Funeral services for 81-year-old Darlene M. Janzen of Butterfield, Minnesota, will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday morning, April 28, 2015, at Sturm Funeral Home-Mountain Lake Chapel, located at 420 10th Street North in Mountain Lake, Minnesota.
Interment will be at the Cornerstone Cemetery (formerly the Evangelical Mennonite Brethren Cemetery) in rural Mountain Lake, located on the west side of 570th Avenue, south of 360th Street and north of 10th Street/Cottonwood County Road #9.
Pastor Nathan Janzen will officiate at the services.
An open house will take place at the family home immediately following interment.
Visitation will be held at the funeral home on Monday, April 27, 2015, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m., and again the day of the service from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Darlene M. Janzen passed away in Mankato, Minnesota, on Friday, April 24, 2015.
Darlene Mae (Siebert) Janzen was born on June 2, 1933, that daughter of Peter P. and Anna (Peters) Siebert. She graduated from Henderson Public High School in Henderson, Nebraska, in 1951. After high school, Darlene attended the Kearney State Teachers College in Kearney, Nebraska and attained her teaching certificate. She taught in a Nebraska country school from 1951-1954, and then worked briefly at General Electric, Back-to-the-Bible and Elgin Watch Company in Lincoln, Nebraska.
On May 6, 1958, she was united in marriage to Richard F. Janzen at the Bethesda Mennonite Church in Henderson. The couple was blessed with four children, Cemlyn, Tamra, Doyle and Nathan.
Darlene was a caring wife and mother. After seeing her children start school, she returned to work as a USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) food inspector, retiring in 1998.
Darlene pursued opportunities for learning, and especially enjoyed working puzzles of any kind. She was a generous and gracious hostess and a wonderful cook. She will be remembered for her large and well-tended vegetable and flower gardens and for having the best zweibach.
Darlene is survived by her husband, Richard of Butterfield; children, Cemlyn (Russell) Larsen of Salcha, Alaska, Tamra (Charles) Hammell of Sellersville, Pennsylvania, Doyle (Paula) Janzen of Mountain Lake and Nathan (Kari) Janzen of Centerville, Minnesota; two brothers, Darrel (Eleanor) of Luverne, Minnesota and Elvin of Omaha, Nebraska; three sisters, Esther Fox of Cedar Park, Texas, Carol (Arlen) Epp of Elkhart, Indiana and Aldena Siebert of Henderson; along with seven grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Allen and Dennis.
