Lucy (Lucienne) Lund (d. 9 Dec. '07)

Thanks for always having some fun thing in your purse to keep me occupied in the cold, hard pew during the long sermons of my early childhood. Thanks for bringing me to Sunday School. Thanks for getting me into Brownies when I wanted to go and getting me OUT of Girl Scouts when I didn't want to go. Thanks for never being late when I had to get on the bus to Koinonia - I know how hard it was for you to be on time for anything. Thanks for the piano lessons with Harold Heiberg and then Phillip Olson. Thanks for making sure I could always hear you singing in the house. Thanks for Cherub's Choir and Junior Choir. Thanks for all the Jello Squares you made for Hi League. Thanks for helping me memorize the entirety of Luther's Catechism.

Thanks for all the care packages, stuffed full of kitchen towels and Daddy's old sweaters and wool socks when I moved to Minnesota. Thanks for your endless prayers when I had gotten so lost and didn't know up from down. Thanks for taking in my little boy and potty training him and teaching him to walk and eat from a spoon when I couldn't teach him those things myself. Thanks for sending me all those pictures of him as he grew and grew. Thanks for being the tireless grandma to my little ones (now grown, one with babies of her own), through thick or thin, no matter how many miles between us. Thanks for teaching me that like you, I am a teabag and the longer I soak in hot water, the stronger I get.

I miss you Ma. Give Daddy a hug for me, would ya'?

Michelle Lund Laudert
Minneapolis, MN USA
Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at 12:39:16 (EST)

Barbara Syvertsen

We extend our Christian Sympathy to Erik Syvertsen and his family for the death of his wife Barbara Syvertsen on December 27th. Blessed be her memory.

Cristianas Condolencias

Extendemos nuestras cristianas condolencias a Erik Syvertsen y a su familia por la muerte de su esposa Barbara Syvertsen el 27 de diciembre. Bendita sea su memoria.