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Coon Rapids MN Obituaries and Death Notices
Monday, April 03, 2017January 3, 2017Coon RapidsOld soldiers, General Douglas MacArthur said, never die, they just fade away. Coon Rapids on Friday laid to rest one of the region’s more well-known and respected World War II veterans, 91-year-old John J. Schumacher, a Carroll Countian who fought for his nation on the battlefields of Europe and returned home to raise a family and build a legacy in economic development and community service. He passed away on Christmas Day.Coon Rapids on Friday laid to rest one of the region’s more well-known and respected World War II veterans, 91-year-old John J. Schumacher, a Carroll Countian who fought for his nation on the battlefields of Europe and returned home to raise a family and build a legacy in economic development and community service. He passed away on Christmas Day.Brothers Will and Levi Pingrey, both cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and like Schumacher, products of Coon Rapids, stood at attention as the late December wind whipped across Union Township Ceme...
Monday, November 14, 2016WWII to a prisoner-of-war camp to the American Midwest.“He went through more in his first 25 years of life than I ever will in my whole life,” said his son David Jurisoo.Varjo Jurisoo, 91, of Coon Rapids, died Oct. 8 after a long battle with cancer.It would be the last fight for the RV-loving, former theater actor who was forced to volley bullets across the Narva River alongside the German army during WWII as his older brother, Uno Jurisoo, unbeknown to him, was firing back on behalf of the Russians. Both had been conscripted.Jurisoo, who was also known as “Joe,” had first been drafted by the Russians at the age of 16, but dodged that only to be drafted by the Germans at age 19 in 1943. He was injured by gunfire during the war, but recovered and returned to battle. He would never see his father again. Political tensions and safety concerns kept him from visiting his mother or brother until he returned to Estonia in 1991, which is when they learned that the brothers had fought on opposing sides.“He never complained about it,” David Jurisoo noted. “It’s not like he thought, ‘My life’s unfair.’?”Jurisoo and other Estonian soldiers fighting for Germany eventually surrendered to U.S. troops and spent a year in a Belgian prisoner-of-war camp. Soon after his release, he was hired as a guard at the Palace of Justice, where he helped guard Rudolf Hess and other war criminals during the Nuremberg trials.Unable to return home for fear of persecution, Jurisoo immigrated to the United States in the late 1940s, landing in Anaheim, Calif. He picked oranges and was given supervisory duties because of his fluency with the languages spoken by the refugee workers. But it wasn’t long before he was drafted yet a third time — by the U.S. Army for the Korean War, for which he served in Europe.When Jurisoo returned to the United States, he bounced around Chicago, North Dakota and Minneapolis, where he acted in local theater productions, before returning to Chicago. It was there a...
Monday, October 24, 2016Mohall nursing home. (Thomas Family Funeral Home, Minot)Arden Hanson, 95, Crosby, died Wednesday in a Crosby hospital. (Stakston-Martin Funeral Home, Crosby)Julie Rundle, 47, Williston, formerly of Coon Rapids, Minn., died at her home in Williston. (Everson Coughlin Funeral Home, Williston)Irene (Feller) Kirby, 89, San Diego, Calif., formerly of Minot, died Aug. 27 in San Diego. (California Funeral Alternatives, Poway, Calif.)...
Monday, August 01, 2016Dowell on June 4, 1966 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Long Prairie. He began working for the United States Treasury, living in Omaha, Nebraska, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota and finally permanently in Coon Rapids. In 1997, he and Donna moved to Big Swan Lake, where they made their home until moving to Alexandria in 2013. They spent several winters in Arizona.Bob is survived by his loving wife of 50 years, Donna, Alexandria; son, Robb (Shameza) Johnson, Little Falls; daughter, Laura (Bradley) Mrzlak, Wheaton, MN; siblings, Janice (Dale) VanZee, Melrose; Shirley (Jim Hendrickson) Loxterkamp, Remer; Gary (Debbie) Johnson, Little Falls; Allen (Sandra) Johnson, Pillsbury; and James (Linda) Johnson, Lindstrom, MN; seven grandchildren, Salman, Mellisa, Brandon, Stephen, Sophia, Evelyn, and Marguerite.He was preceded in death by his parents, brothers Calvin and William, and sister Gloria Barthel.Casket bearers are Salman Johnson, Stephen Mrzlak, Robb Johnson, Brandon Johnson, Mellisa Johnson, and Sophia Mrzlak.Memorial preferred to the ALS Foundation, %The ALS Assocation MN/ND/SD Chapter, 333 North Washinton Avenue, Suite 105, Minnapolis, MN 55401...
