Elsie Kristine Beck Burt 1894-1982

BURT, BECK, RASMUSSEN, PEHRSON, ZOCHERT

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 8/26/2014 at 23:06:56

Elsie Burt
Armstrong – Services for Mrs. Andrew (Elsie) Burt, 87, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Presbyterian Church with Rev. Kent Wever officiating. Interment will be in Armstrong Grove Cemetery. She died Monday [May 3, 1982] in the Valley Vue Nursing Home in Armstrong.

Friends may call at the Henry and Olson Funeral Home in Armstrong after 3 p.m. Wednesday.

Elsie [Kristine] Beck was born Aug. 24, 1894 at Humboldt, the daughter of James and Anna (Rasmussen) Beck. She received her education in the Kossuth County country schools. She was united in marriage to Andrew Burt on March 11, 1914 at her parents’ home in Swea Township. The couple farmed near Armstrong until 1947 when they moved into town and have continued to live since.

Mrs. Burt was a member of the Presbyterian Church and a Fifty Year member of the Royal Neighbors.

Survivors include her husband, Andrew, Armstrong; two daughters, Mrs. Vernon (Leona) Pehrson, Armstrong and Mrs. Sydney (Ella) Zochert, Minneapolis; seven grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; one brother Bill Beck, Humboldt.

She was preceded in death by one grandson; parents; one sister and six brothers. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, May 5, 1982)