Doris Matilda Yager, 102, Luverne, formerly of Ellsworth, died Monday, Oct 14, 2002, at Mary Jane Brown Good Samaritan Center in Luverne.
Services were Thursday, Oct. 17, at Zion Presbyterian Church in Ellsworth. The Rev. Robert Raedeke officiated. Burial was in Grand Prairie Cemetery, Ellsworth.
Doris Middlen was born to Daniel and Mary Amelia (Steele) Middlen on Aug. 25, 1900, in Highland, Wis. She graduated from Highland High School in 1919. After graduation, she attended Augustana to obtain her teacher’s certificate. She taught in Davis, S.D., for three years.
She married Walter William Yager on May 21, 1922. After their marriage, they lived on the family farm in Centerville, S.D., until 1938 when they moved to Adrian. They farmed in the Adrian area for three years and then moved to a farm near Ellsworth. They retired in 1959 and moved to Ellsworth. She moved to Blue Mound Tower in Luverne in 1992. She moved to Mary Jane Brown Good Samaritan Center in April 2001.
Mrs. Yager was a member of Zion Presbyterian Church in Ellsworth and was active in Ladies Aid and church choir. She was also a member of Senior Citizens and RSVP in Ellsworth.
Survivors include four children, Mary Alice Patten, Rosemount, Marjorie Jean Wendt, Worthington, Shirley Ann DeBates, Luverne, and Paul Eugene Yager, Eden Prairie; 14 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and 11 great-great-grandchildren.
Mrs. DeYager was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Walter, in 1969; three grandchildren; three brothers and three sisters.
Dingmann Funeral Home, Luverne, was in charge of arrangements.