Emma Beatrice (Tweet) Frosland (1913-2014)

FROSLAND, TWEET, HENG, PEDERSEN, BUCHE

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 4/4/2014 at 19:18:19

Obituary From Adams Soderstrum Funeral Home, Story County, Iowa.

Emma Beatrice Frosland was born October 9, 1913, the second child of Thomas B. and Jane (Heng) Tweet at Radcliffe, Iowa. She grew up on various farm places around Radcliffe and graduated from Radcliffe High School in 1930 at the age of sixteen. In 1939 after three years of nurses training, Emma graduated with an R. N. degree from Fairview Hospital in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her first job was a Lutheran Hospital (now Trinity Regional Medical Center) in Fort Dodge, Iowa. In 1942, she enlisted in the Army Nurses Corps. After training at Camp Ellis, the WWII Army training base in West Central Illinois, Emma gave wartime service in France from 1942 to 1944.

On February 14, 1947, Emma was married to John Frosland of Mandal, Norway, at Hauge Lutheran Church in Chicago, Illinois. They lived for one year in Norway before making their permanent home in Chicago. Emma resumed her career in nursing at Cook County Hospital and then from 1953 to 1973 worked for Blue Cross. Following the untimely death of her husband, John in 1957, after just 10 years of marriage, Emma and her sister, Irene, conjoined households as they began caring for their aging parents.

Between 1973 and 1976, Emma moved to Taiwan where she served in relief of various missionary nurses from the U.S., Germany and Denmark.

In 1982, Emma and Irene retired to Story City. They became active members of Immanuel Lutheran Church and donated countless hours of volunteer work at Bethany Manor until they themselves became residents - Irene in 2000 and Emma about six months later.

In all likelihood, Emma would have been elected president among her own siblings. Tirelessly, gracefully and with good humor, she asserted her influence and leadership within her extended family. While in Chicago, she was superintendent of Hauge Lutheran Church's large Sunday School and served as leader of women's organizations and children's choirs. In a family of singers, hers was a strong and steady voice. And if she wasn't singing, she accompanied on the piano.

Emma passed away March 1, 2014 at Bethany Manor in Story City.

She is survived by her brother, Arthur and his wife Rosella Tweet, of Salem, Oregon; her brother-in-law, Charles Pedersen; and many nephews and nieces.

Emma was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Kenneth and sister-in-law, Lenora (Waterloo, 1991); her half-sister, Louisa Tweet Buche (Story City, 1999); her brother-in-law, Albert Buche (Madrid, 1974); and two sisters, Thelma Pedersen (Billings, Montana, 2001) and Irene Tweet (Story City, 2006).

A memorial service is being planned for May.

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