SEVERSON, Sylvia M. (nee Erion)(Freiberg) 1906-2001

SEVERSON, RUNYARD, ERION, FREIBERG, WAYNE, KILBY, PATTSCHULL, ANGELL

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 10/21/2009 at 11:45:54

Sylvia M. (Erion) Severson [1906-2001]

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SYLVIA M. SEVERSON

OSAGE - Sylvia M. Severson, 95, died Sunday (Sept. 2, 2001) at Faith Home in Osage.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, 702 State St., Osage, with the Rev. Karen Nichols Dungan officiating. Interment will be in Osage Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 6:30 to 7:30 today at the Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, (641) 732-3706.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, Sept. 3, 2001 ]
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Funeral services were held Tuesday, September 4, 2001 at the Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, Osage, for Sylvia M. Severson, age 95, of Osage. Rev. Karen Nichols Dungan officiated and interment was in the Osage Cemetery. She died Sunday, September 2, 2001 at Faith Home in Osage.

She was born April 3, 1906, north of Charles City in Floyd County the daughter of Conrad and Mary Alice (Runyard) Erion. She received her education in rural schools. She married Carl Fredrick Freiberg in 1924. On Dec. 28, 1932 Sylvia married Harold J. Severson in Omaha, Nebraska. They farmed near New Haven. In 1953 and they moved to Osage. Harold died in 1980. Sylvia loved to crochet, cook and read.

Preceding her in death was her parents, Conrad and Mary (Runyard) Erion, her husband Harold in 1980, a daughter Bonnie Wayne in 1973; two brothers and five sisters.

Sylvia is survived by three daughters, Mavis Kilby and husband, Clement of Charles City, Maxine Pattschull and husband, Everett of Charles City and Carmen Angell and husband Keith of Charles City; one son, William Severson and wife Mavis of Washburn; one brother Vern Erion and wife Nola of Sulfur Springs, Texas; 14 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren, and six great-great-grandchildren.

[Mitchell County Press-News, www.mcpress.com -- Posted Sept. 4, 2001]

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HOUSEWIFE LOSES
FINGERS PLAYING
WITH POWDER CAP

Mrs. H. Severson Picks
Explosive with Pin
Setting Off Charge

Mrs. Harold Severson lost three fingers on her left hand and received other injuries Monday afternoon, when a dynamite cap she was holding exploded.

Mrs. Severson says she has no idea how the cap got into her house. She picked it up and stood idly picking at it with a needle when it exploded. The charge tore her left hand in which she was holding the cap in such a manner that amputation of three fingers - her thumb, first and second digits, was necessary, and the palm of the hand was badly mangled.

Part of her clothing was torn from her by the explosion and she received powder burns on her neck and chest.

Mrs. Severson and 14-month old daughter were alone in the home at the time of the accident as Mr. Severson had gone to bring the two other children from school. Mrs. Severson, in spite of her pain, managed to call over the telephone for help, and several neighbors, hearing her, came at once to the farm.

Harold Sullivan took her to Nissen Hospital from the highway in his car after Harold Schultheis had taken her that far by sleigh.

It is now believed that the dynamite cap was one of several that had been used several years ago and had been placed in what was thought to be a safe place in the milk house. In some way they had become scattered and the children, not knowing what they were, had brought one into the house, where it was picked up by Mrs. Severson.

The accident is the second in the family within a short time, Billy, the 7 year old son, broke bones in a leg in a fall last December, and is just recovered. The children are being cared for by their grandmother, Mrs. Henry Severson, where two of Mrs. Severson's children by a previous marriage make their home.

[Mitchell County Press, March 8, 1945]