Shirley Mae Almer, 72 of Perham, MN.
Shirley Mae Almer is survived by sons, Jeffrey (Becci) Almer of Burnsville, Patrick Almer, and Michael Almer, both of Perham; daughters, Victoria (Pete) Hammes of Oakdale, and Virginia (Kevin) Lorentz of Brainerd; four grandchildren, Isaac, Shelby, and Shanice Lorentz, and Madeline Murphy; and sister, Mary Barden of Phoenix, AZ.
Rural Perham resident Shirley Mae Almer was a 1954 graduate of New York Mills High School.
Funeral services were December 27 at Trinity Lutheran Church in New York Mills. She is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in New York Mills.
Shirley Mae Almer was the full owner of Wadena Lanes up until the time of her death, Ginger said. Her mother was a very kind and generous person who was very patriotic and involved with her business. She stayed active even in her retirement, she said.
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Shirley Mae Almer seemed to be beating the odds. The 72-year-old woman from Perham, Minn., had survived lung cancer surgery and radiation therapy on a brain tumor. Her family planned to bring her home from a Brainerd nursing home for Christmas.
Instead, she died Dec. 21, and her children and grandchildren spent the holidays in grief.
They soon got a second shock. Minnesota health investigators discovered that the nursing home's peanut butter was tainted by a strain of salmonella that has been making people sick across the country.
Almer's daughter Ginger Lorentz, of Brainerd, said she served her mother peanut butter toast a week before she died. She said she prepared it in the nursing home, using the facility's peanut butter.
"It seemed so pointless -- with all the battles she overcame -- to have a piece of peanut butter toast take her," Lorentz said.
Now, 503 people in 43 states have been infected by salmonella linked by DNA fingerprinting to peanut butter produced in a Georgia plant. Eight people have died, including two other Minnesota nursing home residents. About 200 products containing suspect peanut butter have been recalled. Among the first recalled were 5-gallon peanut butter containers like those sold to the Good Samaritan Society-Bethany nursing home, where Almer got infected.
Lorentz said she doesn't blame herself or the nursing home. The family on Monday sued the manufacturer, Peanut Corp. of America, of Lynchburg, Va., and the distributor, King Nut Co. of Solon, Ohio., alleging negligence, said Fred Pritzker, a Minneapolis attorney representing the family.
Lorentz, her brother Jeff Almer of Savage and sister Vickie Hammes of Oakdale said in an interview that they believe their mother would be alive if she hadn't eaten tainted peanut butter.
Shirley Mae Almer is survived by sons, Jeffrey (Becci) Almer of Burnsville, Patrick Almer, and Michael Almer, both of Perham; daughters, Victoria (Pete) Hammes of Oakdale, and Virginia (Kevin) Lorentz of Brainerd; four grandchildren, Isaac, Shelby, and Shanice Lorentz, and Madeline Murphy; and sister, Mary Barden of Phoenix, AZ.
Rural Perham resident Shirley Mae Almer was a 1954 graduate of New York Mills High School.
Funeral services were December 27 at Trinity Lutheran Church in New York Mills. She is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in New York Mills.
Shirley Mae Almer was the full owner of Wadena Lanes up until the time of her death, Ginger said. Her mother was a very kind and generous person who was very patriotic and involved with her business. She stayed active even in her retirement, she said.
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Shirley Mae Almer seemed to be beating the odds. The 72-year-old woman from Perham, Minn., had survived lung cancer surgery and radiation therapy on a brain tumor. Her family planned to bring her home from a Brainerd nursing home for Christmas.
Instead, she died Dec. 21, and her children and grandchildren spent the holidays in grief.
They soon got a second shock. Minnesota health investigators discovered that the nursing home's peanut butter was tainted by a strain of salmonella that has been making people sick across the country.
Almer's daughter Ginger Lorentz, of Brainerd, said she served her mother peanut butter toast a week before she died. She said she prepared it in the nursing home, using the facility's peanut butter.
"It seemed so pointless -- with all the battles she overcame -- to have a piece of peanut butter toast take her," Lorentz said.
Now, 503 people in 43 states have been infected by salmonella linked by DNA fingerprinting to peanut butter produced in a Georgia plant. Eight people have died, including two other Minnesota nursing home residents. About 200 products containing suspect peanut butter have been recalled. Among the first recalled were 5-gallon peanut butter containers like those sold to the Good Samaritan Society-Bethany nursing home, where Almer got infected.
Lorentz said she doesn't blame herself or the nursing home. The family on Monday sued the manufacturer, Peanut Corp. of America, of Lynchburg, Va., and the distributor, King Nut Co. of Solon, Ohio., alleging negligence, said Fred Pritzker, a Minneapolis attorney representing the family.
Lorentz, her brother Jeff Almer of Savage and sister Vickie Hammes of Oakdale said in an interview that they believe their mother would be alive if she hadn't eaten tainted peanut butter.
