Retta Solmonson Sorum, 1888-1988

SORUM, SOLMONSON

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 4/4/2009 at 14:04:35

ESTHERVILLE -- Services for Retta Lavina Sorum, 100, will be held Friday at 10:30 a.m. at Estherville Lutheran Church with Pastors Kermit Rye and Michael Kroona officiating. Interment will be in Swan Lake Township Cemetery. She died Tuesday, Dec. 13, 1988 at Good Samaritan Center.

Friends may call at Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Home from 4 - 9 p.m. Thursday.

She was born Dec. 13, 1888 at Gruver, the daughter of Samuel and Emma (Johnson) Solmonson and attended rurual Emmet County schools and Waldorf College in Forest City.

On April 25, 1909 she married Jacob Taylor at her parents' farm home. They lived in Gruver until 1921 then moved to Estherville. She later married Clarence Sorum at Worthington, Minn. They lived in Estherville. She moved into Good Samaritan Center after Mr. Sorum's death. She was a member of Estherville Lutheran Church.

Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Leslie (Vivian) Samp, Ottawa, Ill., two sons Orval Taylor, Estherville and Evan Taylor, Sioux City; nine grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren, and 5 great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by both husbands, one son, parents and four brothers.

Contributed by: Ruth Hackett. Source: Estherville Daily News, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa; December. 14, 1988.