Dec. 7, 1918 - Feb. 20, 2008
BLOOMINGTON -- Luverne Muriel Sellstrom, 89, of Bloomington died Wednesday.
A service will be held in early April at Bethel Lutheran Church in Willmar.
She was born Dec. 7, 1918, in Stillwater to Oscar and Alma (Videen) Johnson. She graduated from Stillwater High School and Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter. She was a teacher in Greenbush, Lindstrom-Center City and Lamberton.
She married the Rev. C. Palmer Sellstrom in 1945. They lived in Shenandoah, Iowa. In 1950, they moved to Odebolt, Iowa, where they lived for 32 years. She assisted her husband with his ministry. She also was a dental assistant and the last 15 years she taught English in the Odebolt-Arthur middle school. In 1982, they retired and moved to Green Lake in Spicer. Her husband died and she moved into Willmar. In 2007, she moved to Martin Luther Manor in Bloomington.
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She was a member of Bethel Lutheran Church in Willmar, where she volunteered in the church office, sang in the choir, played in the handbell choir, directed the youth handbell choir, was a Matins' organist, and taught classes and quilted.
She is survived by daughters: Cheryl (and Larry) Moe of Apple Valley, Bonita (and Jan Skuderna) Sellstrom of Denver, Colo.; three grandchildren; and a sister: Deloris (and Ray) Whitley of Los Altos, Calif.
She was preceded in death by her husband and a brother.
