Lucille Christine Stubkjaer Larson, 99, of Pullman, Wash., passed away Jan. 25, 2015, on her 99th birthday at the Glenhaven Adult Family Home in Pullman.

Lucille Christine Stubkjaer was born on Jan. 25, 1916 to Christian and Mette Stubkjaer in Lake Preston, S.D. She graduated from St. Olaf College and received her library science degree from the University of Minnesota. She worked as a children’s librarian and during the ’40s she proudly worked as one of the many “Rosie the Riveters,” working in a factory and helping the war effort.

She married Roger Larson ’42 in 1942 in Minneapolis, where Roger was in physical therapy school. They moved to Pullman, Wash. in 1947, where they raised their family and Lucille worked at the Neill Public Library and Pullman High School Library. Lucille was proud to be Danish but learned the “Norwegian ways” from Roger. She baked and ate lutefisk and taught more people than you could count the fine art of making lefse.

Lucille was a good old soul. She believed in hard work, the love of God, and the strength of family. She spent summers working alongside her family at Camp Roger Larson planning menus, budgeting for the buying of food supplies, and keeping the campers and counselors well fed.

She was active in Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Moscow, Idaho and Trinity Lutheran in Pullman. She was a tireless servant at the church: sewing quilts, making up health kits for children overseas, teaching Sunday school, and cooking for various events. She believed in service beyond self and was active in Pullman Child Welfare, the American Red Cross and Meals on Wheels. When she was well into her 60s, Lucille announced that she was going to “help the old people exercise” at the Respite program in Pullman.

Lucille was generously loved and is already missed by her daughters Christine Larson and partner Catherine Henze, and Margi Vogel and husband Rob, and her grandchildren, who were the center of her life for so very long: Matthew Eng and wife Lauren Sandven ’01, Nathaniel Eng and wife Maggie, and Grethe Wood and husband Justin; and great-grandchildren, Larson, Kaarin, Charlie, and Albert. She was preceded in death by her parents; her five siblings; her son, Ole Weik; her husband, Roger; her daughter, Mary Larson-Eng ’67; and son-in-law, Geoffrey Eng. Memorials are suggested to Gentiva Hospice or to Trinity Lutheran Church.