Carrie (Hovey) Thostenson
Mar 6, 1973
Carrie Hovey was born December 22, 1882, in Fillmore County, near York, Minnesota, to Julia Olson Hovey and Knute Hovey. She was baptized and confirmed in the Suetersdal Lutheran Church near York. On January 1, 1901, she was married to Knute Thostenson at Yellow Medicine Lutheran Church at Hanley Falls, Minnesota. To this union ten children were born of...
Olaf L. Maltrud
Mar 2, 1973
Olaf Maltrud was born in Stony Run Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, on April 3, 1887, to David and Marie (Larson) Maltrud. He was baptized into the Lutheran faith by Rev. Fjelstad. He attended school in District No. 14 and the Agricultural School in St. Paul, Minnesota. A lifelong member of Bergen Church, Mr. Maltrud lived and farmed in...
Agnes C. Peterson
Feb 14, 1973
Agnes C. Peterson was born January 22, 1895, in Friendship Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, to C.A. and Maren (Peterson) Hellzen. She was baptized in Fridhem Lutheran Church and confirmed in Spring Creek Lutheran Church. She attended country school and then the public school at Clarkfield. She worked several years at Montevideo. On September 4, 1929, she married Oscar...
Hilda B. (Johansen) Satre
Feb 11, 1973
Hilda B. Johnson was born in Oslo, Norway, on September 16, 1985, to Hans and Pauline (Borgerson) Johansen. She came to the United States in 1912 and lived in the Clarkfield vicinity and in St. Paul until her marriage on April 10, 1920, to Morten A. Satre of Clarkfield. She passed away Sunday evening, February 11, 1973, at Clarkfield...
Inanda G. Wilson
Feb 10, 1973
Inanda G. Wilson was born May 8, 1887, in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, to Hans G. Wilson and Elsie Sorenson Wilson. She was baptized May 22, 1887, and was confirmed at the Bergen Lutheran Church by Rev. H.O. Fjelstad on October 6, 1901. She spent her entire lifetime on the family farm in Lisbon Township. She never married, but...
Raymond Julien Johnson
Feb 8, 1973
Raymond Julien Johnson was born on August 10, 1904, to Hans O. and Thrina (Gunderson) Johnson in Hazel Run Township of Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. He was baptized at Hazel Run Lutheran Church on November 6, 1904, and confirmed in the same church on July 27, 1919, by Pastor John Salhus. He attended school in Hazel Run Township in...
Peter Alfred Slette
Feb 4, 1973
IN MEMORY OF P. ALFRED SLETTE Mr. Slette was born December 21, 1897, at Cottonwood, Minnesota, to parents Ole P. and Mary (Odden) Slette. He passed away February 4, 1973, at the Clarkfield Memorial Hospital, Clarkfield, Minnesota, at the age of 75 years. Funeral Services Wednesday, February 7, 1973, 1:30 p.m. Christ Lutheran Church, Cottonwood, Minnesota Survivors include a...
Steve Christopher Edmunds
Jan 31, 1973
Steve Edmunds was born September 19, 1901, to Allen Vinton Edmunds and Rose (Walle) Edmunds, in Terril, Iowa. He was baptized and confirmed in the Methodist faith and for the past 25 years he has been a member of the Hazel Run Lutheran Church. On June 25, 1931, he was united in marriage to Gladys Johnson of Hazel Run...
Bertha Ellen (Henden) Rosetter
Jan 29, 1973
Bertha Ellen Rosetter was born to Ole and Oline (Vick) Henden in Clarkfield, Minnesota, on August 1, 1904. Clarkfield was her home during most of her younger years. She was baptized, confirmed there, and graduated from Clarkfield High School. However, at the age of three her family moved to Minneapolis, where they had lived until her mother died when...
Rosy Emmile Paulson
Jan 26, 1973
Rose Emmile Paulson, daughter of Peter and Emma (Lundgren) Paulson, was born in Tyro Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, on March 25, 1890, and confirmed in the Augustan Church in 1905. She lived with her brothers, Emory and Clinton, at the home place in Tyro Township until 1968, when she took residence at the Clarkfield Care Center. She passed...
