Rudy Cauble of Baudette, MN passed away on January 31, 2023 at home at the age of 78. A Celebration of Life will be held this Spring. Full Notice to Follow.

Esther Sawatzky of Warroad passed away on January 27, 2023 at the Warroad Senior Living Center surrounded by her family at the age of 94. Services will be held later this Spring.

Ernest Dubois of Warroad passed away unexpectedly on January 26, 2023 at his home in Warroad at the age of 84. Full Notice to follow with Service details

Jason LaValla passed away unexpectedly on January 26, 2023 at Sanford Hospital in Bemidji at the age of 45. Full Notice to Follow. Services will be conducted later this spring.

It is with heavy hearts we say goodbye to Timothy Coninx. After a brief battle with pancreatic cancer, he passed away at home January 25th surrounded by family.  We will dearly miss him. Tim was born July 17, 1957 in Bemidji Minnesota. He graduated from Lake of the Woods HS in 1975. Tim then attended AP technical school in Thief River. Timbo headed to Alaska in 1984 to pursue his love of hunting, fishing, trapping, and airplanes. He worked as a government contractor, for Markair, and...

Funeral services for Fern Severson will be held at Helgeson Funeral Chapel, Roseau, MN at 1:00 PM on Thursday, February 2, 2023. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service. Pallbearers will be her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Interment will be at the Palmville Cemetery near Wannaska, MN following the service. On Thursday, January 19, 2023, Fern Elouise Severson of Roseau, MN peacefully passed away at the Roseau Manor at the age of 96. Fern was born to Sam and Signe...

Dennis James Koster of Williams, MN, died January 29, 2023, at the age of 78 at his retirement home located on the shores of Lake of the Woods. He was surrounded by family. His end-of-life care was guided by Hospice of the Red River Valley. Dennis (Denny) was born in Columbus, Ohio, on June 9, 1944, to his parents Polly and Gerald Koster. Together with his parents he moved to Raymond, MN, in 1945, to Warroad in 1953 and to Baudette in 1959. In Baudette he met the love of his life, Barbara...

Judith "Judy" Qualey passed away surrounded by her family on January 19, 2023 at the Thief River Care Center in Thief River Falls at the age of 79. Full obituary to follow.

Nelda Faye (Schaffner) Howard passed away Sunday morning, January 15th at Karlstad Senior Healthcare in Karlstad, Minnesota, at the age of 89.  Nelda will be remembered at a Memorial Service on Saturday, January 28th at 2:00 pm at Bethel Lutheran Church in Greenbush.  Burial will follow in Texas in the Spring.  Nelda was born April 3, 1933, to Adolph and Frieda (Hagen) Schaffner in Tahoka, Texas.  She grew up in various communities in Texas, graduating from Lockney High...

Charles “Buzz” Calvin Marvin lived a full and good life. His eternal life began on January 14, 2023 after a life focused on family, friends, faith, and prayer. He taught us all how to live through glioblastoma with courage, determination, and grace. Buzz was born on Staten Island in New York on January 19, 1946 to Tut and Mary (Pate) Marvin. He grew up in Warroad, MN, where he attended school and graduated in 1964. While in high school, he participated on the football, hockey,...