Funeral services for 88-year-old Linda Krahn of Mountain Lake, Minnesota, will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday morning, June 26, 2017, at Lakeview Gospel Church in Mountain Lake. The church is located at 1002 10th Street North.
Interment will be in Delft Cemetery, located on the west side of Cottonwood County Road #3, south of Delft, Minnesota.
Visitation will be held on Sunday, June 25, 2017, at Sturm Funeral Home-MountainLake Chapel, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. The funeral home is located at 420 10th Street North in Mountain Lake. A second visitation will be at the church the day of the funeral service from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at: www.sturmfh.com.
Sturm Funeral Home-Mountain Lake Chapel is handling the arrangements.
Linda Helen Wall Krahn was born on October 2, 1928 in Mountain Lake, the daughter of John and Mary (Fast) Wall. She grew up on a farm in Carson Township, Cottonwood County, loving God’s wonderful outdoors. She attended District 16 South Banner School and graduated from Bingham Lake High School in 1947. Linda continued her education at Grace Bible Institute now known as Grace “U,” in Omaha, Nebraska, graduating in 1950. She accepted Jesus as her personal Lord and Savior and was baptized and joined Immanuel Mennonite Church in Delft, where she received good Bible teaching and also helped with Sunday School and release-time classes. Linda also taught some VBS (Vacation Bible School) and counseled at camp.
On October 25, 1963, she married Richard Krahn and had two children, Mary and David. She loved being a homemaker, gardening and helping her husband in the grocery business. When Richard and Linda retired in 1999, they enjoyed doing things together at home and church.
Linda is survived by her husband, Richard of Mountain Lake; daughter, Mary and her husband, Dick Carpenter of Peyton, Colorado and son, David Krahn of Mountain Lake.
She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Mary (Fast) Wall.