Jacob Amdahl, 1896-1992

AMDAHL

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 7/28/2006 at 07:29:38

Services for Jacob Amdahl, 96, will be held Friday at 1:30 p.m. at Wallingford Lutheran Church with Pastor Virgil Anderson officiating.

Internment will be in the church cemetery with military rites by the Wallingford American Legion. He died Tuesday, Aug. 18, 1992 at Holy Family Hospital in Estherville.

Friends may call at Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Home from 5-8 p.m.

He was born March 3, 1896 at Roland, the son of Knut and Bertha (Jacobson) Amdahl and attended country school. On Sept. 3, 1926 he was united in marriage with Alice Refsell at Estherville. Following their marriage he was a Skelly gas tank man, later the couple farmed in the Wallingford area.

He was one of the last World War One veterans in Emmet County.

He is survived by his wife Alice of Estherville; several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and four sisters.

Contributed by: Ruth Hackett. Source: Estherville Daily News, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa, August 20, 1992.