Mabel Elizabeth Gyberg, 99, formerly of Luverne, died Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, at the Bethany Meadows Home in Brandon, South Dakota.
Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 26, at Hartquist Funeral Home in Luverne. A funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Feb. 27, at Grace Lutheran Church in Luverne. Burial will follow in Memory Gardens Cemetery near Luverne.
Mabel Larson was born to Christian and Alma (Reichelt) Larson on Feb. 3, 1924, in Montrose, South Dakota. She moved with her family first to Colton and later to Dell Rapids, South Dakota. She attended country school through the eighth grade and attended two years at Dell Rapids High School. While still in Dell Rapids, Mabel waitressed at a local café and cared for and did the housekeeping for a family with three children.
On April 4, 1943, Mabel married Knute Gyberg at her mother’s home in Dell Rapids. The couple made their first home on a farm near Magnolia until 1947 when they moved to a farm near Beaver Creek.
In 1949 they moved and began farming near Luverne, and it was there they raised their four sons. Knute died on Jan. 28, 1990. Mabel moved to Luverne and lived there for 17 years before she moved to Bethany Meadows in Brandon, South Dakota, in April of 2007.
Mabel was a member of Grace Lutheran Church in Luverne and the Lydia Circle. She had been most recently attending Chapel at Bethany Meadows. Time spent with family was dear to Mabel, and she enjoyed traveling, reading, fishing, playing cards (especially pinochle), completing word searches and putting puzzles together.
She is survived by her son, Norman (Darlene) Gyberg of Magnolia; two daughters-in-law, Irene Gyberg of Brandon and Kathy Gyberg of Luverne; grandchildren and numerous great-grandchildren.
Mabel was preceded in death by her husband, Knute; her parents; three sons, Steven, Dennis and Stanley; three brothers; and four sisters.
Arrangements are provided by Hartquist Funeral Home of Luverne, hartquistfuneral.com.
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