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Ethel Leola Phipps Bergstrom

BERGSTROM, PHIPPS, MATSON, SMITH, LARSON, KALLENBACH

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 6/15/2006 at 19:41:07

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
June 14, 2006

ETHEL BERGSTROM, Onawa

Ethel Leola Bergstrom, 91, of Onawa died June 1, 2006, at Burgess Health Center in Onawa.

Funeral services were held Monday, June 5, at the First Christian Church in Onawa with Pastor Dennis Olsen officiating. Burial was at Onawa Cemetery.

Ethel Bergstrom was born Jan. 1, 1915, in rural Onawa in Ashton Township to Lee and Mollie Amelia (Matson) Phipps. She attended country schools, graduating from Castana High School. She continued her education by attending extension courses in Denison, where she obtained a teacher’s certificate. She then taught in a country school. On May 18, 1940, she married Fred Edwin Bergstrom at the First Christian Church in Onawa. They farmed throughout their marriage. Following the death of her husband, Ethel continued to operate and manage the farm. She was a member of the Loess Hills Historical Society and the First Christian Church and American Legion Auxiliary, both in Onawa. Ethel also was very active in volunteer activities, including the Onawa Public Library and Burgess Hospital Auxiliary.

She was preceded in death by her husband; one son, Bob; a grandson, Ted Bergstrom; and three younger brothers.

She is survived by three sons, Dr. Richard F. Bergstrom of Fremont, Neb., Dr. Thomas E. Bergstrom of Winterset and John S. Bergstrom of Ithica, N.Y.; two daughters, Patricia Ann Smith of Fort Collins, Colo., and Mary K. Larson of Seattle, Wash.; two brothers, Harold Phipps of Onawa and Ralph Phipps of Iowa City; a sister, Betty Kallenbach of Eugene, Ore.; and nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be directed to the Onawa Public Library or the Burgess Health Center.

Funeral arrangements were handled by Pearson Funeral Home in Onawa.


 

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