Kevin Don Kalt

NOTICE: Due to the weather, Kevin's celebration will be moved from the park to indoors, June 2, 2025, 4-7 PM, in the Warren American Legion.
Kevin Kalt, 67, of rural Warren, MN, left this life behind in search of one where he might be healthy once more on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, in North Valley Health Center of Warren, MN.
Kevin Don Kalt was born on January 19, 1958, in Aberdeen, SD, to Don and Berdina "Denie" (Rozell) Kalt. Raised on a dairy farm in rural Warner, SD, he grew to love taking care of the animals, riding horse, hunting and playing football. He graduated from Warner High School in 1976, setting off for college at the University of South Dakota at Springfield to play football. There he met Sandi Sorensen and they were united in marriage January 14, 1978. Kevin dreamed of having enough children to have his own football team, but settled on only six. He moved his family to Warren in 1989. Kevin worked a variety of jobs working with animals or the care and feeding of animals. When his girls showed an interest in horses, he immediately began building a herd. The family spent several years traveling to horse shows, raising and breaking horses. Apache and Shadow were his favorites. Many of you may remember Shadow running across the home team track after a touchdown at the football games.
As the horse herd grew, his family were the hired hands. He expected jobs to be done right, and if a well-polished expletive and an object chucked in their direction helped that to happen... well, he didn't care, he just wanted it done right. He would drop anything to give a helping hand with a family member's construction project, so long as he got to bring his chainsaw along. His schedule of rising before 4am never wavered, and if a kid was out late and was caught by Dad already awake, they knew they were in for a full day's work- and hard labor at that! If Kevin was rough around the edges, he had a big heart for his animals. From dabbling in a small herd of longhorns to the 240 head of cattle presently on the farm, Kevin wanted to care for his cows and horses and enjoyed passing on that responsibility to his children and grandchildren. To that point, he was softer on the grandkids: a sort of marshmallow in comparison to his usually tough exterior.
His final years had him fighting metastatic prostate cancer, though it didn't stop him from (maybe ill advisedly) driving tractor his last week, with high hopes of baling hay at the soonest possible opportunity.
By all accounts he was a great man who brought his strong love of family and the Spirit of South Dakota with him wherever he went.
Missing him deeply but trying to remember the good stuff are his wife, Sandi; six children, Jason (Elise), Jamie, Kassie (Kristian), Kayla (Mike), Dustin ( Shelly), and Ashley (Jason); twenty-one grandchildren, Chris, Mason, Tanner, Taylor, Colton, Harley, Chase, Brooklyn, Paisley, Kaden, Riley, Tessa, Kinsie, Rustin, Knox, Journey, Briggs, Chyles, Adley, Trapper, and Kasen; great-grandkids, Ryatt and Blakeley; siblings, Jill (Jim), Pam (Kelly), and Darla (Troy); his mother-in-law, Connie; in-laws, Cindy (Blaine) and Stephanie; and nieces & nephews.
"Gone ahead" on that great trail of life are his folks, Don and Berdina; sister, Peggy; father-in-law, Jerry; and brothers-in-law, Roger and Harvey.
A CELEBRATION in Island Park of Warren, MN, will be held Monday, June 2, 2025, from 4:00-7:00 PM. Please join his family to tell stories of Kevin's life, have a big laugh and a small cry, and enjoy some food together.
PER HIS WISHES, he won't be buried anywhere just yet, but will watch over his family from above (and the mantle), being sure to offer his much-needed advice as best he can.