Photo courtesy of Dare's Funeral & Cremation Services
Apr 4, 1922 - Oct 3, 2018
Aunt Lydia you will be missed. Always loved coming out to the farm in Dunseith. Great memories. So sorry we cant be there.
Carrole Rude
October 06, 2018 | Vancouver, WA | Family
I feel so blessed to have seen my faith filled Aunt Lydia recently. A life well lived. Rest in peace, Auntie.
Janice LaCroix Kester
October 06, 2018 | Fargo, ND | Family
Good bye, Aunt Lydia, you will forever be in my heart, and memories.
Connie Monte
October 06, 2018 | Fort Myers, FL | Family
With sympathy and prayers in your time of loss.
Brenda Kohrmann
October 06, 2018 | Eagle, CO | Friend
Sending prayers and thinking of many great memories of Lydia and family. Sorry we can't be there. Love Denny and Jane
Denny and Jane Clark
October 05, 2018 | Yellowstone Nstional Park, WY | Family
She was a great person to know me and Doug are going to miss her if we could have been there we would have
Betsy Brown
October 05, 2018 | Corinth, MS | Grandchild
Age 96, passed away peacefully at her home in Elk River, MN (formerly of Dunseith, ND & Virginia, MN) on Wednesday, October 3, 2018.Born on April 4, 1922 in Rock Lake, ND to John J and Anna (Ludvigson) Fauske. Lydia grew up in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota where she married and raised her three girls (Judy, Donna and Joan) with Ernest LaCroix. She was a farm wife and worked as a nurse’s aide at the State Tuberculosis Sanatorium in Dunseith, ND.After Ernest’s death, Lydia moved to McKinley, MN when she married John Beck in 1973. Here Lydia loved all types of gardening with roses being her specialty. She was a proud supporter and dedicated much of her time (and caramel rolls) to Story Book Lodge Christian Camp and Virginia Bible Chapel.She is survived by her daughters Donna (Jerome) Allard of Elk River, MN and Joan Lannie of Olive Branch, MS; sister Ruth Clark of Valley City, ND; sisters-in-law Eleanor Fauske and Rosemary LaCroix of Bottineau, ND and Betty LaCroix of Kalispell, MT; grandchildren Lynn (Trent) Negaard of Litchfield, MN, Mark (Ruth) McGuire of Arden Hills, MN, Jill Truth of Minnetonka, MN, Janel (Bob) Kess of Owatonna, MN, Chuck (Tina) Allard of Elk River, MN, Jerry (Lori) Allard of Elk River, MN, Doug Lannie of Olive Branch, MS, Angie (Eric) of Olive Branch, MS, and Melissa Lannie of Santa Rosa Beach, FL; nephews (like sons) Cleo (Char) Kelly of St. Paul, MN and Randy (Cathy) Kelly of St. Paul, MN; and 17 great grandchildren and 2 great-great grandchildren.Lydia was preceded in death by her husbands, Ernest LaCroix and John Beck; daughter, Judy McGuire, brothers Elwood Fauske and David Fauske; sister Naomi Kelly; and brothers-in-law Harold Kelly and Eldon Clark.A Celebration of Lydia's life will be at 4:00PM on Sunday, October 7, 2018 at Northridge Fellowship, 12522 Main Street, Rogers, MN with visitation starting at 3:00PM.
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