Julia Carlson 1860 - 1932

CARLSON, CHRISTIANSON

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Date: 1/17/2016 at 17:36:22

Onawa Sentinel
15 September 1932

Former Onawa Resident Dies in S.C.
Funeral Services Held at Trinity Lutheran Church Last Sunday

Services were held last Sunday afternoon for Mrs. Julia Carlson at the Trinity English Lutheran church of Onawa. Mrs. Carlson had been an invalid for 29 years and for the past nine months had been confined to her bed. She went to sleep in the Lord on Friday morning, Sept. 9th at the home of her son J. O. Carlson of Sioux City.

Services were held at the Carlson home in Sioux City by the Rev. N. A. Larsen of Sioux City. The services at the church in Onawa were conducted by the Rev. O. B. Anderson, pastor of the local church. Interment was at the Onawa cemetery.

Julia Christianson was born in Cambridge, Wisconsin May 3, 1860, being 72 years and 4 months at the time of her death. At the age of 8 with her parents came to Sloan. Ia. and settled on a farm near Albaton. Here she resided until her marriage to O. B. Carlson of Onawa, la. To this union six children were born, Julius B. and Anne C. who preceded her in death, Albert J. and Emily M. Briggs of Sloan; and J. O. Carlson and Edna D. Shadle of Sioux City. She also leaves to mourn her loss, 3 sisters and one brother, Mrs. Andrew Frohow of Sioux City, Mrs. Emma Hoff of Tacoma, Wash., Mrs. Nels Solin of Lostwood N. D. and C. J. Christianson of Ambrose, N. D. There are four grandchildren, Edna Briggs of Sioux City, Eleanor, Leona and Betty Jane Briggs of Sloan, lowa who survive besides a host of relatives and friends.

Mrs. Carlson was a member of the Lutheran church in which faith she remained. The poem "Victory" was read together with her obituary, these verses brought her much comfort during her long Illness.

"Life with its many trials
My heart oft crucifies;
I bitter grow, and weary,
And hope within mo dies,
Then, haply, I remember
The story of the cross,
How Jesus, too, was smitten—
How more than mine His loss!”