Funeral services for 89-year-old Pauline Bartel of Mountain Lake, Minnesota, will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday morning, October 10, 2015, at Bethel Mennonite Church in Mountain Lake. The church is located at 301 9th Street North.
Interment will be in Mountain Lake City Cemetery, located on 10th Street North at Midway Road.
Visitation will be held on Friday, October 9, 2015, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Sturm Funeral Home-Mountain Lake Chapel, located at 420 10th Street North. A second visitation will be at the church the day of the funeral service from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m.
Pauline Janzen was born October 4, 1926 in Mountain Lake, the daughter of Theodore and Marie (Peters) Janzen. She grew up and attended school in Mountain Lake.
On August 29, 1947, she was united in marriage to Virgil Bartel. The couple raised their family and lived in the Mountain Lake area their entire life.
Pauline served the community with her singing, school bus driving, as a Sunday School teacher and playing piano at kids’ programs. She worked as a nurse’s aide at the hospital and Eventide Home in Mountain Lake for several years.
Pauline enjoyed sewing and cooking. Food was never in short supply at her home. She ran a tight ship at home, everything had a place and everything was in its place. Pauline wasn’t one for traveling, she’d rather stay home and cook, sew and spend time with her family. She treasured the time spent with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was a one-of-a-kind wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Survivors include her husband Virgil Bartel of Mountain Lake; children, Marjean (Carl) Bjorklund of Mountain Lake and Neil (Tammy) Bartel of Mountain Lake; grandchildren, Heather (Jeffrey) Fredericksen of Mountain Lake, David (Bridget) Menke of Jacksonville, Florida, Lucas (Candice) Bartel of Butterfield, Minnesota, Lindsay (Dusty) Wassenaar of Lakefield, Minnesota and Lance (Katie) Bartel of Mountain Lake; great-grandchildren, Ryan, Zachariah, Noah, Brittney, Dillyn, Ethan, Cambrie, Penny, Tenley and Maggie; siblings, Roger (Joyce) Janzen of Mountain Lake, Doris Fast of Reedley, California, Carol (Ron) Fast of Mountain Lake and in-laws, Marvin Bartel of Bend, Oregon and Marcella (Herb) Fast of Mankato, Minnesota.