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Beautiful Weather, and even more Fantastic SAVINGS!

Open For a Few More Days!

Saturday will be the Last Day of the Season!  

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Mel Beier  

An Ordinary Man Who  

Lived and Extraordinary  

Life Passed Away  

August 31st, 2012
 

Melvin Oscar Beier, 93, Grand Rapids, MN, died Friday, August 31, 2012 at Grand Village in Grand Rapids MN. Mel was born October 23, 1918 in Hanover, MN. Baptized and Confirmed as a Lutheran. He was the Son of Richard F and Carrie (Hoffmockel) Beier. Mel grew up in Beardsley, MN. He worked in his father's grocery stores until 1939. He and Lucille Burg were married June 19, 1939. They moved to Grand Rapids and began farming and worked at his trade as a butcher renting the old Hoolihan Farm. In 1948 he purchased 80 acres on the Mississippi River. He built a meat processing plant and had meat routes in the surrounding area. He taught his 5 sons the butchering skills he had learned from his own father. Meanwhile, he did truck gardening every summer and fall and had several vegetable stands. In 1958 he bought the Grimsbo Greenhouse started Beier's Greenhouse on Highway 169 between Grand Rapids and Coleraine. He and his wife owned and operated this until he sold the greenhouse to his daughter Bonnie in 1977. Mel never really retired as he continued in the Greenhouse helping and teaching until his last few weeks of his life . All the workers at Beier's knew to be on their best when Mel Beier made his almost daily visits to the greenhouse. His years in Beier's Greenhouse always found him growing and inventing something to improve production.

     He became interested in a gold mine in Alaska and traveled there for 26 summers. When there he explored, hunted, and fished the area with the many friends he met . He and Lucille did extensive traveling all over the world. Mel and his family went on many fishing excursions in the summers and hunting trips in the fall to MI, SD,MT, ID,WY, Costa Rica and Africa and any other place they could find to hunt or fish!!

                As a young man he became an avid coin collector and with only an 8^th grade education liked to read and followed the stock market and wrote books reflecting on his own life. He has been honored in the Grand Rapids Historical Society as "an Ordinary Man who lead an Extraordinary life ." He was a member of First English Lutheran Church and his faith was very important to him. He always enjoyed entertaining his company with songs, jokes, and stories. He loved life and did everything with great passion. People that met him never forgot him. Many times after a fishing trip on his houseboat a fish fry for his guests was in store.

     Mel never retired. He and Lucille wintered in Texas for 30 years. Coming back to the Mississippi River property in the summer, he would purchase chickens, rabbits, goats, pigs, cows, sheep and raise them as a summer hobby with his Grandchildren's help. While in Texas he hunted Geese, wild boars and did meat processing for his friends.

Preceding him in death were his parents, wife Lucille, 3 sisters Lila, Beatrice, and Violet.

Surviving family are his 7 children: Ronald (Betty) Beier, Grand Rapids, MN Karol ( Dennis) Dahl, Cannon Falls, MN, James ( Sandi) Beier,Rochester, MN, Gerald (Joan) Beier, Winona, MN Gordon (Tammi) Beier, Duluth, MN, Melvin"Butch" ( Lynn ) Beier, Winona, MN Bonnie (Blake) Stotts, Grand Rapids ,MN; 26 Grandchildren; 34 Great Grandchildren; 1 Brother , Larry Beier Beardsly,MN; and numerous loving nieces and nephews along with Ed Ford his right hand man.

LAST OF THE SEASON SPECIALS!

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Perfect time to shop early and SAVE for Christmas Gifts!    

ALL Garden Art 35% OFF

Sale Room- Up to 70% OFF

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Fall is a Great time to plant!

ALL TREES   

(Including Apple, Pear, Plum, Cherry, Shade Trees) 40% OFF  

ALL SHRUBS 50% OFF

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MONROVIA  

Great Plants to Bring Indoors during the Winter to add some much needed color!     

NOW 50% OFF!
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THANK YOU

from Bonnie, Blake, and the staff at Beier's Greenhouse

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