DAGMAR MINNIE (JENSEN) SORENSON, DIED THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2018 AT MUHEALTHCARE MANISTEE HOSPITAL. SHE WAS BORN TO ERVIN AND NETTIE (GILBERT) JENSEN ON 8/30/1929. SHE WAS RAISED BY HER MOTHER AND STEP-FATHER CARL PRIESTER. ATTENDED WASHINGTON GRADE SCHOOL AND WAS GRADUATED FROM MANISTEE HIGH SCHOOL, CLASS OF 1947. SHE WAS A 1950 GRADUATE OF HACKLEY SCHOOL OF NURSING. EMPLOYED BY MERCY HOSPITAL AND BECAME A FLOOR SUPERVISOR IN 1951. WHILE AT MERCY SHE MENTORED MHS STUDENTS WHO HAD A NURSING INTEREST. FROM 1955 TO 1963 SHE WAS THE OFFICE NURSE FOR DR MARLOW SCHWARZ IN ONEKAMA. SHE LEFT TO MARRY AND BECAME A NURSE AT LUTHERAN GENERAL HOSPITAL IN PARK RIDGE, ILLINOIS, WHERE SHE LATER TAUGHT NURSING. SHE ENDED HER CAREER AS SUPERVISOR OF STAFF MEDICAL SERVICES AT LUTHERAN GENERAL.     ON 11/5/1963 IN MT PROSPECT, ILLINOIS, SHE MARIED HAROLD LADIMER (LADDIE) SORENSON. ON THE WAY TO THE COURTHOUSE FOR THEIR WEDDING, THEY WERE STOPPED BY A MOTORCYLE OFFICER, WHO UPON LEARNING OF THEIR PURPOSE, ESCORTED THEM TO THE COURT WITH SIRENS AND FLASHING LIGHTS. THE SORENSONS RETIRED TO ONEKAMA IN 1990 TO THEIR NEWLY BUILT HOME.       DAGMAR WAS A MEMBER OF LAKESIDE CLUB, SWEET ADELINES IN THE '50'S AND '60'S, AND THE SCANDINAVIAN CLUB IN DES PLAINES, ILLINOIS.

SHE IS SURVIVED BY STEP-DAUGHTER BARBARA (CHRIS) MADURA OF EAST GRAND RAPIDS, STEP-GRANDCHILDREN JASON (LINDSAY) MADURA, TIFFANY (TODD) PETERS, AND CANDICE (BILLY) DONAHUE. SHE IS ALSO SURIVED BY BROTHERS DOUGLAS (JOAN) JENSEN, AND THEIR CHILDREN, THE LATE CRIS, AND ROBIN (MICHAEL) KELLEY AND THEIR CHILDREN, AND DALE (ANITA) PRIESTER, AND THEIR CHILDREN, NOEL, JOEL, ADAM (NAOMI) PRIESTER, CONNIE AVES (ERIC) DIESING, AND ARIEL PRIESTER (JOSHUA) LUDWIG AND THEIR CHILDREN. SEVERAL GREAT-GREAT NIECES AND NEPHEWS ALSO SURVIVE.

DAGMAR WAS PREDECEASED BY HER HUSBAND HAROLD, HER PARENTS, NETTIE AND CARL PRIESTER, AND ERVIN JENSEN, MOTHER-IN-LAW EMMA SORENSON, SISTER-IN-LAW DEANNA SORENSON, AND INFANT BROTHER DAVID CARL PRIESTER IN 1933.

VISITATION WILL BE HELD FROM 4:00 TO 8:00 PM TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 2018 AT THE HERBERT FUNERAL HOME IN MANISTEE.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE CONDUCTED AT 11:00 AM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2018 AT THE UNITED CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ONEKAMA WITH REV. BILL MORRIS OFFICIATING. THE FAMILY WILL ALSO BE AT THE CHURCH ONE HOUR PRIOR TO THE TIME OF SERVICE ON WEDNESDAY TO RECEIVE FRIENDS.  BURIAL WILL TAKE PLACE AT ONEKAMA VILLAGE CEMETERY IN THE SPRING 0F 2018.

THE HERBERT FUNERAL HOME OF MANISTEE IS IN CHARGE OF FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS.