MSUM retiree Shelton Gunaratne passes away

Shelton Gunaratne, 79, of Moorhead, MN passed away Friday, March 8, 2019. Memorial services will be held on Friday, March 15 at MSUM Comstock Memorial Union Room 205 at 6 p.m. Shelton taught at Minnesota State University Moorhead for 22 years as a professor of mass communication, retiring in 2007. Read the full obituary at www.wrightfuneral.com

Robert Pender memorial service is March 29

Robert “Bob” Louis Pender, 78, (01/26/1936 – 02/27/2014) son of Louis and Louise (Burns) Pender of Chicago, IL, passed away February 27, 2014 at Sanford Health Palliative Care in Fargo. Bob was born and raised in Chicago, IL, spending summers with family in Shawnee, OK. After high school, he served in the US Navy. He graduated with his bachelors and […]

Dorothy Dodds passed away Saturday

Dorothy Dodds passed away Saturday, Dec. 15. Service will be held Saturday, Dec. 22 at the First Presbyterian Church in Moorhead. Time is yet to be determined. Dodds taught kindergarten at the Moorhead State Campus School from 1949 until the school closed in 1972. She taught in Minnesota State University Moorhead’s education department until her retirement in 1986. Dodds developed […]

Jerry Schwartz passed away, service today

Jerry Schwartz, father of Larry Schwartz (Library), passed away October 30. He was 83 years old and had been hospitalized for the past three and a half weeks with pneumonia. He was a veteran of the Korean War (Clearing Company, 115th Medical Battalion, 40th Infantry). A memorial service will be held Monday, Nov. 5 and the brethren of Conejo Valley Masonic […]