Mabel O. Rodness
Apr 3, 1966
Mabel O. Rodness was born on October 17, 1888, in Tyro Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the daughter of Hans and Anna Marie (Anderson) Rodness. She was baptized by Rev. Carl Moen and confirmed at the Clarkfield Lutheran Church by Rev. O.C. Farseth. She spent a number of years working in San Francisco, California, and in Minneapolis. Later, she...
Mary F. (Zitting) Westergard
Apr 2, 1966
Mrs. Mary Westergard was born December 25, 1890, in Melvin, Illinois, the daughter of Nicholas F. and Richa (DeFries) Zitting. She came to Slayton, Minnesota, at the age of 12. She received her education at Slayton, later attending Mankato State College to become a teacher. She taught school for eight years and on November 15, 1916, she was united...
Sophie Elizabeth (Jorgenson) Olson
Apr 1, 1966
Sophie Elizabeth Olson, the daughter of Titlof and Eleanor Jorgenson, was born January 1, 1917, at Bristol, South Dakota. She was baptized on May 20, 1917, at the Lutheran church in Bristol by Rev. O.O. Hafstad. In her early youth, she moved with her family to Hanley Falls, Minnesota, where at the Yellow Medicine Lutheran Church, in 1934, she...
Kermit Olaf Vik
Mar 17, 1966
Kermit Olaf was the youngest son of M. Olai and Kathrina (Hanson) Vik. He was born April 16, 1914, at Clarkfield, Minnesota. He was baptized and confirmed at the Clarkfield Lutheran Church where he was a life member. Ole was graduated from the Clarkfield High School with the class of 1932 and attended Concordia College at Moorhead for a...
Sebert Severson
Mar 14, 1966
Mr. Sebert Severson was born in Baron County, Wisconsin, on January 7, 1884, one of a family of ten children, his parents being Andres and Ragnild (Brenden) Severson. He passed away March 14, 1966, at the Clarkfield Nursing Home where he was admitted in January. He had previously been at the Clarkfield Hospital since October 31, 1965, as the...
Annie Christine Larson
Mar 10, 1966
Annie Christine Larson, the daughter of Andrew and Lizzie (Frederickson) Dotseth, was born December 6, 1880, in Normania Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, near Clarkfield. She was baptized January 12, 1881, at Yellow Medicine Lutheran Church in Hanley Falls, Minnesota, by Rev. Knut Thorstenson and confirmed at Spring Creek Lutheran Church at Clarkfield before Rev. J.S. Strand. She spent...
Emma (Nelson) Severson
Mar 6, 1966
Emma Nelson Severson was born December 12, 1881, in Swede Prairie Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the daughter of Ole and Gertrude (Larson) Nelson. She was confirmed in the Swede Home Lutheran Church by Pastor B.F. Bengtson on December 15, 1895. On February 8, 1905, she was united in marriage to Andrew A. Severson by Pastor Shaleen and since...
Barbara Gene (Skaug) Vik
Mar 1, 1966
Barbara Gene Skaug was born in Clarkfield, Minnesota, on December 3, 1925. She graduated from high school in 1943. She and a friend went to Seattle, Washington, to work at the Boeing Aircraft factory in 1943. She worked at Mork Hardware for several years before her marriage to Kermit Olaf Vik in 1961. Barbara started a beauty shop in...
Helmer Joseph Nelson
Feb 23, 1966
Helmer Joseph Nelson was born December 14, 1893, the son of Haaken and Bertha (Haakenson) Nelson, in Ten Mile Lake Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. He attended school in district 30, northwest of Boyd and in district 90, southeast of Boyd. He farmed all his life. He was baptized and confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church of Boyd, the...
Ida Bertha Riediger Pipke
Feb 18, 1966
Ida Bertha Pipke of Montevideo, Minnesota, was born October 5, 1893, in Omro Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the daughter of Gustav and Bertha (Heintze) Riediger. She was united in marriage to Wilhelm Pipke, who preceded her in death. She passed away February 18, 1966, at the Chippewa County Montevideo Hospital at the age of 72 years. Survivors include...
