Tenner Sylvester Lilland, Sr.

LILLAND, REID, QUAM, SUNDE, GELLINGS, WEIR

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 1/4/2013 at 20:02:30

Tenner Lilland, Sr.
Estherville – Services for Tenner S. [Sylvester] Lilland, Sr., 75, will be at the Estherville Lutheran Church with Pastor Kermit Rye officiating. Interment will be in East Side Cemetery. He died Sunday, July 7, 1991 at the scene of an auto accident near Sherburn, Minn.

Friends may call at Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Home in Estherville from 4:30 – 9 p.m. Thursday.

He was born April 3, 1916 near Armstrong, the son of Ole and Selma (Quam) Lilland, and attended Armstrong and Emmet Consolidated schools and graduated from Maple Hill High School in 1933. On Aug. 29, 1938 he was united in marriage with Marie Reid at Estherville. Following marriage, he worked for Brink Oil Co. several years before starting to farm. He farmed in Emmet County since then. He was a member of the Estherville Lutheran Church.

Survivors include two sons: Larry Lilland, Spirit Lake and Tenner Lelland, Jr. Estherville; three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; three sisters: Mrs. Elvin (Sylvia) Sunde, Estherville; Mrs. Ernie (Lorrene) Gellings, Milwaukee and Mrs. Elmer (Janice) Weir, Gruver.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother and one sister. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, July 11, 1991)