A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday April 7 2007 at 11:00 AM at Lohman Funeral Home Ormond. Signe Antos died in her sleep on 3 April at 93 years old at Ormond in the Pines in Ormond Beach Florida. She had been in declining health but was still active visiting friends and family and especially playing bridge her favorite activity. The fifth of eleven children she was born on the windswept plains of North Dakota on 6 September 1913 to Norwegian immigrant farming parents. She prided herself on her Viking ancestry and her pioneer heritage. After her marriage to Henry Antos in Duluth Minnesota in 1937 she was a lifelong resident of northern Minnesota raising three children. Widowed for 34 years she was fiercely independent but always exhibited a profound humanity for all persons in any walk of life. In later years she often wintered with her daughter Charlene in the Washington DC area and later in Florida near her son Dr. Jim Antos of Daytona Beach. As much as she enjoyed Florida when spring came she couldn't wait to return to her home in Bemidji Minnesota to be near her son John her life long friends and her fellow members of the First Lutheran Church where she belonged for over 50 years. She is survived by a daughter Charlene (Walter) Carlson of Sarasota two sons John (Kay) Antos of Crosslake Minnesota and Dr. James (Mary) Antos of Daytona Beach; and five grandchildren Stephen (Aili) and Christopher (Eva) Carlson Katie (Peter) Antos-Ketcham and Joshua (Doris) and James (Kim) Antos as well as six great-grandchildren. In her immediate family she is survived by two younger sisters Marian Wagendorf of Hettinger North Dakota and Phyllis Reinke of Queens Creek Arizona. Preceding her in death were her husband Henry Antos who passed away in 1973 her parents Conrad and Johanna Davidson five brothers Ecof Clarence Sigurd Norman and Walter and three sisters Dagney Myrtle and Dorothy. She loved her family and was a loyal friend and compassionate to all. In return she was well loved and will be missed by all who knew her. A memorial service is planned in Bemidji Minnesota in early summer followed by interment in Duluth Minnesota.