OLAVUS BERENTSEN

BERENTSEN, NIELSEN, ANDERSON

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 11/8/2002 at 15:48:34

Olavus Berentsen

RITES CONDUCTED WEDNESDAY FOR OLAVUS BERENTSEN, 79

Funeral services for Olavus Berentsen, 79, who died Sunday night in Palmer Memorial hospital, were conducted Wednesday afternoon from West Clermont Lutheran church by Rev. Clarence J. Johnson. Interment was in God's Acres cemetery, Clermont, with Burnham-Wood Funeral home in charge.

Pallbearers were David Berget, Robert Schaub, Daryl Sampson, Raymond Erhardt, Rolland Hackmann and Hildmer Berentsen.

Mr. Berentsen was born July 27, 1897, at Stavanger, Norway.

Survivors are his wife, Helen; a daughter, Sylvia, Mrs. Floyd Nielsen, Emerson; a brother, Barney Berentsen, Hiawatha; two sisters, Edna Anderson, Staton Island, N. Y., and Gina Berentsen, Stavanger, Norway; two grandchildren; two great grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping, hand dated 1976, from my mother's obituary collection.