The funeral service for Lorraine Gladys Backes, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14, at First Lutheran Chapel in Albert Lea. The Rev. John Holt will officiate. Interment will be at Graceland Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday at Bonnerup Funeral Service, and one hour prior before the service at the church.

Lorraine died on Sunday morning, Feb. 11, 2007,

at Albert Lea Medical Center. She was 85.

She was born on Jan. 18, 1922, in Lake Crystal to Hugh and Julia (Shaw) Lewis. She graduated from Belle Plaine High School. Following graduation she worked as a telephone operator.

Lorraine married Victor A. Backes on May 9, 1946, in Belle Plaine. They lived in Belle Plaine, Marshall and New Prague until making their home in Albert Lea in 1957. Lorraine had been living with her daughter, Linda, in Wells for the past few months.

She was a member of the First Lutheran Church.

Lorraine was an avid Twins baseball fan, and the highlight of her 80s was getting to the Dome to see her &8220;Twins&8221; play. Her life was based on caring for her family and in her later years she cherished the opportunities to care for her grandchildren and doing things to make her children&8217;s lives a little easier. She also enjoyed volunteering as a teachers helper at the Christian school in Wells.

Lorraine is survived by three children: Judy and her husband Dennis Smith of Albert Lea, Linda and her husband Duane Penning of Wells, and Steve Backes and his wife Cary of Crockett, Calif.; 11 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; two sisters: Alvera Anonson of Stillwater and Frances Spielman of Shakopee; sisters-in-law Louise Hammerlindl of St. Paul and Teresa Beckius of Jordan; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband Victor in 1986, one brother and two sisters.

Blessed be her memory.