Lowell Berg

Rev. Lowell Berg, age 65, interim pastor at St. John's Lutheran Church in Raymond, Minnesota, died Saturday morning, November 21st at Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar, Minnesota
Funeral services will be held at 1 P.M., Wednesday, November 23rd, at St. John's Lutheran Church in Raymond with Rev. Jeffrey Engholm and Bishop Jon Anderson officiating. The interment will be at 2 PM, Friday, November 27th, at the Lakeport Township Cemetery near Laporte, Minnesota, with Rev. Warren Broughton officiating. Friends may call from 4 until 7 P.M., Tuesday and one hour prior to the services at St. John's Lutheran Church in Raymond. Memorial are preferred in lieu of flowers. Arrangements are with Peterson Brothers Funeral Home in Willmar, Minnesota.
Lowell Orville Berg was born on May 11, 1944 in Sioux City, Iowa, the son of Madalene V. (Miller) and Orville T.A. Berg. He grew up on a farm in Holly Springs, Iowa, and received his education in that area. On November 26, 1965 in Sioux City, Iowa, he was married to Sonja Rae Johnson. Lowell attended and graduated from Morningside College in Sioux City in 1967. They moved to St. Paul and Lowell attended Luther Theological Seminary and was ordained on September 5, 1971. He began serving as Pastor at Foxhome and Vukku Lutheran Parish and served there until 1978. He also was a member of the Foxhome Volunteer Fire Department during that time. They then moved to Hills, Minnesota, in 1978, where he was installed as Pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church and served there for 29 years. He began interim ministry for the South West Minnestoa Synod of the E.L.C.A. on Christmas Day of 2007. He served as interim Pastor with Rev. David J. Webster in Clara City and then with St. John's Lutheran in Raymond, December 1, 2008. He was a current member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Laporte, Minnesota. Lowell was an artist who loved to do carvings, sculptures and paintings and enjoyed life with friends and family.
He is survived by his wife, Sonja of Raymond and one daughter, Amy Berg of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, besides other relatives and friends. Lowell was preceded in death by his parents, one brother, Marlowe and two brothers-in-law, Rev. David Johnson and Gordon L. Johnson.