Sommervold, Alvin O. 1916-2000

SOMMERVOLD, ABRAHAM, POPKEN, ROBERTSON, WILKENS

Posted By: Bruce Atkinson (email)
Date: 8/28/2008 at 16:32:41

AKRON, Iowa - Alvin O. Sommervold, 84, of Akron died Monday, May 29, 2000, at Clare Bridge Cottage of Sioux City.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Union Creek Lutheran Church in rural Akron, with the Rev. Dan Stegan officiating. Burial will be in Union Creek Cemetery. Visitation will be 2 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 7 to 8 p.m., at Schroeder Funeral Home in Akron.
Mr. Sommervold was born March 29, 1916, in Union County in South Dakota, the son of Alfred and Olivia (Abraham) Sommervold. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith.
He married Gertrude Popken on Feb. 14, 1943.
He farmed in Union County until retiring to Akron in 1984.
He was a member of Union Creek Lutheran Church.
Survivors include his wife; a son and his wife, Alan and April of Akron; two granddaughters, Tara Kay and Amber Sommervold; a brother, Arlo of Sioux Falls, S.D.; and a sister, Opal Robertson of Akron.
He was preceded in death by a sister, Pearl Wilkens.
Pallbearers will be Jon, Peter and Jim Sommervold, Warren Wilkens, Robert Abraham and Richard Puttmann.

~Sioux City Journal of 31 May 2000