Michelle Mergen

Michelle Baudler Mergen, age 58, of Plymouth, Minnesota, passed away unexpectedly on October 27, 2022, at home. She was born August 30, 1964, and with her parents Bruce and Anita Baudler lived most of her life in Minnesota. Michelle graduated from Champaign, Illinois High School in 1982 and moved to Bismarck, ND, where she lived and worked for six years. In 1988 she returned to Minneapolis and went to work for TruGreen Co, which took her to New Jersey and Indiana until she moved back to the Minneapolis area in 1993, joining the Carlson Company as a paralegal with the Radisson Hotel chain where she worked for 17 years. Michelle married Jan Mergen in 2001 and together purchased a home in Chanhassen, Minnesota. In 2002, their daughter Rachel was born. Michelle and Jan later divorced and in 2017 Michelle sold their Chanhassen home and moved to an apartment in Plymouth, Minnesota.