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Eliza Christina Olsen Sorum 1895-1971

SORUM, OLSEN, PAULSON, MADDEN, OLSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 12/29/2012 at 01:02:58

Mrs. Sorum Dies
Mrs. Herman (Eliza) Sorum, 76, Estherville, died at 1:10 a.m. Wednesday at Holy Family Hospital.

Funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Estherville Lutheran Church with the Rev. Stephen Engelstad officiating.

Burial will be in Swan Lake cemetery.

Reese-Henry Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, November 3, 1971)

Mrs. Sorum Rites Friday Afternoon
Mrs. Herman (Eliza Christina) Sorum, 76, Estherville, died at 1:10 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 3, 1971, at Holy Family Hospital following a heart attack.

She was born Oct. 17, 1895, at Estherville to Thorvold and Guro Olsen.

She received her education in a Red Wing, Minnesota and Estherville schools. She was married to Herman Sorum Jan. 6, 1916, in Estherville. She lived in Emmet County all of her life.

Mrs. Sorum was a member of the Estherville Lutheran Church, the American Lutheran Church Women’s Society.

Survivors include her husband, Herman, a resident of the Good Samaritan Center, and one brother, Tom Olsen, Ringsted.

She was preceded in death by her parents and four brothers.

Funeral services will be Friday at 2 p.m. at the Estherville Lutheran Church with the Rev. Stephen Engelstad and the Rev. Oscar Engebretson officiating.

Burial will be in Swan Lake Cemetery near Gruver.

Pallbearers are nephews Merle Sorum, Palmer Paulson, Ronald Olson, Alfred Olson, Arthur Olsen, Alan Madden.

Friends may call at the Reese-Henry Funeral Home in Estherville until noon Friday when the body will be taken to the church. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, November 4, 1971)


 

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