Gilbert Amdahl, 1893-1947

AMDAHL

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 7/28/2006 at 07:27:33

G. Amdahl, Wallingford, Dies at 54
Patient in Vet Hospital 13 Months

Gilbert M. Amdahl, 54, of Wallingford died Thursday afternoon [Oct 16, 1947] at the Veteran's hospital at Des Moines. He had been a patient for nearly 13 months.

Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Wallingford Lutheran church and burial will be at Riverside cemetery.

Gilbert Martin Amdahl, son of Knute and Bertha Amdahl, was born April 7, 1893, at Roland, Iowa. While he was a young boy his family moved to Wisconsin where they lived until 1909 when they moved to High Lake township, Emmet county.

Mr. Amdahl served in World War I. Later he worked on farms and also as a painter. In 1923 he purchased an acreage at Mud Lake where he lived until July 1, 1946, when he was seriously hurt in an automobile accident, fracturing several vertebrae and becoming entirely paralyzed.

He was a member of the Wallingford Lutheran church.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Kermit, and is survived by two brothers Jacob of Wallingford and Orville of Kerbhaven, Minn., and four sisters, Mrs. Theodore Torreson of Graettinger, Mrs. Joe Herum of Bricelyn, Minn., Mrs. Raymond Herum of Wallingford and Mrs. Theodore Johnson of Willmar, Minn.

Contributed by: Ruth Hackett. Source: Estherville Daily News, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa, October 17, 1947.