...counties for the Senior LinkAge Line, recently helped Elsie Karels of Baxter with paperwork. Kathie Phillips, senior...helping her for a year-and-a-half. Another client, Elsie Karels, 89, Baxter, said Phillips has made a world of difference...

Elsie Karels, age 94, of Brainerd, passed away Friday, March 12, 2010, at St. Joseph's Medical Center. Arrangements are with the Nelson-Doran Funeral Home, Brainerd.

...She grew up on a farm near Nicollet, Minn., and attended first through fifth grades at New Sweden School. Photos Elsie Karels In 1927 the Currier family moved to Shirt Lake near Deerwood, Minn., to their new family farm. Elsie attended the...