Ina Bettea Lundy, 1898-1991

LUNDY, REFSELL

Posted By: Emmet County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 2/17/2009 at 07:28:34

WALLINGFORD -- Services for Ina Bettea Lundy, 92, will be held Monday at 10:30 a.m. at Wallingford Lutheran church with Pastor Virgil Anderson officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery. She died Thursday, Jan. 24, 1991 at Good Samaritan Center [in Estherville.]

Friends may call at Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Home in Estherville from 4 - 9 p.m. Sunday.

She was born Jan. 31, 1898 in High Lake Township, Emmet County, Iowa, the daughter of Ingval S. and Bertha (Nestegard) Refsell and attended country school; completed her high school education in Waldorf Academy in Forest City and Jewell Lutheran Academy in Jewell. Following high school she attended teachers training in Spencer and taught country school for three years. After her marriage Marcy 24, 1920 to Silas Lundy at Wallingford, the couple farmed in Wisconsin four years. In 1924 they moved to Emmet County and farmed in Twelve Mile Lake Township then moved to a farm in Estherville Township. They retired in 1961 and moved into Wallingford.

Survivors include three sons: Harvey and Donald of Estherville and Paul of Wallingford; one daughter Mrs. Ronald (Kathryn) Holmblad, Faribault, Minn.; seven grandchildren; six great grandchildren; one sister Mrs. Jacob (Alice) Amdahl, Estherville.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband who died Jan. l, 1986; one brother and one sister.

Contributed by: Ruth Hackett. Source: Estherville Daily News, Estherville, Emmet County, Iowa, January 26, 1991.