Shirley Mae Almer, 72 of Perham, MN.
Shirley Mae Almer is survived by sons, Jeffrey (Becci) Almer of Burnsville, Patrick Almer, and Michael Almer, both of Perham; daughters, Victoria (Pete) Hammes of Oakdale, and Virginia (Kevin) Lorentz of Brainerd; four grandchildren, Isaac, Shelby, and Shanice Lorentz, and Madeline Murphy; and sister, Mary Barden of Phoenix, AZ.
Rural Perham resident Shirley Mae Almer was a 1954 graduate of New York Mills High School.
Funeral services were December 27 at Trinity Lutheran Church in New York Mills. She is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in New York Mills.
Shirley Mae Almer was the full owner of Wadena Lanes up until the time of her death, Ginger said. Her mother was a very kind and generous person who was very patriotic and involved with her business. She stayed active even in her retirement, she said.
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Shirley Mae Almer seemed to be beating the odds. The 72-year-old woman from Perham, Minn., had survived lung cancer surgery and radiation therapy on a brain tumor. Her family planned to bring her home from a Brainerd nursing home for Christmas.
Instead, she died Dec. 21, and her children and grandchildren spent the holidays in grief.
They soon got a second shock. Minnesota health investigators discovered that the nursing home's peanut butter was tainted by a strain of salmonella that has been making people sick across the country.
Almer's daughter Ginger Lorentz, of Brainerd, said she served her mother peanut butter toast a week before she died. She said she prepared it in the nursing home, using the facility's peanut butter.
"It seemed so pointless -- with all the battles she overcame -- to have a piece of peanut butter toast take her," Lorentz said.
Now, 503 people in 43 states have been infected by salmonella linked by DNA fingerprinting to peanut butter produced in a Georgia plant. Eight people have died, including two other Minnesota nursing home residents. About 200 products containing suspect peanut butter have been recalled. Among the first recalled were 5-gallon peanut butter containers like those sold to the Good Samaritan Society-Bethany nursing home, where Almer got infected.
Lorentz said she doesn't blame herself or the nursing home. The family on Monday sued the manufacturer, Peanut Corp. of America, of Lynchburg, Va., and the distributor, King Nut Co. of Solon, Ohio., alleging negligence, said Fred Pritzker, a Minneapolis attorney representing the family.
Lorentz, her brother Jeff Almer of Savage and sister Vickie Hammes of Oakdale said in an interview that they believe their mother would be alive if she hadn't eaten tainted peanut butter.
Shirley Mae Almer is survived by sons, Jeffrey (Becci) Almer of Burnsville, Patrick Almer, and Michael Almer, both of Perham; daughters, Victoria (Pete) Hammes of Oakdale, and Virginia (Kevin) Lorentz of Brainerd; four grandchildren, Isaac, Shelby, and Shanice Lorentz, and Madeline Murphy; and sister, Mary Barden of Phoenix, AZ.
Rural Perham resident Shirley Mae Almer was a 1954 graduate of New York Mills High School.
Funeral services were December 27 at Trinity Lutheran Church in New York Mills. She is buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in New York Mills.
Shirley Mae Almer was the full owner of Wadena Lanes up until the time of her death, Ginger said. Her mother was a very kind and generous person who was very patriotic and involved with her business. She stayed active even in her retirement, she said.
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Shirley Mae Almer seemed to be beating the odds. The 72-year-old woman from Perham, Minn., had survived lung cancer surgery and radiation therapy on a brain tumor. Her family planned to bring her home from a Brainerd nursing home for Christmas.
Instead, she died Dec. 21, and her children and grandchildren spent the holidays in grief.
They soon got a second shock. Minnesota health investigators discovered that the nursing home's peanut butter was tainted by a strain of salmonella that has been making people sick across the country.
Almer's daughter Ginger Lorentz, of Brainerd, said she served her mother peanut butter toast a week before she died. She said she prepared it in the nursing home, using the facility's peanut butter.
"It seemed so pointless -- with all the battles she overcame -- to have a piece of peanut butter toast take her," Lorentz said.
Now, 503 people in 43 states have been infected by salmonella linked by DNA fingerprinting to peanut butter produced in a Georgia plant. Eight people have died, including two other Minnesota nursing home residents. About 200 products containing suspect peanut butter have been recalled. Among the first recalled were 5-gallon peanut butter containers like those sold to the Good Samaritan Society-Bethany nursing home, where Almer got infected.
Lorentz said she doesn't blame herself or the nursing home. The family on Monday sued the manufacturer, Peanut Corp. of America, of Lynchburg, Va., and the distributor, King Nut Co. of Solon, Ohio., alleging negligence, said Fred Pritzker, a Minneapolis attorney representing the family.
Lorentz, her brother Jeff Almer of Savage and sister Vickie Hammes of Oakdale said in an interview that they believe their mother would be alive if she hadn't eaten tainted peanut butter.
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