Obituaries from the week of November 14, 2007
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Roy Bjorklund, 79 Funeral services
will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, November 15, 2007
at Tracy Lutheran Church for Roy Bjorklund. Visitation
will be from 4:00 until 8:00 p.m. Wednesday, November
14, 2007 at the Almlie Funeral Home in Tracy with
a prayer service at 7:00 p.m. and continuing one
hour prior to the service at the church.
Roy Ernest
Bjorklund was born October 1, 1928 to Robert and
Ellen (Johnson) Bjorklund in Underwood Township,
Redwood County, MN. He was baptized and confirmed
in the Christian faith and attended country school
near the family farm outside Milroy, MN. His
family moved to a farm outside Tracy, MN and Roy
attended Tracy Public Schools, graduating from Tracy
High School in 1946.
On July 18,
1951 Roy married Donna Mae Hay and they made their
home on a farm north of Tracy. In 1970 they
bought Roy’s parents’ farm just outside
of Tracy. Roy farmed with his family as a
young man and became a feed nutritionist for Moorman,
Peet’s and Standard Feed Companies for many
years. Roy was best known for his breeding,
training and showing of horses. In 1969 he
showed Rebel Rocket for a horse owner from Montana,
to a Grand Championship in the Minnesota Quarter
Horse Show that year, which is shown in a photo
in “Legends” Volume 4, a book on famous
stallions and mares. In 1975 Luverne Johnson
and Roy were each half owners of a quarter horse,
known as Mac’s Silver Spike, which became
an American Quarter Horse Association Champion Halter
horse, Superior in Western Pleasure and a performance
Register of Merit Award winner. They also
received points showing him in the National Cutting
Horse Association shows.
In 1994 Roy
married Donna M. Varpness and they made their home
on the Bjorklund farm. Roy moved into the
Twin Circle Apartments before becoming a resident
of the Prairie View Healthcare Center in September
of 2007.
Roy was a
member of the Tracy Presbyterian Church, where he
served in the past on the church board. He
also was a member of the Southwest Trail Riders
Association, the Plum Creek Saddle Club of Walnut
Grove, MN, the National Cutting Horse Association
and the American Quarter Horse Association. He
took time to volunteer for the Meals on Wheels program
and wrote an article for a monthly publication known
as Horse Tails. Roy enjoyed his life with
his horses and fishing with his children when they
were young.
On Sunday,
November 11, 2007 Roy died at the Sanford-Sioux
Valley Medical Center in Sioux Falls, SD at the
age of 79.
Roy is
survived by his three daughters, Sandy (Jerry)
Kathman of Milbank, SD, Diane Rundell of Watertown,
MN and Tammy (Jon) Aalderks of Spicer, MN; three
sons, Rick Bjorklund of Tracy, MN, Tom (Susie)
Bjorklund of Waverly, MN and Tim (Sherri) Bjorklund
of Tracy, MN; 15 grandchildren; three great grandchildren;
five step-children, Shawn, Stacy, Sherry, Shannon
and Stephanie; four sisters, Margaret Marcotte
of Minneapolis, MN, Irene (John) McKay of Shoreview,
MN, Junie Davis of St. Louis Park, MN, and Ruth
(Jack) Sandbo of Scottsdale, AZ; four brothers,
Robert of Rice Lake, WI, Jim (Alice) of Gold Canyon,
AZ, Ron (Nita) of IL, and Curt of Atlanta, GA;
sister-in-law, Joanne Bjorklund of Rice
Lake, WI; many nieces, nephews and cousins.
His parents,
wife, Donna Mae, one son-in-law, Joel Rundell,
two sisters, Alice (Gust) Fransen and Mae Elliott
and one brother, Kenneth and two brothers-in-law,
Don Marcotte and Ed Davis preceded him in death.
Interment
will be at the Tracy City Cemetery. The
Almlie Funeral Home of Tracy is handling the arrangements.
Virginia
Workman Bremberg, 81
Virginia “Ginger”
Bremberg, the daughter of Dr. Warner Workman, died
Friday, Oct. 26 at her home in Chevy Chase Canyon,
California. She was 81.
Bremberg was
a 1943 graduate of Tracy High School. She served
four terms on the Glendale, Calif. City Council
and spent 16 years as mayor.
Bremberg is
survived by her sons Chuck (Sue) and Blair (Dang)
and four grandchildren.
Her husband,
Bruce, preceded her in death.
Bremberg will
be interred in Tracy next to her husband.
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