Obituaries

Laverne Kack, age 95, of Canby, passed away on Aug. 14 at the Sanford Canby Medical Center. Mass of Christian burial will be 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 19, at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Canby. Visitation will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 18, at the Houseman Funeral Home-Birk Chapel in Canby with a prayer service at 7 p.m.

Dana Jay Bultinck, age 59, formerly of Marshall, MN, passed away August 7, 2021, at the VA Medical Center in St. Cloud, MN. Memorial services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, August 19, 2021, at the Houseman Funeral Home, Birk Chapel in Canby, MN. Visitation will be Thursday one hour prior to the service.

Lorraine Hubbs, age 88, of Canby, MN, passed away Tuesday, August 3, 2021, at the Sylvan Court Nursing Home in Canby. Funeral service was Monday, August 9, 2021, at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Canby, MN, with Rev. Levi Bollerud officiating. Burial will be in the Canby City Cemetery, Canby.

Lee Denekamp of Gary, S.D., passed away Aug. 5. A private graveside service will be held in the Grandview Cemetery in Gary, S.D. Visitation will be from 10-11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 10, in the Gary United Methodist Church, Gary, S.D. 

Randy Kockelman died Tuesday July 27, 2021, at Johnson Memorial Hospital in Dawson, surrounded by his family, at the age of 62.

Mass of Christian burial will be held on Tuesday, August 3, 2021, at 11:00 a.m. at St. James Catholic Church in Dawson. Fr. Paul Timmerman will be the celebrant, and interment will be in the church cemetery.

Elwood Bakke Elwood O. Bakke, age 98, of Hendricks, MN, passed away at his home in Hendricks, MN, on Friday, July 23, 2021. A private family graveside service will be held for Elwood in the Marble Lutheran Cemetery. A public visitation was held Sunday, July 25th, from 4-6 p.m. in the Houseman Funeral Home, Birk Chapel in Hendricks, MN.

Lorraine P. Grondahl passed away October 10, 2020, at the age of 102 at Sylvan Court, which is located on the very spot where she was born at Swenson Memorial Hospital in Canby on August 30, 1918, to Clarence and Petra (Stone) Erickson.

Lucy Sheik, age 67, of Ivanhoe, MN, passed away with her family at her side on Saturday, July 31, 2021, at the Sanford Canby Medical Center in Canby, MN. Mass of Christian burial will be at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, August 5th, at the Ss. Peter & Paul Catholic Church in Ivanhoe. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m.