Ruth Marie MOE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2005-MN-014865

Notes:

In the 1935/36 Fergus Falls city directory, she is a high school student living with her parents at 111 W Vernon Avenue. In the 1937/38 Fergus Falls city directory, she has no occupation and lives with her parents at 621 Union Avenue South.

She graduated from Fergus Falls High School in its class of 1937.

Ruth (Moe) Kvernstoen, 86, Fergus Falls, died May 12, 2005, at the Lake Region Hospital Skilled Nursing Facility.

She was born Jan. 13, 1919, in Fergus Falls, arriving in time for the great cyclone of 1919. She married Otto in 1939, and with characteristic optimism, bore 4 children. Her children still struggle to make her optimism warranted. Although a town girl, she adapted well to life on the farm, near Dalton, where she lived until 1979, then moving to Fergus Falls, where she lived at 619 East Summit for 26 years. She worked for 20 years at the Pioneer Home, and made many friends there.

She was a person of many interests, talents, and friends, all three categories too numerous to mention in entirety. Interests included poetry (reading, memorizing, and writing), crochetting, music, her dog Brie, and voracious reading. She liked nothing better than sitting down with a good book and "a little something" to eat. If there are murder mysteries and Racko tournaments in Heaven she will be happy there.

To all her many friends: she would regret leaving without saying goodbye to all of you. She will be greatly missed by many. It is hard to express our loss. Fortunately, we have tears.

She is survived by her children: David Kvernstoen, Kristie (James) Martinka, Constance (Bernard) Adams, Steven Kvernstoen and wife Orapan Footrakoon; grandchildren: Matt and Sara Martinka, and Tina, Kari, and Joel Adams; and sister Nancy (Dwain) Tollefson.

She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; brother Phillip; and her beloved hearing-ear dog, Brie.

Visitation: Monday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home and will resume one hour prior to the service at the church on Tuesday.

Service: 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Zion-Sarpsborg Free Lutheran Church in Dalton

Clergy: Revs. Steve Carlson and Dennis Norby
Burial: Sarpsborg Cemetery in Dalton
Funeral Home: Olson Funeral Home, Fergus Falls
 

Ruth married Otto Martin KVERNSTOEN on 1 Jan 1939 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Otto (son of SAGENG) was born on 8 Aug 1910; died on 20 Dec 1988 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried in Sarpsborg Cemetery, Tumuli Twp, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]