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Name: Mary Lois Goble Larson
Spouse: Harry T. Larson
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DECEASED 2011,
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1948 Attended from through

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Birthdate: December 7, 1929   
Date of Death: December 21, 2011  
       

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Mary Lois (Goble) Larson, who celebrated her 82 birthday on Dec. 7, died of complications from COPD at the University of Minnesota Hospital on Dec. 21, 2011. Mary Lois was stubbornly determined not to give up her fight for recovery and planned to return to ECUMEN Parmly LifePointes,Chisago City, MN, where she had recently began a physical therapy program.

Mary Lois lived winters in Fort Myers, FL, and in Shell Lake, WI in summer months. She loved visiting the Lindstrom, MN area where she and her husband, Harry T. Larson raised their family. Mary Lois owned and operated a laundromat/dry cleaner business in Lindstrom, serving the Chisago Lakes area for many years.

Mary Lois was known for cooking excellent meals; her sons friends often would turn up at the Larson's house just before dinner. Mary Lois always made plenty of food for others and was known for her full refrigerator. Mary Lois graciously opened her home to her children's friends, and a few teenage friends actually lived with the Larson's for years. Mary Lois was a good listener for teenagers and adults alike, and had a remarkable gift of dispensing common sense advice. She was a dog lover who spoiled her pets with her home-cooking too.

After high school in Columbia City, IN, Mary Lois graduated from Indiana University and became an elementary teacher in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She did some substitute teaching in Lindstrom for a short time.

Mary Lois was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Lindstrom where she served in Dorcas Circle, and taught Sunday School. She never failed to answer Pastor John Blackford's plea for home baked treats for youth groups. She had a hard time saying, "No". Mrs. Larson was a 60 year member of the Columbia City Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR).

Mary Lois will be remembered for her easy, endless laughter; her ability and zest for talking to everyone, everywhere she
went; and for her love of life.

Harry T. Larson preceded Mary Lois in death in 1997. Parents, Lois M. Goble and Ford H. Goble, sisters Janet Walker and Barbara Dimitry also preceded her in death.

She is survived by daughter Margot Weyandt and husband Paul J. of Parkville, MO (grandsons Noah and Nathan); son Jeffrey P. Larson and wife, Rocio of Fairfield, AR (granddaughter Marianna); son Michael S. Larson and wife Cynthia of Blaine, MN (granddaughter Danielle); son Eric D. Larson and wife Lori of Eden Prairie, MN (grandchildren Drew, Taylor, Abigail, Spenser, Samuel, and Thomas). Also surviving is her brother Willis R. Goble Sr. and wife, Mary of Columbia City, IN.

The family wishes to thank the physicians and nursing staff at Fairview Lakes and Fairview University of Minnesota Medical Center for their compassion and thoughtfulness in the medical care that our mother received.

Visitation 5 to 8 PM Tuesday, Dec. 27th at the Grandstrand Funeral Home in Lindstrom and one hour prior to the service at church on Wednesday. Funeral Service 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at First United Methodist Church in Lindstrom, Minnesota.

Interment at Hillside Cemetery in Center City, Minnesota. [Chisago Lake Hillside Cemetery, Center City, Chisago County, Minnesota]

 
Last Updated: 07-29-2016 Alumni ID: 12362
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