Alma Helen (Rhyne) Runyon
May 15, 1954
Alma Helen Rhyne Runyon was born April 6, 1890, the daughter of Andrew and Anna (Johnson) Rhyne of Lehigh, Webster County, Iowa. She passed away at her home in Clarkfield on Saturday evening, May 15, 1954, at the age of 64 years, one month and nine days. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. She was united...
Selmer Leonard Mikelson
May 4, 1954
Selmer L. Mikelson was born on a farm near Hazel Run, Minnesota, on April 3, 1885, the son of Peter and Tilda (Johnson) Mikelson. He was baptized at the Yellow Medicine County Church near Hanley Falls, Minnesota, and confirmed at the Hazel Run Lutheran Church. He attended a country school near Hazel Run for eight years, and later studied...
Henry Wilhelm Loose
May 1, 1954
Henry Wilhelm Loose, son of John Loose and Otilie Keinhardt Loose, was born on the 9th day of October, 1879, in Chicago, Illinois. Here at the place of his birth, he was received into the Communion of Saints through the sacrament of Holy Baptism. The sacrament was administered by Pastor H. Engelbrecht. While still a young boy he moved...
Henry Edwin Olson
Apr 25, 1954
Henry Edwin Olson was born on May 4, 1884, in Tyro Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the son of Bengt and Pernilla (Swenson). He was baptized by Rev. B.F. Bengston, and was also confirmed by him on July 17, 1898, in the Swedish Lutheran Fridhem Church. Mr. Olson stayed on at the homestead in Tyro and continued farming until...
Ida Cecelia (Lindquist) Melbostad
Apr 19, 1954
Ida Cecelia Lindquist Melbostad was born December 20, 1894, in Swede Prairie Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the daughter of Nels and Caroline (Skald) Lindquist. She was baptized in infancy and confirmed by Rev. Carl in 1907. She attended country school and grew to young womanhood in the Clarkfield community. In 1922, on September 12, she was united in...
Christina (Olson) Persons
Mar 31, 1954
Christina Persons was born March 26, 1870, the daughter of Bengt and Pernilla (Swenson) Olson, in Skane, Sweden, Nasum Congregation, at which place she was baptized. She came with her parents to America and to Minnesota when six months old. She was confirmed by Rev. B.F. Bengston in a Tyro school house as there were no church buildings at...
Clarence Earl Chapman
Mar 30, 1954
Clarence Earl Chapman was born February 14, 1907, in Minnesota, the son of LeRoy Chapman and Louise (Bode) Chapman. He passed away March 30, 1954, at his Hanley Falls, Minnesota home, at the age of 47 years. Mr. Chapman is survived by his wife, Irene (Bahn) Chapman and his son, Clarence L. Funeral Service Sunday, April 4, 1954, 2:30...
Reinert O. Haaland
Mar 28, 1954
Reinert O. Haaland was born January 26, 1872, in Norway, the son of Ole R. Haaland and Gusta Elevine
Johanna (Iverson) Quist
Mar 13, 1954
Johanna Iverson was born at Maurset, Nordfjord, Norway, March 3, 1882, the daughter of Arne and Johanna Iverson. As a child she came to this country in 1885 with her parents and settled in Clarkfield where her father was section foreman until his death. She spent her youth and girlhood active in all affairs of her church and community....
Helena (Christopherson) Stokke
Feb 25, 1954
Helena Stokke was born in Syrdal, Norway, February 12, 1883, the daughter of Ole and Helena Christopherson. She was baptized and confirmed in Lunde Lutheran Church there. She together with her parents, brothers and sisters came to America, settling in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. She was united in marriage to Olai Stokke of Normania Township, Yellow Medicine County, eight...
Adolph Dahlberg
Feb 6, 1954
Adolph Dahlberg was born on the family homestead in Friendship Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, August 30, 1905, the son of August Dahlberg and Gurene Osmundson Dahlberg. He has been in ill health since his youth and for many years past has been an inmate of the Cambridge State School and Hospital, at Cambridge, Minnesota, where he died on...
Anthony Henry Nibbelink
Jan 19, 1954
Anthony H. Nibbelink was born December 22, 1874, at Baldwin, Wisconsin, son of Bernard and Magdeline (VanOurkirk) Nibbelink. He attended schools at Baldwin, Milwaukee, and River Falls, Wisconsin. At the completion of his education, he taught rural schools two years near Baldwin. His newspaper career began with the St. Paul Pioneer Press. After two years in St. Paul, he...
Mathilda (Quaal) Nibbelink
Jan 19, 1954
Mathilde Nibbelink was born April 9, 1877, in Ten Mile Lake Township, Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, the daughter of Peder Quaal and Anne (Bye) Quaal. She passed away January 19, 1954, at the Clarkfield Community Hospital, Clarkfield, Minnesota, at the age of 76 years. Mrs. Nibbelink is survived by her husband, Anthony Harold Nibbelink (editor of the Boyd...
Berith (Flaa) Bye
Jan 18, 1954
Berith Bye was born March 29, 1873, in Minnesota, the daughter of John Flaa and Maret (Mehus) Flaa. She passed away January 18, 1954, at her Boyd, Minnesota home, at the age of 80 years. Mrs. Bye was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Ole Bye in 1915. Funeral Service Friday, January 22, 1954, 2:00 p.m....
Baby Boy Johnson
Jan 15, 1954
Baby Boy Johnson was born January 15, 1954, the son of LeRoy and Alice (Varpness) Johnson at the Clarkfield Community Hospital, Clarkfield, Minnesota. He passed away January 15, 1954, at the Clarkfield Hospital. Arrangements by Lynner Funeral Home Since 1891 Clarkfield Minnesota
Emma Molstad
Jan 13, 1954
Emma Molstad was born November 2, 1879, in Lisbon Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the daughter of Brede Molstad and Maria (Melbostad) Molstad and was one of a family of six children. She was baptized by Rev. K. Thostenson and confirmed by Rev. O. Lokensgaard in the Bergen Lutheran Church and has since been a member of that congregation....
Tilda Susanna Miller
Jan 8, 1954
Tilda Susanna Miller was born September 29, 1893, in Normania Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the daughter of Andrew Miller and Siri (Thon) Miller. She passed away January 8, 1954, at her Cottonwood, Minnesota home, at the age of 60 years. Miss Miller was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Mabel. Survivors include a sister, Agnes....
Olaf Olson
Dec 31, 1953
Olaf Olson was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, February 28, 1878, and passed away December 31, 1953, aged 75 years, 10 months and three days. He was the son of Gullick and Ragnhild Olson, and was one of a family of ten children. Only two survive him, namely, one sister, Lena Graeber, of Sioux Rapids, Iowa, and Charley Olson...
Julia N. (Nelson) Severson
Dec 19, 1953
Julia N. Severson, the daughter of Ole and Gjertrud (Larson) Nelson was born in Swede Prairie Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, on March 5, 1879, and baptized in the Lutheran faith. She was confirmed January 1, 1894, at the Swede Home Lutheran Church by Rev. B.F. Bengtson. On October 20, 1902, she was united in marriage to Albert Severson...
Andrew Lars Johnson
Dec 14, 1953
Andrew L. Johnson was born January 31, 1862, in Andalen, Norway. He came to the United States in 1882 and for a year and a half worked on farms in Mower County. He also worked as a driver and lumber worker in Wisconsin. He passed away on Monday, December 14, 1953, at Granite Falls, Minnesota, at the age of...
