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- Bio: The Rev. Norman Kraabel Estrem, age 91, died Friday, July 29, 2011, at Augustana Care Center in Minneapolis.
- He was born March 15, 1920, in Denver, Colo., where his father was a Lutheran pastor. He grew up in Cooperstown and Maddock, N.D. He was valedictorian of his high school class and won district honors in basketball, state honors playing clarinet and national honors as a football quarterback. In college, he played clarinet in the band and sang in the men's chorus. He was graduated from Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, in 1942. From 1943 to 1945 (during World War II) he served in the navy as a hospital laboratory technician in Farragut, Idaho. After discharge, he taught for a year in Maddock and assisted in his father's parish. He then attended Luther Seminary and did post-graduate study at Biblical Theological Seminary in New York City, where he also worked at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Manhattan. Norman was ordained in 1951 and served parishes in Pelican Rapids, Minn.; Chinook, Mont., and Mabel, Minn. Subse-quently he was ad-ministrator and chaplain of Bethel Home in Viroqua. He retired in 1982 and moved to Faribault, Minn. He spent the last two years at Augustana Apartments in Minneapolis. Norman was married in 1948 to Ruth Danielson.
- He is survived by his five children: Mary Estrem (Daniel Wegener) of Minneapolis; Peter Estrem of Leander, Texas; Rebecca Recks (Peter Recks) of Grand Junction, Colo.; Kathryn Estrem Mao of St Paul, Minn., and Andrea Estrem of St Anthony, Minn., as well as nine grandchildren.
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