Funeral services for Marian Anna Beving will be held 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11,

at the First Lutheran Church of Albert Lea. The Rev. John Holt will officiate. Visitation will be held one hour prior to the service at the church on Sunday. Interment will be in the Wadena Cemetery on Monday, Sept. 12, at 1 p.m. Arrangements are by Bonnerup Funeral Service.

Mrs. Beving died Thursday, Sept. 8, 2005, at the Good Samaritan Center in Albert Lea. She was 89 years of age.

Marian was born Dec. 22, 1915, at McGregor, Iowa, to Carl Frederick Larson and Myrtle (Ousley) Larson. She was united in marriage to Chester (Chet) M. Beving on Dec. 5, 1943, in Bertha, Minn.

Marian moved to the Bertha community with her family in the 1920s and graduated from Bertha High School and Wadena, Minn., Normal Teachers Training School in the 1930s. Marian began her rural school teaching in the 1930s by teaching in various schools throughout Todd County. In the early 1940s she accepted employment as a 4-H County Agent in the Willmar and Olivia area of Renville and Kandiyohi counties.

In 1947 Marian and Chet moved to the Albert Lea area where Marian became a 4-H County Agent for Freeborn County. Marian returned to teaching in the 1950s in area Albert Lea schools. She received her B.S. degree in Education from Mankato State (College) University in 1962. She later retired after teaching many years at the Halverson Elementary School in Albert Lea.

Marian was very active in the First Lutheran Church in Albert Lea and enjoyed communicating with many friends and relatives.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Chet on March 16, 2003; her parents: Carl Frederick and Myrtle Katherine Larson of Bertha; her brother, Oliver Larson of Bertha, her step-son,

Alan Nelson of Mason City, Iowa; and many brothers and sisters in law.

Marian is survived by one sister; Signe Anderson of Moorhead, Minn.; one step-daughter; Darlene Nelson of Mason City, Iowa; four step-grandchildren and families; one brother-in-law, Paul (Ray) Beving and wife Lois of Spring Valley; one sister-in-law; Anna Lou Dull and husband Allyn of St Cloud and Texas; and many beloved nieces and nephews.

Memorials preferred to the Albert Lea Good Samaritan Center or First Lutheran Church.