Grace Agnes Current

Grace A. Current, age 91, of Mapleton, died on Friday, January 15, 2016 at the Mapleton Community Home.

Funeral service will be held on Monday, January 18 at 11:00 a.m. at Faith Bible Church in Mapleton with Rev. Betty Johnson officiating. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the church. Burial will be at Woodland Hills Memorial Park. Olson-Tichenor Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Memorials are preferred to Faith Bible Church.

Grace was born on August 27, 1924 to Henry and Cora (Watson) Higginbotham in Nebish Township, Beltrami County, Minnesota. She attended elementary school in Pleasant Valley country school and graduated from Bemidji High School in 1942. On October 12, 1942, Grace was united in marriage to Marion (Pat) Current in Bemidji. They moved to Winnebago in 1948. Grace was employed at local restaurants and Stokely Van Camp in Winnebago. They moved to Lake Crystal in 1975 where Grace worked at Lakeview Café and Tony Downs Foods in Madelia. She retired in 1986 and they returned to Winnebago and enjoyed eight years of retirement at their daughter Pam’s acreage. They then moved to Mapleton in 1994.

Grace is survived by three children, Janice (Melvin) Soderholm; Steve (Margaret) Current; and Pamela (Ernie) Fuhrman; nine grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Pat in 1997; son, Mike; step-father, Selmer Klungseth; brother, Vernon Higginbotham; two step-brothers, Gerald Klungseth and Marvin Klungseth; step-sisters, Selina Stratton and Adeline Erlandson.