SUNBURG -- Willard L. Gunderson, 93, of New London, formerly of Sunburg, died Thursday at GlenOaks Care Center in New London.
The service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Sunburg Free Lutheran Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Sunburg Funeral Home and for one hour prior to the service Wednesday at the church.
He was born July 6, 1915, on the family farm near Sunburg to John and Mathilda (Freese) Gunderson. He grew up in the Sunburg community and attended country schools. He toured throughout the United States on his motorcycle and was employed in Northern Minnesota as a laborer on a farm. He moved to Minneapolis in 1952 and worked at Honeywell as a punch press operator.
He married Mildred Almos on April 2, 1955, and they lived in Minneapolis. He retired in 1980 and they moved to Sunburg in 1990. He moved into GlenOaks Care Center in 2006.
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He was a member of the Sunburg Free Lutheran Church, the Gideons and the National Rifle Association.
He is survived by one nephew: David Gunderson of Brooten; five nieces: Marlys (and Ronald) Torkelson of Kerkhoven, Janice (and Leland) Hanson of Sunburg, Doreen (and Brian) Syverson of Sedan, Judy (and James) Ellingson of Sunburg and Marge (and Rod) Gronseth of Sunburg.
He was preceded in death by his wife in 1992; and two brothers.
