Obituaries: Jun. 5, 2020

Faith F. Brodeen
Faith Farnell Brodeen, 88, of Cook, passed away on Friday, May 29, 2020, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth. An outdoor memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. on Friday, June 5 in the parking lot of First Baptist Church of Cook. A private family interment at Hillside Cemetery in Angora will follow. Friends are invited to the Brodeen farm after the service for coffee and refreshments outdoors. Arrangements are with Sunrise Funeral Home in Hermantown.
Faith was born in Virginia, to Carl and Lucille Sundeen, on March 13, 1932. She attended Elementary School in Silverdale and graduated from Cook High School in 1950. She came to faith in Christ as a young girl through missionary Sunday School teachers in Silverdale. She married Irving Brodeen on Nov. 24, 1951. They set up their home in rural Cook and began dairy farming. They were married 60 years before Irving passed away on Dec. 11, 2011. Their marriage was blessed with six sons, Randy, Pat, Darrel, Curt, Dave and Tim.
Faith had many interests, but her primary focus was being a homemaker and devoted mother to her six sons. She was a dedicated member of First Baptist Church of Cook, and was active in teaching Sunday School, serving on the Missions Committee, Bible Studies, and Prayer Ministry. Faith enjoyed taking trips with Irving and her family, and traveled with her church on a mission trip to Ukraine. She was an avid gardener, enjoying her flowers and vegetable garden. Her jams, canning, and cooking were shared with family and friends. She decorated wedding and birthday cakes for over 40 years. She also worked for the Cook Hospital in housekeeping and laundry. Her greatest joy was her walk with the Lord, and serving and loving her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She loved watching many sporting events and cheering for the kids enthusiastically.
Faith is survived by her sons, Randy (Lauri), Patrick (Karen), Darrel (Barb), Curtis, David (Shari) and Tim (Kelly) Brodeen; 11 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; sisters, Lorraine Carlson and Hope (George) Blomberg; and twin brothers, Carl and Ed Sundeen.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Irving; parents, Carl and Lucille Sundeen; sister, Winifred Egerdahl; and brothers, Eugene and Dennis Sundeen.

Deloris V. Scott
Deloris Vinona Scott, 97, a resident of Coleraine for over 60 years, passed away on Thursday, May 21, 2020, at her son’s home in Soudan, where she had spent the previous five months. Memorials are preferred and may be directed to either Essentia Health Hospice in Virginia or Grand Rapids, or to Recycled Lives, PO Box 408, Cambridge, MN 55008. Private family services will be held at a later date. Arrangements are with Landmark Funeral Home of Virginia.
Deloris was born on March 25, 1923, in Blackberry, to John and Faye (Staley) Sandstrom, and grew up during the Great Depression. She graduated from Grand Rapids High School in 1941 and worked for over a year for the Wartime Rationing Board in Grand Rapids. She married William C. Scott on Oct. 17, 1942, in Tallahassee, Fla., where he was stationed with the Army Air Corps. They spent the rest of the war stationed in Pennsylvania. After the war, they bought property in the Wabana area country, north of Grand Rapids, where they lived until 1954. They then moved to Coleraine, living with her in-laws in the house where Bill grew up; she lived there the rest of her life.
Shortly after moving to town, she began working for Dr. Baich, the family doctor, first in nearby Bovey, then in Coleraine. It was all on-the-job training; officially she was a “doctor’s assistant”, though eventually she did everything an LPN would do, and more – giving shots, running x-ray equipment, etc. She worked there until mid-1969, when she quit so that she and Bill could do more traveling. They traveled extensively, usually throughout the American West, especially Montana and Wyoming. She said many times that they probably knew Montana better than most Montana residents. Her most memorable trip was to Guatemala in the early 1990s, where she saw grinding poverty. She never forgot it, and, in later years, gave generously to Recycled Lives, a Christian missionary non-profit dedicated to bettering the lives of people living in poverty in third world countries, sponsoring a family in Guatemala.
In the 1980s and 90s, she was a ‘volunteer’ for many years at the Itasca County Nursing Home in Grand Rapids, work of which she was very proud; she was Volunteer of the Year on one occasion. Deloris was a serious gardener, and her plants and flowers were the envy of many in town. She was also an avid reader and quilter and, in her later years, loved working on jigsaw puzzles.
In hospice care since last summer with terminal cancer, she continued to live independently, aided by family members and hospice, until April, when she became bedridden. The family would like to thank all the staff and volunteers of Essentia Health Hospice, from Grand Rapids, Virginia and Ely, for their marvelous, compassionate care. They were wonderful to mom, and she loved every one of them.
Deloris loved, above all, spending time with family. Having grown up poor during the Depression, she was tough as nails and yet completely soft-hearted. She was always there for her family, always seemed to know what was needed; she was our rock, the glue that held us together.
Deloris is survived by one daughter, Alice Faye “Toots” (Gary) Wildgrube of Grand Rapids; one son, William Lynn (Muriel) Scott of Soudan; one sister, Cleone Sherman of Alexandria; two grandsons, David (Kim) Scott of Fargo, N.D., and Timothy “T.J.” (Deva) Scott of Stuttgart, Germany; two step-grandsons, Terry (Erin) Peitso and Scott Peitso, both of Soudan; great-grandchildren, Stephanie Scott and Ashlynn Scott, both of Fargo, N.D., Brody Scott, Hudsyn Scott and Savannah Scott, all of Bushnell, Fla., Jordan Peitso of Tower and Hannah Peitso of Soudan.
She was preceded in death by her parents; husband of 60 years, Bill; sister, Glenice Newton; and an infant brother and sister.