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Ten Mile Lake Association
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Remembering our Ten Mile Lake Friends...2010Frederick Arthur Brosius
Fred was born July 11, 1925 in Milwaukee, WI to Hans August and Martha Anna (Schubert) Brosius. He served in the U.S. Army and was a chemical engineer for Cargill, Inc. Fred was a member of First United Methodist Church and enjoyed gardening and was an Eagle Scout. He is survived by his son, Andrew “Andy” (Debbie) Brosius of Ida Grove; daughter, Martha (Shukri) Dalloul of Chattanooga, TN; two grandchildren, Eric and Carly Brosius; niece, Gail (Bruce) Hertig and family; and nephew, Mark (Sandy) Hueschen and family. (Information was provided by Bob Crom, from the Ames Funeral Home.) Virginia "Ginny" Horn
Services were held Wednesday, May 19th at Bethel Lutheran Church in South Minneapolis. Ginny was a devoted wife, excellent mother and an awesome sister who will be dearly missed by her husband Art; son Byran (fiancee, Kelly Anderson); sisters, Geraldine "Bean" (Ronald) Larson and Maxine (Alexander) Kostiuk; brother-in-law, Bob (Nancy) Horn; sister-in-law, Kim Horn; and many nieces, nephews, and other relatives. Ginny and Art enjoyed their time together at the family cabin on Ten Mile Lake for the past 38 years. They especially enjoyed sitting on the dock watching the amazing TML sunsets and listening to the sounds of the loons. Ginny will be in our hearts forever; she will be remembered as our angel from Heaven. Our love for her is never ending love. Because of Ginny’s love for Ten Mile Lake a memorial gift was given to the Ten Mile Lake Association. (Information provided by Bob Horn.) Sven Ross Melgaard
Born in Brigham City, Utah, on May 28, 1917, Ross was raised in Fairview, UT and graduated as Valedictorian from Wasatch Academy. He received a BS degree from the University of Utah, and his medical degree from Washington University in 1943. Ross served in World War II as a Captain in the U.S. Army. His residency was concluded at the University of Minnesota. He lived most of his life in Kansas City, MO. A specialist in Anesthesiology, Ross started his career in Kansas City, at the original St. Joseph Hospital. He performed anesthesia for the first open heart surgery performed in Kansas City. He was also on staff at Baptist Memorial Hospital and Children’s Mercy Hospital. Ross served as an advisor to the American Medical Association for National Board Certification at various times, and held many officer positions for the Jackson County Medical Society. His passion to help others defined him. He was dedicated to bringing medical care to others, most nost notably the poor of Honduras, where he treated thousands over the span of ten years. Ross was a proud member of Mensa. He served as the physician at Osceola Boy Scout Camp. Other activities include Course Marshal for races sponsored by the local chapter of Sports Car Club of America and membership in the Horseless Carriage Club, and Rolls Royce Owners Club. He was also a Mason and a Rotarian. Ross loved his grandchildren. He also found time for fishing, wood working, old cars, ham radio, extensive reading, and travel. His pursuit of knowledge was unrelenting and knew no bounds. In his retirement, he served as the President of the Ten Mile Lake Association and helped found the Deep Portage Conservancy in Cass County, MN. Ross is survived by his wife, Helene, to whom he was married for 67 years; three children: William (Claudia) of Hampton, VA, Barbara McGlothlen of Greeley, CO, and Eric (Donna) of Kansas City, MO; and five grandchildren. John L. Alden April 8, 1949 - April 16, 2010
John will be remembered with regard, gratitude and affection by the Association for his passionate devotion to the protection and enhancement of Ten Mile’s waters and environs. Born in Lincoln, Nebraska to John and Marjorie (Brauer) Alden on April 8th, 1949, John grew up in Lincoln and went on to Iowa State University where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1972. In 1991 he earned a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in geology from Bemidji State University. John met his wife-to-be, Phoebe Atwood, in the spring of 1970 at Iowa State, and they married on a snowy Jan. 25, 1975, in Stoughton, Wisconsin. John and his family had begun vacationing on Ten Mile in the 1950s. They rented cabins until 1974, when they bought a year-round home on Park Point. In 1986, John and Phoebe moved with their son, John, and daughter, Sarah, to their Park Point home permanently. John’s professional careers included service as regional manager for Marling Building Supply in Black River Falls, Wisconsin and as development director and environmental specialist for Four Season Realty in Brainerd. From 1991 on he was self-employed as an environmental and planning consultant. John dedicated much of these past 20 years to sustaining and improving the quality of Ten Mile and its watershed. Working with Jim Schwartz on the Environment and Ecology Committee, in 1994 John supported the development of the Association’s first comprehensive Lake Management Plan, which would become the basis for the Long Range Management and Lake Management Plans approved by the Board in 2002. John became known throughout the Association through his active participation on the E & E Committee and was elected to his first two-year term as Association President in 1995. Since then he has also served on the Association’s Zoning and Conservation Committees. Since the mid-nineteen seventies, the greatest volume of the Association’s work had been carried out by E & E Committee volunteers under the chairmanship of (now retired) Jim Schwartz. In the mid-1990s, with the years wearing on and the volume of work showing no signs of decreasing, the challenge of recruiting volunteers to take over the work of the Committee had begun to worry Chairman Schwartz. So it was that through the E & E Committee Jim proposed that the Association hire a professional Watershed Coordinator whose task would be to ensure that the Committee’s work would continue with the same rigor and sophistication that the Association had come to rely on from its volunteers. In 1998 the Board approved the E & E Committee’s proposal and contracted with EPC Environmental Planning and Consulting, John Alden, Principal, to