The funeral service for Fern Harriet Flanagan, 90, of Albert Lea will be at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7, 2002, at St. John’s Lutheran Home Chapel. The Rev. Monrad Mandsager will officiate. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery in Glenville. Visitation will be one hour before the service at the chapel. Bonnerup Funeral Service is in charge of the arrangements.

Fern Flanagan died Friday, Oct. 4, 2002. She had been a resident of St. John’s Lutheran Home since December of 1997.

Fern was born on Oct. 16, 1911, on the family farm in Myrtle, to Peter and Minnie (Steene) Hanson. She attended school in District 71 in Myrtle in her early years. When her family moved to Glenville to run an implement business, she continued her education there, until they returned to Myrtle, where she finished her education. She also was confirmed in First Lutheran Church in Glenville, having taken her classes in Norwegian.

She lived with her family on the farm until her marriage to William G. Flanagan on Aug. 30, 1933. They lived their entire life in Albert Lea. She was a homemaker. They raised three children, and were lifetime members of Trinity Lutheran Church of Albert Lea. She had been a member of the Eastern Star in her early married life, but dropped her membership at some point.

Fern loved the outdoors, and always had a large garden from which she did a great deal of canning for many years, and also had many flower patches. When her children were young, being an accomplished seamstress, she made most of their clothing. In later years she did a lot of crocheting and made afghans for all of her children and grandchildren.

She is survived by two children: Dean Flanagan and wife Karen of Helena, Mont., and Patricia Syverson and husband Jon of Albert Lea; a brother, Hamilton Hanson, of Albert Lea; grandchildren, Vivian Allen and husband Chuck, and Penny Cagle, of Whitefish, Mont., Jay Syverson and wife Jackie of Burnsville, Minnesota, Wendy Walker and husband David of Albert Lea, Eric Syverson of Burnsville, Minnesota, Brenda Lageson and husband Ron of Manchester, James Flanagan and wife Sue of Rochester, and Linda Davis and special friend Charles Schmidt of Albert Lea; great-grand children, Amanda and Josh Allen and Amber Cagle of Whitefish, Mont., Jenna, Kelly, and Shelby Lageson of Manchester. Michael, Bryon, and Rachel Flanagan of Rochester, and Whitney and Jonah Walker and Jason and Cassie Davis of Albert Lea; brother-in-law Charles Flanagan of Albert Lea; and sister-in-law Caroline Troe of Albert Lea, as well as many nieces and nephews.

Fern was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 1976; a son, Michael, in 1977; a brother, in infancy; granddaughter’s husband, Mark Roemmich; sister Beatrice Christianson; in-laws George and Lulu Flanagan; and many other extended family members.

Memorials may be made out to St. John’s Lutheran Home.