SAMUELSON, Viola Pearl 1906 - 2003

SAMUELSON, MESSER, HILL, NIEDERHUTH, JAMES, WILLICH, DOLLINS

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 11/25/2011 at 22:39:08

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Monday, April 28, 2003

Viola P. SAMUELSON

Viola P. SAMUELSON, 96, of Fairfield, died at 12:20 a.m. Sunday, April 27, 2003, at Jefferson County Hospital.

The funeral will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Behner Funeral Home, with the Rev. Howard Innis officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.

Family visitation will be from 6:30-8 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to First Church of the Nazarene.

Mrs. SAMUELSON was born July 31, 1906, near Rome, Iowa, the daughter of John Elmer and Stella HILL MESSER. She married Ernest V. SAMUELSON June 9, 1928, in the First Lutheran Church parsonage in Fairfield. He preceded her in death.

Mrs. SAMUELSON lived most of her life in the Fairfield community. She graduated from Fairfield High School and attended Parsons College She was a rural teacher in the Jefferson County school system.

Mrs. SAMUELSON was a member of the First Church of the Nazarene.

Survivors include three sons, Kenneth SAMUELSON of St. Paul, Minn., Melvin SAMUELSON and wife Liz of Muscatine and Gary and wife Susan of Fairfield; two daughters, Helen NIEDERHUTH and husband Ed of Stockport and Sharon JAMES and husband Ed of Fairfield; 14 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Gladys WILLICH of Davenport and Esther DOLLINS of Davenport.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; one infant son, Frederick SAMUELSON; four brothers, Everett, Leonard, Glen and Clarence SAMUELSON (sic - MESSER); two sisters, Bessie and Grace; and one daughter-in-law, Jeanette.

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Buried: Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield, in Lot 4th.054 with husband Ernest who died in 1994.