Wayne E. OUSTAD

OUSTAD, FULLER, STEENHARD, MONSE, ROBERTSON, GREEN, BRINKMAN, STIMAC

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/10/2008 at 13:24:15

AITKIN, Minn. - Wayne E. Oustad, 54, of Aitkin, died Wednesday (Oct. 17, 2001) at his home. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Monday at the Sorensen-Root-Thompson Funeral Home in Aitkin with the Rev. Lance Isaacson officiating. Burial will be in the Bennettville Cemetery, with military honors conducted by the Aitkin American Legion and VFW. Pallbearers will be Jeff Steece, Nick Dinger, Bill Turner, Mike Maxwell, Craig Speed, George Straight, Don Cordie and Lynn Ellingston. Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. on Sunday at the funeral home and also one hour prior to services on Monday.

He was born May 29, 1947, at Kanawha, the son of Oscar and Mildred (Fuller) Oustad. He grew up and attended schools in Kanawha and graduated from the Kanawha High School in 1964. He joined the National Guard and his unit was activated during the Vietnam War. He lived and worked in Kanawha, farming and working as an auto mechanic at a G.M. dealership. He married Cheryl Steenhard in 1974 and they lived in Belmond, where he still farmed and worked as a mechanic. He had been coming to the Aitkin area most of his life and moved to Aitkin in 1987 where he owned and operated Wayne's Auto Service. He was a member of Aitkin Moose Lodge 1060 and the Aitkin American Legion. He enjoyed fishing and racing stock cars.

He is survived by his significant other, Jeanne Monse of Aitkin, Minn.; one son, Rick Robertson, of St. Martin, Minn.; five daughters, Mona Green of Garland, Texas, Michelle Oustad of Blue Springs, Mo., Rachelle Robertson of South Haven, Mich., Nikki Brinkman of Webster City and Wendy Stimac, of Crosby, Minn.; and eight grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; and his wife, Cheryl, in 1989.

Mason City Globe Gazette
October 20, 2001