Funeral Service will be at 12 noon on Tuesday, August 20, 2019, at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Gibbon, with Pastor Steven Bauer officiating. Burial will follow in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Gibbon.

Visitation will be for one hour prior to the service at the church.

To leave an online condolence for her family, or to sign the guestbook, go to: www.mvfh.org

Esther is survived by a daughter, Joyce (Marv) Jenkins; a son, Ernest Jr. (Chris) Ohland; 11 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Ernest H. Ohland; a daughter, Sandra Jane (Darcy) Kramer; a sister, Martha; brothers, Art, Henry, Richard, Rueben, Raymond, and Wilbert Heckenliable; daughter-in-law, Pat (Forbrook) Ohland; and a granddaughter, Sarah (Ohland) Sahr.

Esther Alice was born in Virgil, South Dakota, on March 16, 2914. Her family farmed on the outskirts of Highmore, South Dakota, where she spent her childhood and attended school. Upon her marriage, she lived on a farm near Gibbon, MN, Bismark Township from 1934 to 1970, where she raised her family. Each year, her vegetable and flower gardens grew larger with greater variety. She enjoyed cooking. For many years she attended University of Minnesota Extension meetings presented by the county agent 4 times a year. She became a skilled seamstress sewing for her family and friends and taught lingerie classes in the 1960’s. Winter hours were spent piecing quilts, appliqueing dishtowels & quilts, embroidering and hand quilting at neighborhood quilting bees.

20 years of retirement, 1971-1990, were spent in Las Cruces, New Mexico. In this “land of enchantment” she explored rock collecting in the desert and mountains, took lapidary, oil & watercolor painting classes at the New Mexico State University. A professional weaver taught her weaving and she sewed capes for a local dress designer for a showing.

She returned to a newly built home near New Ulm, Minnesota in 1990, residing there for 22 years. Her last years were spent at the Realife Coop in New Ulm, Amberfield Place, Madelia and, finally, at Living Meadows at Luther, Madelia.

She enjoyed meeting people, had a cheerful countenance and enjoyed reading, particularly novels and biographies of pioneer women. She also enjoyed doing jigsaw and crossword puzzles until her later years when her eyesight failed her.

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