Margaret Oline KLEFSTAD

1912 - 2003  (90 years)

• Name	Margaret Oline KLEFSTAD  [1]
  Birth	25 Aug 1912	Chinook, Blaine County, Montana   [2, 3]
  Gender	Female
  Education	St. Cloud State Teacher's College  [4]
  Occupation	school teacher  [4]
  Death	29 May 2003	Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota, USA   [5, 6]
  Burial	31 May 2003	Waterford Township, Dakota County, Minnesota USA   [3, 7]
  	Section 209 W. Buried next to spouse Arthur and parents Martin and Hattie Nichols Klefstad. Mar. 17 Jun 1936. MST. 30 May 2003.
  Notes	Obituary: Margaret Oline (Klefstad) Ellingboe Ellingboe Margaret Oline (Klefstad) Ellingboe was born in Chinoo k, MT on August 25, 1912 to Martin & Hattie Klefstad. She grew up in Scott County, MN and attended St. Cloud State Teachers College. Her first teaching job was in a rural schoolhouse in Scott County where she met Arthur Ellingboe. She and Arthur were married on June 17, 1936 and farmed in rural Scott and Dakota counties. Margaret and Arthur moved from the farm to Northfield in 1948 and later to their long time home in Waterford where they raised their two sons, Richard and John. Margaret continued to teach school in Castle Rock, Randolph and Greenvale Elementary in Northfield. She retired from teaching in 1977. Margaret died on Thursday, May 29, 2003 at the Northfield Care Center at the age of 90. She is survived by sons, Richard (Debera) of Eugene, OR and John (Catherine Cella) of Edina, MN; grandchildren, Michael (Monica), Deborah (Don Heeman), Stephen (Lisa), Christopher, Peter , Mary, Sarah, and Anna Ellingboe; great-grandchildren, Austin and Collin Ellingboe; sister, Helen Hill; sisters-in-law, Anna and Veola Ellingboe, Beulah (Lloyd) Luckman, Helen Henry, Evelyn (Gaylord) Horwath; brother-in-law, John Menne; and many other rel atives and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Arthur, who died in January of this year; her parents; and her sister, Ruth. Funeral Services will be 1 PM Saturday at St. John' s Lutheran Church in Northfield. Burial at Red Rose Cemetery. Visitation Friday from 6:30-8 PM at the Northfield Care Center Chapel. Arrangements by the Bierman Funeral Home, Northfield. Published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on 5/30/2003. The Rev. John Quam officiated at the funeral. Ruth Ferguson was the organist. Pallbearers were Richard, John, Peter, Deborah , and Mary Ellingboe and Don Heeman. The 1960 Northfield city directory shows Mrs. Margaret Ellingboe as a teacher at Castle Rock School. In the 1972 city directory she is a teacher at Greenvale Park School. [4]
  Person ID	I6019	Ellingboe
  Last Modified	21 Jan 2011

  
  

  Family ID

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• Sources

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