Big group comes to Stenshoel-Houske Funeral Home for program and release
Mike Christopherson
It s never easy to lose a loved one. In fact, it s always excruciating and painful. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, when so many people not only passed away largely alone and then their families were unable to hold traditional funeral services afterward because of pandemic restrictions on gatherings, it was all the more heart-wrenching and gut-wrenching.
Although the pandemic is still with us, on Tuesday evening, the Butterfly Journey Grief Group hosted a well-attended program at Stenshoel-Houske Funeral Home in Crookston. After the hour-plus program inside that featured speakers like local attorney Stephanie Harbott providing sound probate advice and Hospice of the Red River Valley highlighting the grief journey and services they provided, everyone ventured outside the funeral home, where they picked out of a basket individually wrapped Origami paper shaped like a butterfly. Soon after,
Downtown Crookston: Majestic tree gets some love
Mike Christopherson
Crookston Times
Tana Hultgren has worked on South Main in downtown Crookston for years, and has seen the tree day after day as she’s gone to and from work at Widseth Smith Nolting & Associates (now Widseth).
Recently, she took a picture of the majestic conifer standing tall at the site of the former Stenshoel-Houske Funeral Home near the South Main bridge. (The funeral home, after moving to a new location, was renovated into apartments.)
Hultgren then sent the photo to the Times, with a request. “I wanted to ask about putting a little bleep in the paper someday about the tree on the corner of the old Stenshoel-Houske Funeral Home corner,” she wrote in an email. “It looks old and I’m surprised it’s held up with all the wind and weather. It’s really quite majestic, I think.”