Ruby Mildred (Lindblad) [Thompson] Flaa
Jan 22, 1973
Ruby Mildred Lindblad was born on August 13, 1910, in Maxwell Township, Minnesota, to Axel and Ella (Neuman) Lindblad. She was baptized at her home in Maxwell Township, Minnesota in 1910. In 1925, Ruby was confirmed at the Mission Covenant Church near Dawson, Minnesota. Ruby was united in marriage to Olaf Flaa on April 4, 1931 near Dawson, Minnesota....
Olaf Arthur Flaa
Jan 22, 1973
Olaf Arthur Flaa was born March 29, 1907, to Martin O. and Marit (Remol) Flaa. He was baptized in the Lutheran faith and confirmed on November 20, 1921, at United St. Petri Lutheran Church by the Rev. E.C. Eid. He was married to Ruby Lindblad of Dawson, Minnesota, on April 4, 1931. Three daughters were born to this union:...
Elois Ann Lackey
Jan 22, 1973
Elois Ann was born to Herbert and Elsie (Kohler) Gordon at Waseca, Minnesota, on September 15, 1935. At the age of three she moved with her parents to Wheaton, Minnesota, where she received religious instructions and became a member of St. John Lutheran Church. She attended school at Wheaton where she graduated from high school in 1953. On September...
Thorfin William Anderson
Jan 22, 1973
Thorfin William Anderson was born September 3, 1894, in Normania Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the oldest child of Oscar T. Anderson and his wife Elizabeth (Hoiland) Anderson. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith, and at the time of his death was a member of Clarkfield Lutheran Church. Most of his adult life he spent in...
Tena Mathilda (Erickson) Burlingham
Jan 20, 1973
Tena Mathilda Burlingham, the last member of the family of Mrs. Alice Cliffgard's mother was laid to rest Tuesday morning, January 23, 1973. She was born March 30, 1883, in Wisconsin to parents Eberhardt Erickson and Maren (Knudson) Erickson. Mrs. Burlingham spent her youth in this area but her later life in California. She spent the past four years...
Donald Marlin Hermanson
Jan 19, 1973
An overflow crowd, which filled the basement at Trinity Lutheran Church, paid respect to Don Hermanson, 42, Tuesday afternoon, January 23, 1973. The young man, son of the late D.E. Hermanson, John Deere Implement dealer here, and Minnie (Refseth) Hermanson, now of Dawson, Minnesota, passed away in his sleep at his home on Friday, January 19, 1973. He has...
Sigurd Schjelderup
Jan 13, 1973
Sigurd Schjelderup was born March 16, 1880, at Forsaa on the Tysfjord, Nordland, Norway. He was one of nine children born to Willatz Bing Schjelderup and Cecelia Hedvig Winther Schelderup. His childhood was spent at Forsaa where his father had a saw mill and the first flour mill in Northern Norway. He was six years old when he experienced...
Hilda Mathilda (Hermanson) Fjerkenstad
Jan 11, 1973
Hilda Mathilda (Hermanson) Fjerkenstad was born in Ten Mile Lake Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, on June 12, 1885. She passed away on January 11, 1973, at the age of 87 years. She was the only child of Ole and Ellen Janette (Forberg) Hermanson. She was baptized July 13, 1885, and confirmed May 20, 1900. On January 1,...
Arthur Herman Arneson
Jan 7, 1973
Arthur Herman Arneson was the sixth son born to Ole Tolef and Inger Tobiason Arneson of Decorah, Iowa. He and his twin sister, Alice, were born on January 12, 1893. His grandparents, Tolef Arneson Sanden, had immigrated from Naess, Halingdal, Norway, to Highlandville, Iowa in 1849. His father worked at the Lutheran Publishing House in Decorah. In 1904, the...
Forest Jerome Johnson
Jan 3, 1973
Forest Jerome Johnson was born April 25, 1905, to Edward and Mary (Hanson) Johnson, in the same home in which he and his wife still resided. He was baptized May 14, 1905, and confirmed June 20, 1920, at the Clarkfield Lutheran Church. He joined the Augustana Lutheran Church on October 6, 1940. He was united in marriage to Albertha...
