Loretta B. Klinker

FOLEY --Loretta B. Klinker, 94, Foley, died Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2000, at Foley Nursing Center of Foley.

She was born June 9, 1905, in Bandon Township to Fred and Freida (Schroeder) Grams. She married Henry Klinker on May 12, 1926, in Fairfax. They bought a farm in rural Fairfax and lived there until 1930. They moved into Fairfax and lived there until moving to Little Falls in 1958. She worked in housekeeping for 15 years at St. Gabriel's Hospital of Little Falls. She was a member of Zion Lutheran Church of Little Falls and St. John's Lutheran Church of Fairfax.

Survivors include a son, Jerome Klinker, Rice; five grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and a sister, Olga Bubblitz, Fairfax.

Her husband, three brothers, Harry, Howard and Art Klinker, and three sisters, Lucille Lund, Meda Timm and Leona Grams, died earlier.

Services will be 10 a.m. Monday at Shepherd of the Pines Lutheran Church of Rice with the Rev. David Emmrich officiating. Burial will be in Fort Ridgely Cemetery of Fairfax.

Friends may call at Shelley Funeral Chapel from 6-8 p.m. Sunday and at the church an hour before services Monday.