Clifford passed away at home in Cokato on May 1, 2013.
Funeral Service: 2:00 PM Monday, May 6, 2013, Stockholm Lutheran Church.
Visitation: 4-9 PM Sunday at Swanson-Peterson Funeral Home of Cokato and 1hr prior to service on Monday at the church.
Interment; Stockholm Lutheran Cemetery
Clifford Paul Monson was born Dec. 24, 1928 to Edward and Lillian (Stegemeyer) Monson
in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. He went to Dassel
High School. He served in the US Army March 12, 1951-March 12, 1953. He was with the signal corps operations
company as a power man for stand-by-power at the transmitting site for the Far
East Command at Kawasaki, Japan. He married Judy L. Wittenberg on March 27, 1954 and they make their
home in rural Dassel where he farmed and milked cows for a few years. Later they moved to Cokato where they raised
their two children, Diane and Jeffery.
Cliff worked at the Stockholm Creamery in his early years
and when it closed, took a job at Durkee-Atwood in Minneapolis
making different types of belts for machinery.
He worked there for over 16 years.
He then worked for the City of Cokato
in the Public Works Department for several years. He also was the primary care giver for his
wife Judy, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in her early
thirties. However, Cliff and Judy loved
to travel and made sure they got their vacations in as they developed their own
system for doing things despite her handicap.
Cliff was a volunteer firefighter for Cokato, a lifelong
member of the Stockholm Lutheran
Church, and had many hobbies which
included: hunting, fishing, carpentry, gardening, going to the casino, playing
on the computer and in his later years having coffee with his friends. He was a great fix-it man and had a talent
for figuring out things. He loved to
watch the birds at his feeders, and enjoyed all the wildlife animals he would
see.
Clifford passed away at his home in Cokato on May 1, 2013, he had reached the age of
84 years, 4 months and 7 days. He is
survived by: his children Diane and (Lynn) of Anoka,
MN. and Jeffery and (Shelley) of Lexington
Park, MD, brother Allan of Big
Timber, MT. 2 step-grandchildren Jessica
(Jack) Taylor of Lexington Park, MD. And Charles Romero of Lexington
Park MD. Aunts and uncles and many
nieces, nephews and cousins, and all his friends.