Clara Sirine Kompelien Martinson
Feb 14, 1966
Mrs. Clara Sirine Martinson was born on September 26, 1887, in Westerheim Township, Lyon County, Minnesota, the daughter of Ole and Siri (Thon) Kompelien. She was baptized by Pastor Thorstensen and confirmed by Pastor Romstad in St. Lucas Lutheran Church. On June 27, 1914, she was united in marriage to Albert Martinson of Normania Township and to this union,...
Pfc Derlyn Reinhold Edmund Lehmann
Feb 7, 1966
Derlyn Reinhold Edmund Lehmann was born on November 8, 1942, when his parents resided on their farm located eleven miles west and two north of Clarkfield in Maxwell Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. He was baptized by Rev. Louis Rosin and confirmed on May 5, 1957, by Rev. W.A. Haag. His father, Reuben Lehmann, passed away in 1952...
Alice Sophie Anderson Johnson
Jan 22, 1966
Alice Sophie Anderson was the oldest daughter of Albert and Nellie (Rudell) Anderson. She was born October 27, 1903, at Clarkfield, Minnesota. She was baptized by Rev. C.E. Shaleen and confirmed by Rev. E.O. Valberg at the Fridhem Lutheran Church in Tyro Township. There she was a member until she joined her present church. On September 15, 1920, she...
Zephr Boudreau
Jan 17, 1966
Zephr Boudreau was born July 19, 1894, in Concordia, Kansas, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Boudreau. Mr. Boudreau worked in a defense plant in Hastings, Nebraska in 1944. He trained horses as a vocation most of his life. His horse training and driving took him over much of the United States. In about 1946, he came to...
Gustaf Edvin Johnson
Dec 25, 1965
Mr. Gustaf Edvin Johnson was born in Sweden, September 11, 1876, the son of Johana and Augusta (Ryden) Ferdinnanson. In 1889, together with a brother, Alfred, and a sister, Hilda (now Mrs. Peter Vold), he came to Hazel Run to the home of a cousin, Mrs. E.H. Olson. He passed away December 25, 1965, at General Hospital, Minneapolis, at...
Christiana (Gottskalkson) Hofteig
Dec 14, 1965
Christiana Adalbjorg Gottskalkson Hofteig was born February 9, 1897, in Lincoln County, Minnesota, the daughter of H.G. and Ingeborg (Foss) Gottskalkson. Her early life was spent in Lincoln County where she was educated in the rural schools and the public school in Ivanhoe. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lincoln Lutheran Church. On December 15, 1915, she was...
Mabel Helen Jorgenson Larson
Nov 29, 1965
Mrs. Fred O. Larson of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, passed away at the Sioux Falls Hospital, Monday evening, November 29, 1965, after several months of illness, at the age of 72 years. Mrs. Larson, the former Mabel Jorgenson, is a sister of Marvin Jorgenson of Clarkfield, Minnesota. Mabel, the daughter of Bernt and Ida (Severts) Jorgenson, was born October...
Robert Jacob Benson
Nov 29, 1965
Robert Jacob Benson, son of Knute and Johanna (Saure) Benson, was born February 24, 1891, in Brown County at Hecla, South Dakota. He was baptized the same year by Rev. L.H. Bueide. At two years of age he moved with his family to a farm near Echo, Minnesota, and was confirmed at the Rock Valley Lutheran Church by Rev....
Thebert Ferdinand Sheveland
Nov 19, 1965
Thebert Ferdinand Sheveland, the son of Wilhelm and Britta (Chilson) Sheveland, was born February 3, 1899, in Sandnes Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. He was baptized March 22, 1899, at the Yellow Medicine Lutheran Church by Rev. Guerning and confirmed his faith in the same congregation before Rev. Ole Lokensgaard. He lived with his family south of Hanley Falls...
Louise (Loken) Barnes
Oct 30, 1965
Louise Loken Barnes was born at Clarkfield, Minnesota, on July 7, 1891, the daughter of Lars and Marie (Auflem) Loken. She taught school in Yellow Medicine County for eighteen years and served as county superintendent of schools prior to Clara Thorpe. In 1934, she was united in marriage to Charles P. Barnes of Oelwein, Iowa, and resided in that...
