1936
Bessie
2013
Bessie Monson
October 13, 1936 — April 14, 2013
Memorial Services for Bessie Marie Monson, of Clarks Grove, MN, will be held at 4:00 P.M. on Friday, April 19, 2013 at Bonnerup Funeral Service, Albert Lea. Pastor Richard Spande will officiate. Bessie died on Sunday, April 14, 2013 at Mayo Clinic Health System, Albert Lea. She was 76. She was born on October 13, 1936, in Aurora, Illinois, the daughter of John and Ethel (Mueller) Shukis. She attended rural school in Illinois and then West Aurora High School. Bessie worked for Anfinsen Plastic in Aurora, Ill, and had a babysitting service in her home, caring for many, many children. She had also worked for Hardees in Montgomery, Ill She met Curtis Monson, and that brought her to the Clarks Grove area. They were married in 2000 at their home in Clarks Grove.
She had worked at the Smithy Corner Mart in Clarks Grove. Bessie had been a member of the Moose, joining the Aurora Moose Lodge #400. Bessie enjoyed camping, vacationing, traveling, painting and crafts. She loved talking on the phone and visiting with family and friends. She will be greatly missed by her family, husband Curtis of Clarks Grove, daughter Paula Craig and her husband John of Pima, AZ and their many foster children; step children: Eric Johnson of Rochester, MN, LaRae Johnson and her fiancé Adam of Blooming Prairie, MN; 7 step grandchildren: her brothers and sisters: Pearl Blackwell, Tom Shukis and Gary Shukis all of North Carolina, Percy Darrow of Pennsylvania, Tammy Bourgeois and JR and Chuck Shukis of Huntsville, Alabama; stepmother Elizabeth Hegland also of Huntsville, Alabama, special nephew Stanley Fordyce of San Diego, CA, special niece Betty Darrow of Naperville, Ill; sister's-in-law and brother's-in-law Ruth Smith of Clarks Grove, MN, Alice and Keith Swenson of Rose Creek, MN, Cheryl Monson of Albert Lea, MN, Russell Monson of Mpls, MN, Larry and Bonnie Monson of Rio Rancho, New Mexico and many, many, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her grandparents Chester and Pearl(Murst) Mueller, parents, her sisters Leona Gastil, Rae Ellen Fordyce and her husband Harold, Rosetta Hammond and brother Stanley Miller; sister's-in-law and brother's-in-law: Earl Dwayne Smith, Theodore and Joan Monson, Thomas Monson, Charles Moore, Charles Blackwell, Mary Shukis, Frankie Darrow, and special niece Eva Marie Shukis. Blessed be her memory!
She had worked at the Smithy Corner Mart in Clarks Grove. Bessie had been a member of the Moose, joining the Aurora Moose Lodge #400. Bessie enjoyed camping, vacationing, traveling, painting and crafts. She loved talking on the phone and visiting with family and friends. She will be greatly missed by her family, husband Curtis of Clarks Grove, daughter Paula Craig and her husband John of Pima, AZ and their many foster children; step children: Eric Johnson of Rochester, MN, LaRae Johnson and her fiancé Adam of Blooming Prairie, MN; 7 step grandchildren: her brothers and sisters: Pearl Blackwell, Tom Shukis and Gary Shukis all of North Carolina, Percy Darrow of Pennsylvania, Tammy Bourgeois and JR and Chuck Shukis of Huntsville, Alabama; stepmother Elizabeth Hegland also of Huntsville, Alabama, special nephew Stanley Fordyce of San Diego, CA, special niece Betty Darrow of Naperville, Ill; sister's-in-law and brother's-in-law Ruth Smith of Clarks Grove, MN, Alice and Keith Swenson of Rose Creek, MN, Cheryl Monson of Albert Lea, MN, Russell Monson of Mpls, MN, Larry and Bonnie Monson of Rio Rancho, New Mexico and many, many, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her grandparents Chester and Pearl(Murst) Mueller, parents, her sisters Leona Gastil, Rae Ellen Fordyce and her husband Harold, Rosetta Hammond and brother Stanley Miller; sister's-in-law and brother's-in-law: Earl Dwayne Smith, Theodore and Joan Monson, Thomas Monson, Charles Moore, Charles Blackwell, Mary Shukis, Frankie Darrow, and special niece Eva Marie Shukis. Blessed be her memory!
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