Lillian E. Sebring

Lillian E. Sebring, 91, of Kettle River, Minn., died peacefully on Sunday, March 7, 2010, in Mercy Hospital, Moose Lake, Minn. She was born April 28, 1918, in Kalevala Township to August and Mary Baakari. Lillian was a survivor of the Moose Lake 1918 Fire. She attended the Mansika School in Kalevala Township and later helped her family on their farm. On Sept. 7, 1940, Lillian married Everett Sebring in Carlton, Minn. They operated a dairy farmed in Kalevala Township and Lillian was also a homemaker. She was a member of the Apostolic Lutheran Church, Kettle River. Lillian loved reading, sewing, gardening, spending time with her grandkids, photography, scrapbooking, and talking to family and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Everett Sebring, in 1998; son Charles Sebring; granddaughter, Julie Ostercamp; and 10 brothers and sisters.

Lillian will be lovingly remembered by her nine children, Judith (Lyle) Madsen of Kettle River, Margaret Adams of Duluth, Minn., Barbara (LeRoy) Creech of Barnum, Minn., Lynn Sebring of Moose Lake, Virginia (Robert) Ostercamp of Amarillo, Texas, Karen Sebring of Kettle River, Brian (Diane) Sebring of Hawi, Hawaii, David Sebring of Kettle River, and Audrey Sebring of Kettle River; 13 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; her daughter-in-law, Linda Sebring of Kettle River; brother, Walter Baakari of Moose Lake; and numerous nieces, nephews and friends.

A funeral service will held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 10, in the Evangelical Covenant Church, Moose Lake. Pastor Todd VanZee will officiate. Spring burial will be in West Branch Cemetery, Kalevala Township.

Arrangements by Hamlin-Hansen-Kosloski Funeral Home, Moose Lake, 218-485-4429. To sign the guest book online, go to www.hhkfuneralhome.com.

March 11, 2010 ~ Pine Journal, Cloquet, Minn.

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