Duluth Central High School Class of 1961
In Memory

To those class members that have gone on before us, we dedicate this page.

To read a complete obituary on an individual, simply click on that class members name below and it will take you directly to that persons personal web page. 

Our thanks to Patricia (Pat) Fairbanks (Rasch) and Cathy Daugaard (Egger) for maintaining these records. 

     Names listed by maiden name (married name in parenthesis)

Abernethy, Donald: February16, 1943 to April 23, 2011

Abramson, Cheryl Lee: Date of Death - December 30, 1988

Andelin, Robert: Date of Death - January 1, 2019

Anderson, Carol Jean: January 6, 1943 to July 12, 2010

Anderson, NealDate of Death - May 20, 2016

Anderson, Robert D.: April 15, 1943 to January 6, 2010

Anderson, Ronald E.October 24, 1943 to March 17, 2018

Andrew, Thomas FederickJanuary 13, 1943 to December 24, 2014 

Backer, Joyce (Johnson)September 10, 1943 to May 16, 2017

Bertrand, Karen (Olson): December 22, 1943 to September 1, 2014

Boe, Karen (Schamberger): October 28, 1943 to September 25, 2015

Bowen, Gary: Janruary 7, 1943 to May 2, 2018

Burke, Dennis (Denny): November 9, 1942 to November 18, 2021

Capriglione, Lillian: May 21,1943 to July 27, 2009

Carlson, Garry: January 24, 1943 to November 14, 2010

Carpenter, Tom S.: May 21, 1943 to December 3, 1984

Chapman, PriscillaJune 18, 1943 to April 25, 2017

Christiansen, KarenDate of Death - October 13, 2022

Cooke, Chester E.January 21, 1943 to August 12, 2015 

Curnow, Lawrence J.: October 31, 1941 to November 13, 2024

Curtis, Barbara (Bretz)July 9, 1943 to November 15, 2008

Cusick, BonnieNovember 4, 1943 to January 24, 2020 

Dahlgren, Larry B: December 25, 1942 to  November 2, 2008

Dillenbeck, William E.: October 9, 1941 to March 3, 2009

Dinehart, RaeAnne (Running): December 9, 1943 to April 20, 2020

Dinneen, Terry: February 15, 1943 to December 15, 2012

Doolittle, Kenneth: July 16, 1943 to February 5, 2010

Dzuck, AlanJune 18, 1943 to July 21, 2020

Eaton, Carolyn S. (Clure): May 26, 1943 to December 29, 2004

Ebeltoft, Paul F.: November 2, 1943 to April 2, 2006

Fedo, Dave: April 15, 1943 to December 1, 2022

Eide, Carolenn (Allen): March 12, 1943 to January 9, 2015

Engman, Edsil: December 30, 1942 to March 21, 2000

Erickson, Sandra E. (Toland): August 20, 1943 to August 8, 2003

Farrell, Michael (Mickey)January 24, 1943 to December 24, 2019

Fleischmann, Jim: September 6, 1943 to March 3 1999

Gilbertson, James (Jim)April 7, 1943 to March 7, 2021

Giroux, Kathy (White): October 2, 1943 to June 28, 2019

Goewey, MargaretDate of Death - May 1, 2017

Gould, RobertApril 26, 1943 to June 24, 2017

Govednik, DonaldDate of Death - 2021

Gravelle, Luanna (Blair): February 14, 1943 to September 10, 2000

Grubb, Christian (Roy)Date of Death - December 7, 2020

Gunderson, Judy (Sibik): May 12, 1943 to July 25, 2017

Handlovsky, Pacy: October 21, 1942 to October 12, 2012

Hanson, Ken: March 29, 1943 to April 1, 2019

Hanson, Roger D.: August 14, 1942 to June 9, 2021

Hansen, Diane Juanita (Ossanna): September 29, 1941 to July 16, 2001

Haugen, Judy: February 18, 1943 to December 8, 2014

Hendrickson, Les E.January 30, 1942 to November 3, 2014

High, Wayne D.: November 6, 1943 to January 9, 2004

Hoffman, James B.: December 30, 1942 to June 16, 1996

Hoglund, Gary W.: April 11, 1943 to May 17, 1967

Holmes, Robert A.: October 4, 1943 to February 5, 2014

Hustvet, Thomas: May 8, 1943 to July 28, 2020

Jentoft, Colleen (Lavamaki): April 12, 1943  to March 30, 2024

Johnson, Jo Carol (Haugen): June 17, 1943  to November 5, 2021

Johnson, Karen (Bartlett): October 24, 1943  to February 2, 2022

Johnson, Mary B. (Decker): August 14, 1943  to January 21, 2008

Jyring, Dick: October 20, 1942  to February 22, 2017

Karkkainen, JerryJuly 30, 1943 to January 25, 2017

Kennedy, Patrick: Date of Death - February 19, 2024

Kent, Lois (Murtley): Date of Death - June 11, 2023

Kregness, Patricia Johnson)March 13, 1943  to July 6, 2024

Kreminski, RickUnklnown Dates

Lanthier, Laurie (Bean): May 2, 1943 to October 12, 2001

LaPlante, Diane (Rybak): May 4, 1942 to November 6, 2009

Lax, Thomas N.: July 8, 1942 to April 20, 2001

Lillo, Philip V.: February 13, 1943 to December 26, 2004

Lind, Doug: Date of Death - August 8, 2019

Lindberg, Sharon (LePage): August 31, 1943 to November 29, 2005

Lindstrom, Kenneth: March 22, 1943 to September 25, 2018

Look, Larry B.: May 15, 1943 to September 5, 2006

Loraas, DickJune 29, 1943 to March 9, 2020

