Lauretta B Perkins

LAURETTA BERNICE PERKINS          1921—2020

A memorial service for Lauretta B. Perkins, who passed away on November 14, 2020, will be held at First Lutheran Church, 116 Inner Drive LeSueur, Minnesota on Saturday, August 21, 2021 at 11:00 a.m.  The service will be live streamed  through the following link:

https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCMWX61EvoxolezyjQfzINGA    (First Lutheran Church, Le Sueur, MN Website)

A visitation will take place for the hour preceding the service and a luncheon will follow the service, both events also at First Lutheran.  A private interment will take place at a later date at East Union Cemetery, Carver, Minnesota.  

Lauretta was born on October 13, 1921, in rural East Union, Minnesota to Hjalmer and Theadora (Scott) Johnson.  She grew up in the East Union/Carver area, and attended public schools in East Union and Chaska.  She married Henry Perkins on July 3, 1939, at East Union Lutheran Church.  They lived and farmed around the East Union area, and eventually moved into Belle Plaine and relocated to Le Sueur in 1960.  Lauretta was employed in a number of customer service, production and supervisory positions over the years, in Belle Plaine and LeSueur.  Lauretta and Henry enjoyed traveling in their assortment of campers and travel trailers and visited 49 of the 50 states, missing out only on Alaska.  Lauretta enjoyed listening and dancing to old-time music, bowling, crocheting, playing cards and dice with family and friends and spending time with and paying lavish attention to her pets.

Lauretta is survived by her children, Patricia Steckman, Henderson, Darryl (Sharron) Perkins, New Prague, Roberta (Pam) Perkins, Woodburn, Oregon, Rick (Mary) Perkins, Le Sueur, and Sheila Perkins (special friend Tim), St. Louis Park; 12 grandchildren, 35 great and 12 great-great grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.  She was preceded in death by her husband Henry, her oldest child Keith, grandson Daniel, and a great granddaughter, her parents, her siblings Ethylene(William) Mueller, Izene(Reuben) Schultz, Floyd (Vera) Johnson, Septer (Marcella) Johnson,  an infant sister who died at birth and her nephew (and “seventh child”) Curt Mueller.

Due to the restrictions imposed by the COVID pandemic, Lauretta was unable to fulfill a long-held plan of donating her physical remains to the Mayo Medical School for education and training purposes.  Her cremated remains will be interred at the East Union Lutheran Church Cemetery, Carver, Minnesota as part of a private service on October 13, 2021, her 100th birthday.  Lauretta was particularly proud of the fact she was baptized, confirmed, and married at the East Union Lutheran Church and that her cremated remains will be buried there as well. 

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