Ethel Marie Bakken

Funeral services for Ethel M. Bakken age 91 of Albert Lea, formerly of Alden will be held on Wednesday Oct. 26, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. at Redeemer Lutheran Church, Alden.  Burial will be at Carlston Cemetery.  Visitation will be Tuesday from 4:30 – 7:00 p.m at Bayview/Freeborn Funeral Home and one hour prior to the services at the church.  

Ethel died Sunday, Oct 23, 2011 at St. John’s Lutheran Home.

Ethel Marie Bakken was born on March 5, 1920 in Freeborn County the daughter of Niels and Katrina (Jensen) Pedersen.  She attended District 16 and graduated from Freeborn High School.  Ethel was united in marriage to Manly Bakken on Sept. 19, 1942 in Albert Lea.  Sewing, quilting, painting, gardening, baking and playing Scrabble and working crossword puzzles were some of Ethel’s  interests.  She was a member of Redeemer Lutheran Church, the American Legion Auxiliary, Busy Fingers sewing group at the church and the Carlston Homemakers Club.

Survivors include her husband, Manly; daughters, Rebecca (Larry) Bluhm, Rosanne (Allan) Brandau and Peggy Bakken (Bruce Treichler) and son, Mark (Linda) Bakken.  Grandchildren; Michael (Wendy) Bluhm, Kevin (Ann) Bluhm, Kristine (Joel) Hagglund, Jeffrey (Michelle) Bluhm, Julie (Jeff) Timmerman, Diane Bluhm,  Donna (Douglas) Caywood, Richard (CeCe) Bluhm, Greg (Amy) Bluhm, Sheila (Peter) Hearn, Paul Treichler and Matthew Treichler.  23 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.  Sisters-in-law; Eleanor Pedersen, Lorraine Bakken and Lillian Perkins.  Many nieces and nephews

Ethel was preceded in death by her parents, daughter and son-in-law Kathryn and John Bluhm, sisters Alma Thompson, Eva Bakken and Eva in infancy; and  brothers Christian Pedersen, Morris Pedersen, Arthur Pedersen, Otto Pedersen and Walter Pedersen.