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Remembering our Ten Mile Lake Friends...2010
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.
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, 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.
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, 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.
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
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.
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, 76, of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, passed away Saturday,
April 10, 2010, just 7 days before his 77th birthday, surrounded by his
immediate family.
Rodney was a lifetime resident of Minnesota; born in Austin, raised, and
graduated from Hackensack High School, and a resident of Brooklyn Center the
last 40 years. He was a proud Navy man, a member of the American Legion, and a
man that "only deals in facts." He will truly be missed by family and friends.
Rodney is survived by his wife of 53 years, Donna; sons, Duane (Janet) and
Rodger (Suzanne); his 4 precious grandchildren, Blane, Samuel, Logan, and
Kaitlin; his sister, Bette Posey; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was
preceded in death by his father, Earl; mother, Loraine; and brothers Roger and
Robert. A memorial service was held Saturday, April 17, 2010 at the Dennis
Funeral Home in Walker with Rev. Robert Dennis officiating. Following the
service, family and friends gathered at the Anderson residence on Ten Mile Lake,
where stories about Rodney were shared.
(Information from the Minneapolis Star Tribune, April
13, 2010)
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.
Born in Portland, Oregon, he moved with his family to Minneapolis in 1925,
graduated from Shattuck School in 1933, Dartmouth College in 1937 and the Tuck
School at Dart-mouth in 1938. Bob worked for Green Giant Company after
graduation from Dartmouth College. Bob and Catherine were married in 1939 and
moved to Seattle where he began a career in real estate development. He
re-turned to Minnesota in 1955 to join Dayton Hudson Corporation where he later
served as Sr. VP, Administration and as President of Dayton Hudson Properties.
He served on the Boards of Fairview Hospitals, Minneapolis YWCA, Minnesota
Orchestra, Deep Portage Conservation Foundation, Shattuck School, International
Council of Shopping Centers, Phoenix Symphony, Arizona Kidney Foundation,
Scottsdale Center for the Arts, and other organizations.
He first visited Ten Mile Lake at the invitation of Hub and Lou Garbisch in
the late 1930s with wife Catherine. Bob’s sister, Marjorie, was newly engaged to
Dick Garbisch. All were avid tennis players, and thus began their love affair
with the lake. Dick quickly taught them the finer points of how to
“unexpectedly” tip over a C-boat. Bob’s parents, Earl and Bessie Bell, built a
cabin on Sandy Beach immediately east of the Garbisch property.
In the late ‘70’s Bob enticed several friends to go in together to purchase
the Camp Hillaway property where he and Catherine subsequently spent their
summer months with family and friends. Bob was active in the Ten Mile Lake
Association and Deep Portage Learning Center and was a regular at the Men’s
Coffee for decades.
Bob and Catherine moved to Scottsdale upon retirement and split time between
Arizona and Ten Mile Lake in northern Minnesota where they enjoyed time with
family and friends. Memorials preferred to Deep Portage Learning Center, Ten
Mile Lake Association or to a charity of the donor's choice.
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.
Jo and Bill lived most of their married life in Chariton, where he owned and
operated the family business, Eikenberry Lumber Co. She was a homemaker and
mother to their two children, Daniel Henry and Linda Jo. After their children
were grown, she obtained her librarian’s certification from Upper Iowa
University and was the librarian for Chariton H.S. from 1969 -1979. In 1979,
they retired to San Jose, CA. Bill died in 1994.
The Eikenberry family had purchased land on the northern side of Ten Mile
Lake in 1926. Eight Chariton families built cabins there and made trips during
the summer for fishing and swimming. Bill and Jo continued the tradition of
spending time each summer “at the cabin.” They loved Ten Mile Lake.
Jo had a perpetu-ally cheerful person-ality and was a kind, gener-ous, loving
wife and mother. She never had a negative thing to say about anyone. She loved
to play bridge, travel the world and was an excellent historian. Jo was a
beautiful woman, inside and out.
She leaves to mourn her passing her brother Richard (Pat) Peterson, Council
Bluffs, IA; son Daniel (Sue) Eikenberry, Hackensack, MN; daughter Linda Waage,
Roseville, CA; grandchildren John (Sarah) Eikenberry, Allison Eikenberry, Isaac
Koontz, Rachel Koontz, and Laura (John) Tuttle; and great-grandchildren Julia
and Elizabeth Jo Eikenberry and Ezekiel Tuttle.
Memorial services were held March 23 in Roseville, CA, and May 22 in
Chariton, IA, with internment in the Chariton Cemetery.
(Information provided by Sue Eikenberry.)

James Lee Sandelin, 79, of Hackensack, MN died peacefully Thursday, February
18, 2010 after a courageous 15-month battle with cancer. Services were held
February 22, 2010 at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Hackensack.
Jim was born in St. Peter, MN to Helge and Margaret Sandelin. He was a
graduate of St. Peter High School and, in 1953, of Gustavus Adolphus College in
St. Peter. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy.
