International Falls Daily Journal - Marie Knudson - Comments

I wonder how she would have

roj2000 — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 16:53:05 -0500

I wonder how she would have handled "the internet" being in [her library]?? She never trusted me. If I took a book off the shelf, she would always follow me to make sure I put it "exactly" back where I found it. I never liked her recommended reading list. But, she always made sure I read something, even if she disagreed with my selection. I guess it's safe to bring my overdue books back now!!

In the days of library

BearsPass64 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:26:03 -0500

In the days of library past...you could only have respect for Miss Knudson and her passion for providing a library for the community of IFALLS. Yes, she was strict, sometimes stern, but the her legacy (if you will) was to teach the library clientele the proper use techniques and to extend a learning environment for those using the stacks and study areas of the building. Those days are gone forever....as are most libraries and their clientele.
Thank you Marie.

RIP Miss Knudson. A library

IFallsRon — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:17:23 -0500

RIP Miss Knudson. A library and city has never known a better person and resource.

Well I happen to remember

kwestover — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:40:03 -0500

Well I happen to remember Marie as a nice, simple lady. She didn't have many people that cared and she was particular about things but if you live to be 95 you have ever right to be picky! She was a great woman and is deeply missed...

As I posted my daily

Thomas L. Johnson — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:09:16 -0500

As I posted my daily comment, sitting as I do in the public library, I saw the name, Marie Knudson, and realize that I can't let her passing go by without a reverent bow in her direction. She was not a nice lady, not a patient lady, but she was fierce about her library and her books and her feeling that they mattered. She used to keep lists of books you should read before college at the circulation desk. Once I began reading the 100 or so recemmended books she was very interested in getting my opinions about them. And she once advised me, correctly, not to spend too much time on Thomas Wolfe. She was an elitist in the Carlton sense of that word, but I count her as one of the influences -- along with Hannah Rosenberg -- that made that dangerous walk from Publican land at Alexander Baker across Catholic Land at St. Thomas well worth the effort, even if it mean going fist to fist with those knights of the church named Micheletti, Oettinger, Sether, Grandaw. So long, Miss Knudson.

Marie Knudson

Journal Staff — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:24:37 -0500

Marie Knudson, 95, of International Falls, Minn., passed away peacefully Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008, at Falls Good Samaritan Care Center.
Marie was born Nov. 26, 1912, in International Falls. She was a lifelong resident of the Falls.
She graduated from Falls High School with the Class of 1931. Marie graduated from Carlton College in Northfield, Minn., and the Western Reserve in Cleveland.
She was a librarian at Falls Public Library from Sept. 28, 1948, until she retired Jan. 1, 1978.