Sep 22, 2021

Edwin "Jim" Gerhardt Louis Zabel, age 91 of Albert Lea, MN, died on Wednesday, September 22,2021. Visitation on Thursday, September 30, from 5pm - 7pm at Bayview/Freeborn Funeral Home in Albert Lea. A private funeral service for family on Saturday, October 2, 2021. lnterment will be at the Graceland Cemetery in Albert Lea. Bayview/Freeborn Funeral Home in Albert Lea is...

Sep 20, 2021

Memorial Service for Robert Allen Springborg will be held on October 15, 2021, at 11:00AM at Bayview Freeborn Funeral Home. Rev. Don Malinsky will officiate. Visitation will be 1 hour prior to the service. Per family request, masks will be required for the service.

Bob passed away on September 20, 2021, at the VA Medical Center in Minneapolis, MN. Bob...

Sep 18, 2021

Funeral services for William (Bill) A. Weber, age 85, of Albert Lea, formerly of rural Myrtle, will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday, September 27, 2021, at Bayview Funeral Home, Albert Lea. The Rev. Dale Svendsen, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Myrtle, will officiate. Burial will be at Pilgrim’s Rest Cemetery, Myrtle. Visitation is from 10-11 a.m. prior to the service...

Sep 13, 2021

Funeral Service for James S. Loverink will be held at 10AM on Saturday (9/18) at Hollandale Reformed Church. Pastor Neil Ooms will officiate. Burial will be in the Hollandale Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-6PM on Friday (9/17) at Bayview Freeborn Funeral Home and also 1 hour prior to the funeral at the church on Saturday. The service will...

Sep 10, 2021

Funeral services for Cecilia “Cela” Winjum will be held at 2 pm on Saturday, September 18, 2021 at Bayview Freeborn Funeral Home, Albert Lea. Fr. Kurt Farrell will officiate.  Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the funeral home.  Interment will be at Calvary Cemetery, Austin, Minnesota.

Cecilia died September 10, 2021 at...

Sep 10, 2021

Irene Kathryn (Wangen) Johnson, 91, of Clarks Grove and Ellendale, MN, passed away on Friday, September 10, 2021 at Lyngblomsten Care Center in Saint Paul, MN.

Irene was born in Freeborn County on January 30, 1930 to Martin and Betsy Wangen, marrying Norman Johnson Jr. on May 3, 1947 at the Oakland Lutheran Church, residing in Freeborn...

Sep 8, 2021

Alan Lee Savick, 71, of Albert Lea, MN passed away on September 8, 2021 at his home.

A Memorial Service will be held Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 1pm at Bayview/Freeborn Funeral Home.  Pastor Don Malinsky will officiate.  Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service. Interment will be at Freeborn Cemetery, Freeborn, MN.

Sep 3, 2021

Sep 2, 2021

Esther Avis (Anderson) Pagel passed away peacefully on September 2nd, 2021 at Good Samaritan Society of Albert Lea, Minnesota. She was born in Brisbane, North Dakota to William and Nancy Anderson on September 25, 1924. Esther had a large, blended family of six half-brothers and sisters, and six brothers and sisters.

She graduated from Leath High School...

Aug 31, 2021

Memorial Service for Solveig Peterson will be held at 3PM on Wednesday (9/8) at Grace Lutheran Church in Albert Lea. Rev. Shane Koepke will officiate. Burial will be at Lakewood Cemetery. Visitation will be 1 hour prior to the service at the church. The service will be livestreamed via Grace Lutheran Church’s Youtube page and Bayview Freeborn Funeral Home’s...

Aug 31, 2021

Funeral services for Robert D. Reichl will be held on Friday, September 3, 2021 at 10:30 at Bayview/Freeborn Funeral Home.  Pastor Clayton Balsley will officiate.  Visitation will be held Thursday September 2, 2021 from 5-7 pm at Bayview and 1 hour prior to the service on Friday. Per the family’s request, masks will be worn at the visitation and...

Aug 30, 2021

Orvis P. Rake, 95, of Albert Lea, MN, passed away at the New Richland Care Center on Monday, August 30, 2021. A Graveside Service will be held at 11Am on Sunday, September 5, 2021 at Salem Memorial Cemetery, rural Lake Mills, IA, with Rev. Shane Koepke presiding.

Orvis was born on June 7, 1926 to Johnnie and...

Aug 23, 2021

Funeral services for Daphne J. (Wangen) Wittmer, 89, of Albert Lea, Minnesota will be held Saturday August 28, 2021 at 10 am at Bayview/Freeborn Funeral Home. Pastor Matt Lehman will officiate. Visitation will be held 1 hour prior to the service at the funeral home. The service will be live-streamed via www.bayviewfuneral.com.

Daphne was born on February...

Aug 22, 2021

Dorothy Christine (Kuhlmann) Greibrok, 94, of rural Austin, MN, passed away on Sunday, August 22, 2021 at Mayo Health Systems in Austin, MN.  A Funeral Service will be held at 11AM on Thursday, August 26, 2021 at Faith Lutheran Church of London, MN with Rev. Kent Otterman presiding.  Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the...

Aug 20, 2021

Donald Leroy Porter, 87, of Willis, Texas, formerly of Albert Lea, Minnesota, passed away peacefully on Friday, August, 20, 2021 at Thornecrest Senior Living.  A Funeral Service will be held at 2PM on Saturday, August, 28, 2021 at Bayview/Freeborn Funeral Home with Rev. Clayton Balsley presiding. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. ...

Aug 15, 2021

Aug 14, 2021

Daniel Leo Wagner, loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, passed away at home at the age of 77 on Saturday August 14th. A funeral service will be held on Thursday, August 19th, 2021 at the First Lutheran Church in Ellendale at 11 a.m. Visitation will be held at the church one hour before service. Flowers may be sent to 503 Radel...

Aug 11, 2021

Memorial Service for Earl Parriott will be held on Thursday August 26 at 11am at Bayview Freeborn Funeral Home 1415 N. Hwy 13, Albert Lea, MN 56007. Rev. Pamela Jensen will officiate. Burial will be in St. Peter Cemetery in New Richland. Visitation will be from 5-7pm on Wednesday August 25 at Bayview Freeborn Funeral Home and also 1 hour...

Aug 7, 2021

Ilo Yvonne Long, beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great grandmother went to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, on Saturday evening, August 7, 2021 at the age of eighty seven.

Ilo was born December 20, 1933 in Albert Lea to Alfred and Nora (Bergeson) Flugum. She graduated from Albert Lea High School in 1951. In...

Aug 5, 2021

Beloved mother and grandmother, Marian Gooden, 96, passed away August 5, 2021 in Lake Mills, Iowa. Funeral Services will be held at 11:30 am on Monday, August 9, 2021 at Mansfield Lutheran Church, rural Alden, MN.  Pastor Don Rose will officiate.  Visitation will be held from 10 am to 11:30 on Monday prior to the service. Interment will be at...