Christina "Stena" Hyrup 1885-1958

HYRUP

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 4/5/2011 at 20:31:50

Stena Hyrup Dies at 72
Stena Hyrup, 72, lifetime resident of Estherville, died at 7:30 this morning at the Hofstader Nursing Home where she had resided for the past several months.

She was born here Dec. 31, 1885, her parents having moved to Estherville in 1883. For 21 years she served as custodian at the city hall and before that worked 20 years at the Orleans and eight years at the Gardston Hotel. She started work at the city hall in 1933, just three years after it was built, and retired in 1954.

There are no survivors.

Funeral services are to be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Sternborg Funeral Home, the Rev. Eugene Olson of Union Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery beside her parents. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, November 21, 1958)