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1964

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2025

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Coleraine, Minnesota

Lisa Connery-Eilertson Obituary

Lisa J. Connery-Eilertson, 60 of Bovey, passed away on Friday, March 7, 2025 in Bovey, MN.

She was born on May 18, 1964 in St. Louis Park, MN, the daughter of Thomas and Leola May (Metaxas) Connery. She grew up in Brooklyn Park and graduated from Osseo High School in 1982. She married Thomas Eilertson on May 6, 2000 in St. Paul, MN and they moved to the Bovey area in 2012.

She enjoyed gardening, planting flowers, sunbathing and traveling. She was an excellent baker, making some of the grandest wedding cakes you've ever seen. She was a "sales record holder" for Lifetime Fitness. She was a former employee for American Family insurance in Arden Hills, where she worked as a mortgage investment consultant.

Survivors include her husband, Thomas Eilertson of Bovey, MN and her daughter, Jordan (David Holtz) Eilertson of Aguilar, CO.

There will be a private family service in the Peterson Funeral Chapel of Coleraine. Interment will be in the Lakeview Cemetery, Coleraine.

To leave an online message of condolence, please visit www.petersonfuneralchapelofcoleraine.com.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by Sun Post from Mar. 10 to Mar. 24, 2025.

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