Adelaide Naas, 95, died on Thursday, June 30, 2011 at Riverview Nursing Home in Crookston, MN.

Funeral service will be held at 11:00 AM on Wednesday, July 6, 2011 at St. John Lutheran Church in Red Lake Falls, MN with Reverend Rick Hensel officiating. Burial will follow at 3:00 PM, Middle Grove Lutheran Cemetery, rural Grand Forks, ND.

Visitation will be one hour prior to the service on Wednesday at St. John Lutheran Church, Red Lake Falls.

Adelaide Eileen Clemetson entered this world on March 31, 1916 at St. Michael's Hospital in Grand Forks, the second of six children born to Carl and Clara (Myhre) Clemetson. She was baptized and confirmed at Middlegrove Lutheran Church in Mekinock, ND and grew up and attended country school (Rye #25) in Rye Township, Grand Forks County, ND. Like many others of her generation and heritage she could speak only Norwegian when she started school.

During the Depression, she and her brother Sidney went to stay with relatives in northwest Iowa, to search for work. It was while she was there that she met her husband, Daniel H. Naas, a native of Whittemore, IA, who lived across the road from the family where she got a job. They were united in marriage on October 8, 1939 in Jackson, MN and bought a farm in Terrebonne Township in Red Lake County, MN that same year, initially farming with horses, no electricity or running water. Here they would raise six children on a traditional Minnesota farm with milk cows, pigs, sheep and chickens. They were members of St. John Lutheran Church in Red Lake Falls, where they made life-long friends and were active in its affairs.

A hard-working, independent farm wife known for her cooking and baking skills, Adelaide enjoyed entering bake-offs and exhibiting at the Red Lake and Polk County fairs. She had an egg and baked goods route in Crookston for many years and made delicious lefse, which she also sold locally and at the Winger sales barn and gave away as gifts. She also worked several seasons at the Lois Jensen mink farm in Brooks.

Adelaide was interested in history, current events and politics and read the paper and watched the news every day. She always voted and was a life-long Twins fan. She enjoyed attending Ladies Aid, annual co-op meetings, playing cards (especially whist), visiting with people, sharing jokes, raising a big garden, making chokecherry and wild grape wine, embroidering dish towels, driving the car and being on the go all the time. She loved listening and dancing to old-time music and danced as late as last year at a great-grandson's wedding. The Lawrence Welk show was an all-time favorite along with The Price is Right, Judge Judy and Wheel of Fortune.

A good letter writer, she corresponded with cousins, aunts and friends over the years. She made two trips to Norway, where she even milked a cow by hand at a mountain dairy farm in Hallingdal. Her grandchildren have happy, fun memories of time spent with grandma and grandpa on the farm and fishing at Maple Lake.

A proud farmer, she could not imagine living in town, and continued to reside on the farm with her son Dale and her beef cattle until just one week before her death. She was the only one in her family to reach 90 plus five bonus years, and was the last member of her family left. Just a month ago, she was thrilled to have a five-generation photo taken with little Adley Staehnke, her great great granddaughter. Her granddaughter Denise was reading the 23rd Psalm to her at her bedside and when she got to the last word Adelaide drew her final breath and went to heaven.

Left to celebrate her memory are her five daughters: Corrine Roch, Larimore, ND; Gwen (Roger) Johnson, Fosston, MN; Shurleen Adams (special friend Mike Trudeau), Thief River Falls, MN; Ruth (Franklin) Morrison, Jacksonville, FL; Dana (Hans) Fossum, Royken, Norway; and one son, Dale, Mentor, MN; 11 grandchildren: Brian Roch, Eileen (Louie) Obot, Denise (Bob) Staehnke, Kevin (Michelle) Johnson, Keith Johnson, Kristy Jo (Scott) Hesse, Franklin Morrison, Michael Morrison, Mariah Morrison, Karl (Krista) Fossum, and Sarah Fossum; 15 great grandchildren; one great great grandchild; and two sisters-in-law, Arlene Clemetson and Maycille Clemetson, both Grand Forks. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Daniel (May 13, 1990); sister, Eleanor Hodgson; four brothers: Ardell, Sidney, Earl and Charles; sister-in-law Harriet Clemetson; brother-in-law Leonard Hodgson; son-in-law Rick Adams; and Daniel's family (Rosella, Bob and Madge, Sam and Margie, Nathalia and Willy Schealler, Walter, Pauline and Melvin Triplett, and Bill and Shirley).