He married Donna Vollan in 1956, and the couple spent the next 39 years in
Browerville, raising their three children. An active member of the community, he
served on several boards and committees, enjoyed public service, and valued
making contributions to the community. The couple retired to Ten Mile Lake in
Hackensack, where he had spent many summers as a young boy. He enjoyed fishing,
and the lake and all it had to offer. He had a great passion for music and was
an avid bridge player and a crossword puzzle wizard.
Jim lived his life with deep faith, dignity, and endless enthusiasm for his
family. He was a role model and teacher of life for all of us. He is survived by
Donna, his wife of 54 years; two sons, Mark (Pam) and Paul (Angie); one
daughter, Kristi (Bob) Brandt; grandchildren Eric and Britta Sandelin and Jack
Brandt; step-grandchildren, Carl and Carolyn Sneep, Amber, Cole and Mindy
Howard, and Alyx Brandt Gunderson; one sister Karen (Walter) Northrup; and
brother-in-law, Paul (Sandra) Vollan. He was preceded in death by his parents.
(Information from the Walker Pilot-Independent, February
19, 2010.)
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.”
In 1957 Gail married Dr. Donald D. Dahlstrom. She is survived by her husband;
four daughters, Deirdre (Christopher) Hultgren, Alissa (Eric) Canfield, Amelia
(Adam) Gislason, and Enid (Shane) Mason; nine grandchildren; and brother, John
Idstrom II.
Gail was a founding member of the Courage Center Auxiliary in the 1970s, and
for more than 30 years, coordinated special events that raised more than $3
million. She started the Courage County Fairs, at which people with disabilities
sold artwork, greeting cards, dolls and towels they had made. For her efforts
she was given the Sweetheart Award by the Auxiliary. She also coordinated
fundraising events for the Minnesota Opera. During the 1970s. she received the
Tom Tipton Micah Award for her efforts to make life better for people who were
hurting.
For 17 years, Gail directed a three-day summer retreat for the Minnesota
Christian Ashram held at St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN. She was
board member of the W. Harry Davis Foundation, a member of the Minneapolis
Women’s Club, and a longtime member of Augustana Lutheran Church, where she
taught Sunday School, served on several boards, and headed up the Community
Emergency Services, the church’s ministry to inner-city poor.
Gail’s parents were introduced to Ten Mile Lake by Gertrude and Dr. Allrich
Hertzman in 1940, when the Idstrom family was living at Ah-guah-ching. They
bought their own cabin in 1943, in Fernhurst, on the South Shore. In the Ten
Mile Lake history book, Gail describes the many summers she spent at the Lake as
a child and later with her own children. It was clearly a place she loved and
thought of as home.
(Information for this article was taken from articles in
the Minneapolis Star Tribune, including “Gail Dahlstrom, volunteer, ‘just gave
and gave’”, by Tim Harlow, January 29, 2010; and from Ten Mile Lake History, 200
Years.)
Laura
Christensen Dailey, 97, died Jan. 1, 2010, at Green Hills Health Care Center in
Ames, IA. She was born Sept. 9, 1913, in Urbana, Ill., but grew up on a farm in
Story County, the daughter of Verna (Johnson) and Nels Christensen.
She graduated from Ames High School and from Iowa State University. She was a
member of several honorary societies and received her degree as an honor student
in home economics journalism. Following graduation, she served for several years
as a reporter for the woman’s page of the Washington, D.C., Times Herald.
In 1938, she was married to William Dailey in Ames, and the couple spent the
first 10 years of their married life on a farm near Roland, moving to Ames in
1950. From 1953 until she retired in 1980, she was employed by the ISU Alumni
Association and the Development Office (where she worked for Bob Crom,
who was the Director of the Alumni Association). For 27 years, she earned the
affection and admiration of alumni around the world who regarded her not only as
a fine editor, knowledgeable speaker, ombudsman and unofficial alumni archivist,
but as a personal friend. For several years, she served as editor of the Iowa
State Alumnus and at the time of her retirement was assistant to the director of
Alumni Affairs. She was well known as the author of the book, “Green Hills-A
Pictorial History of Iowa State.” In 1980, she was recipient of the Alumni
Association Distinguished Service Award. She truly expressed the great spirit of
Iowa State.
Laura’s parents first came to Ten Mile Lake as friends of the Adams family,
at Camp Iowa on the North Shore, in the 1930s, when Laura was working in DC. She
did not come until 1946, when she came with her husband and first child to stay
with her family, the Christensens, at the Camp. After many years the Jensen
family bought the Camp and sold half of it to the Christensen family members.
Laura’s story in the Ten Mile Lake history includes many wonderful tales of
other Lake families, fishing, skunks, and life at the Lake.
She was a member of First United Methodist Church of Ames. She was preceded
in death by her husband in 1978, and by her son, William Dailey Jr., in 2007.
She is survived by daughters Susan Donaldson (Larry), of Nevada, and Christie
Dailey of Chicago; granddaughters Sarah Dailey of Madison, Wis., and Amy
Williams (Clayton) of New Orleans; great-grandchildren Kyle Dailey, Barrett
Williams and Hudson Williams; sisters Betty Christensen and Mary Lou Nissley,
and a brother, Andy Christensen.
A service was held on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at First United Methodist
Church, Ames.
(Information from the Ames Tribune, and Ten Mile Lake
History, 200 Years.)