KOLSRUD, Hazel Alida (Quanrude) 1926-2022

QUANRUDE, FINHOLT, KOLSRUD, SEBASTYN, HAGER, KOWALASHIN, WIEDENMANN, BIRCHFIELD

Posted By: Connie L. Ellis (email)
Date: 3/4/2023 at 17:48:57

SOURCE: Posted obituary THE MOUNTAINEER, NEWSPAPER, Waynesville, North Carolina
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Hazel Alida Kolsrud passed away on March 28,2022 at the Haywood Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Waynesville, North Carolina. She was born on May 4,1926, the daughter of Henry Melvin and Agnes (Finholt) Quanrude. She was baptized, confirmed, and married at the Big Canoe Evangelical Lutheran Church, rural Decorah, Iowa. She received her elementary and middle school education in country schools in Allamakee County, Iowa and graduated from Waukon High School on May 9,1944.
She was hired as a bookkeeper at the Waukon State Bank in September of 1944 and continued there until 1977. She and her husband, Lloyd, moved to Muscatine, Iowa in 1977. Hazel became employed by HON Industries as an administrative secretary to the vice-president of the company. She retired from HON in 1989.
Hazel is survived by her son, Barry(Connie) Kolsrud; daughter Kaye (William) Sebastyn; one grandson, Finn Kolsrud (fiance`Maddie Birchfield); brother-in-law, Bernard Kolsrud; and several nieces and nephews.
Preceding her in death were her husband of 57 years, Lloyd; brother Harold (Ursula) Quanrude; sister Palma (Nels) Quandahl; sister Vivian Quanrude; sister and brother-in-law Caryl and Elmer Hager; sister and brother-in-law Lila and Kal Kowalashin; brother and sister-in-law John and Betty Kolsrud; sister and brother in-law Jean and Charles Wiedenmann; two nephews Laverne Quanrude and Steven Kolsrud. A celebration of life service was held at the Our Savior Lutheran Church in Clyde, North Carolina and a private graveside service was held in the the Oakland Cemetery, Waukon, Iowa in June of 2022.