Veronica Beata Skille

December 16, 1909 - March 19, 2002

Veronica “Vera” Skille, age 92 of Minneapolis, died on Tuesday, March 19, 2002 at her home in Minneapolis.

Funeral services will be held at 11a.m. Saturday, March 23rd at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in New Munich. Rev. Roger Klassen, OSB will officate with interment following in the parish cemetery.

                Friends may call from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. Saturday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in New Munich.

                Veronica B. Skille was born on December 16, 1909 in New Munich to John and Gertrude (Klassen) Thielen. She married Edward H. Skille on July 22, 1938 in Minneapolis.  The couple lived their married life in Minneapolis. She was a member of Incarnation Catholic Church in Minneapolis.

                Survivors include her sisters, Mary Thielen of Melrose, Alma Gibbney of St. Joseph, Florentine Koetter of Sauk Centre and many nieces and nephews.

                She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Gertrude Thielen; husband, Edward H. Skille on May 12, 1978; brothers, Pete Thielen, August Thielen, Mathew Thielen, Nick Thielen, infant brothers, James Thielen and Bernard Thielen; sisters, Annie Bolfing and Sister Theresa Thielen, OSB.

                Arrangements are with Patton-Schad Funeral Service of Melrose

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