Eda Duelia Jacobson Fossum 1895-1976

FOSSUM, JACOBSON, PAULSON, KASA, FOHN-HANSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 5/23/2013 at 19:25:49

Eda Fossum
Estherville – Funeral services for Eda D. [Duelia] Fossum, 80, Estherville, will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Estherville Lutheran church with the Rev. Obert Rust officiating and burial at the Wallingford Lutheran Cemetery. She died Feb. 24 at Holy Family Hospital.

Mrs. Fossum was born Oct. 17, 1895 at Estherville to Lars and Kristi Paulson Jacobson and graduated from Estherville High School in 1915. She was married to Arthur M. Fossum Dec. 31,1919 in Estherville and had lived in Estherville all her life. She had been a resident of the Good Samaritan Center since 1973 and was a member of the Estherville Lutheran Church.

Survivors include one son, Edward L. Fossum, San Antonio, Tex.; two grandchildren; one great-grandchild; two sisters, Mrs. J.A. Kasa, Wallingford, and Mrs. H.C. Fohn-Hanson, Lacey, Wash. She was preceded in death by her husband, one son, two grandchildren, one brother and five sisters.

Friends may call at the Henry Funeral Home, Estherville. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, February 26, 1976)