Abram (Abe) Baerg

Abram (Abe) Alvin Baerg, 84, of Goodhue, went to be with his Heavenly Father on Tuesday, January 14, 2025. He was born on July 28, 1940, in Delft, Minnesota to Alvin and Anna (Krause) Baerg. He attended schools in Delft and graduated from Mountain Lake High School. For a few years he worked at the Delft Elevator then moved to Minneapolis where he worked in maintenance at Golden Valley Health Center and met his wife. 

On June 6, 1964, he was united in marriage to Marilyn Hopper. Abe then became employed as a maintenance engineer in the First Bank Building in Minneapolis for 40 years under various employers. They lived in Crystal and Golden Valley, MN until they both retired. Following retirement, he and Marilyn moved to Wadena where he oversaw the construction of their new home on a 10-acre hobby farm. The land allowed him to have a huge garden and use his tractor to maintain the property. In 2016, they relocated to Goodhue to be closer to their son, Mike. 

Faith and family were very important to Abe. Throughout his life he was an active member in the Baptist churches he attended. Abe supported many conservative political candidates in addition to making generous donations to various charities, his local church, and missionaries. He regularly attended family and high school reunions over the years.

In his spare time, Abe loved listening to classical music, especially Mozart and Handel’s Messiah. He was good at most home repairs and loved to fix things. Abe spent his down time doing puzzles, gardening, camping, hunting, and fishing. He loved repeating jokes and puns he heard or found in Reader’s Digest. He believed in hoping for the best, preparing for the worst, and leaving the rest in God’s hands. 

Abe is survived by his loving wife of 60 years: Marilyn; three children: Mike Baerg, Brad (Kimberly) Baerg and Val Baerg (Robert Rowe); three grandchildren: Jasmine, Zakary and Nickolas (aka “Enby”); four sisters: Mary Jones, Esther (Marshall) Thompson, Betty (Norman) Thompson and Nina (Ron) Wall along with many beloved nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, brother-in-law, Charlie Jones, and brother and sister-in-law, Bill and Lorraine Weise.

Visitation will begin at 10 am with the funeral service at 11 am on Thursday, January 30, 2025, at Cornerstone Baptist Church - 857 Rolling View LN SE in Pine Island. Pastor Tim Graham will officiate. The burial will be at Glen Haven Memorial Gardens in Crystal, MN. Memorials are preferred to the Cornerstone Baptist Church GIVE — Cornerstone Baptist Church or Central Seminary https://centralseminary.edu/give/ Arrangements are by the Mahn Family Funeral Home, Bodelson-Mahn Chapel in Red Wing.