GUNNARSLI/TORGERSON, Lars or Louis 1879-1904

GUNNARSLI, TORGERSON

Posted By: Karen L. Robertson (email)
Date: 4/10/2010 at 16:51:46

[NOTE: Lars was born February 26, 1879 in Skafså, Mo, Telemark county, Norway. Parents: Tallef Tarjesen Gundersli and his wife Ragnhild Olsdatter.

(Source: Parish records for Mo, Telemark

Tove DJ]

The death of Lars Gunnarsli, February 28, 1904 brought great grief to his relatives and many friends here at St. Ansgar. Mr. Gunnarsli, better known here as Louis Torgerson, was a young man endowed with rare abilities and of a noble character. He was studying for the ministry and had just one year left.

He was born in Telemarken, Norway, February 26, 1879. He came to Forest City, Iowa in 1894; attended the St. Ansgar public schools the next year. He attended the St. Ansgar Seminary two years. Next year he entered the collegiate department of the U.C. Seminary at Minneapolis. He graduated from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., in 1902, and entered the Theological Seminary the next fall. He was taken sick and had to leave school shortly before last Christmas. He stayed with his uncle near Forest City. He was recovering, as it seemed, from consumption, when he suddenly had a relapse and died from a combination of ailments. He leaves two sisters here in St. Ansgar and parents and near relatives in Norway. Their loss is great, but their loss is His gain. May this thought console them in their bereavement.

RESOLUTIONS

Whereas, it has pleased God in his infinite wisdom to remove to His Heavenly home our beloved friend, Lars Gunnarsli, a former student of this school, whose noble character and amiable disposition we so highly esteem, be it.

Resolved, that we, the faculty and students of St. Ansgar Seminary assembled, express to those near and dear to him our heartfelt sympathy in their bereavement, hoping they may find consolation in Him who comforts the afflicted and consoles the sorrowing.
Committee
Henry O. Bjorlie
Carl O. Halvorson
Adolph S. Groth

St. Ansgar Enterprise