GROTH, Halsten (a.k.a. Holstein) A. 1866-1947

GROTH, LANE, WAHL, TOLLEFSON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 3/30/2010 at 16:04:40

HALSTEN (HOLSTEIN) ASSOR GROTH 1866-1947

Item #1 of 4

St. Ansgar: Holstein Groth, 80, long-time resident of St. Ansgar died at his home at 9 p.m. Wednesday following a stroke suffered during the late afternoon of that day. He was found unconscious by his wife at the foot of the basement stairs.

Surviving are his wife, Nellie; one daughter, Mrs. I. L. Wahl, St. Ansgar; one son; A. H. Groth, Baton Rouge, La.; and also two grandchildren.

Funeral arrangements are incomplete.

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Friday, March 7, 1947]

Transcribed by Diane Scott

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ST. ANSGAR, IOWA -- Funeral services for Holstein A. Groth, 80, will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at the First Lutheran church at St. Ansgar, the Rev. O.A. Langehough officiating. He died Wednesday at his farm home north of St. Ansgar following a stroke.

Surviving are his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Ingvald L. Wahl, of near St. Ansgar, and a son, Hollie, of Auburn, Alabama; two brothers, Thomas A. Groth and Anton A. Groth of St. Ansgar, and a sister, Mrs. Nellie Tollefson, St. Ansgar.

Mr. and Mrs. Groth celebrated their 55th wedding anniversary June 4 last year.

[Mason City Globe Gazette, March 8, 1947]

Transcribed by K. Kittleson

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St. Ansgar: Funeral services for Holstein A. Groth will be Monday at 2 p.m. at the First Lutheran church, St. Ansgar. He spent his entire life in St. Ansgar community. He was born on the farm north of St. Ansgar December 19, 1866. He engaged in farming until he retired to a home in St. Ansgar where he died Wednesday following a stroke.

He married Nellie Regina Lane on June 4, 1891.

He leaves two children; Mrs. Ingwold Wahl, living on farm northwest of St. Ansgar, and Hollie, regional director of animal research at Auburn, Ala., where he resides with his wife and two children, Aaron, and Marjorie Ann.

He also leaves two brothers, Thomas, and Anton, and one sister, Mrs. Nellie Tollefson, all of St. Ansgar. Burial will be in First Lutheran cemetery, St. Ansgar.

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Sunday, March 9, 1947]

Transcribed by Diane Scott
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Funeral services for Halsten A. Groth were held at the First Lutheran church in St. Ansgar on Monday afternoon, March 10, 1947 at 2 o'clock, the Rev. Olaf A. Langehough officiating. He was laid to rest in the Lutheran cemetery north of St. Ansgar.

In a little log cabin on a farm north of St. Ansgar, eighty years ago, on December 18, 1866, a son was born to Assor and Kjirsti Groth, who was baptized Halsten A. The parents of this boy had come with the Rev. Clausen colony in 1853 to make a new home in which to rear a family. He was the third child born to this couple, grew to manhood on the farm and early in life became a tiller of the soil.

Halsten was confirmed in the Lutheran church and was a regular attendant for practically his whole life. He received his schooling in the little stone school house known as the Clyde school, with such teachers as Chrisse Obey and the man who became Judge J.F. Clyde. Later he attended the St. Ansgar Seminary.

Because of his early life in a farm home he was imbued with a desire to own a farm of his own and in the late eighties he realized this dream by securing the farm now known as the Warrington farm.

In 1891 he brought to this farm his bride, Nellie R. Lane, and for over 30 years they lived there and reared their family, two children, Cora M., who is now the wife of I.L. Wahl and lives on a farm northwest of St. Ansgar, and Hollie, or Dr. A. Holland Groth, who is Regional Director on Animal Research for the Southeastern States. Hollie resides at Auburn, Alabama, with his wife, Lillian, a son, Aaron and daughter, Marjorie Ann.

In 1920, after reaching an age when he felt farming was too strenuous, Halsten retired and bought a home in St. Ansgar where he lived until the evening of March 5th, when he suffered a stroke from which he did not recover. He passed away that evening and his life on this earth was ended after many years of labor, upright living, neighborly kindness and of faith in a just God.

Education and good government had his active support. He served on school boards and as township trustee at various times. He was outspoken in his views, but a man whose integrity was never questioned. He was ever interested in farming and in the last years of his life he was an interested attendant of the Vocational Agriculture Night School.

He is survived by his wife, his daughter and son, a grandson, and granddaughter, one sister, Mrs. Nellie Tollefson, and two brothers, Torkel A. and Anton C. and a number of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers at the service included the nephews; Conrad Groth, Adolph Groth, Alton Groth, Ennert Groth, Luther Tollefson and Leland Larson.

[St. Ansgar Enterprise]

Transcribed by Karen Robertson

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#5 - Notes:

Holstein (or Halsten) Groth was born on 18 DEC 1866 (or Dec. 19??) and died on 5 MAR 1947. His parents were Assor Halstensen Groth and Kirsti Jacobsdatter Aslesen. He married Nellie Regina Lane on 4 JUN 1891. Their two children were Cora Mildred and Aaron Holland Lane Groth.

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