This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Farrington, Burns, Guith, Hallberg, Hochstein, Skramstad, Simonson, Luebke, O'Connor, Erdahl, Booth Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3FC.2ACI/3587 Message Board Post: Verna (Guith) Burns Farrington, 90 Friday, May 28, 2004 Verna (Guith) Burns Farrington, 90, who spent her youth in Hudson, died Wednesday, May 19, at the Good Samaritan Center in Stillwater. She was born Nov. 12, 1913, in Crosby-Ironton, Minn., the daughter of Herbert R. and Frieda (Hallberg) Guith, and came to Hudson with her parents the following year, 1914. She attended grade and high school in Hudson. As a young girl she was clerk in the grocery store operated by Mrs. Fredericka Hochstein, at 1010 St. Croix St., that was one of the legendary, family-run, neighborhood stores in Hudson in the early years of the 20th century. At the grocery store she also tended the gasoline pump and wiped windshields of the autos getting gas. Later she worked at the Twin Cities Arsenal plant in New Brighton, Minn., Smead’s Plant in Stillwater, was a waitress at Henne’s Restaurant in Houlton and for a time was chief housekeeper at the State Hospital in Jamestown, N.D. She was married twice, first to James Burns in Stillwater Sept. 24, 1934, and then to Richard Farrington. For more than 20 years she had been a resident of the Rivertown Commons in Stillwater. Preceding her in death were her parents; two husbands, James Burns and Richard Farrington; a son, John H. “Jack” Burns, in 1964; two brothers, an infant, John, and Robert R. Guith; and two sisters, Helen L. Skramstad in 1991 and Betty M. Simonson in 1996. Survivors are a brother, Ronald H. (Audrey) Guith of St. Paul, and two sisters, Dorothy J. (Darrel) Luebke of Hudson and Lois O’Connor of Wausau. A memorial service will be at 1 p.m. Saturday, May 29, at Rivertown Commons, 212 N. Second St., in Stillwater, the Rev. Norris Erdahl officiating. Burial will be in the family plot in Willow River Cemetery in Hudson where the Rev. Tim Booth of Trinity Lutheran Church in Hudson will read the committal service. Memorials are suggested to the church of her youth, Trinity Lutheran Church at 1205 Sixth St., Hudson. © 2004 Hudson Star-Observer - Reposted by permission http://www.hudsonstarobserver.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=10769&SectionID=3&SubSectionID=54&S=1