This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Spalding, Medtlie, Evenson, Hjelseth, Thompson, Kennedy, Anderson, Larson, Pansch, Halvorson, Krueger, Liddle Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3FC.2ACI/2366 Message Board Post: Thursday, July 03, 2003 Jane G. Spalding, 80 Jane Glendora Spalding, 80, of Hudson died Tuesday, June 10, at the Altera Assisted Living Residence in Eagan, Minn. She was born Sept. 12, 1922, in Menomonie, the daughter of Carl Oscar and Gena (Medtlie) Evenson. She was raised and attended school in Menomonie. On May 9, 1942, at Bethel Lutheran Church in Hudson she was married to Erling LeRoy Hjelseth by the Rev. Oscar Thompson. After their marriage she served as accountant and bookkeeper for their business, the St. Croix Office Equipment Company in Hudson. After her husband’s death in 1973, she married Byron Baker Spalding on Aug. 2, 1975, at the Little Brown Church in the Vale in Nashua, Iowa. She loved volunteering at Hudson Memorial Hospital and enjoyed swimming, painting, collecting stamps and rosemaling. She was a former deacon at the First Presbyterian Church in Hudson and was a lifelong member of the Sons of Norway lodge. Surviving are three daughters, Jacqueline “Jackie” Kennedy and Jean Anderson, both of Prior Lake, Minn., and Nancy Larson of Northome, Minn.; five grandchildren, Paul Pansch, Scott Pansch, Tim Pansch, Melisa Halvorson and Kristen Anderson; three great-grandchildren; Amy Pansch, Ryan Pansch and Ariana Halverson; and a sister, Nan (Clayton) Krueger of North St. Paul, Minn. Preceding her in death, besides her parents, were her two husbands, Erling Hjelseth (1973) and Byron Spalding (1997); and two sons, James Hjelseth (1995) and Peter Hjelseth (1970). Funeral services were at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 14, at the O’Connell Family Funeral Home in Hudson with Pastor David Liddle of the First Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial was in Willow River Cemetery in Hudson. Memorials are preferred to the Alzheimer’s Association. © 2003 Hudson Star-Observer - Reposted by permission http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/Main.asp?SectionID=3&SubSectionID=54&ArticleID=8012