Ericson[Erickson], Oscar F., 1883-1931

ERICSON, ERICKSON

Posted By: Lydia Lucas-Volunteer (email)
Date: 10/6/2011 at 20:48:10

OSCAR ERICSON DIES SUDDENLY
Passed Away Monday Morning at Hawarden Hospital
Was Well Known Farmer of Big Springs Community.--Survived by Widow and Four Children

Oscar F. Ericson, widely known farmer of the Big Springs Community, passed away in the Hawarden hospital at 8 o'clock Monday morning [June 29] from pneumonia, which developed after he had submitted to an operation for appendicitis last Thursday night. The case was an aggravated one, the appendix having ruptured and gangrene having developed before he was brought to the hospital. In fact, he had plowed corn for two days after the appendix was ruptured, according to the opinion of the surgeons who performed the operation. Always having enjoyed strong and robust health he did not feel that there was anything wrong when he first began to suffer early last week.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 this afternoon at the family home and at 2 o'clock at the Big Springs Baptist church, with Rev. B. L. Carlton in charge. Interment will be made in the family lot in Big Springs cemetery beside his son Wendell, whose death results from nurns nearly five years ago.

Oscar F. Ericson was born in Bibi, Socken, Nerke, Sweden, Sept. 26, 1883, and died in Hawarden June 29, 1931, at the age of 47 years, 9 months and 3 days. In the fall of 1893, when only 10 years of age, he came to this community and for many years was employed by Fritz Leafstedt on his farm, southwest of Hawarden. In 1907 he started farming for himself and for the next twelve years was a tenant on several different farms. In 1919 he purchased the farm, two miles northeast of Big Springs, which has since been his home. This place he has developed until it is one of the fine, modern farm properties of this entire locality.

On Jan. 28, 1908, he was united in marriage with Miss Anna Ericson, who, with a daughter, Minnie, son Walter, and the little 8-year-old twins, Morris and Margaret, survive him. He also leaves a host of relatives and friends who will sorely miss him.

Always a hard worker, Mr. Ericson became one of the substantial, progressive farmers of the Big Springs community and his death after an illness of only about four days came as a great shock to his family and friends. He was ever held in highest esteem by his neighbors and was a man of the strictest integrity in every regard, always a kind husband and indulgent father, and desirous that his family enjoy the fruits of his labor. To be thus snatched from his family is a blow which it is difficult for them to reconcile.

Source: Hawarden Independent, July 2, 1931.
Obituaries of, and news notes about, other members of his family spell the surname Erickson.

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Also from the Independent of July 2: Rev. and Mrs. B. L. Carlton and Mr. and Mrs. Edw. Leafstedt arrived home from attending conference in Minneapolis in the early hours Monday morning. They picked up Miss Minnie Erickson at Willmar, Minn., all hurrying home to be at the bedside of Oscar Erickson, who passed away a few hours later.