Pete Manderfeld

Pete Manderfeld, age 56 of Mankato, died Thursday, March 31, 2005 unexpectedly from an apparent heart attack at Genesis Medical Center in Davenport, Iowa.

Rite of Christian Burial will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday at St. Johns Episcopal Church with the Rev. Paul G. Rider officiating. Burial will be at Glenwood Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. Saturday at Mankato Mortuary. Memorials are preferred to St. Johns Episcopal Church or to an organization of the donors choice.

Peter Joseph Manderfeld was born March 28, 1949 in Mankato to Joseph and Carol (Gunderson) Manderfeld. He graduated from Mankato High School in 1967 and served in the Minnesota National Guard. On September 25, 1971, he married Elizabeth Missy Kozitza in Mankato. Pete was a self-employed truck driver and a member of St. Johns Episcopal Church.

Survivors include his wife, Missy; four children, Paul, Mark and Michael all of Mankato, Sara and her husband, Malcolm Morison of Colorado; a sister, Josephine Tuppin and her husband, O.D. Hauschild of Grand Rapids, MI; aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, and cousins. He was preceded in death by his parents.