Dorothy A. Lindner

 

Dorothy Amelia Lindner was born on June 23, 1933, in McLeod County, Rich Valley Township, the daughter of John and Mabel Kucera (Osmek). She attended St. Joseph Catholic School in Silver Lake, Minnesota, and one year in Silver Lake Public School 9th grade. Dorothy left home and went to work for a family near Waconia, Minnesota. It was in Waconia that Dorothy met and married Florian Lindner on September 10, 1953, at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Silver Lake, Minnesota. Three children were born to this union, Linda, Barbara and Donna, seven grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren.

Dorothy and her husband lived in Maple Lake, and she worked for Stearns Sewing Factory and also as head cook in a restaurant. Dorothy went back to school and earned a GED. Later she went back to school and learned how to be a nurse’s assistant. Florian and Dorothy’s youngest daughter Donna moved to Grants Pass, Oregon and shortly thereafter Dorothy and her husband moved to Cave Junction, Oregon and she worked at a nursing home and also home care.

Dorothy and Florian became members of the Sub-ordinate Oregon Grange and the Oregon State Grange. Dorothy loved to travel around the country with her husband. In 1995 they moved back to Minnesota and purchased a home in Evansville. After living there for 10 years they sold their home and moved to the Swanville apartments and from there to Village View Apartments in Grey Eagle, Minnesota.

Dorothy A. Lindner, age 89 of Alexandria, died on Monday, May 29, 2023, at St. Otto’s Care Center in Little Falls, MN.  Dorothy is survived by her daughters; Barb Zupan (Joe Schmidt), Evansville, Minnesota; Donna (Larry) Hadsell, Grants Pass, Oregon; 16 grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren; Robert, Michael, Kristie, Amanda, Chris, Colin, and Shaun; 13 great grandchildren; sister, Gladys Casey; brother, John J. Kucera. Dorothy is preceded in death by her parents, husband, Florian; daughter, Linda (Van) Rioux, granddaughter Heidi Sturges, grandsons Cory Sturges and Leslie Petterson, son-in-law Duane Zupan and sisters, Delores Goerke, Sophie Schade, and Katherine Brausen.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Friday, June 9, 2023, at 11 AM at Our Lady of Seven Dolors Catholic Church in Millerville, MN.

A visitation will take place one hour prior to the mass at the church on Friday.

Interment will be in the church cemetery.

Arrangements are with the Anderson Funeral Home and Crematory in Alexandria.

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