Erickson, Charlotte Gustafson (1881-1942)

ERICKSON, GUSTAFSON, ANDERSON

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 12/12/2020 at 10:52:02

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Mrs. Oscar Erickson Funeral on Sunday

The funeral of Mrs. Oscar Erickson was held on Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at the Stratford Lutheran Church. Short services were held at the home at 1:00 p.m. A large number of relatives and friends were in attendance. The Rev. Carl Erickson and Rev. Buland had charge of the services and burial was in the South Marion Cemetery with Foster in charge. Six cousins, Arnold, Reuben and Anton Sealine, Axel Olson and Fred and Emanuel Lindquist were pallbearers.

Mrs. Erickson was a home loving woman who lived in this community all the sixty years of her life. She devoted this life to the care of her husband, and children, and dispensed gracious hospitality to all who came to her home. She reared a large and successful family and was a faithful woman who met all the responsibilities that came to her in her home, from her family, from her community and from her church.

Charlotte Gustafson, daughter of John and Matilda Gustafson, was born April 5, 1881, near Stratford, where she grew to young womanhood.

Nov. 4, 1908, she married to Oscar Erickson at Stratford and they moved to their farm southwest of Stanhope where they had since lived.

She was preceded in death by her father and one brother, Martin. She leaves her husband, four sons and three daughters, Alice, Elmer, Virgil, Edna May and Roberta of Stanhope, and Herbert and George of Stratford. There are three stepsons, Floyd and Norman of Stratford, and Carl of Stanhope, and one stepdaughter, Mrs. Carl D. Anderson of Stanhope.

She also leaves twelve grandchildren, her mother, Mrs. Matilda Gustafson of Stratford; three brothers, Charlie of Des Moines, Henry and Rudolph of Stratford, and a sister, Mrs. John Erickson of Stanhope.

She was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith and attended church regularly as long as her health permitted.