THORSON, Rose Wilhelmina Dorothy (Streich) 1916-2004
THORSON, STREICH, ROSENBERG
Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/19/2009 at 13:25:36
ST. ANSGAR, IOWA — Rose Dorothy (Streich) Thorson, 88, of St. Ansgar, died Monday evening, October 4, 2004, at the St. Ansgar Good Samaritan Center. This was two days short of her 70th wedding anniversary.
Funeral service will be held 10:30 a.m. Saturday at First Lutheran Church in St. Ansgar with the Rev. Robert Porisch officiating. Burial will be at First Lutheran Cemetery in St. Ansgar.
Visitation will be held from 4:30 to 7 p.m. Friday at Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home in St. Ansgar.
Rose Wilhelmina Dorothy Streich was born March 22, 1916, in Grafton, Iowa, daughter of Edna (Rosenberg) and Albert Streich. She was baptized in Grafton Emmanuel Lutheran Church. She attended school in Grafton through the 6th grade, where she was affectionately known as Rosie. Her family then moved to St. Ansgar, where she graduated from St. Ansgar High School in 1934.
On October 6 of this same year, she married Annis Thorson, her husband of 61½ years. They lived on three different farms north of St. Ansgar until 1944, when they moved to the Thorson family farm two miles northwest of St. Ansgar on Highway 105. Rose remained on the farm after Annis’ passing in March 1996, staying there until April 2001. She moved into the Worth Living Center in St. Ansgar at this time. In August 2003, she moved to the St. Ansgar Good Samaritan Center.
Since age 12 she had been a member of First Lutheran Church, where she was both confirmed and married by the Rev. Olaf Langehough. She was a member of the Martha Circle.
Rose was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Annis; all six brothers-in-law; all three sisters-in-law, one niece, and three nephews. Rose was the last living of the nine Ole E. Thorson children and their spouses.
Rose is survived by her two sons, Jerry Thorson and his wife, Kay, of Waverly; and Merlyn Thorson and his wife, Sue, of St. Ansgar. She has six grandchildren, Michelle Sears and her husband, Mike, of Minneapolis, Minn.; Teresa Beverly of San Antonio; Texas; Jon Thorson and his wife, Lise, of Virginia Beach, Va.; Cory Thorson and his wife, Tara, of Minneapolis; Allison Thorson of Cedar Falls; and Greg Thorson of Cedar Falls. She has eight great-grandchildren. She is survived by her sister, Fern Barenz, of Osage; 17 nieces and nephews.
Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home, (641) 713-4920.
[Mason City Globe Gazette]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The photo below includes a St. Ansgar High School Senior class picture (inset) from 1934, and
a photo from a newspaper (perhaps circa 1970).
Credit: Jerry Rachut, for newspaper photo.See Annis Thorson's obituary for a 1984 photo of the couple.
Mitchell Obituaries maintained by Sharyl Ferrall.
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