Hazel Olive Sundby passed away on November 5, 2019 at Cherokee Rose Nursing Home in Glen Rose, TX.

Hazel was born on December 26, 1929, on the family farm in Parker Township, Marshall County, Minnesota. She was a confirmed member of First Lutheran Church in Stephen, MN.

Hazel lived her entire lifetime on the family farm. She attended Parker country school. She and sister Mabel shared in running the household as well as raising a huge garden and helping their brothers with farm chores. Hazel's specialty was cooking and baking. Everyone loved her homemade bread and cookies. With three brothers living at home and her nieces and nephews and later the great nephews and nieces frequent visits, she was a busy baker. Hazel loved her flowers, especially geraniums. Driving into the farmyard people would be greeted by a huge red-hued bed of geraniums and baskets of begonias on the deck and hanging baskets on the garage. When the siblings built a new house in 1985, they built a large greenhouse room so she could have her flowers all year long. During the long winter months Hazel and Mabel made quilts for everyone in the family. They also purchased a loom and made rag rugs. In February 2018, when they could not adequately care for themselves on the farm, Hazel moved with her brother John and sister Mabel to Tamarac Assisted Living in Stephen. In September 2019 she and her sister moved to Cherokee Rose Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Glen Rose, Texas so they could live near their brother LeRoy.

Hazel was preceded in death by her father Oscar and mother Melvina, her brothers Carl, John, Clarence, Roy and wife, Lyla, and sister Mary Ann Gunderson and husband Orville and nephews Michael and Mitchell Gunderson. She is survived by sister Mabel and brother LeRoy (Lee) and wife Sharon of Glen Rose, TX and nephews Kevin (Gail) Sundby of Stephen and Scott (Suzanne) Sundby of Cannon Falls and nieces Marchelle Gunderson Thompson (Larry) of Queen Creek, Arizona, Marlene Gunderson of Grafton, ND, Marla Gunderson Anderson (Brad) of Grand Forks, ND and Janelle Sundby Lacey (Kent) of Glen Rose, TX and their families.