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MADELIA — Services for DeLores Lillian (Boesch) Pfeil will be held 11 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Willow Creek, rural Vernon Center, Minn., with a time of visitation prior to the service from 10-11 a.m. Zaharia Family Funeral Home is entrusted with the arrangements.

DeLores was born Feb. 28, 1930, on a cold, blustery night, to Lillian (Burrill) and Elmer Boesch in Pleasant Mound Township. She was welcomed home by Calvin and Gerald. DeLores was baptized at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Truman. She attended country school Dist. 100 until 8th grade and graduated from Truman High School in 1948. She was confirmed at St. Paul’s Lutheran on New Year’s Eve 1947 by Rev. E.T. Hayne.

DeLores met Eldor Pfeil and they were married on Sunday, Nov. 7, 1948. They moved to a Tilney farm at Lewisville in March of 1949 with his family. DeLores lived and worked in Fairmont while Eldor was in the service from 1952-1954. They were blessed with 4 children, Mark, Sharon, Lisa and Michael. They all attended Zion Lutheran Church in Lewisville. The couple farmed there for over 43 years until retiring to Truman in 1991. Farming together they shared many interests, gardening, refinishing furniture, woodworking and square dancing.

DeLores also decorated cakes, loved cooking and entertaining, quilting, doll collecting and music. For many years working with Zion Ladies Aid, she decorated for many occasions. DeLores and Eldor volunteered over 15 years at the Truman Museum. They enjoyed trips with friends to many states but there was no place like home. After 67 years of marriage Eldor passed away on Easter Sunday, March 2016.

Left to cherish DeLores’ memory are her children, Mark (Susan) of Phoenix, Ariz., Sharon (Lloyd) Dexheimer of St. James, Minn., Lisa Tschimperle of Hutchinson, Minn. and Michael (Barb) Pfeil of Lewisville, Minn.; 10 grandchildren, Justin, Brandi (Andy) Forstner, Alex (Angelina), Kacie (Eric), Samuel (Tannica), Jayden (Carly), Madison (Jackson), Benjamin (Nicole) and Jennifer (Anthony); nine great-grandchildren, Zevric Forstner, Olivia, Levi Larson, Nils and Luella Small, Hollis Dexheimer, Milo and Joey Larson and Mozy Tschimperle; brother, Bill Boesch (Debra); sister-in-law, Shirley Pfeil.

She was preceded in death by her parents; step-parents, Lucia and Craig Colston; husband, Eldor; infant brother, Merle; grandson, Nicholas Larson; brothers, Calvin (Velma), Gerald (Nancy) (Diane), Dale Lee Boesch; and brother-in-law, Robert Pfeil.

In lieu of flowers please donate to donor’s choice. www.zahariafamilyfuneral.com.