{"id":2676,"date":"2025-09-03T12:31:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/?p=2676"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:31:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:31:57","slug":"ralph-gertken-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/ralph-gertken-86\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Gertken, 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2671\" src=\"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Obit-Gertken-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Obit-Gertken-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csrecord.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Obit-Gertken-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/csrecord.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Obit-Gertken-120x86.jpg 120w, https:\/\/csrecord.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Obit-Gertken-350x250.jpg 350w, https:\/\/csrecord.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Obit-Gertken.jpg 518w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Richmond<\/p>\n<p>September 14, 1938 \u2013 September 1, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Ralph was born in Richmond, MN to Norbert and Margaret (VanHoorik) Gerken. He worked for the county for many years. Ralph started Ralph\u2019s Excavating after he left the county. He loved ice fishing, hunting, breakfast at the caf\u00e9 and of course his dump truck and machinery.<\/p>\n<p>Survivors include his partner, Shirley; grandson, Cole; siblings, Evelyn Rothstein, MaryAnn (Robert) Schmitz, Margie Rothstein, Alvin (Linda), Nettie (Nick) Hemmesch.<\/p>\n<p>He was preceded in death by his parents; son, Matt; brothers, Jerome and Ervin.<\/p>\n<p>Cemetery services with military honors will be at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, September 10, 2025, at the Minnesota State Veterans Cemetery in Little Falls, MN.<\/p>\n<p>The arrangements are with Wenner Funeral Home, Richmond, MN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richmond September 14, 1938 \u2013 September 1, 2025 Ralph was born in Richmond, MN to Norbert and Margaret (VanHoorik) Gerken. He worked for the county for many years. Ralph started Ralph\u2019s Excavating after he left the county. He loved ice fishing, hunting, breakfast at the caf\u00e9 and of course his dump truck and machinery. Survivors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Obit-Gertken.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2676"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2677,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2676\/revisions\/2677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}