Avis Kathryn (Catherine) Hofslund Piper was born on May 31, 1911, at home in Jeffers, Minnesota to Peter Nicholai Hofslund and Beret (Betsey) Kulseth Olson Hofslund. She was baptized at Bethany Lutheran Church, Bergen, Minnesota. She attended school in Jeffers, graduating as valedictorian in 1929. She attended one year at Windom Normal Teachers Training and taught one year at District 16N, Carson Township, and 2 years at District 18, Delton Township. She was united in marriage Albert L. Piper of Amo Township on December 24, 1932, at the Methodist parsonage in Jeffers, MN. They became the parents of three daughters. She worked with her husband in farming in Amo Township for 21 years. The family moved to Windom in 1954 and to Clarion, Iowa, in 1959 where they operated a 22 unit motel. In 1964 they moved to Eldora, IA, where they operated a Coast to Coast Store. In 1968 she moved to Humboldt, IA, where she worked at Harv's Drive Inn one summer and in 1986 returned to Windom, MN, to help care for her sister-in-law. Avis was active in the Methodist Church, serving as a Sunday School teacher, youth choir director, President of Ladies Aid at Amo Methodist Church; was active in the ladies society and taught Sunday school and Bible school at Windom Methodist Church; was in the Wesleyan Society at Eldora Methodist Church; and was an active UMW and altar guild member at Humboldt United Methodist Church. She was always interested in Bible study. She was a long time member of the Amo Tuesday Club. She was a 4-H leader for five years in Cottonwood County MN. She was a charter member of the Eagles Club in Humboldt, IA. She traveled throughout the United States and wintered several years in Arizona. Her hobbies included dancing, needlework and other crafts, reading and doing crossword puzzles. Avis moved to Mikkelson Manor in 2000 and to the Sogge Good Samaritan Center March 8, 2013, where she died on April 10, 2013 at the age of 101 years, 10 months and 10 days. Besides her parents, Avis was preceded in death by her husband Albert, one daughter, Marilyn Lee Bergman, three sisters and one brother, two half-sisters and two half-brothers. She is survived by two daughters and their spouses, Roberta and Jerome Takle of Elk River, MN, and Kay and Jack Rubendall of Chippewa Falls, WI, five grandchildren; and eleven great-grandchildren.