Gessina (Toso) Ellefson

TOSO, ELLEFSON, BOLSINGER, HILL, SMITH, OLSON, WATERS, MOEN

Posted By: Connie L. Ellis (email)
Date: 12/26/2010 at 21:56:57

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa REPUBLICAN-STANDARD, November 15, 1989
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Gessina Ellefson, 86, of Waukon, Iowa died Thursday, November 9, 1989 at Veterans Memorial Hospital. She had been a resident of the Good Samaritan Center for the last six years. Funeral services were held Saturday, November 11 at 1 p.m. at Burke-Thornburg Funeral Home in Lansing, Iowa. Pastor Gary Bachman conducted the services with burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Lansing.

She was born December 10, 1902 in Maddock, ND to Anton and Gubjor Toso and attended rural school. On December 15, 1925 she married Odin Ellefson of Waterville, Iowa.

Surviving are two daughters, Junice *as listed in the obituary* Bolsinger of Lansing and Oretta Hill of Waukon, two sons, Orlean and James Ellefson of Waukon, three sisters, Gerda Smith and Esther Smith of Maddock, ND and Gladys Olson of Rugby, ND and a brother, Alvin Toso of Maddock. Also surviving are 15 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren, and three great-great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, a son Arden; a daughter Beverly; a granddaughter, Dwanda Ellefson; a great-great grandson, Justin Waters; a sister, Clara Moen, and two brothers Leonard and Hartwick Toso.

Casket bearers were Richard, Raymond, and Kerry Ellefson, Wesley Hill, David Olson and Lyle Hanson. Honorary pallbearers were Charles, Brian, and Curtis Ellefson, Loran Waters, Wayne Hill, and Kevin Hanson.