Mrs. Manda MITSVEN ca 1887-1965

MITSVEN, KINSETH, WATNEM, DIPPEL, GUGGISBERG, ESPE, ENGER, PEDERSON, ROBERT, PARSONS, SELVIK, BOLL, DOURTE

Posted By: Ruth Tower (email)
Date: 11/30/2005 at 11:30:34

Funeral services for Mrs. Manda Mitsven, 78, were conducted Monday at 2 p.m. in St. Olaf Lutheran Church, Bode, by the Rev. Norman Johnson. Burial was in the Bode Cemetery.

Mrs. Mitsven died unexpectedly Friday at her home. The former Manda Kinseth, she was born and reared at Bode and in 1905, married Anton Mitsven here. He preceded her in death.

Surviving are seven children, Mrs. Percy Watnem of Ottosen, Mrs. Louis Dippel of Belmond, Mrs. John Guggisberg of Fort Dodge, Mrs. Bethel Espe, Harlan and George Mitsven, all of San Diego, Calif., and Alton Mitsven of Bode; 11 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren.

Also surviving are 10 brothers and sisters, Mrs. Laura Enger, Edwin, Emit and Theodore Kinseth, all of Bode, Mrs. Othelia Pederson of Hallock, Minn., Mrs. Ralph Robert of Belmond, Mrs. Cora Parsons of Humboldt, Mrs. Hilda Selvik of Owatonna, Minn., Mrs. Walter Boll of Marble Rock and Mrs. Ruth Dourte of Wenatchee, Washington.

(Unnamed, undated--except for handwritten "Oct. 1965"--newspaper clipping)