Lloyd N Larsen 1912-2001

LARSEN, HANSON, LINDSTROM

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/28/2008 at 14:18:56

Sioux City Journal
3 December 2001

WHITING, Iowa -- Lloyd Norman Larsen, 88, of Whiting died Friday, Nov. 30, 2001, at Pleasant View Care Center in Whiting.

Services will be 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Rush Family Chapel in Onawa, Iowa, with the Rev. Barb Spaulding officiating. Burial will be in Graceland Cemetery in Sioux City. Visitation will be 5 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Mr. Larsen was born Dec. 19, 1912, on a small farm near Sergeant Bluff, the son of Henry and Christina (Hanson) Larsen. He attended Sergeant Bluff school and later was employed at Cudahy Packing Plant for a short time before driving school bus for Sergeant Bluff schools for 11 years. He enlisted in the U.S. Army on Feb. 19, 1942, and served with the 8th Army landing on Utah Beach and serving in Europe through VE Day. He was discharged on Oct. 17, 1945.

He married Irene Lindstrom on March 20, 1943, in South Sioux City. After the war the couple farmed near Sergeant Bluff until 1952, when they moved to a small livestock farm near Whiting where they resided until 1996 when he became ill.

He was a member of the Disabled American Veterans and American Legion Emery Johnson Post 481 of Whiting.

Survivors include his wife of 58 years; a son and his wife, Arden and Karen of Whiting; a daughter and her husband, Marlys and Jim Goedken of Muscatine, Iowa; a grandson, Justin Goedken of Fort Collins, Colo.; A granddaughter and her husband, Jana and Wes Fowler of Muscatine; a brother, Martin of Cheyenne, Wyo.; and the family dog, Boots.

He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, George, Harry and Leonard; and three sisters, Bertha, Hazel and Dora.