Alcuin Kortenbusch

Alcuin A. Kortenbusch, age 83, died Thursday, July 7, 2016 at CentraCare Health Care in Sauk Centre, Minnesota.

A Memorial Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, July 12, 2016 at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Meire Grove with Rev. Marvin Enneking presiding.

A gathering of family and friends will be from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Tuesday morning at the church prior to mass.

Inurnment will take place at Saint Mary's Cemetery in Melrose, MN.

Alcuin Anthony Kortenbusch was born May 16, 1933 in Meire Grove, Minnesota, the son of Theodore and Christine (Schaefer) Kortenbusch. After he attended school, he worked as a farmer much of his adult life. He had made his home in Meire Grove, Long Prairie, and later in life in Melrose. As a senior citizen, he lived in the Pine Villa Manor in Melrose and was often involved in daily mass at Pine Villa. The last several weeks of his life, he needed more care and was moved to CentraCare Health Care Center in Sauk Centre.

Alcuin is survived by his cousins; friends and others who cared about him.

He is preceded in death by his parents; and two brothers and sister-in-law, Edward and Clara Kortenbusch and Vernie Kortenbusch.