RUSHFORD, Minn. – LeeAnn Dell Tufte, 59, of Oskaloosa, Kansas, who was a 1980 graduate of Rushford High School, died at a Kansas hospital of cancer. She coached the girls junior varsity basketball team at Rushford for two years. Later in Chatfield she again coached girls  basketball. She was an Army reservist with the 79th MP Company in Rochester and served in Desert Storm in Iraq. She was a legal secretary at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in Rochester.  In 1997 she transferred to Kansas City. She was contracted by the Secret Service as a security officer for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Utah. She retired from orisons work in 2015 and joined the Kansas Search and Rescue team with her dog Paco.

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