ASHLAND, Eleanor 1917 - 1994

ASHLAND, JOHNSON, HEGGEN, FESSLER, ENGSTROM, GATES, LERDAL

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 5/14/2014 at 15:19:33

ELEANOR ASHLAND

CLEAR LAKE – Eleanor Ashland, 76, of 1010 Ninth Ave. S., died Saturday (Jan. 29, 1994) at North Iowa Mercy Health Center East, Mason City.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Zion Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Kermit Roisen, officiating. Burial will be at Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City.

Visitation is after 4 p.m. today at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St., and one hour prior to the service at the church on Tuesday. Memorials may be made to Zion Lutheran Church or Handicap Village in memory of Eleanor Ashland.

Eleanor Ashland was born July 16, 1917, near Renwick, the daughter of Ole and Ellen (Johnson) Heggen. She married Dean Ashland on Nov. 9, 1940, in Eagle Grove.

Eleanor grew up on a farm near Renwick and was baptized and confirmed at Lake Christian Church, rural Renwick. She graduated from Renwick High School. After their marriage, she and her husband lived in Clear Lake until 1955, when they moved to a farm west of Northwood. After her husband’s death in 1964, she worked for nine years at the Northwood Nursing Home. In 1974, she returned to Clear Lake where she worked for 16 ½ years at handicap Village until retiring in 1992. She was very dedicated to her family, church and to her work.

She was an active member of Zion Lutheran Church and the Hope Circle, and the Clear Lake Senior Citizens Center.

Survivors include one daughter, Janet Fessler and her husband, Jerry, Thief River Falls, Minn.; one son, Marlyn Ashland, Clear Lake; two sisters, Grace Engstrom, Renwick, and Beverly Gates and her husband, Bud, Goldfield; one granddaughter, Jana Fessler, Evansville, Ind.; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one brother, Charles Heggen; and one sister, Margaret Lerdal.