Simon Larsen Hagedorn, 1885-1927

HAGEDORN, WALSTROM, MORTENSEN, LUNDBECK, BECK

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 6/12/2012 at 18:56:59

Friends and relatives were shocked to hear of the untimely death of Mr. Simon L. Hagedorn which occurred on Tuesday morning. Mr. Hagedorn had been sick about a week with pneumonia but was thought to to improving when death came suddenly. No arrangements for funeral have been made at the time of this writing.

Source: News-Herald, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; July 14, 1927.

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Death claimed another long time resident of Clay county when Mr. Simeon Larsen Hagedorn died at his home in Clay township, three and one-half miles southwest of Royal, Tuesday morning, July 12, 1927, at seven o'clock. He had been sick for one week with pneumonia. At the time of his death he was forty-one years old.

Funeral services will be held this Thursday at the Hagedorn home at one o'clock and at the Bethlehem Lutheran church near Royal at two o'clock. Rev. N.C. Carlsen, pastor of the Bethlehem Lutheran church, will officiate. Burial will be made in Willow Creek cemetery south of Royal.

Simeon Larson Hagedorn was born August 25, 1885, in Blackhawk county near Cedar Falls, Iowa. He came to Clay county with his parents in 1887 where had since lived. He was united in marriage to Miss Eda Walstrom, June 8, 1910, the ceremony taking place east of Royal. Mr. and Mrs. Hagedorn had lived in Clay township since their marriage. Two children were born to this union: Raynold, now age 15, and Kenneth, age 8 years.

Mr. Hagedorn was a man, honest and upright in whatever he did. He proved himself to be a loyal friend, a good neighbor and husband and father. He was a member of the Bethlehem Lutheran church and was a faithful member although he was often unable to attend because of failing health. Mr. Hagedorn was one of Clay township's most industrious farmers and took an active interest in the affairs of the day.

He is survived by his wife and sons, Kenneth and Reynold, and father, Louis Hagedorn, of Royal, his mother having preceded him in death February 17, 1919, two brothers, Louis Hagedorn, southwest of Royal, and Peter Hagedorn, southeast of Royal, three sisters, Mrs. M.E. Mortensen, east of Royal, Mrs. Henry Lundbeck, southeast of Royal, and Mrs. Nathaniel Beck, south of Royal, other relatives and a host of friends in the community in which he lived.

Source: News-Herald, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; July 14, 1927.

Interment in Willow Creek cemetery
 

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