Elsie Genevieve Amdahl Herum 1903-1989

HERUM, AMDAHL, JACOBSON

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 5/27/2013 at 00:27:23

Elsie Herum
Estherville – Services for Elsie G. [Genevieve] Herum, 85, will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Wallingford Lutheran Church with Pastor Virgil Anderson officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery. She died Friday, March 24, 1989 at Holy Family Hospital.

Friends may call after 3 p.m. Monday, at Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Home.

She was born Dec. 23, 1903 at Dallas, Wis., the daughter of Knut and Bertha (Jacobson) Amdahl and attended High Lake Twp. schools. On May 5, 1926 she was united in marriage with Raymond Herum at Wallingford. The couple farmed in the Wallingford area until his death in May of 1965. She moved into Estherville in 1966 and was employed at Lyon’s Pastry Shop, Good Samaritan Center and did home baking. She was a member of Wallingford Lutheran Church and the Naomi Circle

Survivors include three sons: Ronald, Estherville; Richard and Phil of Wallingford; nine grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two brothers: Jacob Amdahl, Estherville and Orville Amdahl, Kerkhoven, Minn.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; three sisters and two brothers. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, March 25, 1989)