Vi Dommeyer, 79

Vi Dommeyer, age 79, of Northfield, died on Friday, December 09, 2011 at the Northfield Retirement Center. Funeral services will be 2:00 Monday, December 12th at the Chapel of the Northfield Retirement Community with burial at Calvary Cemetery. Visitation will be Monday at the Chapel from 12:30 pm until the hour of services.

Elvira Maxine Dommeyer was born August 4, 1932 in Adrian, MN, one of 7 children born to Frank and Mary Ann (Schutz) Suedbeck. She was raised on her parent’s farm near Adrian until she was 10 years old and then moved with her family to a farm near Slayton. She continued school in Slayton and graduated from Slayton High School in 1950. Following graduation she began work as a secretary at the Farm Bureau Office in Slayton.

On December 26, 1953 she was united in marriage to Jerome Eugene Dommeyer at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Slayton. Jed had enlisted in the Army as the Korean War began and they spent their first two years of marriage at army bases in Kansas and Colorado. Following his discharge in 1955 they moved to Minneapolis where Jed completed his college education at the University of Minnesota.

Their next move was to Windom, MN in 1957 where Vi was a homemaker and Jed taught and coached basketball at Windom High School. In 1963 they moved to Northfield when Jed accepted a teaching and coaching position at Northfield High School. Vi began working in Northfield part time at the Foodmaster Grocery but soon took the position of secretary to the chaplain at Carleton College which she held for 10 years. In 1973 she transferred to the Cowling Women’s Recreation Center at Carleton, retiring in 1993.

Vi enjoyed playing cards, watching movies, listening to old time music and shopping. In retirement she and Jed enjoyed traveling to Hawaii, taking ocean cruises, and spending winters in Arizona. She loved being with her family and grandchildren and watching them grow.

Vi is survived by her husband Jed of Northfield; daughters Jackie (Tony) Grossman of Northfield and Pam (Paul) Fliegel of Annandale; son Jason (Emily) Dommeyer of Cannon Falls; sisters Florence (Joe) Disch of Cannon Falls and Sister Constance Suedbeck of Crookston; brother-in-law Ben (Lee) Dommeyer of Hudson, WI; grandchildren Melissa (Scott) Musgjerd, TJ Grossman and partner Misty Kagan, Megan Fliegel and partner Andy Van Beck, Michael and Matthew Fliegel, Jack and Elaina Dommeyer; great-grandchildren Daniel, Lucas, and Jacob Musgjerd, Maria, Tayler, and Josie Grossman, Lauren and Christopher Kagan; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; sisters Esther Johnson, Raphie VandeVelde, Lollie Engebretson; and brother Archie Suedbeck.

Funeral arrangements by the Bierman Funeral Home of Northfield.