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Death of Myron Floren, July 23, 2005

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Death of Lawrence Welk, May 17, 1992

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Death of Fern Renner Welk, Februrary 13, 2002

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"Fern Welk, Wife of Lawrence Welk, is Eulogized as Daughter of the Prairie." Emmons County Record, 14 March 2002.

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