Tillie Gilbertson, formerly of Montevideo, died on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at Pine View Care Center in Black River Falls, WI at the age of 105. Funeral services will be conducted on Monday, February 28, 2011 at 11:00 A.M. at Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Montevideo with Rev. Marie Eckberg officiating. Interment will be in Sunset Memorial Cemetery. Visitation will be Sunday from 3 - 5 P.M. at the Anderson Funeral Home in Montevideo. Tillie Isabel (Egge) Gilbertson was born on February 4, 1906 in Hubbard Township in Polk Co., MN to Theodore and Hannah (Sevalrud) Egge, the oldest of seven children. At the age of two she moved with her family to Southwestern Minnesota, growing up on a farm between Windom and Wilder, MN. She graduated from Wilder High School and attended Mankato State Teachers College, graduating with a two year degree in 1929. From 1929 - 1936 she taught first grade in Winthrop, MN During the summers she attended the University of Minnesota for her four year B.A. degree. In 1936 she moved to Montevideo, teaching Special Education from 1936 - 1946. On November 12, 1945 she was united in marriage to Alfred Gilbertson at the Our Saviors Lutheran parsonage in Montevideo, and to this union was born a daughter, Gwyn. In 1952 she returned to teaching and taught First Grade for five years, followed by many years of substitute teaching. Tillie moved to Black River Falls, WI in 1995 to be closer to her daughter. Tillie was a long-time member of Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Montevideo and a participant in the church life of Evangelical Lutheran Church in Black River Falls, WI. She did a great deal sewing, making draperies and much of her own clothing as well as her daughter's. She liked to cook and bake cakes, baking many wedding cakes and fancy cakes for many occasions. She knit many beautiful sweaters, made afgans and quilts and dressed dolls. She enjoyed art, painting beautiful oil paintings, water colors, and making many beautiful stained glass pieces, some in three dimensions and some of her own designs. Tillie loved to travel and enjoyed playing cards, especially both tournament and duplicate bridge. Tillie is survived by her daughter, Gwyn (and Al) Knutson of Black River Falls, WI; three grandchildren: Karen and Blaine Knutson and Heidi Hohn, as well as by numerous nieces and nephews. She is preceded in death by her parents, by her husband Alfred in 1996; a grandson-in-law, William Hohn; three brothers: Harlan, Ernest and Orville Egge and by thee sisters: Ella Otto, Hazel Larson and Gladys Hildreth.