Larsen, Irene Lorraine (1920-1936)

LARSEN, BANKS, STEVENS, HAVEN, CHRISTENSEN, PEDERSEN, WIRKUS, KARGL

Posted By: Sheryl (email)
Date: 2/24/2011 at 13:07:16

Irene Larsen
September 21, 1920 - August 6, 1936

Irene Larsen, 15, was killed Thursday, August 6, 1936, when the car in which she was riding overturned on a county road.

A group of friends were returning from Lakeside Beach on a gravel road going toward Newell when the driver missed a curve and the car went in a ditch, through a fence and rolled several times in a field. The accident happened one mile south and two and one half miles west of Newell near the Buren Andersen farm. Miss Larsen was killed instantly, and another passenger, John Lilly, 19, of Fonda, died shortly afterward. The other passengers were taken to the Storm Lake hospital with various injuries.

Funeral services for Miss Larsen were held Saturday from the Baptist church in Newell. Burial in the Newell cemetery was postponed until Monday as the family waited for Miss Larsen's sister, Mildred Kargl, to arrive from Los Angeles, California.

Pall bearers were cousins of Irene, A. C. Pedersen, Clarence Christensen, LeRoy Christensen, Mark Haven, Cecil Wirkus, and Merlin Larsen.

OBITUARY

Irene Lorraine Larsen was born September 21, 1920, to John and Jennie Banks Larsen at Winthrop, Minnesota, and died August 6, 1936, near Newell.

Irene attended Winthrop public school until her parents moved back to Newell in 1929. She entered the third grade and has since attended school in Newell. She was a member of the freshman class during the last year and was a member of the girls' softball team. Although not a member, she attended the Baptist church in Newell.

She was preceded in death by her father eleven months ago. She is survived by her mother, of the home, and her brothers, Vernon, Edward, Kenneth, Donald and Charles, all of Newell; her sisters, Mildred Kargl, of Los Angeles, and Ione, Martha, Lucille and Jeanette, all of Newell.

She will be great missed in her home, in the school, and in the church. She had a sunny disposition and made friends easily. "To know her was to love her" (abstract, Newell Mirror, 8-13-1936).