Elsie M. Dahl
March 16, 1916 - Jan. 12, 2008
WILLMAR -- Elsie Mary Dahl, 91, of Willmar died Saturday at Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar.
The service will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at First Covenant Church in Willmar. Burial will be at Cloverleaf Memorial Park Cemetery.
Visitation will be one hour prior to the service Tuesday at the church. Arrangements are by Peterson Brothers Funeral Home in Willmar.
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She was born March 16, 1916, near Svea to Carl and Alma (Nelsen) Johnson. She grew up and attended school in the rural Svea community.
She married Levi C. Dahl on July 20, 1939, in Willmar. They lived in Willmar where she worked as a waitress at the Lakeland Hotel and as a baker at Juba's Supervalu Foods. She retired in 1984.
She was a member of the First Covenant Church, and she served as a Sunday School teacher and was a member of the Dorcas circle.
She is survived by three daughters: Lois (and Wes) Ostrom of Florida, Carol (and Gary) Solbrack of Willmar and Kathryn (and Lyman) Marks of Bloomington; five grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; one brother: Barney Johnson of Willmar; and one sister: Helen Sjoberg of Willmar.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1982, one brother and one sister.