Hallebrot Family History & Genealogy

Albert Hallebrot of Erskine, Polk County, MN was born on January 2, 1897, and died at age 77 years old on April 15, 1974.

Laura Hallebrot of Chisholm, Saint Louis County, Minnesota was born on September 5, 1898, and died at age 78 years old in January 1977.

Olaf Hallebrot of Erskine, Polk County, Minnesota was born on August 18, 1899, and died at age 72 years old in December 1971.

Leonard Hallebrot of Red Lake Falls, Red Lake County, Minnesota was born on March 17, 1902, and died at age 76 years old in September 1978.

Norman Elroy Paul Hallebrot of Erskine, Polk County, Minnesota was born on July 12, 1938, and died at age 68 years old on October 13, 2006.

Lorraine Myrtle Bernice Hallebrot was known and admired as being an amazing, loyal and loving Christian, wife, mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt and friend. She is highly noted as being a person everybody came to for comfort and to relieve their fears and life stresses. She was known for listening quietly for as long as you needed to share your stories. She rarely pushed advice. Rather she questioned all of your thoughts and feelings until you figured out the right answers for yourself. Her consistent advice was to always ask yourself one question. "What would Jesus do"? Then she would look up examples of how Jesus handled similar issues to what you were having. She'd write them down and send the Bible verses with you recommending you read it and follow your curiosity to the next verses because the Bible is the " Living Word" of God and while reading it, it will guide you to what God wants you to know. Instinctively, you will be guided to the answers He wants you to have. Listening to His guidance will get you through you problems best. All who confided in Lori would leave with a sense of peace and love and the feeling of being truly heard. She was a uniquely amazing woman who noted herself as being shy, simple and a happy, devoted and loving servant of God, nothing more. She was the ideal portrait of humble. She died of liver cancer in 2017 in her living room where family kept her company 24 hrs, 7 days a week for the last weeks of her life. Her 2 unbaptized grandchildren were baptized at her bedside. All the others had been baptized. She is noted as regretting that everybody will be sad as she passes but that she was excited because she finally gets to meet her best friend, councilor and teacher "Jesus Christ" face to face and see her loved ones who had passed away before her. She compared it to being better than the dream vacation of a life time because it never ends. She asked all of her grandchildren if they believe and accept that Jesus is their Lord and Savior. They all expressed they do. Then she prayed and told Jesus that if He promised her that he would take better care of her family than she did, she was ready to go to Heaven. She told her daughter that Jesus ensured her He would, so she was looking forward to passing on. Still today, her children and Grandchildrn express that they've known that many of the blessings they receive today are because of the deal she made with Jesus. She is also noted as NEVER voicing a complaint of pain or discontent in her last week's. She even rejected an increase of Morphin saying she didn't want to get addicted. This was funny to those offering it and representative of her trying to do what she thought was right all the way up to her last hour. The mortuary did a great job making her look beautiful. However, she was in make-up and looking fancy. The comments after the funeral were that she looked great but her natural, no make-up natural beauty was so much of who she was that they didn't see her ( her spirit) in her body behind the make-up and fancy hair-do. That was seen as a good thing. Because everybody felt that she really wasn't there anymore and the vessel she resided in couldn't hold her beautiful spirit. They felt deep within that she was now with Jesus and had graduated "Life" as a top student/servant/ child of God. She is loved and missed by so many who are still talking about her many years later. And her spirit lives on by the ever-present advice whispering in people's ears to remember to ask yourself, "What would Jesus do", then do that as problems arise and remember to thank him as he leads you through life. God gave all those Lori knew a gift when she entered this world. And her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren to come for generations will benefit from the servant of God know to us all as Lorraine Myrtle Bernice Hallebrot Keeler. May God continue His Blessings through her lineage. ✝️