A funeral service will be Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, 10:30 a.m. at Bernadotte Lutheran Church in Bernadotte Township, Nicollet County, Minnesota, with Pastor Bob Stover and Pastor Bob Miner officiating. Interment will be in the Winthrop Cemetery.

Visitation will be Friday, Sept. 9, 2022, from 4-7 p.m. at the Dalin-Hantge Funeral Chapel in Winthrop and will continue one hour prior to the service at the church on Saturday. Military Honors by the Winthrop Honor Guard.

Ivan Melvin Radloff was born on April 6, 1946, in New Ulm, Minnesota. He was the son of Melvin and Mildred (Vogel) Radloff. Ivan was baptized on May 19, 1946, at the Essig Evangelical Reform Church in Essig and was later confirmed in his faith as a youth at the United Church of Christ. He received his education at country school and then in New Ulm and was a graduate of the New Ulm High School Class of 1965.

Ivan was drafted after graduation on Nov. 24, 1965, and served his country in the United States Army in Vietnam. He was a truck driver and delivered supplies. Ivan received the National Defense Service Medal, Vietnam Service Medal, Vietnam Campaign Medal, Drivers Badge, Sharpshooter (Rifle M-14) and the Good Conduct Medal. He received his Honorable Discharge on Nov. 23, 1971.

On Sept. 1, 1972, Ivan was united in marriage to Kathy Wensauer at St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Comfrey, Minnesota. After their marriage, the couple resided in Essig and moved to Winthrop in 1982. Ivan farmed with his father and was an independent milk hauler, hauling canned milk from the farmers to the Essig Creamery, retiring in 1978. He continued to farm at Essig, and he milked cows most of his life. Ivan and Kathy were blessed with three children, Michelle, Shawn, and Kevin. They shared 50 years of marriage.

Ivan was a member of Bernadotte Lutheran Church, Bernadotte Township, Nicollet County.

Ivan enjoyed making cream puffs and potato pancakes. The kids always ended up doing the measuring and mixing while he supervised. Ivan collected Allis-Chalmers machinery. He was an ordinary man, living an ordinary life, doing what he loved.

Ivan is survived by his wife, Kathy Radloff of Winthrop, Minnesota; children, Michelle Kilanowski and husband, Clint, of St. Cloud, Shawn Radloff and his wife, Diane, of Winthrop, and Kevin Radloff and his wife, Jennie, of Gaylord; grandchildren, Blake, Cody and Amber Kilanowski, August and Caleb Radloff, Weston and Ardynn Radloff; sister, Lila Liebl of Albert Lea; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Joe and Laura Wensauer of Parkers Prairie, Mary and Dale Wiegmann of Willmar, Dave and Val Wensauer of Sacred Heart, Barb and Joel Lingbeek of Renville, and Pat Wensauer of Sleepy Eye; nieces and nephews.

Ivan was preceded in death by his parents, Melvin and Mildred Radloff; father-in-law and mother-in-law, Ray and Agnes Wensauer; and brothers-in-law, Arnold Liebl and James Wensauer.

Arrangements by Dalin-Hantge Funeral Chapel in Winthrop, Minnesota. Online obituaries and guest book available at www.hantge.com.

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