Mamie Mathilda Holm

Mamie M. Holm, age 109, of Willmar and formerly of Kandiyohi, passed away Sunday evening, May 12, at Bethesda Grand.

Visitation will begin at 1 p.m. followed by the funeral service at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, May 21, at Ebenezer Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kandiyohi. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Arrangements are entrusted to the Peterson Brothers Funeral Home.  www.petersonbrothers.com

Mamie M, Holm was born the second child of five to Ernest and Selma (Olson) Isaacson, on a farm north of Dassel on October 10, 1914.  She grew up near Cokato.  They lived on the land that is now the location of the Cokato Golf Club prior to living northeast of Cokato on Smith Lake.  Mamie received her early education in a one room country school.  At the age of 10, her mother passed away following a Thyroid operation at the Swedish Hospital in Minneapolis.  The family later returned to the Dassel community where she graduated from high school in 1933.  Following graduation, Mamie took a job working for an attorney in Litchfield, then later as a cook at the cafe.  On June 5, 1943, Mamie was united in marriage to Lowell Holm and they made their home in Kandiyohi.  She was a member of Ebenezer Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kandiyohi and active as a Sunday School teacher, in ladies circle and other various committees.  Mamie and Lowell enjoyed traveling and spending many winters in Mesa, Arizona.  They were blessed with over 62 years of marriage before Lowell’s passing on January 31, 2006. The following year, Mamie moved into Sunrise Village in Willmar.