Susan Marie Deutsch, 79, Magnolia, died Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, at the Parkview Manor Nursing Home in Ellsworth.
A funeral Mass was Monday, Aug. 22, at St. Catherine Catholic Church in Luverne with burial at St. Mary Catholic Cemetery in Ellsworth.
Susan Brehm was born Feb. 17, 1943, to Lester and Dorothy (Achtenberg) Brehm in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She graduated from Luverne High School in 1961. Sue spent one year in Germany in the 1960s. She lived in many places including California, where she worked in a few nursing homes as a certified nursing assistant for more than ten years. She moved back to Minnesota in 1985.
Sue married Frank Berghorst in 1963. She worked at the Good Samaritan Society Mary Jane Brown Home in Luverne for over four years as a certified nursing assistant. She then worked as a Title 1 teacher at Magnolia Elementary School. Sue also worked at the Magnolia Café as a waitress. Frank died in 1985.
Sue married Fabian Deutsch on March 8, 1992, in Pipestone. The couple later moved to Magnolia. In September of 2019, they moved to the Parkview Manor Nursing Home in Ellsworth. Fabian died on April 26, 2022.
Susan was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church in Ellsworth until the church closed. She then became a member of St. Catherine Catholic Church in Luverne.
In her free time Sue enjoyed making rugs for over 20 years. She also enjoyed polka dancing with Fabian until just a couple of years ago.
Sue is survived by her four children, Richard (Robyn) Berghorst, Larry Berghorst, Julie (Rob) Rickenbaugh and Teresa Berghorst; 10 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Gary (Jane) Brehm and Paul (Barb) Brehm; a sister, Ann (Jim) Brehm-Moline; seven stepchildren, Randy (Carla) Deutsch, Cathy Deutsch, Jeffrey (Laurie) Deutsch, Danny Deutsch, Gary (Brenda) Deutsch, Mary (Daryl) Kramer and Sally Lloyd; many stepgrandchildren and stepgreat-grandchildren; two brothers-in-law, William “Bill” Deutsch and John (Trudy) Deutsch; and three sisters-in-law, Loretta Henning Donna Deutsch and Betty Deutsch.
She was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands, Frank Berghorst and Fabian Deutsch; four brothers-in-law, Lawrence, Eddie and Walter Deutsch and Frank Henning; and two sisters-in-law, Jean and Virginia Deutsch.
Arrangements were provided by Dingmann Funeral Home of Luverne, dingmannandsons.com.
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