CARSTENSEN, Edna C.

CARSTENSEN, KRUSE, YOUTZ, KOSKI

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 12/8/2018 at 06:23:20

Obituary ~ Edna C. Carstensen
December 25, 1903 ~ October 20, 1996

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
October 22, 1996

MASON CITY --- Edna C. Carstensen, 92, of 302 Second St. N.E., died Sunday (Oct. 20, 1996) at the Good Shepherd Nursing Home.

Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Trinity Lutheran Church, 213 N. Pennsylvania Ave., with the Rev. Ken Hatland officiating. Interment will be in Center Grove Cemetery, Bryant.

There will be no visitation. The body was cremated.

Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., is in charge of arrangements.

Memorials may be given to the Edna Carstensen Memorial Fund at NIACC or Trinity Lutheran Church.

Edna Carstensen was born Dec. 25, 1903, the daughter of Frederick Herman and Amelia D.C. (Kruse) Carstensen in Washta.

Edna graduated from Preston High School, receiving her teaching certificate at the Iowa State Teachers College in Cedar Falls, and her masters degree from the University of Iowa. She did undergraduate work at the University of Minnesota, the University of Chicago, the University of Innsbruck, Austria, Iowa State University, University of Colorado and the University of Washington.

Edna started her teaching career in the rural schools in Jackson County, Goose Lake, Williamsburg, Strawberry Point, Perry and then to Mason City in 1942. She taught at NIACC, Mason City Junior College, Mason City High School and Monroe Junior High School. Edna helped to pioneer educational TV with an 18-week program on KGLO-TV. She also developed a reading program for the Perry school system.

She was an active member of International and National Education programs. She was a member of the NEA, ISEA, Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority, Mason City Retired Teachers, Trinity Lutheran Church and Miriam Circle, AAUW, Maria Mitchell Study Club, Mason City Women's Club, International Reading Association, TEPS State and National Commission.

She also developed a TV series for adult reading improvement with other college teachers.

She traveled worldwide giving educational seminars and for enjoyment.

She is survived by two sisters, Ruth Youtz and her husband, Arthur, of Maquoketa, and Elvira Koski of Maquoketa; and one brother, Louis Carstensen and his wife, Thelma, of Long Grove; nine nieces and nephews; and six great nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Vernon and Theodore; and one sister, Elfreda.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2018