Thelma (Kolsrud) Gjefle - 1915-1976

KOLSRUD, HANSON, GJEFLE, SNITKER, GEVING

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 2/8/2011 at 16:11:07

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa WAUKON REPUBLICAN-STANDARD, June 8, 1976
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Funeral services for Mrs. Melvin (Thelma) Gjefle, age 61, of Waukon, Iowa were held Monday, June 7 at 1:30 p.m. in West Paint Creek Synod Lutheran Church with the Rev. Milton Tweit officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were Gary Schmidt, Larry Snitker, Paul Snitker, Mark Mathie, Richard Geving, and James Kolsrud. Martin Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Thelma died Friday, June 4, 1976 at her home in Waukon, Iowa. She was born February 3, 1915 in Allamakee County to Sander and Anna (Hanson) Kolsrud. She married Melvin Gjefle on October 29, 1930 at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. She was educated in the Waterville schools. She was a housewife. She was a member of West Paint Creek Synod.

She is survived by her husband, Melvin; a daughter, Mrs. Donald (Loretta Mae) Snitker of Waukon, Iowa; 2 sisters, Mrs. Theodore (Esther) Geving and Stella Kolsrud of Waukon, Iowa; 3 brothers, Gilman Kolsrud, and Floyd Kolsrud, both of Waterville, Iowa and Tennis Kolsrud of Dubuque, Iowa; 6 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.