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Erickson, Oscar Allen 1919-2007

SATHER, ERICKSON, FRESE, COLBY, JOHNSON, DAVIDSON, ANDERSEN

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Date: 11/9/2007 at 11:14:01

Oscar Allen Erickson

Funeral service were held August 15, at 9 a.m. at the Leonard Funeral Home, Monona, with interment at Osage City Cemetery, Osage, IA. The Leonard Funeral Home, Monona, IA, was in charge of arrangements.

Oscar Allen Erickson, 87, Monona, Iowa, died Saturday, August 11, 2007, at Prairie Maison Care Center, Prairie du Chien, WI, following a brief illness. He was born on September 21, 1919, at Centerville, South Dakota to John and Anna (Sather) Erickson.

At age six, after losing both parents, a brother and sister, Oscar and one younger brother and sister were placed in the Beloit Children's Home at Beloit, IA. At age fifteen, he was sent out to work and make a home with a family at Osage. After a few months, the Carl Hartwig family took him in and sent him to high school. Following graduation in 1942, Oscar enlisted for four years with the United States Marine Corps. He served in the South Pacific with three major campaigns.

On January 9, 1945, Oscar was united in marriage to Fern Frese. To this union, two children were born.

Following discharge from the service, Oscar was County Treasurer of Mitchell County. Later he was employed by Carnation Farms in Linn and Clayton Counties and in 1973 he was worked for Swiss Valley Farms as Fieldman.

Oscar was an avid hunter and fisherman, loved hunting mushrooms and gathering nuts in the fall.

Survivors include his wife of sixty-two years, Fern Erickson, Monona; two children, Karen (Bruce) Colby, Gladwater, TX, and Wayne (Terri) Erickson, Cedar Rapids; three grandchildren, Blair (Angeles) Colby and Brett (Danielle) Colby and Erin (Brent) Yakish; two great-granddaughters, Ashlyn Yakish and Brady Colby; one great-grandson, Christian Colby; one sister, Jenny Johnson, Fairbault, MN, and one brother, Edwin Erickson, Denver, CO.

Oscar was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Engolf, Clarence and Jalmar; four sisters, Dagney Davidson, Edna Andersen, Gudrun Anderson and a baby sister in infancy.

The above was extracted from a funeral pamphlet.


 

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