Agnes Vivian Haroldson
Jan 24, 1983
Agnes Vivian Haroldson died Monday, January 24, 1983, at the Clarkfield Hospital, Clarkfield, Minnesota. She was born June 11, 1904, to Carl and Emma (Paulson) Haroldson. She was baptized and confirmed at Swede Home Lutheran Church, Swede Prairie Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. Survivors include two sisters, Helen Hanson of Mankato, Minnesota, and Ethel Culbertson of Hutchinson, Minnesota; five...
Harold Iree Gullickson
Jan 20, 1983
Harold Gullickson was born May 18, 1906, to Sam and Johanna (Simonson) Gullickson and passed away January 20, 1983, at the Clarkfield Community Hospital, Clarkfield, Minnesota, at the age of 76 years and eight months. He was a member of Yellow Mediciine Lutheran Church all his life through baptism and confirmation. He attended school at the old Vineland District...
Clara Ellingson Martinson
Jan 18, 1983
Clara Martinson was born November 6, 1897, to Toffef and Betsy (Severson) Ellingson of Sandnes Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. She was baptized and confirmed at the Yellow Medicine Lutheran Church of Hanley Falls, Minnesota. December 10, 1919, she was married to Oliver Martinson of Normania Township, Yellow Medicine County, where they farmed and raised their family. To this...
Nina (Gunlogson) Christensen
Jan 12, 1983
Nina Christensen was born September 14, 1995, to John and Gea (Hofteig) Gunlogson. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. She attended Gustavus Adolphus Academy in St. Peter, Minnesota and taught in the country school briefly. Nina married Carl Christensen on January 5, 1921. They built their home and farmed south of Clarkfield, Minnesota, where they were...
Clara Odella (Berg) Severson
Jan 5, 1983
Clara Odella Berg Severson was born February 18, 1914 to Carl and Caroline (Opheim) Berg at their farm home near Clarkfield, Minnesota. She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith at the Norwegian Lutheran Church in Clarkfield and was a graduate of Clarkfield High School. On December 26, 1940, she was married to John N. Severson of Kathryn,...
John Nelious Severson
Jan 5, 1983
John Nelious Severson was born June 29, 1914, in Kathryn, North Dakota, to Andrew J. and Ragnhild Mary (Sandbeck) Severson. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith at Preston Lutheran Church near Kathryn, North Dakota. In the mid-thirties he came to the Clarkfield, Minnesota area. On December 28, 1940, he married Clara Berg of Clarkfield. They farmed...
Nettie Louise Mattison
Jan 5, 1983
Nettie Louise Mattison was born August 23, 1898, at Linn Grove, Iowa, to Nels Edward Olson and Martina (Larson) Olson. She moved with her parents to a farm near Dovray, Minnesota, in 1902. She was confirmed in Our Saviors Lutheran Chruch at Dovray. In July 1916 she was married to William R. Mattison. They made their first home in...
Ludwig Bernard Halverson
Dec 25, 1982
Ludwig Bernard Halverson was born on March 6, 1905, in Normania Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, of parents Lewis and Bertina (Stokke) Halverson. He was baptized on March 26, 1905, at St. Lucas Lutheran Church of Normania Township by Rev. Martin Romstad and confirmed at the same church in 1919 by Pastor Romstad. He attended Public Schools in District...
Arnold Ralph Lindall
Dec 3, 1982
Arnold Ralph Lindall was born August 21, 1904, in Swede Prairie Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, to John and Caroline (Willander) Lindall. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith at Swede Home Church, Swede Prairie Township, of which he was a member. In 1933 he was united in marriage to Mabel Friberg. To this union five children...
Ellen Theresia (Olson) Albin
Dec 2, 1982
Ellen Theresia Albin passed away December 2, 1982, at the Clarkfield Hospital, Clarkfield, Minnesota, at the age of 89 years. She was born August 3, 1893, in Elmo, Minnesota, the daughter of Andrew and Anna Mathilda (Carlson) Olson. She was baptized and confirmed at the First Lutheran Church in Parkers Prairie, Minnesota. Ellen was united in marriage to Carl...
