Gordon Leroy Sandvig 1908-1992

SANDVIG, JACOBSEN, MICKELSON, JOHNSON, THOMPSON, WAGGIE, AANONSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 2/11/2012 at 00:31:17

Gordon Sandvig
Estherville – Services for Gordon L. Sandvig, 84, of Estherville will be held Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Estherville Lutheran Church with Pastor Arlyn Norris officiating. Interment will be in East Side Cemetery. He died Sunday, July 5, 1992 at Good Samaritan Center, Estherville. Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

He was born March 19, 1908 at Graettinger, the son of Sam and Mary (Johnson) Sandvig and attended Graettinger School. On Dec. 2, 1932 he married Matha Jacobsen at Blair, Neb.; on Dec. 21, 1981 he married Agnes Mickelson at Estherville. He lived in Kimballton, Swea City, Wallingford and Estherville and had been a buttermaker and owned and operated a DX gas station in Estherville. He was a member of Estherville Lutheran Church.

Survivors include his wife, Agnes, of Estherville; two step-sons: Corlis Thompson, Madera, Calif. and Jerry Thompson, Estherville; one step-daughter, Barbara Waggie, Bloomington, Minn.; a granddaughter, Robin Sandvig and great-granddaughter, Amber Sandvig; one sister, Erlene Aanonson, Phoenix.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Matha; son, Gary; parents; three sisters and two brothers. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, July 8, 1992)