Gus Gilbertson, 1866-1941

GILBERTSON

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 2/2/2009 at 19:32:30

GILBERTSON, SWAN LAKE MAN, IS DEAD

Gus Gilbertson, 77, Swan Lake farmer, died this morning [Nov. 24, 1941] at the Coleman Hospital [in Estherville]. He was taken to the hospital Thursday afternoon, when a neighbor, Andros Hansen, who called at Gilbertson's home, found him ill. The bachelor farmer had had a paralytic stroke during the night. Neighbors had seen Gilbertson at work Wednesday.

Surviving Gilbertson are a brother, O. G. Gilbertson of Armstrong, and a sister, Mrs. Henry Mason of Algona. A brother and a sister preceded him in death.

A resident of Emmet county most of his life, Gilbertson came here as a boy with his parents. From 1910 to 1916 he worked in Montana on a railroad, but farmed in Emmet county the rest of his life. He owned the Swan Lake farm on which he lived.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in the Mahlum and Anderson chapel and later Friday afternoon at the Immanuel Lutheran church northeast of Wallingford.

Contributed by: Ruth Hackett. Source: Estherville Daily News, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa, November 24, 1941.