Harriet Pagel

Harriet V. (Reese) Pagel, age 93, of Burnsville, formerly of the Atwater area, died Sunday afternoon, September 2nd, at the Fairview Ridges Hospital in Burnsville.
Funeral services will be held at 1 P.M. on Wednesday, September 5th, at Peterson Brothers Funeral Home in Willmar with Rev. Gordon Pennertz officiating. Friends may call one hour prior to the services at the funeral home. The internment will be at Cloverleaf Memorial Park Cemetery in Willmar. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials to Harrison Community Presbyterian Church of rural Spicer.
Harriet Valborg Pagel was born on December 31, 1913, in Lake Andrew Township, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota the daughter of Horace Emil and Alma Marie (Larson) Reese. She grew up in that area and received her education in the rural schools. Harriet continued her education and graduated from St. Cloud Teachers College in 1934 and taught in a one-room school houses in the Kandiyohi County area for 10 years. She married Horton Elsworth Pagel on August 11, 1940 and together they ran a farm operation near Atwater until 1973. After Horton's death in 1973, Harriet moved to Kandiyohi and lived there until 1989 when she moved to Burnsville to be near her grandchildren. She had been a member of Harrison Community Presbyterian Church and was a current member of Prince of Peace Church in Burnsville.
She is survived by two sons, Douglas (and Signe) Pagel of Ft. Myers, Florida; Jeffrey (and Gayle) Pagel of Atwater, three grandchildren; Amanda Pagel, Jonathan Pagel and Elizabeth Pagel, four step-grandchildren; Lavonne Ware, Angela Rodeman, Tanya Hoss, and Danielle Studer; one sister, Jean Ashe of Spicer, many nieces and nephews, former daughter-in-law Christine Pagel, besides other relatives and friends. Harriet was proceeded in death by her husband (Horton in 1973), 2 brothers (Merton and Harlan Reese) and two sisters (Joyce Himanga and Eunice Bengston).