The Fergus Falls Daily Journal

Downtown Fergus Falls thrived during the 1950s and 1960s, and a key businessman during that era was Don Mauch who died Aug. 12 at the age of 86. The World War II Navy veteran started Mauk Jewelers in 1956 at 103 West Lincoln, still the place of business today. “I had the opportunity to be [...]

Duane Baglien, 85, who died Aug. 1 in the Twin Cities, is fondly remembered by long-time Fergus Falls residents as a star baseball player, successful basketball coach and summer park and recreation employee. Baglien was a member of the 1950 town team Red Sox state title squad who later coached Fergus Falls to a third-place [...]

Jim McNulty, 85, a World War II Marine who was a second baseman and star player on the 1950 Fergus Falls Red Sox baseball state title team, died Saturday in Hawley, Pa. McNulty came to Fergus Falls to play baseball in the late 1940s at the urging of Dick Durrell, a Marine buddy and Fergus [...]

Dave Schafer, a Fergus Falls businessman who died Sunday at the age of 73, is remembered as much for his love of music as for his management of Cooper’s Technology Group. Many people will always remember the Dave Schafer Band. It was two years ago when Schafer’s band and Bruce Neuman’s Island Time Band donated [...]

Customers coming into the Viking Cafe for noon lunch on Monday could mentally see Blanche Shol, who died Friday, still manning the cash register, what most people refer to as “the till.” Among them was Marjorie Stafford, who graduated with Shol in the Fergus Falls High School Class of 1951. “I feel blessed to have [...]

The 1970s included the years when Otter Tail Power Company saw the need to join with other power suppliers in constructing new generating stations. Those projects necessitated raising millions of dollars. At the helm was Otter Tail’s Harry Johnson who died Saturday, May 7, in Kalispell, Mont. He was 97. Johnson served Otter Tail Power [...]

Family and friends of Dayle Ray, 96, are fondly remembering a Barrett civic leader, postmaster and clerk and the founder of Prairie Wind Players, who died Friday at his home. A Barrett native, Ray served as mayor, was a member of the Barrett School Board, and served as president of the Barrett Chamber of Commerce [...]