Obit for BUTENHOFF, Ellen Bertina (b.1916 d.2000), Clay Co., MN

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ELLEN BERTINA BUTENHOFF OBIT, #827T

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Ellen B. Butenhoff, 83, Fargo, ND, formerly of Moorhead, MN, died 

Saturday, Oct. 28, 2000, in Villa Maria Healthcare Center, Fargo.



Funeral services will be Thursday, Nov. 2, at 2 PM in Trinity Lutheran 

Church, Sabin, MN, with Pastor Dan Wagner officiating. Visitation will 

Be Wednesday from 4-8 PM, with a prayer service at 6:30, in Dobmeier 

Funeral Home, Barnesville, MN and two hours before in the church. 

Interment will be in Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery near Sabin.



Ellen, Daughter of Carl and Ingeborg (Ronning) Erickson, was born Nov. 

9, 1916, in Fargo, one of three daughters. She attended school and grew 

to womanhood in Fargo, graduating from Fargo High School in 1934. She 

attended Interstate Business College in Fargo before working in Fargo.



She married Clarence H. Butenhoff June 11, 1939, in the Albert 

Butenhoff home near Baker, MN. The couple made their home and farmed in 

Alliance Township near Baker. They retired from farming in 1974. Mr. 

Butenhoff died in 1979. Ellen continued to live on the farm until 1991 

when she moved into Moorhead. In June of this year she became a 

resident of the Villa Maria Health Care Center in Fargo where she lived 

until the time of her death.



She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Sabin, the Ladies Guild 

and her Bible Study Circle. Ellen taught and supervised Sunday school 

and Vacation Bible School for many years. She was active in her 

church's winter quilting and knitting club. She was a member of the 

Lady Bug Gardening Group who were responsible for a  lovely garden in 

Comstock, MN. She also was a member of the Clay County Homemakers and 

volunteered at Eventide Lutheran Home in Moorhead. She was an avid 

bowler for more than 50 years and enjoyed playing whist. She served as 

flower judge at the Clay County Fair. Ellen served in many positions of 

leadership in many of these organizations. She was an avid reader, 

loved to play Scrabble and enjoyed watching golf on TV.



She is survived by two daughters, Shirley (Gregory Green SPHR) 

Butenhoff Scott, MD, Santa Fe, NM, and Beverly Butenhoff Kaufman, 

Huntsville, AL; four stepgrandchildren and two stepgreat-grandchildren, 

Dana (Don) Green Cataldi, Fairfield, CT, and their children Spophie and 

Isabella, Conrad Taft Green, Los Angeles, CA, Nathaneal Stuart Green 

with the Peace Corps in Honduras, Central America, and Josephine Nevin 

(Jesse Hill) Green, White Sulpher Springs, MT; one sister, Harriet 

Ahoyt, Del Rio, TX; sister-in-law, Alice, (Mrs. Leonard) Butenhoff, 

Fargo; and many nieces and nephews.



She is preceded in deah by her parents; her husband, Clarence; and one 

sister, Lucille (Mrs. Donald) Zeller. 

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