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Picture came from: Kathy
Date of picture: 03 MAY 2010
Front row: Helen
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Picture came from: Kathy
Date of picture: 03 MAY 2010
Front row: Unknown
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EDEN - Helen Arlene Engevik, 89, Eden, died Monday, April 5, 2010, in a care center at Sisseton.
Funeral services will be Saturday at 10:30 a.m. in the Buffalo Lake Lutheran Church, rural Eden, with the Rev. Dick Grorud officiating. Pianist will be Sheila Oreskovich with special music by Christina and Marretta Osthus.
Burial will be in the Buffalo Lake Lutheran Cemetery, rural Eden. Honorary pallbearers will be his friends and neighbors. Active pallbearers will be Bill Malcolm, Marlyn Lindahl, Leonard Johnson, Kevin Valnes, Rory Iverson and David Hovland.
Visitation will be today (Friday) from 4 to 7 p.m. in the Cahill Funeral Chapel at Sisseton.
Helen Arlene Evjen was born Dec. 25, 1920, in Troy to John and Agnes (Osterkil) Evjen, the second oldest of nine children. She attended Troy school through the eighth grade while she worked for the Aaronsons family. She worked for a time on NYA, in Watertown as a housekeeper for the Rev. Oscar Hanson and later in Sioux Falls for the Lyle Olson family.
Nov. 28, 1948, she married Soren Engevik in the Immanuel Lutheran Church at Troy. They lived on the southeast corner of Buffalo Lake near Eden where they farmed and raised Angus cattle. They lived there until the fall of 2003, when they moved to the Tekakwitha Nursing Center in Sisseton.
She was a member of the Buffalo Lake Lutheran Church, where she took part in Ladies Aid and the activities they sponsored. She enjoyed her family, visiting with friends, reading, singing, listening to music and praying.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 2006 and twin infant sons, Ole John and John Ole.
Survivors include five children, Luther Engevik of Eden, Maurice Engevik of Eden, Katherine (David) Osthus of Eagan, Minn., Marshall (Lori) Engevik of St. Cloud, Minn., and Albert Engevik of Watertown, Minn.; six grandchildren; two brothers, Raynard (Marilyn) Evjen of Stockholm and John (Joyce) Evjen of Lake Mills, Iowa; one sister, Vivian Larson of Watertown; and two sisters-in-law, Joyce Evjen of Strandburg and Dorothy Barck of Marshall, Minn.
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