Verdun Ellefson - 1922-1991

ELLEFSON, BUSNESS, MCCOY, PETERS, PETERSON, TOLANDER, BRESNAHAN

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 7/21/2011 at 15:27:29

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa WAUKON September 1991
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Funeral services for Verdun Ellefson, age 69, were held at the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection at Prairie Village, Kansas, September 3. He died at Humana Hospital in Overland Park, August 30, 1991. Interment was at Menorah Cemetery in Kansas City. Attending the funeral from this area were Mr. and Mrs. Lester Busness of Waukon, Iowa, Mr. and Mrs. Neal Bresnahan of Waterville, Iowa, and Darrell Busness of Houston, Minnesota.

Verdun Ellefson was born in Waterville, Iowa on January 15, 1922. He was the son of Roy and Alice (Busness) Ellefson. He attended the Waterville School. He received a Bachelor's Degree in Education from the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls and a Master's Degree in Accounting from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.

Survivors include his wife, Helen; 2 sons, Jeffrey Ellefson and Brian Ellefson; a daughter, Linda McCoy; 4 granddaughters; a brother, R. Truman Ellefson, and one sister, Marian Peters; 2 aunts, Esther Peterson and Gladys Tolander of Waterville, Iowa and an uncle, Lester Busness of Waukon, Iowa.