Tilstra, Harm G. 1912-1981

TILSTRA

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Date: 1/17/2014 at 11:30:21

Funeral services were held on Wednesday at 11 a.m. at the Anderson Funeral Home in Canton for Harm G. Tilstra, 69, who died on Saturday at the McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls.

He was born May 6, 1912 in Sioux County. He was employed at Dual Manufacturing until his retirement in 1974.

Survivors include a son, Gary, Minneapolis, Minn.; three daughters, Mrs. Ed (DeLila) Lambert, Mrs. Bruce (Donna) Hoffman, and Darla Tilstra, all of Sioux Falls; seven grandchildren; four brothers, Fred, Canton, Dick, Hawarden, Bill, Minneapolis, Pete, Milford, N.J.; a sister, Mrs. Susie Krontje, Luverne. Minn.

Burial was in Grand Valley Lutheran Cemetery of rural Canton, South Dakota.

Source: Local paper Sept. 10, 1981