Linnea Elaine (Strait) Flodquist was born January 19, 1914 to Ella Sofia (Lindman) and Mark Horace Strait in Cambridge, Isanti County, Minnesota. She passed away peacefully on April 5, 2012 in Waite Park, Minnesota at the age of 98.
Linnea graduated from Cambridge High School and Beauty College in Minneapolis. She owned beauty shops in Crosby, Elysian and North Branch. Linnea married Theodore William Flodquist on April 15, 1943 in Spring Lake, MN. After Ted returned from combat in WWII she and Ted ran successful dairy farms in Spring Lake and Almelund.
She was a charter member of North Branch VFW Auxiliary and North Branch Eastern Star. She was active with the Almelund All-Stars 4-H Club, 4 Winds and a Gail (a singing group), and other activities of her four children, a volunteer for the American Cancer Society, and a member of the Priscilla Circle.
In 1974, Ted and Linnea retired to Lake Superior in Grand Marais to garden, fish and enjoy the home they designed. Linnea was a member of the Grand Marais Garden Club for 18 years. She loved to entertain in Grand Marais, go snowmobiling with the gang from Almelund and go to the East Bay for breakfast.
In 1992, they returned to North Branch and Almelund. She has been a resident of the St. Cloud area since September 1998. Ted passed away on June 10, 1999.
Linnea will be greatly missed by daughters Nancy Ella (Gary Rymer), St. Cloud; Gail Linnea (Ron Priestley), Tucson, AZ; sons Charles Cary (Karen), Colfax WI, Jay Theodore (Julie), Almelund; and grandchildren Kristina Linn (Geoff Meisner), Marc Harris, Katherine May, Jennifer Linn (Matt Bauman), Jacob Paul (Jennell) and Joseph Theodore (Brittany Gorsuch), five great-grandchildren, Ben and Phoenix Meinser, Jace Flodquist and Jacovy and Jillian Flodquist, eight nieces and nephews, 22 great-nieces and nephews and 11 great-great-nieces and nephews and many friends.
A Celebration of Life and interment will be April 14, 2012 at the Immanuel Lutheran Church in Almelund, Minnesota. Visitation will be at 1:00 p.m. with services at 2:00 p.m. followed by a reception at church.
Memorials preferred to the Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery Fund in Almelund, MN.
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