Kykken, Mrs. O'Neal (Esther) - 1917-1976

LYKKEN, BORMANN

Posted By: Linda Vander Linden-Volunteer (email)
Date: 5/15/2012 at 14:28:34

Hawarden Independent, August 5, 1976

Mrs. O'Neal Lykken, 58, of Alcester, died July 27 in a hospital in Sioux Falls.

Services wee at 10 A.M., July 31, in Roseni Lutheran Church, rural Alcester. The Rev. Ralph Christopherson officiated. Burial was in the church cemetery with the Wass Funeral Home of Alcester in charge.

Mrs. Lykken, the former Esther Bormann, was born Sept. 2, 1917 at Canistota. She attended public schools in that area and was graduated from General Beadle College at Madison. She taught rural grade school near Canistata for a few semesters and then took nurses training. She was nursing supervisor at Sioux Valley Hospital in Sioux Falls for five years.

She was married March 18, 1952 in Canistota. The couple made their home on a farm southwest of Alcester.

Survivors include the widower; two sons, Eldean and Eldon of Alcester; one daughter, Mrs. Betsy Ann Johnson of Alcester; a brother, William of Sioux Falls; and three sisters, Mrs. Arnold (Margaret) Tieszen and Mrs. Edwin (Dorothy) Brown, both of Canistota, and Mrs. Virgil (Myrtle) Rex of Mount Vernon, Wash.