Rae-Marie (Pond) Lehrke, age 77, Minneapolis, MN passed away surrounded by her family on November 25, 2016, following a brief, brave battle with pancreatic cancer. Funeral service will be held on Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 11:00 AM at the Minnehaha Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, MN. There will be a visitation on Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at the Bradshaw Funeral Home in Minneapolis, MN from 4:00 PM until 7:00 PM. There will also be a visitation on Friday, December 2, 2016 at the Peever Lutheran Church from 11:00 AM until noon with interment at the Peever Cemetery.
Rae was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, and had friends too numerous to count. A twelve-year employee of Sears Catalog Dept, she worked there until it closed. She loved to ride her bike around the neighborhood and visit with her neighbors. Her happy place was South Dakota, which she called "God's Country". Waiting for her in heaven were her parents, Bill and Ebba Pond, sisters Agnes, Venoy, Sheilah, and Wilma, and brothers Wendell, Charles, Pat, Burnell, Merle, and Delos and other beloved family members. Rae is survived and will be dearly missed by her loving husband of 58 years, Bill; daughters Tammy Adams (Scott), Melanie Bailey, Stacy Johnson (AJ), Alecia Zerr (Bob), and son Shane Lehrke (Jill); brother Roland Pond (Janice), sisters-in-law Alice Pond and Valeria Pond; 7 treasured grandchildren, and 6 great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, and friends. Special thanks to Diane Light, Jan Johnston, and Mary Bohman of Allina Health Hospice. In lieu of flowers, memorials to the family preferred.