John Jurgen Toft (1895-1961)

TOFT, EIDE

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 12/6/2013 at 00:01:05

From Ames Daily Tribune March 10, 1961

JOHN TOFT

Funeral services for John Toft were held from Immanuel Lutheran Church in Story City on Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 14 with the Rev. Harold T. Masted in charge.

Pallbearers were Wilbur Sowers, Wallace Wicks, Ransom Holland, W. A. Egemo, Arthur Nelson and Fred Hendrickson. Burial was in the Story City Municipal Cemetery.

John Jargen Toft, eldest son of the late Henry and Gertrude Toft was born on the Toft farm northwest of Story City on February 10, 1895. He died at the Barton Rest Home in Nevada on Feb. 14.

He spent his entire life in that community.

Preceding him in death besides his parents were a sister, Mrs. Henry Eide of Belmond; two brothers: George and Henry, Jr. and three sisters and one brother who died in infancy.

Surviviing are four brothers: Bernard, of Hadley, Minn., Iver of Clear Lake, Thomas of Belmond and Gerhard of Story City.