LERAAEN, Knut 1900-1984

LERAAEN, KNUTSON, YOST, ACKERMAN, FORCE, GAHWILLER, HAGEN

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 10/30/2013 at 17:00:38

[Waterloo Courier, Monday, June 5, 1984]

Services for Knut Leraaen, 84, of 711 Gilbert St., will be 10 a.m. Wednesday at Chapel of Memories West with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Mr. Leraaen died Saturday night at Schoitz Medical Center.

He was born Jan. 2, 1900, at Norway, son of Ole and Barbara Knutson Leraaen. He married Ella Yost Sept. 14, 1968, at Cedar Falls. He was employed at the John Deere Tractor Works for 19 years, retiring in 1965.

He is survived by his wife; four sons, Myron of Charles City, Kenneth of Waverly, Richard of Waterloo arid Harold of Cascade, Wis.; two stepsons, Dale A. Yost of Bristow and Harvey M. Ackerman of Seattle, Wash.; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Marjorie Force of Seattle and Jeanette Gahwiller of Shell Rock; 14 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren; and three brothers, Gustav, Halvor and Henry, all of St. Ansgar.

Friends may call at the funeral home from. 4 to 9 p.m. Tuesday and from 9 a.m. to service time Wednesday.

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Note: Knut's mother's farm name in Norway was Hagen so in some ancestry documents she would be called Barbara Hagen Leraaen.
Knut's parents came from Norway to St. Ansgar, Iowa in 1901 and remained there all their lives. [Source: Barbara Leraaen obit]

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Divorce Decree - Lillian Leraaen, 35, from Knut Leraaen, 46. They were married at St. Ansgar, June 15, 1930, and lived together until June, 1945. They have four minor children. [Mason City Globe Gazette, June 11, 1946]