Berget Sando, 1850-1924

SANDO

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 3/14/2009 at 14:42:45

PIONEER LADY IS CALLED TO FINAL REWARD

Mrs. T. O. Sando Dies at Her Home in Wallingford

OVER 50 YEARS HERE

For several weeks, Mr. and Mrs. Tollef O. Sando have been very low and on Monday afternoon [7 Apr 1924], Mrs. Sando passed quietly away. For years she had been a sufferer with gall stones and this with the complications of old age caused her death. She had made her home in this county since a young girl coming here from Norway with her parents.

In 1871 she was married to Mr. Sando, and to them were born nine children: Barbara, wife of G. Gilbert; Randina and Beatta of Wallingford, Herman of Jackson, Minn.; Erick of Ringsted; Helen, Otto, Emma (Mrs. Anton Stoery) and Ferdinand, all deceased.

For a number of years after their marriage, Mr. and Mrs. Sando lived with their family on a homestead in Estherville township which Mr. Sando had taken from the government. This was later sold and a farm of 280 acres in Twelve Mile Lake township was purchased. In 1914 they retired from the farm and moved to Wallingford where they have since made their home. Their daughters, Randina and Beatta, have cared for them during these years.

Mrs. Sando was a faithful member of the Lutheran church, a devoted mother, wife and homemaker. The many admirable qualities that enabled her to "carry on" through the vicissitudes of pioneer home building made her a favorite among her circle of friends. She will be sorely missed by them as well as by her own immediate family and relatives.

Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Wallingford church and interment made in the cemetery at that place.

Contributed by: Ruth Hackett. Source: Vindicator and Republican, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa, April 9, 1924.