WABASHA, Minn. – Daniel George Mertes, 84, of Wabasha, died at St. Elizabeth’s Care Center in Wabasha with advanced dementia. He graduated from Winona Cotter High School in 1957. He held a 1961 mechanical drafting certificate from Northwest Technical Institute in Minneapolis. He was in the Army during the Vietnam war. After the military, he worked at Remington Rand’s Univac computer division in St. Paul, then to Taystee Bread.  He retired from Brownberry Baking Company. In Wabasha he volunteered at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital. He belonged to the Duluth Kiwanis and he Wabasha American Legion post.

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