Horace Russ Haugen

Horace 'Russ' Haugen January 31, 2009

Horace A. "Russ" Haugen, age 90, of Faribault died Saturday, January 31, 2009 at St. Lucas Care Center in Faribault. Mass of Christian Burial will be held on Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. at the Divine Mercy Catholic Church, at Immaculate Conception in Faribault. Interment will be held at the Calvary Cemetery, Faribault, with military honors conducted by the Rice County Central Veterans Association. Visitation will be held at the Parker Kohl Funeral Home in Faribault on Tuesday from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m. and at the church on Wednesday for one hour prior to services. The family will recite the rosary on Tuesday evening at 7:45 p.m. Russ was born at home on the family farm about eight miles north east of Kenyon, MN, on January 16, 1919 to Nels and Minnie (Anderson Bonhus) Haugen. He was part of a large blended family with three brothers, three half brothers and two half sisters. According to Russ''s memoirs, "As far as I can remember, my first years were happy enough. We raised our own meat, eggs and poultry and sold grain and cream for cash money to buy clothes and other things we needed." Russ graduated from Kenyon High School, went on to attend the Cannon Fall Teacher Training College and then taught in a rural classroom. He married Marie Irene Joachim, whom he met at the College, on February 28, 1942 just before he left to serve in World War II. Russ was a technical Sergeant in the 1st Armored Division of General Patton''s 3rd Army. He was part of the crew responsible for retrieving damaged tanks from the battlefields of Africa and Anzio Beach, Italy and returning them to service. When the War ended, Russ and Marie lived briefly in California where he was employed by General Motors Corporation. Feeling homesick for the Midwest, the couple returned to Faribault and began to raise a family of four girls and three boys. For over thirty years, Russ worked as the service manager at Lockwood Auto Company and spent most mornings before work with friends and co-workers at Wimpy''s Restaurant where he invariably had two eggs over easy and one cup of coffee with cream and sugar. Following retirement and unable to stay away from the automotive industry, he continued to work part-time at Harry Brown''s. Russ loved the countryside and wanted to give his children a chance to enjoy the freedom and self-sufficiency of the rural lifestyle he had enjoyed in his childhood. So in 1961 he and Marie moved the family to a farm near Cedar Lake where he raised his beloved sheep for wool and meat and farmed

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