Adella Graphenteen, 92, Luverne, formerly of Hardwick, died Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2002, at Mary Jane Brown Good Samaritan Center in Luverne.
Services were Saturday, Sept. 7, at St. John Lutheran Church in Luverne. Burial was in Trosky Cemetery, Trosky.
Adella Lorenzen was born to Max Peter and Emma (Arp) Lorenzen on Sept. 29, 1909, on the family farm in Pipestone County. She grew up on the family farm and attended country school.
She married George Graphenteen on Sept. 1, 1928, in Pipestone. The couple made their home on a farm near Hardwick. She helped her husband on the farm and worked as a nurse's aide for more than 25 years at Mary Jane Brown Good Samaritan Center in Luverne. When the couple retired from farming, they moved to Luverne. Mr. Graphenteen died in June 1985. She moved to Mary Jane Brown Good Samaritan Center in 1999.
Mrs. Graphenteen was a member of St. John Lutheran Church in Luverne and Hardwick Serviceman's Club of Hardwick.
Survivors include three sons, Harold Graphenteen, Fulda, Dale Graphenteen, Iowa, and David Graphenteen, Wisconsin; one daughter, Marvella Wilson, Wisconsin; 18 grandchildren; several stepgrandchildren; great-grandchildren; great-great-grandchildren; a son-in-law, Elmer Kruger, Luverne; one sister, Viola Kindt, Luverne; a sister-in-law, Alta Lorenzen, Luverne. and numerous nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends.
Mrs. Graphenteen was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, George, a daughter, Maxine Kruger, an infant son, a great-grandson, five brothers, Herman, Albert, Walter, Frank and twin brother, Herbert, and three sisters, Edna Strassburg, Alma Oye, and Clara Verdoes.
In lieu of flowers, memorials are preferred to Mary Jane Brown Good Samaritan Center in Luverne.
Engebretson Funeral Home, Luverne, was in charge of arrangements.