Coon Rapids News
Monday, April 03, 2017January 3, 2017Coon RapidsOld soldiers, General Douglas MacArthur said, never die, they just fade away. Coon Rapids on Friday laid to rest one of the region’s more well-known and respected World War II veterans, 91-year-old John J. Schumacher, a Carroll Countian who fought for his nation on the battlefields of Europe and returned home to raise a family and build a legacy in economic development and community service. He passed away on Christmas Day.Coon Rapids on Friday laid to rest one of the region’s more well-known and respected World War II veterans, 91-year-old John J. Schumacher, a Carroll Countian who fought for his nation on the battlefields of Europe and returned home to raise a family and build a legacy in economic development and community service. He passed away on Christmas Day.Brothers Will and Levi Pingrey, both cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and like Schumacher, products of Coon Rapids, stood at attention as the late December wind whipped across Union Township Ceme...
Monday, November 14, 2016WWII to a prisoner-of-war camp to the American Midwest.“He went through more in his first 25 years of life than I ever will in my whole life,” said his son David Jurisoo.Varjo Jurisoo, 91, of Coon Rapids, died Oct. 8 after a long battle with cancer.It would be the last fight for the RV-loving, former theater actor who was forced to volley bullets across the Narva River alongside the German army during WWII as his older brother, Uno Jurisoo, unbeknown to him, was firing back on behalf of the Russians. Both had been conscripted.Jurisoo, who was also known as “Joe,” had first been drafted by the Russians at the age of 16, but dodged that only to be drafted by the Germans at age 19 in 1943. He was injured by gunfire during the war, but recovered and returned to battle. He would never see his father again. Political tensions and safety concerns kept him from visiting his mother or brother until he returned to Estonia in 1991, which is when they learned that the brothers had fought on opposing sides.“He never complained about it,” David Jurisoo noted. “It’s not like he thought, ‘My life’s unfair.’?”Jurisoo and other Estonian soldiers fighting for Germany eventually surrendered to U.S. troops and spent a year in a Belgian prisoner-of-war camp. Soon after his release, he was hired as a guard at the Palace of Justice, where he helped guard Rudolf Hess and other war criminals during the Nuremberg trials.Unable to return home for fear of persecution, Jurisoo immigrated to the United States in the late 1940s, landing in Anaheim, Calif. He picked oranges and was given supervisory duties because of his fluency with the languages spoken by the refugee workers. But it wasn’t long before he was drafted yet a third time — by the U.S. Army for the Korean War, for which he served in Europe.When Jurisoo returned to the United States, he bounced around Chicago, North Dakota and Minneapolis, where he acted in local theater productions, before returning to Chicago. It was there a...
Monday, October 24, 2016Mohall nursing home. (Thomas Family Funeral Home, Minot)Arden Hanson, 95, Crosby, died Wednesday in a Crosby hospital. (Stakston-Martin Funeral Home, Crosby)Julie Rundle, 47, Williston, formerly of Coon Rapids, Minn., died at her home in Williston. (Everson Coughlin Funeral Home, Williston)Irene (Feller) Kirby, 89, San Diego, Calif., formerly of Minot, died Aug. 27 in San Diego. (California Funeral Alternatives, Poway, Calif.)...
Monday, August 01, 2016Dowell on June 4, 1966 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Long Prairie. He began working for the United States Treasury, living in Omaha, Nebraska, Detroit Lakes, Minnesota and finally permanently in Coon Rapids. In 1997, he and Donna moved to Big Swan Lake, where they made their home until moving to Alexandria in 2013. They spent several winters in Arizona.Bob is survived by his loving wife of 50 years, Donna, Alexandria; son, Robb (Shameza) Johnson, Little Falls; daughter, Laura (Bradley) Mrzlak, Wheaton, MN; siblings, Janice (Dale) VanZee, Melrose; Shirley (Jim Hendrickson) Loxterkamp, Remer; Gary (Debbie) Johnson, Little Falls; Allen (Sandra) Johnson, Pillsbury; and James (Linda) Johnson, Lindstrom, MN; seven grandchildren, Salman, Mellisa, Brandon, Stephen, Sophia, Evelyn, and Marguerite.He was preceded in death by his parents, brothers Calvin and William, and sister Gloria Barthel.Casket bearers are Salman Johnson, Stephen Mrzlak, Robb Johnson, Brandon Johnson, Mellisa Johnson, and Sophia Mrzlak.Memorial preferred to the ALS Foundation, %The ALS Assocation MN/ND/SD Chapter, 333 North Washinton Avenue, Suite 105, Minnapolis, MN 55401...
