Beatrice E. Erwin, 86, Hayfield, died Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2003, at Field Crest Care Center in Hayfield, where she had been a resident for the past five years.
Services were Saturday, Feb. 1, at St. Michael’s Lutheran Church. The Rev. John Heruth officiated. Burial was in Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis.
Beatrice Streeter was born to Leonard and Margaret (Crowley) Streeter in Lamberton and later moved with her family to Worthington.
She married Charles A. Erwin on Oct. 9, 1934, in Sibley, Iowa. They lived in Sioux Falls, S.D., for three years after they were married before moving to Omaha, Neb. The couple returned to Worthington where she continued to live while her husband served in the Army during World War II. They then moved to Fergus Falls for five years before going to Faribault and then moved to the Kasson area. She worked many years in the housekeeping department of St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester. She moved to Hayfield after she retired. Mr. Erwin died in 1975.
Survivors include six sons, Thomas (Audrey) Erwin, Dodge Center, Charles (Vicky) Erwin, Farmington, Joseph (Susan) Erwin, Luverne, Patrick Erwin, Cannon Falls, Gene Erwin, Byron, and Roger Erwin, South Dakota; eight daughters, Charlotte (Marvin) Tiesler, Logansville, Ga., Janice (Phillip) Nau, Ocheyedan, Iowa, Rosemary (Larry) Thostenson, Maple Grove, Connie (John) Miller, Donna (Mike) Taft, all of Sioux Falls, S.D., Linda (Alan) Krueger, Lexington, Ky., Kathy (Dan) Johnson, Waltham, and Sandy (Jon) Riedel, Kasson; 34 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and one sister, Florence Norton, Woodbury, Ill.
Mrs. Erwin was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, three sons, two grandchildren and one brother.
Czaplewski Family Funeral Home, Hayfield, was in charge of arrangements.
