Thelma Christine Hagen
June 25, 1921 ~ June 4, 2016 (age 94) 94 Years OldShare using:
Funeral services for Thelma Hagen of Roseau, MN will be held on Wednesday, June 8th at 10 AM at Messiah Lutheran Church in Roseau, MN. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment will be at the Bethel-Stafford Cemetery.
Thelma Christine Dahlgren, the daughter of Ingeborg (Larson) and Nels Dahlgren, was born on June 25, 1921 in Roseau, Minnesota. She and Arlyn Hagen were married on February 1, 1942 in Wisconsin. They started their life together in Milwaukee until he entered the US Army and served in Europe during World War II. She returned to Roseau, where they were to live out the rest of their lives.
After Arlyn’s honorable discharge, they moved to their farm one mile east of Roseau that still remains the family farm today. They began a dairy operation and delivered milk door to door, later serving customers who came to the farm for milk. They also farmed grains and hay in Spruce and Stafford Townships, while Thelma worked as a cashier in the bank and later as a clerk in the Agriculture Conservation office. They received continual recognition as one of the cleanest farms in the county.
Thelma was very active in the First Lutheran Church and community projects. She enjoyed fishing on Lake of the Woods, keeping up the farm home and spending winters in South Padre Island, Texas. Her adventurous nature took her on overseas trips, visiting sons on assignment in Belgium and Italy and also doing a family pilgrimage to the Swedish homesteads of both parents – a voyage back to the old country that neither Nels nor Ingeborg were able to take themselves.
Thelma passed away peacefully on June 4, 2016 at the Roseau Manor Nursing Home, a few days before her 95th birthday.
She is survived by her children, David (Patty) Hagen, Jon (Bonnie) Hagen, Warren (Marsha) Hagen and Susan Cummings; grandchildren, Jeffrey (Robyn) Hagen, Kelly (Scott) Kofstad, Kathy (Matthew) Zencius, Paula (Todd) Hedlund, Todd (Nicole) Hagen and Kari (Jeffrey) Robinson; great-grandchildren, Tessa and Jordan Hagen, Katelyn and Logan Kofstad, Morgan and Taylor Zencius, Adam, Ellie and Lauren Hedlund, Austin and Rylee Hagen, and Jeffrey, Kennedy and Kamryn Robinson; and siblings, Betty Lansing, Margaret (Joseph) Warrick and John (Virginia) Dahlgren.
She was preceded in death by husband, Arlyn; sisters, DeEtta Pettyjohn and Isabel Brandt; and son-in-law, Howard Cummings.
Funeral services will be 10 AM Wednesday, June 8th at Messiah Lutheran Church in Roseau; with visitation one hour prior at the church. Interment at the Bethel-Stafford Cemetery.