HALVORSON, Lydia Catherine 1893-2000

HALVORSON, LARSEN, LARSON, QUAM

Posted By: Karen L. Robertson
Date: 4/30/2009 at 19:41:26

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LYDIA CATHERINE HALVORSON

107 Years 5 months 2 days

BORN
July 10, 1893
Bolan, Iowa

DIED
October 12, 2000
Austin, Minnesota

SERVICES
October 16, 2000 1:30 P.M.
First Lutheran Church
St. Ansgar, Iowa
Officiant -- Rev. Robert Porisch

INTERMENT
First Lutheran Cemetery
St. Ansgar, Iowa

Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home
St. Ansgar, Iowa
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LYDIA CATHERINE LARSEN HALVORSON

ST. ANSGAR - Lydia Catherine Larsen, Halvorson, 107, of St. Ansgar, died Thursday (Oct. 12, 2000) at the Burr Oak Nursing Home in Austin, Minn.

Funeral services will be held 1:30 p.m. Monday at the First Lutheran Church in St. Ansgar, with the Rev. Robert Porisch officiating. Burial will be in the First Lutheran Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Schroeder & Sites Funeral Home in St. Ansgar, (641) 736-4920.

[Globe Gazette, Oct. 14, 2000 -- www.ncigs.org ]

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HALVORSON, Lydia C. 1893-2000

Funeral services for Lydia Catherine Larsen Halvorson, 107, who died Thursday, October 12, 2000, at the Burr Oak Nursing Home, Austin, Minnesota, were held Monday, October 16 at the First Lutheran Church here with the Rev. Robert Porisch officiating.

Lydia Catherine Larsen Halvorson was born July 10, 1893 on a farm near Bolan, Iowa. She was the daughter of Jens and Kirsten Larsen and one of 11 children. She attended the rural school near Bolan. In 1912 she graduated from St. Ansgar Seminary and taught school for four years.

September 28, 1916, she was united in marriage to Clarence Halvorson. They farmed on a farm near Park Rapids, Minnesota for a few years, returning to the St. Ansgar area. She was a member of the First Lutheran Church and the Ladies Aid and Martha Circle, and to a birthday club of several friends. She was honored on her 107th birthday in July. She moved from the farm near St. Ansgar in 1968 to a house in Austin, Minnesota and entered Burr Oak Manor in November 1989 where she resided until her death.

Lydia is survived by sons, Alton and Allene of St. Ansgar, and Gerald and Betty of Casa Grande, Arizona; a daughter, Esther Quam of Minnetonka, Minnesota; 14 grandchildren; 38 great-grandchildren; 12 great-great-grandchildren; and nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Clarence, one grandson, a son-in-law, her parents, five brothers and five sisters.

Burial was in the First Lutheran Cemetery, St. Ansgar.

[ St. Ansgar Enterprise ]

Transcribed by Karen Robertson

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Social Security Death Index shows:

LYDIA HALVORSON; born: 10 Jul 1893; died: 12 Oct 2000 (Verified), living at last residence: ZIP code 50472 (Saint Ansgar, Mitchell, Iowa); SSN: 469-76-6903 issued in Minnesota.

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PHOTO OF LYDIA HALVORSON FROM 1970 DIRECTORY OF FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH, ST. ANSGAR.

Biographical Newspaper article about Lydia - 1993
 

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