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SHELQUIST, Hilda (Grant) 1895-1981

GRANT, SHELQUIST

Posted By: County Coordinator (email)
Date: 7/23/2008 at 14:18:00

(Lyon County Reporter - May 18, 1981)

Funeral services for Mrs. Hilda Shelquist, age 85, of Rock Rapids, Lyon county, Iowa, were held this afternoon (Monday, May 18, 1981) in Westminster Presbyterian church in Worthington, Minnesota. Burial was in the Worthington cemetery under the direction of Jongewaard-Roste Funeral Home of Rock Rapids.

She died on Thursday, May 14, 1981, at Merrill Pioneer Community hospital in Rock Rapids.

Hilda Grant was born on July 15, 1895, in Sweden, and came to Wilmont, Minnesota at the age of eight.

She married Gust Shelquist on September 2, 1912, at Worthington and they farmed at Wilmost until 1960 when they moved to Worthington. He died in 1963 and she moved to Rock Rapids three years ago, living at Lyon Manor Care Center.

Survivors include two sons, Alvin, Worthington, and Virgil, The Dalles, Oregon; a daughter, Mrs. Alvin (Jean) Johnson, Rock Rapids; eight grandchildren, and ten great-grandchildren.


 

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