Anna Louise Noll, 98, Luverne, died Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, at the Good Samaritan Society – Mary Jane Brown Home in Luverne.
A funeral service was at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, at the Dingmann Funeral Home, with burial in the Maplewood Cemetery in Luverne.
Anna Drenth was born on April 3, 1924, to Alex and Anna (Brommer) Drenth in Santa Ana, California. The family returned to Ellsworth a few years later. Her family lived and farmed near Ellsworth throughout her childhood. She graduated from Ellsworth High School in 1943.
While working in Sioux Falls, Anna Louise met her future husband, Vernon Noll, and they married on Nov. 28, 1949, at Zion Presbyterian Church in Ellsworth. They made their home on a farm in the Blue Mounds very near the quarry. She enjoyed her life as a farm wife and mother of three girls. She always had a garden and shared her produce with others. She tended to many farm duties.
They left the farm in 1976 and moved to Luverne, but they missed country life and moved to an acreage near the Mounds until 1991. They retired and moved back to Luverne until 2013, when Vernon died after 64 years of marriage. Anna Louise moved to Poplar Creek in 2013 and became a resident at the Mary Jane Brown Home in April 2019 where she passed away.
Anna Louise is survived by her three daughters, Marge Noll of Elko, Lynette (Jesse) Medellin of Upland, California, and Elaine (David) Kvaas of St. Cloud; three grandchildren, Andrea (Mark) Kiffmeyer, Amber (Josh) Pogatshnik, and Haley Kvaas (Mark Linn); six great-grandchildren, Ethan, Owen and Aidan Kiffmeyer, Eleanor and Asher Pogatshnik, and Teddy Linn; and daughter Lynette’s stepchildren and stepgrandchildren in California.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Vernon; and three brothers.
Arrangements were provided by Dingmann Funeral Home of Luverne, dingmannandsons.com.
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