Gen Ellquist
Genevieve “Gen” Ellquist, 80, Two Harbors, died Friday, Feb. 5 at the Sunrise Home. She was born Jan. 14, 1930, to David G. and Ruth (Parks) Swanson in Deer River.
Genevieve “Gen” Ellquist, 80, Two Harbors, died Friday, Feb. 5 at the Sunrise Home. She was born Jan. 14, 1930, to David G. and Ruth (Parks) Swanson in Deer River.
Gen graduated from Tower-Soudan High School in 1948, and married Carl Ellquist in Tower in 1949. She was employed by the DM&IR Railroad as a telephone operator in Tower and Two Harbors, and later worked at Lake View Memorial Nursing Home as an aide and secretary. She also worked at Jo-El’s Apple Barrel.
Gen was President of the Lake View Memorial Auxiliary, district chairwoman for District B Hospital and Home Auxiliary and was second vice president for the Health Care Auxiliary of Minnesota.
She was instrumental in organizing the Lake View Memorial Junior Volunteers, which she headed for a number of years.
She enjoyed making crafts, teaching baking, decorating for Christmas, and the gift of giving. Gen was preceded in death by husband, Carl, in 1995; brother, David Swanson; and sister, Rose Swanson. She is survived by her sons, Kevan (Carley) of Cleveland, Craig (Jill) of Two Harbors, and Kerry (Kim) of Duluth; grandchildren, Julie (Bryan) Peterson, Karen (Kurt) Burns, Kellie Ellquist, David (Jodi) Ellquist, Andrew Ellquist and Matthew Ellquist; great-grandchildren, Gibson Burns, Greysen Cameron and Ella Peterson; a brother, John Swanson of Minneapolis; and sisters, Leona Sabol of Sacramento and Phyllis Eckelberry of Mesa, Ariza.
Gen’s family would like to thank the staff of Sunrise Home and St Mary’s Hospice for their compassionate care, and Pastor James Joseph for his attention to Gen’s spiritual needs.
In lieu of flowers memo- rials are preferred to the Sunrise Home Activity Fund or Lake County Foodshelf. A service was held Wednesday at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Two Harbors.
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