Services for Pieternella “Nellie” Remme are at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, at Grace Lutheran Church in Luverne. The Revs. Dell B. Sanderson and Maurice E Hagen will officiate. Burial will be in Maplewood Cemetery, Luverne. Visitation will be from 2 to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m. at Dingmann Funeral Home in Luverne.
Pieternella “Nellie” Remme, 66, Luverne, died Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2002, in Luverne Community Hospital.
“Nellie” Lolkus was born to Johannes and Hermina (Prinsen) Lolkus on July 3, 1936, near Chandler. At a young age, her father died. Her mother remarried John J. Tinklenberg. Hermina and John raised Nellie as a child. She attended country school in rural Lake Wilson and graduated from Edgerton High School in 1954. She later attended Nettleton College in Sioux Falls, S.D. She worked as a telephone operator in Luverne.
She married Gale Remme on Aug. 30, 1957, in Edgerton. After their marriage, the couple lived in Luverne for a short time before moving to Windom. In 1960, they moved back to Luverne.
Mrs. Remme was a member of Grace Lutheran Church in Luverne, past president of the GLCW; the Quilters Club, and Luverne VFW Ladies Auxiliary. She enjoyed gardening, bird watching, music and reading.
Survivors include her husband, Gale Remme, Luverne; one son, Bradley Remme, Sioux Falls, S.D.; one daughter, Patricia Audette, Maple Grove; one granddaughter, Kimberly Kovach, Minneapolis; her mother, Hermina Tinklenberg, Luverne; two brothers, Harris (Rose) Tinklenberg, Madelia, and Clarence (Sandy) Tinklenberg, Grandville, Mich.; and two sisters, Joyce Bristow, Luverne, and Anna Mae (Sidney) Berghorst, Steen.
Mrs. Remme was preceded in death by her father, Johannes, stepfather, John J., and an infant son, Gregory, on July 6, 1958.
Dingmann Funeral Home, Luverne, is in charge of arrangements.