LUNDSTROM, Arlyn Elwood 1918-2003

LUNDSTROM, WENDORF, WIDGER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/1/2009 at 12:25:57

Arlyn Lundstrom, 85, of Nora Springs, formerly of Waterloo, and Fair Play, Missouri, died Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at the Nora Springs Care Center.

Funeral services for Arlyn Lundstrom will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Celebration First Assembly of God, 745 April Street (Martin Road and 63 South), Waterloo. The Rev. Donald Cox, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, Waterloo.

Friends may call at the Hauser Funeral Home in Charles City from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday and at the church on Saturday an hour prior to the service.

Arlyn Elwood Lundstrom was born March 4, 1918, at Watertown, Minn., the son of Edward and Marie (Wendorf) Lundstrom. He attended the Watertown school and graduated from Central Bible College in Minneapolis was ordained in the mid 1980's. On Sept. 24, 1940, he was united in marriage to Florence Widger at Minneapolis. Arlyn ministered at churches in Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, and Missouri. For 16 years before his retirement he also worked at the Van Etten and Kreig Elementary Schools in Waterloo. He played the guitar and was the song leader for innumerable services. Arlyn was an avid reader and enjoyed fishing, and watching Christian television and listening to Christian radio. Teaching was important to Arlyn as seen in his years of teaching Sunday school.

Living family members include six children, Gerald Lundstrom and special friend Karen Beaudette of Las Vegas, Nev., Jeanne (Mark) Narveson of Nora Springs, Robert Lundstrom and special friend Sharron Langley of Washington, Mo., Ruth (Paily) Paily of Brentwood, Tenn., Marilyn (Michael) Frisbey of Paducah, Ky., and Evelyn (Lyle) Shaulis of Fair Play, Mo.; 14 grandchildren: Paul and Arlyn Lundstrom, Patricia Baxter, Dawn Eoff, David Lundstrom, Santhosh and Salil Paily, Denny, Chad, Ryan and Keith Folken, and Josiah, Jesse, and Hannah Shaulis; seven great grandchildren; and a sister, Gloria (Bud) Vandergon of Maple Lake, Minn.

He was preceded in death by his parents, wife in 1993, a granddaughter, Kathryn Heller in 1994, three brothers, Leslie, Ambrose, and Loyal Lundstrom, and a sister, Helen Widger.