RASMUSSEN, Mabel (CASPERSEN)

CASPERSEN, RASMUSSEN, PETERSEN, GUTTERMAN, BALES, MASTERS

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 5/9/2016 at 16:27:07

Obituary ~ Mabel (Caspersen) Rasmussen
May 15, 1905 ~ February 03, 1996

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
February 06, 1996

Mabel C. Rasmussen, 90, of 1037 19th St. S.W., formerly of Clear Lake, died Saturday (Feb. 3, 1996) at the IOOF Home.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., with the Rev. Nils C. "Chris" Hellevik of Trinity Lutheran Church officiating. Interment will be in the Clear Lake Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today and until time of service on Wednesday at Major Erickson Funeral Home.

Memorials may be given to the Trinity Lutheran Church or KCMR Radio in her memory.

Mabel C. Rasmussen was born May 15, 1905, in Beltrami, Minn., the daughter of Richard and Thressa (Petersen) Caspersen. She grew up and attended schools in the Garner area.

She married Arnold Rasmussen on Sept. 7, 1930, at her parents' farm home south of Ventura. They made their home in Clear Lake.

In 1981, she moved to Shalom Towers in Mason City. She entered the IOOF Home in 1988.

She enjoyed her home, cooking, baking, doing handwork and being with her family.

Mabel was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church, Tina Rebekah Lodge for 70 years and a life member of the American Legion Auxillary, both of Clear Lake.

Mabel was a former member of the Zion Lutheran Church in Clear Lake, Grandmothers Club, Senior Citizens and Danish Sisterhood. She was also a volunteer for the American Red Cross at the IOOF Home.

Survivors include one daughter, Evelyn Gutterman and her husband, Kenneth, of Mason City; two granddaughters, Kay Gutterman of Phoenix, Ariz., and Kim Gutterman of Cedar Falls; one sister-in-law, Margaret Caspersen of Clear Lake; one niece, Karen Bales and her husband, Robert, of Clear Lake; one great-niece, Lisa Masters and her husband, Jason, of Longwood, Fla.; three great-nephews, Todd Bales and Troy Bales, of Phoenix, Ariz., and Trent Bales of La Crosse, Wis.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Arnold, in 1960; and a brother, Chris Caspersen in 1993.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2016