Vigil prayers will be on Wednesday, March 1, at 3:30 pm with visitation following from 4-8 at Mahn Family Funeral Home – Larson Chapel in Zumbrota. A Mass of Christian Burial will be on Thursday, March 2 at 10:30 am at St. Columbkill Catholic Church in Belle Creek with Father Randal Kasel officiating. Visitation will also be one hour before Mass on Thursday at the church. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Dolores Helen Franklin was born on March 23, 1926 in Red Wing to James and Mary Louise (O’Neill) Franklin. She attended Welch country school and graduated from Red Wing High School in 1944. After high school, Dolores worked in St. Cloud as a “Rosie Riveter”. She attended teachers training and taught in a one-room school house in rural Goodhue. On December 29, 1948 she married Gerald “Shug” Ryan at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Red Wing. Dolores and Shug raised twelve children on the family farm in Belle Creek Township, rural Goodhue.
Dolores was an active life-long member of St. Columbkill Catholic Church and Catholic Council of Women, Goodhue County Historical Society, Goodhue Area Historical Society, Goodhue Lioness Club, Goodhue County Retired Teachers Association, Goodhue County Extension Homemakers Project Group and other social groups.
Dolores enjoyed traveling, genealogy, bowling league with her close friends, Short, Jeanette, and Gerry, gardening, and was also a fan of all MN sports teams, she loved watching her children and grandchildren in all their activities, and spending time with family and friends.
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