Gloria J. Dalbotten

ROSS LAKE TOWNSHIP -- Gloria Jean Dalbotten, 71, Ross Lake Township, died Wednesday, March 26, 2003, at home.

She was born Nov. 3, 1931, in Minneapolis to Edmund John and Estrid (Hoff) Schommer Sr. She retired from Minnegasco of Minneapolis in 1986 and moved to Island Lake in Ross Lake Township in 1987.

Survivors include her husband, Arthur O. Dalbotten; a son, Kenneth Peter Nyquist; two daughters, Karen Ann Gallagher and Kathy Leigh Nelson; seven grandchildren; a great-grandchild; and a brother, Edmund John Schommer Jr.

Her parents; her first husband, Kenneth C. Nyquist; her second husband, Glenn Olson; and a stepson, David Olson, died earlier.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Westside Church in Aitkin with the Rev. Dallas Smith officiating.

Arrangements are with Sorensen-Root-Thompson Funeral Home in Aitkin.