Born: 26 Mar 1938, Holmes City twp, Douglas Co, MN
Married: 21 Dec 1963, Lake Crystal, MN
Died: 26 Sep 1989, Westbrook, Cottonwood Co, MN
Buried: Trysil-Bethesda cemetery, Holmes City twp, MN
Spouse: Rosemary Susan Ruch
Newspaper Obituary:
Doran L Isackson
Doran Lannie Isackson, son of the late Lannie and Evelyn (Gulbranson)
Isackson, was born in Holmes City Township of Douglas County, Minnesota, on March 26, 1938. He was baptized in 1938 and confirmed in 1952 at the Trysil Church, Farwell, Minnesota.
Doran attended the District No 4 Pocket Lake Elementary School in
Douglas County and graduated from the Alexandria Central High School in 1956. He then attended the University of Minnesota, St Paul Campus,
graduating from there in 1960.
In 1961 and 1962 he lived in Bellingham, Minnesota, where he taught
agriculture. He then moved to Lake Crystal. It was here that he met
and married Rosemary Susan Ruch. The ceremony took place on December 21, 1963 at the Zion Lutheran Church in Lake Crystal.
Following their marriage, Doran and Rosemary lived at Lake Crystal for
a year and a half, at which time they moved to Missouri and lived there
for two years. They then moved to Forest City, Iowa for one year before
coming to the farm near Storden, Minnesota in 1968.
Besides his vocation as a teacher, agriculture sales person and
farmer, Doran was very community minded and served in numerous
capacities. He had been a member of the Minnesota National Guard, was a member of Bethany Lutheran Church of Storden and served on the church’s council as president and treasurer, and served one term (1982-1986) as an elected member of the Minnesota State Senate. He was also a past chairman of the Cottonwood County Republican Party.
On Thursday, September 28, 1989, Doran was stricken ill at his farm
home north of Storden and was rushed by ambulance to the Westbrook
Hospital where he died at the age of 51.
Doran is survived by his wife, Rosemary; his children; Todd Isackson
of Owatonna, Minnesota; Charisse Renee and Amy Lynn both at home; one brother; Arthur Isackson of Lowry, Minnesota; and two sisters: Mrs
Erland (Eleanor) Carlson of Mendota Heights, Minnesota; and Mrs Ron
(Marian) Wrolson of Alexandria, Minnesota.
Funeral service was held on Monday, October 2, 1989, 10:30am at the
Bethany Lutheran Church at Storden, Minnesota with Reverend Marlan
Johnson officiating. Interment was in the Trysil Bethesda Cemetery,
Farwell, Minnesota.
Organist was Ardell Swenson and vocalist David Van Loh who sang “How
Great Thou Art” and “The Lord’s My Shepherd”. The congregation sang “My Faith Looks Up To Thee” and “Lord Of All Hopefulness.”
Casket bearers were LeRoy Omland, Lyndon Johnson, Fred Phillips,
Norman Jensen, Dennis Erickson and Tim Anderson.
Arrangements were with the Philip J Anderson, William H Schmidt
Funeral Home, Windom, Jeffers and Storden, Minnesota.
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Newspaper Obituary: Star Tribune, Saturday, Sept 30, 1989
Doran L Isackson,51,dies;was farmer,ex-state senator
Former state Sen Doran L Isackson, IR-Storden, who represented
District 28 in southwestern Minnesota from 1982 to 1986, died Thursday
of a heart attack.
Isackson, 51, was born and raised on his family’s farm in Douglas
County near Alexandria, Minn. He graduated from the University of
Minnesota College of Agriculture in 1960. He taught and worked in
agriculture sales before buying a crop farm north of Storden in 1968.
He was elected to the Senate in 1982 and served on committees for
agriculture and natural resources, local and urban affairs, public
utilities and state-regulated industries, veteransaffairs and general
legislation.
“He was here during that ag crisis and he was, I thought, very
sensitive to all of that,” said Senate Minority Leader Duane Benson,
IR-Lanesboro, “He agonized over it: What’s the best way to do it? Do we
at all costs keep these farmers on the farm or do we permit a kind of
natural replenishing and let young farmers come on the land? That
concerned all of us, but it was especially important to him.
“Doran was really common — I use that in the highest sense of a
compliment,” Benson said Friday. “He was really …one of his
constituents.”
Isackson was a member of Bethany Lutheran Church in Storden and had been church treasurer and president of the church council. He also had been a former member of the Minnesota National Guard.
Isackson is survived by his wife, Rosemary; a son, Todd, of Owatonna,
Minn; daughters Charisse and Amy, both of Storden; sisters Eleanor
Carlson, of Mendota Heights, and Marian Wrolson, of Alexandria, Minn,
and a brother, Arthur, of Lowry, Minn.
Services will be held at 10:30am Monday at Bethany Lutheran Church in
Storden, with burial at 4pm at Trysil Cemetery near Lowry, Minn.
Visitation will be from 3 to 9pm Sunday at Anderson-Schmidt Funeral Home in Storden.