Helene Alice Kahlstorf
Helene Alice Short Kahlstorf was born October 9, 1939, in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, to Rev D. Robert Short and Helen E.M. Stuve Short. Her father was a Free Methodist pastor and college science professor, and her mother was a Registered Nurse. During her earliest years, the Short family lived in Barron, Wisconsin, but with the American entry into World War II, they moved to the South Side of Chicago while her father worked for the Civil Air Patrol. After the war was over, the Shorts moved to various parishes in rural eastern South Dakota, including Brookings and Ortley. Helene attended high school and her first couple of years of college at Wessington Springs [SD] Academy and Junior College, where her father taught science. She spent a brief but enjoyable time at Seattle Pacific College before returning to Brookings, SD to complete her Bachelor of Science in Nursing. While in college at Wessington Springs, Helene met Kenneth Kahlstorf, and the two we
FARGO, N.D. - Maryls Schave, 73, Park Rapids, Minn., died Saturday, Dec. 5, in Essentia Health.
Visitation will be from noon to 1 p.m., followed by a funeral at 1 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 19, at Calvary Lutheran Church in Park Rapids. Services will be livestreamed at 12:30 p.m. Saturday on Jones-Pearson Funeral Home’s website. Inurnment will be at a later date in St. Peter’s Cemetery in Balaton, Minn.
Arrangements by Jones-Pearson Funeral Home in Park Rapids.
Arlys A. Weaver
Arlys Weaver died peacefully on December 8, 2020 at Neilson Place in Bemidji, where she enjoyed the last years of a life well-lived. She was born February 26, 1920, in Cando, North Dakota. Her father, Oscar Swenson, emigrated from Norway at age 4 with his family on a steamship to Ellis Island. The Swensons homesteaded near Saint John, ND. Her mother, Ella Bowen, was born in a covered wagon coming up from Iowa to Minnesota, and met Oscar in the farm country of North Dakota, where they worked just after WW1. Oscar and Ella moved to Minnesota, where they farmed on the Ponsford Prairie northwest of Park Rapids. Arlys met her husband, Harold Weaver, when he came to the Swenson farm with a threshing crew. Arlys and Harold married in 1940 and owned a dairy farm near Park Rapids. Arlys was a fine homemaker, but once her children were old enough, she worked at the Hubbard County Courthouse, the medical clinic, and the local gas company until her retirement. She enjoyed