
Her obsession with lutefisk was unmatched making sure she made almost every event she was serving compared with that birdwatching was a close second with her favorite being cardinals. Her baking and cooking was hard to beat like her lefsa, hotdishes, swedish tea ring, or her cookies.
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she enjoyed cooking for her family and friends and always enjoyed a full house and kitchen. She was also a member of the Red Hat club. When they moved back to Minnesota in 2005 she was a member of Grace Lutheran church in Albert Lea where she served as the Sunday school superintendent. After moving to Dalhart, Texas in 1980 she was a member of Grace Lutheran church in Dalhart Texas and was employed at XIT feeders and worked for a farmer running a haystacker and later went to work at the New High School in Dalhart, Texas in the cafeteria as well as other schools over the years, and worked as a paraprofessional in the Dalhart ISD school district after that, when she finally retired in May of 1998. She was very active with the Freeborn County Beef Association and was an adult leader of the Calico Cowbells. From 1955 to 1971, Arlene worked at Northpark, Southwest cafeteria, Streaters and Miami Margarine and helped out at the farm. On December 30, 1951, she was united in marriage to Melvin Hobbiebrunken at the Hartland parsonage. She was baptized on Decemat First Lutheran Church in Albert Lea and Confirmed at Hartland Lutheran Church on June 26, 1949.

Arlene Ellen Gertrude Madson Hobbiebrunken was born in Albert Lea on Februto John and Harriet Madson.
