Marriage:
Education:
Mary A. Tisserand
Francis Edward Dingmann
October 20, 1938
St. John's Catholic Church
Foley, Benton, Minnesota
Graduated Foley High School in 1929
Graduated St. Cloud Business College
| Parents: Marriage: Education: |
Arthur John Parent Mary A. Tisserand Francis Edward Dingmann October 20, 1938 St. John's Catholic Church Foley, Benton, Minnesota Graduated Foley High School in 1929 Graduated St. Cloud Business College |
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| Children: | Joan Helen | Nov. 26, 1939 | |
| Baby Boy | Mar. 9, 1941 | ||
| Douglas Edward | July 22, 1942 | ||
| Mary Margaret | Dec. 1, 1943 | ||
| Doris Ann | Nov. 17, 1945 | ||
| Arthur Jerome | July 19, 1951 | ||
| Allen Gerard | Sept. 26, 1954 |
| Notes: | Lorraine was born April 24, 1912 to Arthur and Mary (Tisserand) Parent in rural Foley, Minnesota. She graduated |
| from Foley High School in 1929 and was a member of the girl's basketball team. She then
graduated from St. Cloud Business College. She married Francis Dingmann
on Oct. 20, 1938 at St. John's Catholic Church in Foley. As of the Apr. 4, 1940 U.S. Federal census, Lorraine was 27 years old and living with her husband
Francis E. and their baby daughter Joan H. in their own home valued at $2,500 on Center St. in Clear Lake Village, Benton, Minnesota. Francis had
been living in the same place as of Apr. 1, 1935 but Lorraine had been living in rural Benton County at that time. Lorraine told the census enumberator that both she and her husband were high school graduates.
Francis was the proprietor of a retail hardware store and worked 60 hours a week for 52 weeks a year. They lived in Clear Lake until moving to 4 Oak St. in Kimball in 1943.
Over the years they owned and operated Dingmann Hardware, Implement, and Funeral Home in Clear Lake and Kimball.
Lorraine was a member of St. Anne's Catholic Church where she was involved in Christian Mothers and St. Anne's Pray Group, a CCD Teacher, an Eucharistic Minister, and instrumental in starting the tradition of providing lunches after funerals. In 1979 Bishop George Speltz awarded her the Bishop's Medal of Merit. Lorraine was an avid bridge player, enjoyed gardening, travelling and spending time with her family. |
| Ancestry: | The Stimmler/Stimler Line [through marriage] |
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