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Maurice Siguard Molvik 1913 - 2009

Maurice Siguard Molvik of Karlstad, Kittson County, Minnesota was born on December 28, 1913. Maurice Molvik was married to Doris Alene (Holter) Molvik, and they were together until Maurice's death on February 9, 2009.

Maurice Siguard Molvik

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Karlstad, Kittson County, Minnesota 56732

December 28, 1913

February 9, 2009

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December 28, 1913

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Born in Madagascar to Missionary parents
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February 9, 2009

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Memorial services for Rev. Maurice Molvik will be held at 10:30 A.M. Sat. at First Lutheran Church in Karlstad with Pastor Gary Halverson officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to services Sat. morning at the church. Maurice Siguard Molvik, the son of the late Olai and Eleanora (Hanson) Molvik, was born December 28, 1913, in Madagascar, to Lutheran missionary parents and raised in Cooperstown, NY, while his father returned to the mission field. He graduated from Hartwick College, Onconta, NY, in 1936 and was ordained into the Lutheran ministry after completing Augsburg Seminary, Minneapolis, in 1939, He married Helen Quanbeck on August 11, 1939. They left for France two week later to study French in order to become missionaries in Madagascar. WWII interrupted their plans, and after nearly a year they were evacuated through Fascist Spain to Portugal, where they sailed to New York. Pastor Molvik then accepted an appointment to United Lutheran Church in L’Anse, MI, where he designed and built a new church. He later served churches in Milroy, Karlstad and Twin Valley, MN, as well as in Grand Forks, ND. During his time in Karlstad, 1954-59, he was active in the fund raising efforts for the Karlstad Memorial Hospital. Dane Nordine wrote years later in his “Thru The Window” column, that Rev. Molvik “played the main part as Dr. Hudson in the play DR. HUDSON’S SECRET JOURNAL, which was such a great success here.” He retired in 1976, to live on Lake Mille Lacs in a house that he built. Here he continued his interests in fishing, hunting and photography. Widowed in 1971, in 1989, he married Doris Holter, who greatly brightened the last 20 years of his life. In 1999, after he was diagnosed with early Alzheimer’s,, they moved back to Karlstad. Since July 2008, he was in the Memory Care Nursing Home at the Kittson County Memorial Health Care Center, where he passed away on Mon. morning, Feb. 9, 2009, at the age of 95 years, one month, and 11 days. He is survived by his wife; his children: Arthur (Kathy) Molvik, Livermore, CA; Eleanor Martin, of Minneapolis; David Molvik, Minneapolis; and Marcia (Randy) Molmen, of Berah, OH; step-children: Carmen (Jean) Holter and Mark (Barbara) Holter, both of Karlstad; 9 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and several nieces, nephews, and other relatives. He was preceded in death by his first wife, his parents, brothers: Malvin and Arthur, sister: Marie Skie, and stepson : Walter Holter, Jr.

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Maurice Siguard Molvik lived 21 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 95.

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