Margaret Charleene Lynch, 87, Luverne, died Friday, Sept. 10, 2004, at Luverne Hospice Cottage. Services were Tuesday, Sept. 14, at St. Catherine Catholic Church in Luverne. The Rev. Thomas Jennings officiated. Burial was in St. Catherine Catholic Cemetery. Margaret Doyle was born to John Edward and Anna Caroline (Gibboney) Doyle on Aug. 28, 1917, in Luverne. She attended Rock County schools and graduated from Luverne High School in 1935. She married John Verlyn (Jake) Lynch on June 4, 1938, at St. Catherine Catholic Church in Luverne. She lived all her life in Luverne except when she followed her husband, who was in the U.S. Army, to Oregon and Missouri until he went overseas during World War II. She worked as a sales clerk at JC Penney, Nelson’s Department Store and Montgomery Ward until she retired in 1969. Mr. Lynch died Dec. 3, 1991.She married Harold Schlimgen on Jan. 12, 1996, in Luverne. Mrs. Lynch was an active member of St. Catherine Catholic Church. She was a member of the Luverne sewing club and a card club.Survivors include her husband, Harold Schlimgen, Mitchell, S.D.; one daughter, Pat (Steven) Ahlberg, Worthington; three grandsons, Jared (Nichole) Ahlberg, Aeknagik, Alaska, Travis (Brittany) Ahlberg, Genesee, Idaho, and Lucas Ahlberg, Golden Valley; one granddaughter, Kimberly Ahlberg, Mankato; three great-grandchildren, Emma and Ian Ahlberg, and Kolbjorn Ahlberg; four sisters, Alice (Ron) Ehrisman, Sioux Falls, Laura May (Dries) Bosch, Brandon, S.D., Kay Cox, Adrian, and Edwina (LeRoy) Rust, Luverne; three sisters-in-law, Myra Doyle, Sioux Falls, PerryEtta Fuerstenberg, Luverne, and Helen Lynch, Plainview; and many nieces and nephews. Mrs. Lynch was preceded in death by her parents, her first husband, one brother, Paul Doyle, four brothers-in-law, two sisters-in-law, and two nephews.The family requests memorials to Luverne Hospice Cottage or the American Cancer Society.A tree will be dedicated in memory of Margaret Lynch by Hospice of Luverne Community Hospital. Dingmann Funeral Home, Luverne, was in charge of arrangements.