Alice Mabel Tangen 1902-1989

TANGEN, MOE

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 10/6/2012 at 00:47:49

Alice Tangen
Estherville – Services for Alice Tangen, 86, of Estherville who died Sunday, February 26, 1989 at Rosewood Manor Nursing Home, will be held Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Home with Pastors Kermit Rye and Michael Kroona officiating. Burial will follow in Estherville’s Oak Hill Cemetery. Family and friends may call at the funeral home on Monday from 4:00 until 7:00 p.m.

Alice Mabel Tangen was born on October 27, 1902 at Estherville to Simon “Sam” and Anna Marie (Moe) Tangen. She graduated from Estherville High School in 1922 and Fairview School of Nursing in Minneapolis in 1926. She worked as a nurse in Dr. Morton’s clinic for many years until his death in 1957. She then did nursing in private homes until she retired. She has resided at Rosewood Manor since 1981. Miss Tangen never married. She was a member of the Estherville Lutheran Church.

Survivors include a cousin Carl and his wife Elaine of Estherville.

She was presided in death by her parents and a sister Mayme. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, February 27, 1989)