Andrew Olai Frisvold 1881-1978

FRISVOLD, JACOBSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 5/14/2013 at 01:00:33

Andrew Frisvold
1881-1978
Estherville – Andrew Olai Frisvold, 97, Estherville, died Saturday morning at Holy Family Hospital.

Services for Mr. Frisvold will be 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Estherville Lutheran Church, Estherville, with the Rev. Stan Eyberg officiating. Interment will be in the Wallingford [Lutheran] Cemetery.

Friends may call at the Fuhrman Funeral Home, Estherville, until 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, when the body will be taken to the church.

Mr. Frisvold was born March 17, 1881, near Bergen, Norway, and came to the United States with his parents as a child. The family settled in Walworth, County, S.D., where he received his education.

He was married to Gustie Jacobson at Lemmons, S.D., on Nov. 6, 1927. The couple farmed near Lemmon until 1936, when they moved to a farm near Wallingford. They retired in 1945 and moved into Estherville.

Mr. Frisvold is survived by nieces and nephews. He was the last of his family and was also preceded in death by his wife. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, October 16, 1978)