Elizabeth “Betty” Rose Molden
Elizabeth “Betty” Rose Molden, age 87 of Milan, Minnesota, passed away on Monday, October 7, 2024, at Luther Haven Nursing home in Montevideo, MN.
Visitation for Betty Molden will be held Monday October 14, 2024, from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. at Kviteseid Lutheran Church in Milan, MN.
Funeral services for Elizabeth “Betty” Rose Molden will be at 11:00 a.m. at Kviteseid Lutheran Church in Milan, MN.
Burial will be in the Kviteseid Lutheran Cemetery in Milan. MN.
Elizabeth (Betty) Rose Johnson-Moe-Molden was born on January 11, 1937, at the Montevideo Hospital, in Montevideo, Minnesota, to parents Marjorie Fuller Johnson and Joseph Johnson. Betty’s birth father Joe Johnson was killed in a car accident and Betty was later adopted on December 10, 1946, by her stepfather John. J. Moe. Betty had one brother Robert Charles Johnson-Moe who was born on April 10, 1939. She was baptized on April 13, 1937, and confirmed at the Kviteseid Lutheran Church and graduated from the Milan High School in 1954.
Betty worked in the Milan Café while in high school and after graduation worked at Dalen’s Grocery Store and the Milan Printing Office. Betty married Daryles Winton Molden on March 11, 1956, at the Big Bend Lutheran Church because Kviteseid Lutheran Church had burned. After a honeymoon in the cities Daryles went off to war in Korea. Betty moved back to Minneapolis, Minnesota and worked at the Nickelson Hall bookstore while Daryles was stationed in Korea. Betty moved back to Milan in August of 1957, where she and Daryles lived on their farm and raised their three sons, Larry, Robert, and Mark. Betty and Daryles were blessed with over 60 years of marriage, three sons, four grandchildren, and three great grandchildren.
Betty taught release time (Wednesday School) at the Kviteseid Lutheran Church. Betty was a member of the Chippewa County Extension Service Committee and the Chippewa County Home Economics Committee; she was a volunteer at the Chippewa County Fair in the Women’s building Exhibits and was on the Advisory Committee of the Canby Vocational Technical School. Betty was an active member at Kviteseid Lutheran Church and volunteered her time helping in the Ladies’ Circles.
Betty was a housewife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, and friend. In the past, Betty enjoyed cooking, baking, sewing, crafting, vegetable gardening, flower gardening, dancing, visiting with family and friends, and traveling. Betty battled Alzheimer’s Disease for years after the death of Daryles, entered the Luther Haven Nursing Home on January 19, 2017.
She is survived by her children: Larry (Marie) of Milan, MN, Robert (Kim) of Milan, MN, and Mark and (Nicky) of Milan, MN; three grandchildren: Michelle (Brandon) Ascheman of Milan, MN, Laura (Brian) Dallman of Revillo, South Dakota, Eric (Nikki) and Taylor Molden of Alexandria, MN; and three great grandchildren: Gavin Ascheman, Josephine Dallman, and Amelia Dallman.
She is preceded in death by her husband: Daryles on January 6, 2017, her parents: Marjorie Fuller Johnson Moe Berge, and Joseph Johnson and adoptive father John Moe: stepfather: Rudy Berge; one brother: Robert Charles Moe.
Arrangements are with Zniewski Funeral Home – Vaala Chapel.
