Allen, Agnes (Gagen) -- 1876 - 1951

GAGEN, ALLEN, SCHIEFFER, HANSON, LOEEK, RICE

Posted By: Barry M. Dahl (email)
Date: 12/3/2010 at 15:55:00

Funeral services were held at Caledonia on Tuesday, 3, March 1951, for Mrs. Albert Allen, 74, who died Saturday after a long illness. The services were conducted at 9:30 a.m. in St. Johns Catholic church in Caledonia. The Rev. A.E. Kuisle officiated. Burial was made in the Calvary cemetery.

The former Agnes Gagen, she was born in Preble township, Fillmore county, Minnesota, on September 2, 1876, the daughter of Matthew and Mary Gagen.

On February 11, 1902, she was united in marriage to Albert Allen of Hesper. They lived on a farm northeast of Mabel, and in 1917, moved to the farm near Caledonia, where she spent the remainder of her life.

Survivors are her husband, three daughters, Sister M. Lorraine, Little Falls, Minn., Mrs. J.J. (Teresa) Scheiffer, Rice Lake, Wisc., and Mrs. Milton(Audrey) Hanson, La Crosse; two sons, Stanley, La Crosse and Hilary, Caledonia, also 15 grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Mary Loeek, Austin, Minn., Mrs. Albert Rice, Minneapolis, and one brother August Gagen, Elk River, Minn.

From the Jenny and Emma Welch collection.