Plummer – Clayton M. Larson of Plummer, who spent most of his life farming in Northern Minnesota, died on Thursday, November 3, 2022 at the Villa St. Vincent, Crookston. He was 100.
Clayton Marvin Larson was born December 8, 1921, at Golden Valley, a part of Mud Lake, which is now the Agassiz National Wildlife Refuge. He was the son of Clarence and Bertha (Moe) Larson, one of eleven children of the couple. The family moved to a farm near Holt in 1929. He attended Manor School, a one-room schoolhouse near the farm. He began high school at Holt Consolidated School. Clayton continued his education and graduated from Lincoln High School in 1941. Clayton farmed with his father.
On December 21, 1949 he was united in marriage to Beatrice Waldal at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Plummer. The couple moved to Indiana in 1950, where Clayton worked construction and in a steel mill in East Chicago, IN. In 1962, the couple returned to the Plummer area and bought a farm in Emardville Township where they lived the rest of their lives. In addition to farming, Clayton drove school bus for the Plummer school district for about 5 years in the 1980s.
Clayton was a member of the Plummer Lions Club and was Lion of the year in 2008. He served on the Red Lake County Committee on Aging and was outstanding Senior Citizen in 2003. He was an active member of Immanuel Lutheran Church serving on various boards and church council.
Clayton was secretary/ treasurer on the Oklee/ Plummer Fire Association, and he served on the Emardville Township board for 50 years. He was a Plummer Homes Inc. Board Member and Emardville Cemetery sexton for many years. He always had time for morning coffee with the “boys” in Plummer every day.
Clayton is survived by his siblings, Ardelle Daly, Bloomfield, NJ and Glen Larson, Spokane, WA; along with many nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.
He is preceded in death by his wife, Beatrice in 2006; by his parents; and by his siblings, Chester Larson, Eleanor Kilford, Vivian Sagstuen, Marian Larson, Eileen Johnson, Iris Berggren, and twins, Virgil and Vernon, who died in infancy.
Funeral services will be held at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Plummer at
2 p.m. on Saturday, November 12, 2022, with Rev. Jonathan Dodson officiating. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service. Burial will follow at Emardville Cemetery, rural Plummer.
Condolences may be sent at www.johnsonfuneralservice.com.
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