Sonstegard, Emil Selmer 1900 - 1945

SONSTEGARD, HALVERSON, NESTEBY, WALTER, OLSON, OTTESEN, TOLLEFSON, HILBERG, ERICKSON, LOFSTUEN, JONES

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 5/12/2024 at 21:35:39

Clayton County Register, 03 Jan. 1946.

Funeral services for Emil Selmer Sonstegard, 45, of Clayton county, were held at the Witt funeral chapel at 1:15 p.m. Monday, Dec. 31, and at the Marion Lutheran church at Gunder at 2 o'clock, with Dr. S. J. Strandjord officiating. Burial was in the Marion cemetery at Gunder.

Mr. Sonstegard died at the Neal hospital at Elkader following a period of failing health. Death was due to the flu and complications. He was confined to bed eight days.

Emil Selmer Sonstegard was the son of Elling and Sarah Sonstegard. He was born Nov. 08, 1900, in Cavalier county, N.D., and came to Clayton county at the age of seven years. The home was made at St. Olaf, where he spent the rest of his life except the last nine months, when he moved to the farm he bought in Marion township, about 10 miles from Elkader.

He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran church and he received his education in the St. Olaf public school and Waldorf college Decorah.

On. Nov. 27, 1935, he was married to Selma Halverson. To this union one child, Donald Emil, was born, who is now eight years old.

Besides his widow and one child he is also survived by three sisters, Mrs. Alfred Nesteby, Decorah; Mrs. Clifford Walter, Luana; and Mrs. Curtis Olson, Farmersburg, and his aged mother. He was preceded in death by three brothers in infancy.

Pallbearers were Lyle Olson Ray Reierson, Pvt. Millard Christianson, Oscar Possehl, Harrison Wold, and Henry Reierson.

Relatives from a distance who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Nesteby, Lyle, Jimmie and Emmet, and Albert Nesteby, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Ottesen Swen Tollefson, Mrs. I. S. Hilberg, John Erickson and Thomas Lofstuen, all of Decorah; and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Jones of Waukon.