LARSON, Lars (1853-1925)

LARSON, FOX, JENSEN, MADSEN

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Date: 7/28/2008 at 21:57:42

OLD RESIDENT OF CRYSTAL LAKE DEAD

Lars Larson Passed Away on Saturday Morning After Three Days Illness

Wife and Seven Children Left To Morurn the Loss of a Loving Father

The community of Crystal Lake was saddened Saturday morning when one of their oldest residents, Lars Larson, passed away after a illness.

Lars Larson was born in Sjelland, Denmark, in June 1853, being next to the youngest in a family of eight children. He never knew the care of a father and mother for both had died before he was seven years of age.

At the age of fourteen he was confirmed in the Lutheran church of Denmark. He married in 1873, taking Minnie Henrietta Madsen for his wife. Came to America in the spring of 1878 and settled in the vicinity of Crystal Lake, where he continued to live until death came with the summons Saturday morning.

Deceased was the father of nine children, one of which died in infancy and a daughter at the age of sixteen. Those surviving are Mrs. Walter C. Fox of Britt, Iowa, Mrs. Carl D. Jensen of Alden, Minn., Julius Jensen of Crystal Lake, Martin Larson of Fenton, Iowa, Mrs. Lawrence Larson of Pine City, Minn., Arthur H. Larson of Corwith, and Otto Larson of Crystal Lake - the last named being twins.

The wife survives with the children named above, also twenty-two grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, a brother Martin Larson at Crystal Lake and a sister Mrs. Jim Hendricks of Rankin, Ill.

He and his good wife were always friends to the orphan and the needy. One of their greatest delights was to extend the hospitality of the home to their friends.

Mr. and Mrs. Larson followed farming for many years. When the Crystal Lake Consolidated School district was formed, Mr. Larson became one of the bus drivers and continued until death. The children he carried all loved him and at his funeral held Monday at the Crystal Lake M. E. church they attended in a body. Passing in review of the body each child dropped a sprig of evergreen upon the casket as a token of their esteem for their faithful friend who had finished his work among them.

Rev. O. Thompson assisted by Rev. Ada Nash, conducted the services. It was one of the largest funerals ever held in Crystal Lake. The body was brought to Britt for burial in Evergreen Cemetery.

Britt News Tribune, January 14, 1925