Nordblom, Rosina Monson (1869-1918)

NORDBLOM, MONSON, JOHNSON, DAHL

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

Stratford Courier
March 14, 1918

After being for many weeks a patient and constant sufferer, Mrs. Rosina Nordlbom passed away peacefully last Thursday morning, March 7. Five weeks ago she was stricken with paralysis. For a time she seemed to improve and then suffered a second and third stroke. From the last one she was conscious only at short intervals. All the care and love that skilled physicians and an anxious household could devise and apply for her comfort and assistance were brought into play, but the fiat of Him who rules our incoming and outgoings had been issued and despite the prayers and entreaties of all who knew and loved her, their appeals were overruled and before the beautiful morning was kissed by the rising sun, the sufferer's spirit took its flight to that home the Christian believes is the fulfillment of the life everlasting.

Deceased was born on August 15, 1869 at Swede Bend, Webster county. She was 48 years, 6 months and 20 days old on the day of her death. She was united in marriage to William Nordblom on June 16, 1892. Six years later he passed to his reward. Two children - a son, Cyrus, and a daughter, Miss Esther, were born to them. Besides the daughter and son, there are left to mourn a mother, grandmother, a brother, Ernest Monson of Stratford, two sisters, Mrs. Lydia Johnson and Mrs. Andrew Dahl of Wilmar, Minn., and numerous other relatives and friends.

She was a faithful member of the Methodist church for thirty years which she joined when 18 years of age. She had taught a Sunday school class ever since she moved to Stratford from the farm.

The last services were held at the local M.E. church Sunday afternoon, Revs. Pharo and Jenson officiating. Songs were touchingly rendered by the church choir in which her voice had so many times been used in praising her God or in singing for some one who had completed life's journey just as now she had completed her journey on earth. The flowers were many and beautiful and she seemed to rest so peacefully among them. Flowers seem to be our best emblem we have to express our love for we wreathe them around the cradle, the marriage altar and the tomb. Thus would we leave her, and in memory keep her as sweetly reposing among the beautiful and fragrant flowers.

The remains were laid to rest beside those of her husband in the South Marion cemetery.

Those from out of town who attended the funeral were: Mr. and Mrs. A.J. Dahl and Ernest Johnson of Wilmar, Minn.; Miss Violet Bergquist of Atlanta, Nebr.; Herbert, Oscar, Wesley, Laurence, Lloyd and Miss Leona Swanson, Mrs. A.J. Nordblom, Mrs. August Anderson and Miss E. Schill of Harcourt.