Lucille Ann Bronstad, 82

Published 10:48 am Friday, May 17, 2013

Funeral services for Lucille Bronstad will be held 10:30 a.m. Monday, May 20, 2013, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Ostrander, Minn. with Pastor Herman Bakker officiating. Burial will be held at Greenwood Cemetery in Glenville, Minn. Visitation will be from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday, May 19, 2013, at the Hindt Funeral Home in Spring Valley, Minn. and will continue one hour prior to the service at church.

Lucille Bronstad

Lucille Ann (Hanson) Bronstad, 82, beloved wife of Melvin Bronstad for 62 years, died Wednesday, May 15 at Chosen Valley Health Care in Chatfield, Minn.

She is survived by her husband Melvin, brother Donald Elmer Hanson, Aunt Margaret (Hanson) Campbell, brothers-in-law Andy Bronstad (Donna), and Loren Bronstad, and many nieces, nephews and cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents, Christopher and Mary Katherine Hanson.

Lucille was born Oct. 30, 1930, to Mary Katherine (Kral) Hanson and Christopher C. Hanson and raised on a farm near London, Minn. She was baptized in the First Baptist Church in Austin. After going to country schools 139 and 112 for grades 1-8, she graduated from Austin High School in 1948.

After school, she worked at Austin Dairy and then for Paul D. Jones of Hollandale where she met Melvin. They were married July 21, 1950, in the First Baptist Church in Albert Lea. For three years they both worked at Wilson & Co in Albert Lea. In 1956, they bought a farm near Cherry Grove where they lived and farmed, sometimes operating three farms, until July 2012 when they purchased a town house in Spring Valley.

Lucille always loved music and dancing, helping on the farm and having a good-sized garden. She was an excellent cook like her mother and loved collecting cook books. She was also fond of jewelry. For more than 30 years she and Mel had a band, “ Mel’s Polka Stars”, which he led and they played throughout the Upper Midwest area.