SMALLEY, Marian Lydia (Halverson) 1918-2006

SMALLEY, EVENSON, HALVERSON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/10/2006 at 19:31:15

Funeral services for Marian Lydia Smalley, 87, formerly of Osage, will be held on Friday, May 12, 2006, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Osage, with Rev. Dennis Hanson and Rev. Roy Ott officiating. Interment will be at the Osage Cemetery.

Marian died Friday, May 5, 2006, at the Good Samaritan Center in St. Ansgar.

Marian was born on the family farm near St. Ansgar, June 9, 1918, the daughter of Carl and Sedsel (Evenson) Halverson. She was baptized and confirmed at First Lutheran church in St. Ansgar. Marian graduated from St. Ansgar High School in 1935. She was united in marriage to Maurice Smalley on August 29, 1937 in St. Ansgar. They lived and farmed in Mitchell County. They moved to Osage in 1972. She was a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Osage where all 8 of her children were baptized and confirmed.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Maurice in 1998, three brothers, Ben, Conrad and Harold Halverson; and two sisters Olga Halverson and Millie Neuberger.

Marian is survived by four daughters, Marilyn (Darrell) Fischer of Fresno, Calif., Suzanne (Carroll) Erickson of Owatonna, Minn., Beverly Hamby of Sun City, Ariz., and Barbara (George) Victor of Topeka, Kan.; four sons, Darrell (Sue) Smalley of Edina, Minn., Robert (Marjorie) Smalley of Osage, Ted (Dianna) Smalley of Gretna, Neb., and Russell (Sue) Smalley of Riceville; two sisters, Evelyn (Perry) Brown of Apple Valley, Minn., and Jeannette (Kermit) Halvorson of Arlington, Wisc.; two sisters-in-law, Helen Halverson of Osage and Irene Smalley of Clive; 18 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

Arrangements made by Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home in Osage, (641)732-3706.

[ Mitchell County Press-News online -- Posted May 10, 2006 -- www.mcpress.com ]

PHOTO BELOW IS HER ST. ANSGAR, 1935 HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR CLASS PICTURE.

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