SKILLINGSTAD, Clara Marie (Erickson)(Myhre) 1877-1965
MYHRE, SKILLINGSTAD, ERICKSON
Posted By: County Coordinator (kermit)
Date: 6/6/2012 at 11:55:34
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Mrs. O. Skillingstad
OSAGE, IOWA — Mrs. Odin Skillingstad, 86, formerly of Osage, died Monday evening at a hospital at Windom, Minnesota, where she had lived for some time.
Rites will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Windom, with burial in a Windom Cemetery, where her first husband, the Rev, O. C. Myhre, is buried.
The Rev. and Mrs. O. C. Myhre lived in Osage between 1920-1941 at which time the pastor was associated with Rock Creek Lutheran Church.
Survivors include her husband, Odin Skillingstad, and four sons, Valgaard, Sigmond and Hilding, all of Rockford, Illinois, and Paul, Columbia, Missouri.
[Mason City Globe-Gazette, Wednesday, May 12, 1965]
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Minnesota Death Certificate Index
SKILLINGSTAD, MRS. CLARA MARIE
Date of Birth: 19 Dec 1877
Place of Birth: MINNESOTA
Mother Maiden Name: ERICKSONcertid# 1965-MN-011129
Date of Death: 10 May 1965
County of Death: COTTONWOOD
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Clara Marie (Hanson) Myhre Skillingstad#3:
Clara Marie Hanson was born December 19, 1877 in Minnesota the daughter of Hans Hanson and Hannah Hilaire (1925 Iowa Census, Osage).
She married Rev. Olaf Carl Myhre, who was born January 18, 1870 in Norway and died September 16, 1948 in Cottonwood Co., Minnesota. (his birth date is from the naturalization record in Mitchell County; date naturalized October 2, 1935).
Her 2nd husband was Odin Severin Skillingstad, who was born September 7, 1875 in Minnesota and died March 12, 1968 in Cottonwood Co. Odin Skillingstads first wife was Martha Mylue (1900 Minnesota marriage record).
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#4:1925 Iowa Census: Osage, Mitchell, Iowa
(a) Rev. Olaf C. Myhre 53 born Norway, parents: Christope Myhre and Mary Michie
(b) Clara Myhre 46 born Minnesota; parents Hans Hanson born about 1849 Norway and Hannah Hilaire
(c) Hilding Myhre, son 18 born abt 1907 Minnesota (Minnesota birth record: Hieding Clement Melchoir Myhre born July 21, 1906 in Windom, Cottonwood, Minnesota to Carl Olaf Myhre and Clara Marie Hanson)
(d) Paul L Myhre born abt 1909 Minnesota
(e)Sigmund O. Myhre 8, born abt 1917 Wisconsin
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Note: Her death record says her mothers’ maiden name was Erickson. The 1925 census has it as Hilaire.(Credit: DM Scott)
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