This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Marsh Lange Skalski Preston Swetnam Wahaj Bankston DeNoble Martens Whitfield Finnerud Hansen Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZGB.2ACE/349 Message Board Post: Private services for Edith Evelyn Grife, 79, Deer River, will be held at a later date. She died Tuesday, Feb 14, at St. Mary’s Medical Center, Duluth, MN. Born Dec. 28, 1915 in Rugby, ND, she moved to Itasca County as a child. She was a graduate of Greenway High School in Coleraine. In 1943 she married Glen Grife in Grand Rapids. In 1945, they moved to the family farm near Ball Club. She was a charter member of North Grange Hall and served several years as grand master. She was a chaperone for the Deer River Parent Teachers Association, an eight-year member of the Deer River School Board serving two years as chairperson, and a member of the Cass County Nursing Services Board, and the Mississippi Headwaters Advisory Board. Preceded in death by a son Paul Toumala and her parents Earl and Ruth Lange; she is survived by her husband Glen; four sons Jack from Florida, Kurt from Avilla Beach, CA, and Cliff and Lee, both of Deer River; one brother, Erling “Bud” Lange of Grand Rapids; one sister, Dorothy Marsh of Mena, AR; 17 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren. Arrangements are by Carrolll Funeral Home, Deer River.