Burial will be held at Spruce Valley Cemetery, rural Middle River, MN.

Mary was born April 12, 1956 and was raised on a family farm 2 ½ miles southwest of Middle River, MN in Spruce Valley Township.

She attended and graduated from Middle River High School, a BS=teaching degree from Bemidji State University (Art major, English minor) and M-Div degree from Luther Seminary. She also attained a certificate of completion in Swahili language studies from the Morogoro Lutheran Language School in Morogoro, Tanzania.

Mary traveled widely during her younger years and worked at a variety of jobs: ranging from hardware store clerk (6 years), Bible camp staff (4 ¾ years, various camps in various years), public school teacher (3 years), missionary-teacher to Tanzania for the American Lutheran Church (2 years), campus ministry director of a nonsectarian youth/Christian ed director at Bethel Lutheran in Bemidji, MN (1 year), manager of a paint crew which was for the most part made up of ex-cons in Mason City, IA (1 ½ years), while in seminary, Mary was a student assistant to the Region 3 Archivist.

Mary was ordained a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1995 and over the years served several congregations in Indiana and NW Minnesota. Retiring from full-time public ministry in 2016, she continued as a part-time pastor for Gustav Adolph Lutheran Church in Strathcona, MN. She also spent her time volunteering. She taught 2 free-to-the-community painting classes on Thursdays thru the Living at Home/Block Nurse programs.

Throughout her life, Mary was an artist, working primarily in clay, acrylic paint and pencil.

She is survived by her brother, Mark Lundquist, of Middle River, MN; sister, Joan Brodin, of Billings, MT; brother, Robert Lundquist and sister-in-law, Lynn Lundquist, of Eben Junction, MI; one niece; three nephews; as well as numerous great and great-great nieces and nephews.

She is proceeded in death by her parents Milton Lindquist and Gladys (Toren) Lundquist Sorter, step-father Myron Sorter, aunts, uncles, and grandparents.

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