Claudette Jean Thone, 85, Mission Viejo, California, died Sunday, March 14, 2021, at her home.
A funeral service was Saturday, March 20, at the First Baptist Church in Luverne. Burial was in Memory Gardens Cemetery in Luverne.
Claudette Selness was born on Feb. 23, 1936, in Minneapolis. She graduated from St. Louis Park High School in 1953 and then attended the University of Minnesota where she took pre-med courses.
Claudette married Lowell Thone on March 5, 1955. In their first years of marriage they farmed near Beaver Creek. They also lived in Great Falls, Montana, Mountain Lake, and the Minneapolis suburbs. After retirement, they returned to the family farm for 13 years. They then moved to Mission Viejo to be near family.
Claudette was a longtime member of First Baptist Church in Luverne and also Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie. She served in the Missionary Society, as a Sunday school teacher and as a nursery volunteer. She loved being a homemaker, wife, mother and grandmother. She also enjoyed gardening and travel, especially a trip to the Holy Lands.
Claudette is survived by her husband, Lowell Thone; three daughters, Lynette (DeVon) Wiens of Trabuco Canyon, California, Marcia (Dale) Hummel of Chanhassen, and Sherri (Ron) Alden of San Juan Capistrano, California; nine grandchildren, Amber (Kevin) Grant, Amanda (Nick) Bockelman, Laura (Jeff) Senters, Benjamin (Sarah) Hummel, Bethany (Pablo) Lozada, Timothy Hummel, Brett (Lauren) Alden, Aubree Alden, and Spencer (Jessica) Alden; 16 great-grandchildren; siblings Sharon (Edward) Green of Plymouth, Susan (Randall) Williams of Plano, Texas, and Wayne (Lana) Selness of Los Angeles, California.
She was preceded in death by her parents.
Arrangements were provided by Hartquist Funeral Home of Luverne, hartquistfuneral.com.
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