvorson) Branum. When Laura died following childbirth in 1910, Gertie became a part of the family of Hans and Ragnhild Amerud and their daughter Anna in Lac Qui Parle County. Hans moved his family to Montevideo after Ragnhild died in 1918. She was baptized in the Norwegian Lutheran Church in Wheaton March 27, 1910 and was later Confirmed at Our Saviours Lutheran Church in Montevideo. Gertie graduated from Montevideo High School in 1926 and from Normal Training in 1927. She taught country school for two years in Dist. 16 and for two years in Dist. 18. She was united in marriage with Rowland Norman June 7, 1931. Gertie was an active member of Saron Lutheran Church. She was also active in the Chippewa County Historical Society and worked with her husband as caretaker of the Swensson Farm Museum for 17 years. Church and her family and friends were always very important to her. In 1989 they moved into Montevideo and in the fall of 1991 became residents of Luther Haven Nursing Home.
She is survived by her husband, Rowland; one daughter, Ann Rachel Stevens and her husband Allard of Granite Falls, MN; two sons: Richard and his wife Gloria of Rochester, MN and David and his wife Kaye of Redwood Falls, MN; eight grandchildren: Susan Hamre and Martin Keller of Minneapolis, MN, Robert and Heidi Hamre of Becker, MN, Eric and Debbie Norman of Perris, CA, Signe and Thomas Walker of Burnsville, MN, Hal Norman of Covina, CA, Todd and Kim Norman of Minneapolis, MN, Scott and Sarah Norman of Mountain View, CA, and Beret Norman of Northampton, MA; two great-grandchildren: Sijne Gloria Norman of Perris, CA and Siri Hamre Keller of Minneapolis, MN; one sister, Luella Ebmeier of Gaithersburg, MD; and one niece Winifred Ebmeier Cullen of Gaithersburg, MD.
She was preceded in death by her parents; one granddaugher, Stacy Liv Norman; two brothers: Harold and Ludwig; and her foster family: Hans, Ragnhild, and Anna Amerud.