TOOTHILL, Loretta R. 1887-1984
TOOTHILL, CHRISTENSEN, ARESON
Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 12/20/2009 at 17:52:28
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Loretta Toothill Rites
Held in St. Ansgar
Friday, June 15Funeral services were held Friday, June 15 [1984] at the Schroeder and Sites Funeral Home in St. Ansgar with burial at St. Ansgar Cemetery, Reverend Thomas Woodin of the United Methodist Church, Cresco, officiated.
Loretta R. Toothill was born February 11, 1887 in St. Ansgar to Peter and Marie Areson Christensen. She attended area schools. She married and lived in Waterloo for several years.
After the death of her husband she moved to Chula Vista, California where she was employed as a seamstress. Loretta married John Toothill and after his death April 15, 1953, she moved to Pasadena, California to live with her sister, where she lived for a number of years. In 1964 she moved back to St. Ansgar for one year. She then moved to Waterloo and lived with her niece, Loretta Hunter. After the death of her niece she moved to Janesville, Wisconsin in January of 1984 and resided in a nursing home there. Loretta died in Janesville June 10, 1984.
She was peceded in death by her parents, both husbands, three brothers and six sisters.
She is survived by two nephews, Gordon Christensen of Janesville, Wisconsin and Clarence Enneberg of Austin, Minnesota.
(St. Ansgar Enterprise – from St. Ansgar Museum Collections)
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#2:Funeral services were held on Friday, June 15, 1984, at Schroeder and Sites Funeral Home in St. Ansgar for Loretta R. Toothill. Rev. T. Woodin of the United Methodist Church in Cresco officiated at the service with burial in the St. Ansgar Cemetery.
Loretta R. Toothill was born on February 11, 1887, in St. Ansgar, to Peter and Marie Areson Christensen. She attended area schools and married and lived in Waterloo for several years. After the death of her husband she moved to Chula Vista, California, where she was employed as a seamstress.
Loretta married John Toothill and after his death on April 15, 1953 she moved to Pasadena, Calif., to live with her sister, where she lived for a number of years. In 1964 she moved back to St. Ansgar for one year. She then moved to Waterloo and lived with her niece, Loretta Hunter. After the death of her niece she moved to Janesville, Wisconsin, in January of 1984 and resided in a nursing home there. She died in Janesville on Sunday, June 10, 1984.
She was preceded in death by her parents, both husbands, three brothers, six sisters and one niece.
Survivors include two nephews, Gordon Christensen of Janesville, Wisconsin, and Clarence Enneberg of Austin, Minnesota.
[ Mitchell County Press, June 27, 1984 ]
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