Orvin Stensrud
Dec 2, 1982
Orvin Stensrud was born July 31, 1900, in Westerhiem Township, Lyon County, Minnesota, to Oscar and Anna (Broughton) Stensrud. He died at the Clarkfield Hospital, Clarkfield, Minnesota, December 2, 1982, at the age of 82. Orvin lived in the Clarkfield and Minnesota area most of his life. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Lucas Lutheran Church in Normania...
Archie Earl Halverson
Nov 18, 1982
Archie Earl Halverson was born on October 23, 1930, in Sandnes Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, to Hardine and Thrina (Tufte) Halverson. He was baptized in the Norwegian Lutheran Church, Hazel Run, Minnesota, and confirmed at Yellow Medicine Lutheran Church, Hanley Falls, Minnesota. Archie married Diane M. Behrman on September 1, 1956, in Wood Lake, Minnesota. He spent his...
Jay Stanley Smolley
Nov 17, 1982
Jay Stanley Smolley was born in Clarkfield, Minnesota, on December 18, 1911, to Andrew and Annie Smolley. He was baptized and confirmed at Clarkfield Norwegian Lutheran Church. Upon graduation from Clarkfield High School, he attended Concordia College and graduated from Dunwoody Industrial Institute in 1939. He enlisted in the U. S. Navy on December 8, 1941, and served as...
Kenneth W. "Sam" Rikke
Nov 13, 1982
Kenneth W. "Sam" Rikke was born on September 17, 1911, in Grace Township, Chippewa County, Minnesota, to Ole O. and Carrie (Egeland) Rikke. Sam was baptized in Grace Lutheran Church and confirmed in Yellow Medicine Lutheran Church. He married Luella M. Maasch in August 1935 in Vesta, Minnesota. Since 1952 they lived in Hanley Falls, Minnesota, where Sam and...
Kurt Edward Wendschuh
Nov 4, 1982
Kurt Edward Wendschuh was born August 5, 1914, in rural Lyon County, Minnesota, to Otto and Emma (Schultz) Wendschuh. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. He attended school in Lyon County. On September 15, 1946, he was married to Vivian Reishus at St. Lucas Lutheran Church. They farmed east of Marshall, Minnesota for two years before...
Catherine N (Nicolson). Burke
Nov 2, 1982
CATHERINE N. BURKE was born on October 4, 1897, to Samuel and Jessie (MacLellan) Nicolson in Nova Scotia, Canada. Catherine was the oldest of twelve children. After schooling and her years of work at home, in 1915 she moved to Albany, New York, where she worked in the office of the Boston and Albany Railroad. After a few years...
Edward Harold Kroger
Oct 29, 1982
EDWARD HAROLD KROGER, 72, was born on November 11, 1909, to John and Mabel (Henry) Kroger in Moville, Iowa. He moved to Cottonwood, Minnesota, in 1913 where he remained for the rest of his life. Edward passed away October 29, 1982. He was baptized and confirmed at Christ Lutheran Church in Cottonwood in 1924. On September 1, 1933, he...
Oscar T. Lokensgard
Oct 28, 1982
Oscar Lokensgard was born August 18, 1901 on a farm near Delavan, Minnesota, to Ole and Caroline (Wroolie) Lokensgard. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Church. Oscar attended a country school near Delavan eight years and continued his education for four years at the Lutheran Normal School at Madison, Minnesota. He married Verna Kirkeby on November 9,...
Harry Gerhardt Jorgenson
Oct 18, 1982
Harry Gerhardt Jorgenson was born May 18, 1907, on a farm south of Boyd, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota, the son of Elias and Helena (Brekke) Jorgenson. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. He spent most of his life in the Boyd community with the exception of several years in Chicago, Illinois. When he returned to Boyd,...
Corinne (Cole) Sommerfeld
Oct 13, 1982
Corinne Sommerfeld, daughter of Lee and Anna (Podhasky) Cole, was born on March 15, 1916, at Canby, Minnesota. She was baptized in the Christian faith in 1930 in The Presbyterian Church at Canby. She was confirmed in St. John's Lutheran Church in Omro Township, Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. On July 3, 1940, she was united in marriage to George...
