A Celebration of Life Service for LeVone Toedt, 89, of St. James, Minnesota, will be at 12 p.m. on Monday afternoon, November 30, 2015 at Waverly Lutheran Church in rural Trimont, Minnesota, with Pastor Anthony Christoffels officiating.
Burial will be in Mount Hope Cemetery in rural St. James.
Visitation will be one hour prior to the services at the church on Monday.
Kramer Family Funeral Home of Trimont is handling the funeral arrangements. Messages of sympathy may be sent to the family online at www.kramerfuneralhome.com
LeVone Toedt passed away on Sunday afternoon, November 22, 2015 at the Pleasant View Good Samaritan Society in St. James.
LeVone was born on the family farm in rural St. James on March 11, 1926 to Alfred and Blanche (Anderson) Romsdahl. She was baptized and confirmed at Kansas Lake Lutheran Church in rural Butterfield, Minnesota. She graduated from St. James High School.
On December 18, 1943, she married John Toedt and they farmed on the Toedt farm until 1959, when they moved their family to the Twin Cities area. John and LeVone built a house and moved back to St. James in 2001.
John passed away on July 23, 2003.
LeVone was a member of Waverly Church. Her greatest joy was spending time with her children and grandchildren. When she wasn’t busy taking care of the house and yard and cooking, she enjoyed making clothes, growing flowers, decorating her home, crossword puzzles and crypto quips. She had amazing sewing skills and made dolls and doll clothing, pillows, crewel stitchery and embroidery work.
LeVone is survived by her three children, daughters Carole (Wayne) Sandbo of Butterfield and Christine (Verne “Skeeter”) Olson of Delano, Minnesota; son, John (Nancy) Toedt of St. Paul, Minnesota; six grandchildren, Gina (Chad) Gordon, Joe Gordon, Matthew (Anne) Olson, Andrew (Nancy) Olson and Christian, and Cassi Toedt; seven great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; sister, Betty Belcher; sister-in-law, Janet “Inky” (Donald) Saxen; nieces and nephews and other relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents; father- and mother-in-law, Gladden and Lillian Toedt; husband, John Toedt; brothers, Vernon and James Romsdahl; sisters, Lorraine Kuehl, Charlotte Moe, Phyllis Johnson and Janice York; great-grandson, Joshua Gordon and other relatives.
