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FLORENCE — Mrs. June M. Chilson, 82, Florence, died Monday, Nov. 12, 2007, in a hospital at Watertown.
Funeral services will be Friday in the New Helgen Lutheran Church at Florence with the Rev. Gary Anderson officiating.
Burial will be in the Goodhue Lutheran Cemetery, rural Florence. Honorary pallbearers will be her grandsons, Tanner Chilson and Corbin Chilson. Active pallbearers will be Jim Chilson, Joel Chilson, Josh Chilson, Wayne Peterson, Larry Bergh and Maynard Rasmussen.
Visitation will be in the Crawford Funeral Chapel.
June Margaret was born July 3, 1925, to James Elmer and Mary (Flaa) Boyd at Minneapolis. She grew up and...
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FLORENCE — Mrs. June M. Chilson, 82, Florence, died Monday, Nov. 12, 2007, in a hospital at Watertown.
Funeral services will be Friday in the New Helgen Lutheran Church at Florence with the Rev. Gary Anderson officiating.
Burial will be in the Goodhue Lutheran Cemetery, rural Florence. Honorary pallbearers will be her grandsons, Tanner Chilson and Corbin Chilson. Active pallbearers will be Jim Chilson, Joel Chilson, Josh Chilson, Wayne Peterson, Larry Bergh and Maynard Rasmussen.
Visitation will be in the Crawford Funeral Chapel.
June Margaret was born July 3, 1925, to James Elmer and Mary (Flaa) Boyd at Minneapolis. She grew up and attended Minnehaha and John Erickson grade schools and Nakomis Junior High School in Minneapolis. The family moved to Duluth, Minn., where she was confirmed in Chester Park Reform Church, attended East Junior High School and graduated from Duluth Central High School in 1943. She attended Warner Beauty School in Duluth for one year and then in 1949, completed her sociology and elementary education degrees at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn. She also received a teacher's certification at Superior (Wis.) State College. She then continued her Christian education at Lutheran Bible Institute for one year and worked many part-time jobs at hospitals, children's homes, Augburg Publishing and as a sales clerk. She began her full-time work at the Crippled Children's School in Jamestown, N.D., as head supervisor and then moved to Aiken, S.C., to perform parish work for the National Lutheran Council. Her love of teaching children returned her to teach at various grade schools in Sisseton, Brooklyn Center, Minn., Osseo, Minn., and Grant Elementary in Watertown.
She married Robert Lowell Chilson June 20, 1959, in the First Lutheran Church at St. Louis Park. After their first child was born, she dedicated her life to her family and became a full-time homemaker, raising three sons together with her loving husband, Robert.
She continued her dedicated Christian life as a member of Goodhue Lutheran Church in rural Florence, participating and leading in various Christian women's groups, church groups, Sunday school and Bible studies. She was an active member of the local Gideon's Auxiliary and participated in the Eden Homemakers Extension Club. She enjoyed traveling, picture taking, family genealogy, baking and cooking. Throughout her life, her greatest enjoyment was the time she spent with family and friends, especially those times spent with her grandsons.
Survivors include her husband, Robert Chilson of Florence; three sons, Randy Chilson of Watertown, Steve and his wife Sherisse Chilson of Watertown and Lynn Chilson of Canton; one brother, the Rev. James Allen Boyd and his wife Carolyn of La Grange, Texas; and two grandchildren.
Watertown Public Opinion November 15, 2007 |
