April 23, 1921 - Feb. 19, 2006
GLENWOOD -- Clara B. Evenson, 84, of Princeton, formerly of Glenwood and Willmar, died Sunday at the Elim Home in Milaca.
The service will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Cross of Life Community Church in Princeton. Burial will be at West Lake Amelia Cemetery in Glenwood.
Visitation will be for one hour prior to the service at the church on Thursday. Arrangements are with Williams-Hanson-Kaun Funeral Home in Princeton.
She was born April 23, 1921, in Bertha to Louis and Martha (Ehler) Wegener. She grew up and attended school in Bertha. She moved to her sister's in Glenwood when she was 13. She took care of children.
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She married Clarence Emery Osterkamp on May 31, 1939. They farmed in the Sauk Centre area. The family moved to Willmar in 1946. Clarence died in 1947.
She married Jerome Evenson on July 5, 1952. They lived in Willmar. She moved to Ridgewood Villa in Glenwood. Jerome died in 2004.
She is survived by her children: Richard (and Pat) Osterkamp of Brooklyn Park, Beverly (and James) Hane of rural Princeton, Gary (and Debbie) Osterkamp of Ankeny, Iowa, Mark Evenson of Willmar; 11 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and three sisters: Alma Chandler of Forest Lake, Evelyn LeSueur of Alexandria, and Violet Schlief of Glenwood.
She was preceded in death by her husbands; one grandson; two brothers and four sisters.
