Esther Fure, 88, formerly of Kiester, died Saturday, April 27, 2002 at St. John’s Lutheran Home in Albert Lea, where she had lived the last two years. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, May 1, 2002 at Trinity Lutheran Church in rural Kiester. The Rev. Dani Jo Ninke-Greaver. Visitation will be at the at the Bruss-Heitner Funeral Home in Bricelyn on Tuesday, April 30, from 5 to 8 p.m. and one hour prior to the service at the church.

Delores G. Swanson, 80, died Saturday, April 30, 2002 at St. John’s Lutheran Home. Arrangements are pending with Bayview-Freeborn Funeral Home.

A graveside service for Roger Mickelson, 66, of Coon Rapids, Minn., will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, May 3, 2002 at Bath Adventist Cemetery north of Albert Lea. He died Jan. 25, 2002.