provide “watershed coordinator services.” Thus John became the Association’s Watershed Coordinator and in this role would over the coming years provide outstanding service in support of the Association’s mission. John became our liaison with Cass County’s Environmental Services Department, the U.S. Forest Service and the University of Minnesota as well as other environmentally concerned organizations. Working with the Mississippi Headwaters Board, the University of Minnesota Duluth, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, John put his technical expertise to work writing grants that won awards to the Association totaling $38,500. Among the results of his work were watershed delineations for Boy River Lakes; the evaluation of 6,000 well logs for ground-water contours in our region; development of water protection strategies for the resources of the Upper Boy River; a state-of-the art GIS system for the Upper Boy River watershed and its aquifers; a drinking water well protection plan for Hackensack and extensive water quality testing on the Boy River for non-point source pollutants. In 2002, on behalf of the TMLA, John initiated the Cass County Upland Functional Model which identifies the environmental sensitivity of shoreline areas and prescribes shoreline that is suitable or unsuitable for development. Also in 2002, John represented TMLA’s interests on the advisory committee for timber harvest quantities for the County Land Department. In 2005 John joined Governor Pawlenty’s North Central Initiative Committee to revise Minnesota’s Shoreland Regulations, and in 2007 he became our liaison with the newly formed group, 1000 Friends of Minnesota. All this, of course, was in addition to his support of the on-going, basic work of the E & E Committee, such as assessment of spring-time flow through road culverts to evaluate the need for water chemistry sampling; summertime weekly Secchi disk readings, summertime water sampling, providing articles and/or information for the Board and the TMLA Newsletter and implementing the goals and objectives of the Healthy Lakes Program Lake Management Plan and specifically the work of the E & E Committee. John was elected to a second, one-year term as Association President in 2008. In the TMLA Watershed Coordinator’s role description that he wrote for the TMLA Long Range Plan, John concluded with this comment: “Watershed Coordinator’s Primary Goal: “To accept the responsibility of my mentor, Jim Schwartz, to provide and maintain the most reasonable and understandable ‘Long Range Management Plan’ for the members of TMLA, Inc.” It seems especially appropriate that at its meeting on May 22nd the Board of Directors should have not only discussed its sadness over John’s death but also voted to honor John for his outstanding contributions to the work of the Association by presenting him with TMLA’s James W. Schwartz Distinguished Service Award. Board President Bruce Carlson will present the award to John’s wife, Phoebe, at the Association’s 58th Annual Meeting on August 7th. Rodney F. Anderson
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Frederick
Arthur Brosius, 84, of Ames passed away Tuesday, June 8, 2010 at Green Hills.
Funeral Services were held Friday, June 11 at First United Methodist Church with
Rev. Deanna Pullen officiating. Private burial was in the Ames Municipal
Cemetery. 
Virginia
“Ginny” Horn, 62, of Minneapolis and a frequent summer resident of Ten Mile Lake
died May 13 at Abbott-Northwestern Hospital. Ginny was born January 2, 1948 in
Minneapolis and graduated from South High School. 
Sven
Ross Melgaard, MD, passed away April 19, 2010 at the age of 92, surrounded by
his family. A memorial service was held April 23, 2010 at McGilley State Line
Chapel. 
John
L. Alden, long-time Ten Mile resident and active member of the Ten Mile Lake
Association, two-times Association president and, since 1998, Association
Watershed Coordinator, died on Friday, April 16th of severe brain injuries
suffered in a fall in his home on Sunday, April 4th. 
Robert
J. Crabb, Sr., age 94, died March 22 in Scottsdale, Arizona following a brief
illness. Bob was preceded in death by his parents, Earl and Bessie Belle Crabb,
and sisters Marjorie Garbisch and Helen Thompson. Bob is survived by his wife of
71 years, Catherine (Boucher) and sons, Earl (Giselle Shepatin), Robert Jr.
(Andrea Lee Lambrecht), and John (Elaine Burnham). He is also survived by
grandchildren Christine, Cynthia, Catherine, Brian, Andy and Mariah Crabb, and
Robin Wenzel, and by great grandchildren Fiona and Cecilia Sweeney, Charlie and
J.P. Wenzel, and Benjamin Crabb. All of these owe him a great debt of gratitude
for introducing them to the wondrous Ten Mile Lake. 
Josephine
Louise Peterson Eikenberry passed away on March 17, 2010 in Roseville, CA, at
age 95. Jo was born on October 24, 1914, in Council Bluffs, IA, to Henry K. and
Laura Robinson Peterson. She graduated from Abraham Lincoln High School in 1931
in Council Bluffs at the age of 16. After high school she attended Boyles
Business School in Omaha for a year. Jo then attended Drake University in Des
Moines, IA for four years. During her years at Drake she was on the staff of the
campus paper, The Times Delphic. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority
and a member of Mortarboard. She was a Drake sweetheart. Jo received her BA from
Drake in 1936. She taught typing and shorthand at Underwood High School for
several years after graduating from Drake. She got a job in Chariton, IA, as a
high school business teacher, and met her future husband there. She married
William M. Eikenberry on June 22, 1940. 
Gail
V. Dahlstrom, 76, died on Sunday, January 24, 2010, at Abbott Northwestern
Hospital in Minneapolis, after a long battle with kidney cancer. Gail was born
in 1934 to Dr. Linnaeus and Gladys Idstrom. She was crowned Miss Deephaven in
1951. She also was a National Collegiate Player for her on-stage performances at
Gustavus Adolphus College in St Peter, MN, where she majored in English and
Drama. From 1957 to 1962 she worked at the former Bryant Junior High School in
Minneapolis, where she taught English to seventh-graders and directed plays and
musicals. Harry (Butch) Davis, a former student, said of her, “She was student’s
teacher, and students looked forward to her class because she made it fun.”