Funeral services for 93-year-old Evangeline “Vangie” Harder of Mountain Lake, Minnesota, will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday morning, January 16, 2016, at Bethel Mennonite Church in Mountain Lake. The church is located at 301 9th Street North.
Interment will be in Mountain Lake City Cemetery, located on 10th Street North at Midway Road.
Visitation will be at the church the day of the funeral service from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Sturm Funeral Home-Mountain Lake Chapel, is handling the funeral arrangements.
Evangeline “Vangie” Harder passed away Tuesday, January 12, 2016, at the Good Samaritan Society of Mountain Lake-The Village.
Evangeline “Vangie” May Harder was born on June 10, 1922, in Mountain Lake Township, Cottonwood County, the daughter of Eilert Sr. and Gerdena (Siefkes) Strenge. She was united in marriage to Diedrich Harder on October 26, 1943, at Bethel Mennonite Church in Mountain Lake.
The couple lived in Butterfield, Minnesota, where they did corn shelling and trucking. They then moved to a farm in Butterfield Township, Watonwan County, where they farmed until 1979, when they moved to Mountain Lake.
Vangie will be remembered as a hard-working farm wife who enjoyed gardening, canning and raising African violets. She loved traveling, driving her car and going out to eat – and especially enjoyed visiting her nieces and nephews.
She is survived by a sister, Florence “Tootie” Snook of Crosby/Ironton, Minnesota; two sisters-in-law, Loris Strenge and Grace Strenge, both of St. James, Minnesota and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Diedrich in 1989; brothers, George, Dick, Calvin, Eilert, John and Lawrence Strenge; sisters, Dena Carlson, AnnaBelle Olson, Margaret Rosenburg, Gretchen Huebsch, and Josephine Penner and several nieces and nephews.
