A memorial service for Minerva Bowron will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 5, in United Methodist Church, Luverne. The Rev. Bart Fletcher will officiate. Burial of cremains will be in Maplewood Cemetery, Luverne. A time of fellowship will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 4, at Dingmann Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Luverne, and continuing from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the church.
Minerva Bowron, 87, Hills, formerly of Luverne, died Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2002, in Tuff Memorial Home, Hills.
Minerva Aanenson was born April 17, 1915, to Oliver and Olga (Berg) Aanenson in Luverne. She graduated from Luverne High School in 1932. She worked at Nelson Brothers Department Store and at the Announcer in Luverne.
She married Dallas Bowron on Nov. 24, 1937, in Milbank, S.D. After their marriage, the couple lived in Sioux Falls, S.D.,where she worked at Fantle's Department Store. In 1939, the couple moved to the Magnolia area where they farmed. They retired and moved to Luverne in 1981. Mrs. Bowron became a resident of Tuff Memorial Home in 1990.
She was a former member of the Luverne Garden Club.
Survivors include her husband, Dallas Bowron, Luverne; one daughter, Judy Bowron, Bloomington; a son and daughter-in-law, John and Jeanne Bowron, Luverne; four grandchildren, Emily (Joshua) Crabtree, Luverne, Alison (Derek) Chinn, Rochester, Johnna (Jeff) Ahrendt, Luverne, and Jessica (Jason) Oye, Greeley, Colo.; three great-grandchildren, Connor, Madison and Colby Crabtree; two brothers, Quentin (Jackie) Aanenson, Bethesda, Md., and Curtis (Evalou) Aanenson, Minnetonka; and one sister, Mavis Porter, Rock Rapids, Iowa.
She was preceded in death by her parents, an infant son; one brother, Vernon Aanenson, and one sister, Elaine Kunkel.
Dingmann Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Luverne, is in charge of arrangements.
In lieu of flowers the family requests memorials to The AlzheimerÕs Association, Siouxland Chapter, Sioux Falls, S.D.