Hazel Sorenson, 97, Albert Lea

Published 12:00 am Monday, June 28, 2004

The funeral service for Hazel Sorenson will be held 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July 1, at the First Lutheran Church in Albert Lea. Visitation will be held Wednesday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Bonnerup Funeral Service, and one hour prior to the service at the church. Interment will be in Graceland Cemetery.

Mrs. Sorenson died Friday, June 25, 2004, at her home in Albert Lea. She was 97 years of age.

Hazel was born Nov. 5, 1906, in Albert Lea, the daughter of Alfred and Anna (Rofshus) Kvenvold. She attended country school and graduated from the Luther Academy in Albert Lea.

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On June 17, 1928, she was united in marriage to Archie M. Sorenson at the East Freeborn Lutheran Parsonage.

Hazel made her home in Albert Lea, and had lived for a short while in St Peter, Minn., and Milbank S.D. She was a member of the First Lutheran Church and was active in the Mission Circle and the Happiness is a Blanket Quilters Group.

Hazel retired from the Gulbrandson Hardware Store where she had been a sales clerk.

In her free time, Hazel enjoyed bowling, golfing, sewing and quilting. She could also fix most anything and enjoyed her flower and vegetable garden.

Hazel is survived by her children: Dolores (Lloyd) Riemer of Alden, Lois Smith of Buffalo N.D., Dale (Ruth) Sorenson of Silver Springs, Md., and Karen Ortenblad of Mound, Minn; and grandchildren: Marilyn Wichmann, Mark Riemer, Karen Brummer, Darrell Riemer, Linda Zieser, Carol Riemer, Eugene Anderson, Gary Anderson, Karla Young, Gregory Sand, Timothy Sand and Paul Sand. There are 21 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren. Also surviving is one brother, Owen (Dorothy) Kvenvold of Albert Lea; and sisters-in-law: Edith Barclay of Boise, Idaho, Elaine Sorenson of Burlingame, Calif., and Gladys Kvenvold of Albert Lea.

Hazel was preceded in death by her parents; husband; sister, Myrtle Kvenvold, sons-in-law: Myron Anderson, Zephon Smith, Francis Sand and Warren Ortenblad; brothers: Kermit and Lloyd Kvenvold; brothers-in-law: Donald Barclay, Raymond Sorenson and Robert Sorenson; and sister-in-law, Ramona Sorenson.