Emil Paulsen 1888-1942

PAULSEN, KETTELSEN, KROEGER, LUND, JACOBSEN

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Date: 5/27/2020 at 05:38:08

26 February 1942 - The Anamosa Journal

OXFORD JUNCTION--Funeral service for Emil Paulsen, 53, was held Sunday afternoon from the home of his daughter, Mrs. Ansen Kettelsen, Toronto, and later from the Federated church at Lost Nation with the Rev. B. J. Swede in charge. Burial was in the Correll cemetery at Bliedorn.

Mr. Paulsen was a farmer who had been living two miles west of Oxford Mills. He had been in ill health for some time and died Friday morning in the Jane Lamb hospital at Clinton.

He was born on a farm near Bliedorn, Sept. 17, 1888, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Paulsen. He was united in marriage to Amanda Kettelsen on Feb. 11, 1913, in Lost Nation.

He is survived by his wife; one daughter, Mrs. Kettelsen, Toronto; three sons, Raymond, DeWitt; Harvey, Miles and Arnold, Waterloo; seven grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Peter Kroeger, Delmar, Mrs. Leo Lund, Osage and Mrs. Julius Jacobsen, Round Lake, Minn.; and two brothers, John, Lost Nation and Henry, DeWitt.