S. A. Jurgenson Buried With Military Honors Here Sunday S. A. Jurgenson whose funeral took place here last Sunday, was born in Clarkfield, December 16th, 1890, of the parents Mr. and Mrs. Matt Jorgenson. He died at the U.S. Hospital at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, Tuesday morning July 28th, 1925, and had thus attained an age of 34 years, and 6 months at the time of his death. Deceased received his early education in the Clarkfield public schools, graduating from the local high school in 1908. Following his graduation from high school, Severin entered St. Olaf College, at Northfield, this state, receiving his Bachelor's degree from that institution with the class of '13. Then followed several years of teaching school. Deceased taught at different times at St. Onge and at Hazel, S. Dakota. At the time of the outbreak of the World War, he was engaged as bond salesman in Colorado. Heeding the call of his country, Severin joined the army in the summer of 1917. Stationed at Camp Pike in the dread winter of 1918, when the soldier boys were dying like flies, he lost his health and was discharged from the army suffering with pulmonary tuberculosis. For a time, he resided in the dry south western states in an effort to regain his health. Recovering his strength in some measure, he returned to his native city and purchased the local paper, the Clarkfield Advocate, which he edited for four years. Finding that the dread White Plage was again beginning to master him, he appealed to the government for hospitalization, which being granted him, he chose the hospital at Fort Bayard New Mexico. Leaving Clarkfield in September 1922, he waged losing fight in that far state for nearly three years. Always courageous, his letters home gave no indication of his true condition, and when the message arrived two days preceding his death, stating that he was seriously ill, it came as a painful surprise. His father, Mat Jorgenson, accompanied by Ernest Olson, a close friend of deceased left immediately upon receiving the message of his serious illness. They strained every nerve to reach his bedside to give him the comfort of having familiar faces about him when he embarked upon his last, long journey but he died in the early morning of the day they arrived. It developed later, that deceased had undergone an operation for appendicitis about ten days before his death, and that this was the immediate cause of his demise. In a letter dictated to the attendant Red Cross nurse, he sent this final message to the "home folks:" I am sorry that I could not see you all before I went. Have had a hard week, but am dying easily, content to go. Don't grieve for me. God Bless you all. Severn." The body was taken back to where he first drew breath, for burial. The high esteem in which he was held was demonstrated in the immense crowd of people attending the funeral. J. Ben Johnson Post, of the American Legion, of which Jurgenson was the first Adjutant, took charge of the funeral program, as has been the custom when one of their "Buddies" have passed. A number of Dawson legionaires among them Company I bugler, also attended the funeral. The large Norwegian Lutheran church here, in which deceased was baptized and confirmed, was filled to the doors, and hundreds of mourners waited outside to take a last look at the dear departed. Rev. O. M. Wee gave a heart moving funeral sermon using as his text W. J Bryan's recent famous question to a doubting world: "What will you do with Christ?" The final impressive words at the grave, the lines of soldiers drawn up at 'attention', the last plaintive "Taps" of the bugler over the soldier dead moved the vast concourse of people deeply. S. A. Jurgenson was a remarkable man. Gifted, generous, with a peculiar gift for drawing people to him despite a reserved nature, he counted his friends by the hundred. People from far and near flocked to pay their last respects to this soldier, educator and Journalist. His four years of newspaper work served to make him still better known and admired for his fearless and frank stand on subjects near his heart. With his genius for organization coupled with a good education he would have made a valuable asset to any community, and Clarkfield has missed his ready helpfulness in many a local enterprise. Providence willed that he should be cut off in the prime of his years. The Legion men acting as pall bearers were: Dr. V. Silver, Oscar Westre, Roy Hanson, I. Applewick, Elmer Melbostad and Herman Otterholt. Another Legion man, Roy Burke, sang a beautiful solo at the church. Out-of-town people who attended the funeral were: Hjalmer Anderson Elkton, Minn., Emil Anderson, Washington, D. C., Henry Anderson and Mrs. J. Paulson, cousins of deceased of New Effington, S. D., The R. Vick and E. Johnson families and Ed Overset of Wood Lake, Miss Mandebelle Anderson and Margaret Hanson of Minneapolis, Mrs. E. Jorgenson and daughters, Henry Skaalenand family, Mrs. Christena Skaalen and family, Andrew and Dan Korstad with their families all of Boyd, Mr. and Mrs. John Jorgenson and Beatrice of Hazel Run and many other of whom we have no record. He leaves to mourn his untimely death, father and mother, and eight sisters and brothers; Mrs. Henry T. Hanson, Mildred, Judith, George, Martin, Arden, Erling, and Bennie Jurgenson, all of the Clarkfield community, besides a large number of other relatives and friends. Arrangements by Lynner Funeral Home Since 1891 Clarkfield Minnesota