Cliff Buchan
News Editor

The Der Lach Haus is now part of Forest Lake history but anyone who ever ate at the downtown restaurant probably met Marie Lund.

For more than 20 years Lund waited tables at the German-themed restaurant that attracted diners from throughout the metro area.

Lund, who died on Saturday, July 28 at Birchwood Health Care Center, spent some 30 years in the area working as a waitress and later as a waitress and hostess at the Cornerstone Pub & Prime in Wyoming. She was 85.

Lund was working at Der Lach Haus when Cis Peloquin went to work there as a waitress.

The two worked side by side throughout the remaining years of the Der Lach Haus operation and later as Quon Yees. Fire destroyed the business where the Upper Deck Grill and Bar is located today.

“She knew how to take care of customers the right way,” Peloquin said. She remembered her friend as a sweet lady who helped hold the Der Lach Haus crew together.

“We had such a good crew,” she said. “We never had a turnover.”

Waiting tables and working in the restaurant business was Lund’s main focus in life outside the home, said a son, David Lund.

He said his mother was a native of Shakopee and a military service wife who went with her husband, Hardin, while he was on active military duty during World War II. They lived in Oregon for a time, but returned to Hardin’s home area of Scandia after the war.

Marie Lund was the primary care giver for their four children. When the kids were able to be on their own, she went to work as a waitress, he said.

When Lund wasn’t working outside the home, she enjoyed cooking, sewing and taking care of the home, he said.

After the fire in Forest Lake, Lund went to work in Wyoming. She waitressed at first, but later became a hostess. She retired at age 80.

The Forest Lake woman was also active in VFW Post 4210 functions. She is a past president of the Post 4210 Auxiliary.

Funeral details

A funeral service for Marie E. Lund was Wednesday, Aug. 1 at Mattson Funeral Home in Forest Lake. Interment was at Scandinavian Cemetery, Forest Lake.

She is survived by her four children, John (Deb) Lund, Janet (Clark) Erickson, Dennis (Denise) Lund, and David (Debbie) Lund; 10 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; one brother, Eugene Vierling; and many nieces, nephews and other family and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Hardin, and two infant grandchildren.

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