Gwen Kay Oech

January 12, 1940 - September 28, 2020

Gwen Kay Oech, age 80, of Beach, North Dakota passed away on Monday, September 28, 2020. A private family service will be held at a later date. Silha Funeral Home of Beach has been entrusted with the arrangements. Gwen was born on January 12, 1940 to Glendon and Berniece (Kallestad) Domes in Blue Earth, Minnesota. She was raised and educated there and graduated from Blue Earth High School with the class of 1958. After attending St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota for two years, she went on to the University of Minnesota and graduated with a degree in Elementary Education in 1962. Gwen taught in St. Paul, Minnesota and was a teacher’s aide at Lincoln Elementary in Beach for twenty-four years. Gwen married Darrel Oech on May 3, 1963 in St. Paul. They moved to Huntsville, Alabama for Darrel’s job at Marshall Space Flight Center. Later, they returned to work on Darrel’s family farm near Beach. Gwen was a member of Eastern Star and served as Worthy Matron in 1975. Her other activities included: This and That Homemakers, Sunday School Teacher, Joy Bell Ringers and Golden Valley County Historical Society. Gwen loved to spend time with her grandchildren and working in her garden. Gwen was preceded in death by her parents and an infant granddaughter, Erin Frohlich. Gwen is survived by her husband, Darrel; her sons, Scott and Tim; her daughter, Coralie (Patrick) Frolich; her grandchildren, Logan, Elizabeth, Lincoln, Ellen and Scarlett Frohlich, Samantha, Jonas and Abraham Oech and Nash Oech; her brothers, Glen (June) Domes and Michael (Myra) Domes and her sister, Virginia Mehrhof. Services will be livestreamed at 2:00 P.M. on Friday, October 9, 2020 on the First Lutheran Church Facebook page: [email protected] Memorials may be given to the First Lutheran Church, the Bell Choir or Badlands Ministries. Remembrances and condolences may be shared with the family at: www.silhafuneralhomes.com.