MARKHAM, Agnes Elin (Simonson) 1920-2013

MARKHAM, SIMONSON, PAULSON, KNUDSON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/28/2014 at 19:13:26

#1:

Agnes Markham, age 93, of Charlotte, North Carolina, and formerly of Blooming Prairie, Minnesota, died November 15, 2013.

A Celebration of Life service will be held on Saturday, May 3, 2014 at the First Lutheran Church in Blooming Prairie, beginning with lunch at 12:00 noon. The service will follow at 1:30 p.m. with Rev. Heidi Heimgartner officiating.

The family has requested that friends wear colorful clothing for the service, nothing drab or black.

Interment will be in the Osage City Cemetery, Osage, Iowa.

The family prefers memorials to Hospice and Palliative Care, 1420 East 7th Street, Charlotte, NC, or the First Lutheran Church of Blooming Prairie.

Worlein Blooming Prairie Funeral Home is assisting the family with the arrangements.

Source: Worlein Funeral Home website, 28 APR 2014
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#2, Notes:

Agnes Markham posted to Mitchell 4-28 was

Agnes Elin (Simonson) Markham was born February 23, 1920 in Powhatan Township, Pocahontas County, Iowa, the daughter of Simon Simonson and Eika (Paulson) Simonson.

She married Kenneth John Markham, the son of John Markham and Nellie (Knudson) Markham. Her husband was killed in a one car crash in Minnesota in 1965.

Kenneth Markham and her son Jon Evert Markham are also buried in the Osage Cemetery; see their obits for surviving children etc.

(Credit: D.M. Scott)