Hattie S. Anderson Knutson 1897-1970

KNUTSON, ANDERSON, TOKHEIM, MUNDELL

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 5/27/2014 at 22:26:44

Former Area Resident Dies; Services Set
Graveside services for a former area resident, Mrs. Hattie Knutson, 72, who died Sunday [May 3, 1970] in Denver, Colo., will be at Palestine Lutheran Cemetery at Dolliver, 2 p.m. on Wednesday.

She was born July 3, 1897, in Estherville to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Anderson. She was educated in the rural Emmet County schools.

On March, 1917, she was married to Kenneth Knutson at Palestine Lutheran Church north of Dolliver. They farmed after their marriage west of Dolliver until 1923 when they moved to Des Moines. Knutson died in 1938. In 1954, she moved to Denver, Colo., to live with a daughter.

Survivors include one son, Gerald, of Alabama; and one daughter, Mrs. Lloyd (Margery) Tokheim of Denver, Colo.; five grandchildren; three brothers, Albert Anderson, of Ceylon, Minn., Bernie and John Anderson, both of Fairmont, Minn.; two sisters, Mrs. Alice Mundell of Chatfield, Minn., and Mrs. Mabel Anderson of Seattle, Wash.

Her parents, husband and two brothers preceded her in death.

Visitation will be held at the Reese-Henry Funeral Home in Estherville after 8:30 a.m. Wednesday morning until 11 a.m. at which time the body will lie in state at the Palestine Lutheran Church until 1:30. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, May 5, 1970)