Lundberg, Larry: February 17, 1943 to October 6, 2005

Lyle, Robert J.: April 27, 1943 to May 16, 2002

Mackay, JimDate of Death - July 1, 2020

Madsen, Rosemary (Suomala): November 6, 1942 to June 30, 1998

Maki, Barbara F. (Anderson): October 1, 1943 to May 25, 2008

Makitalo, Jim T.March 2 1943 to June 23, 2015

Marshall, Douglas AllenDate of Death - March 14, 2022

Martin, Nancy E. (Helfenstein): Date of Death - January 29, 1996

Maynard, Dan T.: January 25, 1943 to October 18, 2002

McKeever, John K.: March 8, 1943 to November 10, 2000

McMillen, Kathleen M. (Antolik)March 2, 1943 to March 21, 2007 

Mehrman, Kathleen Sue (Kelly)August 6, 1943 to April 28, 2021

Meister, EdwardDate of Death - December 29, 2018 

Michelizzi, KathleenJuly 9, 1943 to February 27, 2023

Morrison, Russell: Date of Death - August 14, 2013

Morrow, Barbara (Roeder)November 8, 1942 to November 14, 2021 

Nelson, Robert L.Unknown Dates

Nervick, Gerry L.: September 16, 1943 to September 2, 2009

Nicholas, Richard (Dick)August 7, 1943 to July 24,2019

Niskala, Norman H.: September 14, 1942 to August 8,1993

Norberg, Robert L.: December 29, 1943 to September 15, 1997

Novak, John Perry: July 9, 1943 to April 26, 2019

Nygaard, Claudia (Cohan): Date of Death -  February, 2022

O'Donnell, David: Born 1943 - Date of Death 2024

Ogston, Linda E.Date of Death - December 25, 2015

Olson, Claudia MarieDate of Death - February 16, 2016

Olson, RichardDate of Death - November 10, 2020

Oman, Robert J.: April 20, 1942 to January 17, 2001

Ostermeyer, Hella M. (Rockenbach): May 7, 1941 to July 14, 1999

Palo, George: Date of Death - August 13, 2022

Paschke, WallySeptember 12, 1943 to May 30, 2020

Pearson, Corrine (Jensen): October 18, 1942 to April 06, 2021

Peltier, Bruce: December 27, 1942 to October 23, 2009

Pederson, Alfred: September 14, 1941 to March 3, 2016

Peterson, Rick: Date of Death - October 12, 2012

Pfeiffer, Corrine M.: Date of Death - 2016

Pommerville, Robert: October 7, 1942 to November 14, 2006

Poole, Patricia N. (Leander): December 26, 1942 to August 14, 1999

Radosevich, John George: January 16, 1943 to December 22, 1972

Ranta, Diane Louise: April 22, 1943 to January 9, 1987

Restad, Elizabeth (Lizzy) (Kirsh): October 21, 1942 to October 9, 2014

Rilling, SandraMarch 25, 1943 to March 8, 2023

Robbins, Nancy Lynn (Hudson): May 22, 1943 to August 28, 1994  

Robinson Jr., RobertMarch 27, 1943 to June 30, 2017

Rock, Linda: December 14,1943 to September 17, 2014   

Saburn, Glen: Date of Death - October 12, 2020   

Salgy, Ronald J.: September 14, 1943 to March 17, 1994

Samas, Catherine C. (Truitt): July 7, 1942 to November 11, 1998

Samuelson, JohnOctober 9, 1942 to August 18, 2024

Savela, Harry: October 25, 1941 to October 31, 1999

Schell, Ron: Date of Death December 12, 2021

Seavey, Helen (Hubbartt-Snider): April 30, 1943 to December 21, 2018

Sero, Carol (Fenno): January 14, 1943 to December 16, 1988

Silberman, Elliot: Date of Death - September 19, 2022

Simonson, Allen (Al): Date of Death - January 28, 2013

Skerbinc, Ronald JosephMarch 20, 1943 to August 30, 2023

Snarich, Marjorie E. (Korupp): April 12, 1943 to February 8, 2001

Sorman, Harry (Skip): May 26, 1943 to October 15, 2011

Southworth, Lualice: December 29, 1941 to October 13, 2002

Steffen, Judith: Date of Death - July 1, 2016

Strand, Joanne Lee (Nevius): April 4, 1942 to August 4, 1999 

Strum, Jerry L.February 16, 1943 to April 7, 2022 

Swanson, Carol Ann (Bakke): January 25, 1943 to October 19, 2007

Sylvester, Mary Jo (Marsyla): December 18, 1942 to  June 24, 1982

Teras, Barbara Jean (Kocurek): September 10, 1943 to December 22, 1999

Thatcher, John: March 26, 1943 to March 25, 2019

Thomas, James J.December 5, 1942 to September 5, 2020

Thomas, Judith J. (Granmoe): August 10, 1943 to December 1, 1968

Thompson, GaryApril 24, 1943 to March 19, 2024

Thurston, Virginia Lee (Church): April 13, 1943 to October 23, 2005

VanReese, Judith A. (Lawler): May 1, 1943 to January 6, 2000

Wagner, Daniel: Date of Death - October 11, 2024

Wainio, Norman: Date of Death - November 13, 2013

Wakefield, Edward R.: February 4, 1943 to October 7, 1999

Walsh, Duane: January 2, 1944 to March 5, 2010

Wampler, Mary Jane (Crye)September 21, 1943 to September 24, 2004

Watson, Janna (Brantley)July 17, 1942 to December 25, 2010

Wedin, RusselOctober 25, 1942 to July 13, 2015

Wegner, SteveAugust 27, 1943 to April 16, 2020

Willman, Lynnea (Sanders)Date of Death - May 9, 2014