Eckhart H Tolzmann

Eckhart Heinrich Tolzmann, age 103 of Mankato, died Saturday, August 23, 2008 at Hillcrest Health Care Center in Mankato.

Funeral service will be at 1:00 p.m., Monday, August 25, 2008 at Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Mankato with Rev. John Petersen officiating. Burial will be in Lake Crystal Cemetery. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the church on Monday. In lieu of flowers memorials are preferred to Mount Olive Lutheran Church, VINE, or Immanuel St. Joseph's Hospice. Mankato Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Tolzmann was born on November 1, 1904 in Renville, Minnesota to Albert and Emma (Loock) Tolzmann. He was baptized and confirmed at St. John's Lutheran Church in Renville. He remained on the family farm until 1946.

On September 1, 1942, he married Pearl Rose Lundeberg. They made their home on the farm in Renville. In March of 1946, he and his family moved to Minneapolis. Mr. Tolzmann worked for the Bintliff Manufacturing Company as a picture frame maker. From 1967 until he retired in 1972, Mr. Tolzmann was employed by the Levine Brothers Furniture Company. In 1973, they moved to Lake Crystal and in 1989 they moved to Mankato.

Mr. Tolzmann was a former member of Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Butternut, Trinity Lutheran Church in Lake Crystal and is a current member of Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Mankato. He was the founder and director of the German Singing Society which performed in the Mankato area.

He is survived by three children, Virginia Hanel and her husband Harvey of rural Mankato, Don Heinrich Tolzmann and his wife, Patricia of Cincinnati, Ohio, Richard Tolzman and his wife, Michelle of Galesville, Wisconsin; nine grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, a granddaughter, three brothers, and a sister.