MRS. ADOLPH M. (Louise Amanda Amundson) VICK

JOHNSON, AMUNDSON, VICK, GISLESON, LOFTSGARD

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 1/16/2003 at 20:30:46

MRS. ADOLPH M. (Louise Amanda Amundson) VICK

Funeral services for Louise Amundson Vick, 89, were held Friday, March 23, 1984 at 1:30 p.m. at the West Clermont Lutheran Church in Clermont. The Rev. Kim Peterson officiated. The Schutte Funeral Service, Postville, was in charge of arrangements. Burial was at the Pontoppidon Cemetery, rural Decorah.

Louise Amanda Vick, daughter of Hans and Martine (Johnson) Amundson, was born April 19, 1894 east of Clermont in Marion Township, Clayton county. She died March 21, 1984 at Community Memorial Hospital in Postville.

She was baptized at the East Clermont Lutheran Church and confirmed there by the Rev. Theo Bursett. On May 7, 1920 she moved with her family to Clermont where she became a member of the West Clermont Lutheran Church.

Louise studied nursing at the Deaconess Lutheran Hospital in Chicago, completing a year of training when she was called home by an illness in the family. She continued to do private nursing and often accompanied Dr. Jerdee and Dr. Carr on their rounds and would stay in the home for weeks caring for the sick as well as doing chores.

On May 25, 1938 she was united in marriage to Adolph M. Vick, Decorah, and became a member of the Glenwood Lutheran Church. After the death of her husband Louise moved to Clermont where she lived until she could no longer take care of herself. She then became a resident of the Good Samaritan Center in Postville Dec. 7, 1978.

For many years Louise was the parochial teacher, Sunday School Superintendent, Sunday School teacher and directed the choir in both the East and West Clermont Lutheran Churches.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Adolph; her parents; six brothers, Oskar and Edward (who died in Hurdal, Norway), Adolph, Henry, Louie and Ole; and three sisters, Emma Ovidia, Gunda (Mrs. Ole Gisleson) and Emma Josephine (Mrs. Theo L. Loftsgard).

Surviving are her brother, Martin Amundson and his wife, Mabel, and many nieces and nephews.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping from my mother's obituary collection.