Viola Gilbert Natterstad, 1899-1984

NATTERSTAD, GILBERT

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 10/7/2010 at 16:54:22

ESTHERVILLE – Service for Viola Natterstad, 84, of Estherville will be 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Wallingford Lutheran Church in Wallingford with burial in the church cemetery.

Mrs. Natterstad died Monday at the Holy Family Hospital in Estherville. Visitation will be after 4 p.m. today at Henry & Olson Funeral Home in Estherville and one hour prior to service at the church.

Viola Gilbert was born Dec. 24, 1899, near Wallingford. She attended country schools and Waldorf College in Forest City, Iowa. She taught in country schools in Emmet County before her marriage to Sam Natterstad June 27, 1922, at Wallingford. They farmed west of Wallingford on the same farm for 57 years. He died April 14, 1981. She was a member of the Wallingford Lutheran Church, where she had been a Sunday school teacher. She was also a member of the Ladies Aid.

Survivors include two sons, Vernon of Estherville and Thomas of Woodland Hills, Calif.; one daughter, Mrs. Allen (LaVaune) Glasnapp of Ringsted; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; one brother, Rev. R.W. Gilbert of Boulder, Colo.; one sister, Mrs. Margaret Ladd of El Paso, Texas.

Source: Fairmont Sentinel, Fairmont, Minnesota; December 4, 1984