Lena Sevatson 1890-1989

SEVATSON, ELLEFSON, MICKELSON, MARTINSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 5/11/2013 at 19:59:07

Lena Sevatson
Wallingford – Services for Lena Sevatson, 98, will be held Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Chapel in Estherville with the Rev. Virgil Anderson of the Wallingford Lutheran Church officiating. Interment will be in Wallingford Lutheran Cemetery. She died Monday, Feb. 20, 1989 at Good Samaritan Center.

Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Wednesday.

She was born Sept. 22, 1890 at rural Wallingford, the daughter of Sevat and Gunhild (Mickelson [Ellefson]) Sevatson, and attended rural Emmet County Schools. She never married, and living her entire life on the same farm northwest of Wallingford. She has been a resident at Good Samaritan Center the past 15 years. She was a member of the Wallingford Lutheran Church.

Survivors include one brother, Lewis Sevatson, Wallingford, many nieces and nephews, including Mildred Martinson of Estherville.

She was preceded in death by her parents; five brothers and three sisters. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, February 22, 1989)