Arnold Frandsen 1916 - 2003

FRANDSEN, SKOGERBO, CURTIS, MCCOLLOUGH, LINCOLN, NELSON, DAPPEN

Posted By: Linda H Meyers (email)
Date: 6/7/2009 at 14:30:25

Arnold Frandsen

Arnold Frandsen, age 86, of Story City died Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003 at Israel Family Hospice in Ames. Funeral services were held on Tuesday, Feb. 4 at 2 p.m. at Grace United Methodist Church in Story City. Burial of the cremains will be at a later date.

Arnold Frandsen was born March 13, 1916, on a farm south of Story City, Iowa, to parents Theodore P. and Amy A (Skogerbo) Frandsen. He was the eldest of their five children. He attended Center and Copenhagen country schools near their home and was a 1933 graduate of Story City high school. He began assisting his father with the operation of the family farm as a young boy and continued this well into his early adult years.

He married Ida Curtis on June 22, 1940, at her parents farm home near Pekin, Iowa. The couple farmed for 30 years in Story and Boone counties before moving Nevada, Iowa in February 1971. He was employed at the I.S.U. physical plant in Ames for more than 15 years until he retired at the age of 70 in 1986. They moved to Story City in August 2000.

He was an active member of the United Methodist Church in Story City as long as his health permitted, and a past member of the United Methodist Church in Nevada. He was also a member of the Masonic Lodge in Story City.

Survivors include his wife, Ida; one son, Max Frandsen of Ames, Iowa; one daughter, Marilyn McCollough of Liberty, Missouri; two granddaughters, four great-grandchildren, and three sisters, Agnes (Ann) Lincoln of Corvallis, Oregon, Mildred Nelson of Ames and Sara Dappen of Story City, several nephews and nieces and many cousins.

He was preceded in death by his father in April 1968, his mother in August 1990 and a brother, Harold Frandsen in January 1997.

Memorials may be made to the American Lung Association or the Israel Family Hospice House in Ames.

---from the Story City Herald 2/5/2003