SEVERSON, Sylvia M. (nee Erion) 1906-2001

RUNYARD, ERION, SEVERSON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 10/21/2009 at 11:45:27

Sylvia M. (Erion) Severson [1906-2001]

Funeral services were held Tuesday, September 4, 2001 at the Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, Osage, for Sylvia M. Severson, age 95, of Osage. Rev. Karen Nichols Dungan officiated and interment was in the Osage Cemetery. She died Sunday, September 2, 2001 at Faith Home in Osage.

She was born April 3, 1906, north of Charles City in Floyd County the daughter of Conrad and Mary Alice (Runyard) Erion. She received her education in rural schools. She married Carl Fredrick Freiberg in 1924. On Dec. 28, 1932 Sylvia married Harold J. Severson in Omaha, Nebraska. They farmed near New Haven. In 1953 and they moved to Osage. Harold died in 1980. Sylvia loved to crochet, cook and read.

Preceding her in death was her parents, Conrad and Mary (Runyard) Erion, her husband Harold in 1980, a daughter Bonnie Wayne in 1973; two brothers and five sisters.

Sylvia is survived by three daughters, Mavis Kilby and husband, Clement of Charles City, Maxine Pattschull and husband, Everett of Charles City and Carmen Angell and husband Keith of Charles City; one son, William Severson and wife Mavis of Washburn; one brother Vern Erion and wife Nola of Sulfur Springs, Texas; 14 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren.

[Mitchell County Press-News, www.mcpress.com -- Posted Sept. 4, 2001]