OBITUARIES

Saran Duncan

Sara Duncan of Carlton, Minn., passed away Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012, at her home with family.

April 05, 2012

Leroy E. Hedlund (Hezzy)

Leroy Edwin Hedlund (Hezzy), 83 , of Cloquet, Minn., passed away Monday, April 2, 2012, in St. Mary's Medical Center, Duluth, Minn.

April 05, 2012

Hazel A. Goble

MOOSE LAKE - Hazel A. Goble, 90, of Moose Lake, Minn., passed away Sunday, April 1, 2012, in Augustana Mercy Health Care Center, Moose Lake.

April 03, 2012

Lillian Nordlund

KETTLE RIVER - Lillian Nordlund, 90, of Kettle River, Minn., passed away Friday, March 30, 2012, in Augustana Mercy Health Care Center, Moose Lake.

April 03, 2012

Dennis Delbert Genereau

Dennis D. Genereau, 67, of Barnum, Minn., went to be with the Lord on Saturday, March 31, 2012. He was born Aug. 10, 1944, in Duluth, Minn., to Delbert and Marguerite (Couture) Genereau. Dennis married the love of his life, Annabelle Gooder, on April 1, 1967, in Duluth. They were just one day short of their 45th wedding anniversary. He grew up in Duluth and attended St. James Elementary School and Cathedral High School. Dennis graduated from the University of Minnesota Duluth in 1966 with an industrial arts degree. He taught industrial arts at Duluth Cathedral High School for nine years, and coached hockey five of those years, taking four of his teams to the state high school hockey tournament.

April 03, 2012

Judith Finifrock

BARNUM - Judith Katherine Finifrock, 66, of Barnum, Minn., passed away Thursday, March 29, 2012, with her family by her side.

March 31, 2012

Louise Dobosenski

CLOQUET - Louise Dobosenski, 80, of Cloquet, Minn., died Tuesday, March 27, 2012, in St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn.

March 31, 2012

Helen Wojtysiak

MOOSE LAKE - Helen Elizabeth Wojtysiak, 84, formerly of Kettle River, Minn., died Tuesday, March 27, 2012, at her home in Moose Lake, Minn.

March 31, 2012

Carol Y. Becker

DANBURY, WIS. - Carol Y. Becker (Speese), 70, of Danbury, Wis., formerly of Cloquet, Minn., passed away Friday, March 23, 2012 in North Branch, Minn.

March 27, 2012

Donald Lane House

Donald L. House, 89, of Cloquet, Minn., passed away Tuesday, March 20, 2012. He was born July 18, 1922, in Witt, Ill., to Edward and Louisa Mae House. He served in the United States Marines during World War II and also served in the United States Army. After Don retired from the Army, he worked as a janitor at First National Bank of Cloquet and a school bus driver in Cloquet.

March 27, 2012

Gayle Marie Josephson

Gayle M. Josephson, 70, of Cloquet, Minn., passed away Wednesday, March 21, 2012, at St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth, Minn. She was born Oct. 30, 1941, in Duluth to Oscar and Minette (Johnson) Gustafson. Gayle moved from Silver Bay, Minn., to Cloquet in 1975 and worked as a florist for the Cloquet Greenhouse. She was an artist and loved painting, gardening and golfing and adored her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

March 27, 2012

William Hardie

STURGEON LAKE - William "Bill" Hardie, 80, of Sturgeon Lake, Minn., passed away Thursday, March 22, 2012, in Mercy Hospital, Moose Lake, Minn.

March 24, 2012

Vera Eugenia Suhonen

Vera Eugenia Suhonen, 87, of Wright, Minn., died Thursday, March 22, 2012, in Cardinal Courts in Cromwell, Minn. She was born Feb. 11, 1925, in Cloquet, Minn., to Carl and Germina Bogenholm. Vera grew up in Wright and graduated from Cromwell High School in 1943. After high school she moved to Chicago and worked at Zenith Radio for one year. She moved back to Duluth, Minn., and worked as a telephone operator until she married Niilo Suhonen on Jan. 4, 1949. They made their home in Wright and together raised nine children.

March 24, 2012

Norma Constance Bloom

Norma Constance Bloom, 70, of Cloquet, Minn., passed away Wednesday, March 21, 2012, at Sunnyside Health Care Center in Cloquet.

March 23, 2012

Christopher D. Campbell

Christopher Douglas Campbell, 52, of Cloquet, Minn., joined his son Jeremy on Tuesday, March 20, 2012, after a courageous 15-month battle with small cell lung cancer.

March 23, 2012