Louise (Stangeland) Jondall (1904-1931)

JONDALL, STANGELAND, CRISWELL

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Story City Herald, Story City, Story County, Iowa, November 19, 1931.

MRES. FRED JONDALL FUNERAL SATURDAY

The funeral of Mrs. Fred Jondall will be held in Story City Saturday afternoon, from the Henderson funeral home at 1:30 and in the St. Petri church at 2 o'clock.

Mrs. Jondall died in Tuscon, Arizona, Friday, Nov. 13, after a long illness. She had mvoed to Arizona last April for her health. She had been married five years, and is survived by her husband and a daughter, Betty Ann.

Mrs. L. W. Criswell of San Diego, Cal., sister of Mr. Jondall, arrived here with the body for the funeral.

From Story City Herald, Story City, Story County, Iowa, November 26, 1931.

Obituary for Mrs. Jondall

Louise Stangeland Jondall was born June 10, 1904; in Stavangcr, Norway, and passed away in Tucson, Arizona, Nov. 13, 1931, at the age of 27 years, 5 months and 3 days.

Mrs. Jondall was baptized and confirmed in Stavanger, Norway She came to Jewell, Iowa, March 1920, and made her home with her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs Rasmus Stangeland.

On April 16, 1927, she was married to Fred Jondall in the Lutheran church at Ames by Rev. Lester Pearson. To this union was born one child, Betty Ann.

Mr. and Mrs. Jondall made their home in Ames until March, 1930, when they moved to a farm near Roland. In April, 1931, owing to her failing health they moved to Tucson, Arizona, hoping that the climate there would be of benefit. Many times during her illness she expressed a wish that she might be restored to health, but if God willed otherwise she was ready to die. In spite of the kindly ministrations of her husband and her sister-in-law, Hannah Jondall, who never left her bedside during her long illness, her spirit took its flight to God who gave it.

She leaves, to mourn her untimely death her devoted husband and three year old daughter, and one brother, Nickolai Stangeland of Jewell. Those surviving in Norway arc her father and mother, also six brothers and four sisters and other relatives.

Funeral services were held on Nov. 21 at the Henderson Funeral Home at 1:35 o'clock, and at 2 o'clock in the St. Petri church of Story City. The text for Rev. W B. Searvie's sermon was "Jesus Wept," and contained many words of comfort to the bereaved ones. Rev. Lester Pearson of Ames offered prayer and a brief message of love and consolation. Mrs. Lester Henderson sang "One Sweetly Solemn Thought," at the home, and Albert Olson of Jewell sang, "Jesus, Savior, Pilot Me" at the church. The pall bearers were Stewart Sidenstuckcr, Clarence Stangeland. Richland Stangeland, Albert Olson, Frederik Sather and Sam Sather.

Those from out of the community present at the services were Louis L. Friestad and John Friestad of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Wilcox of Ruthven, Mr. and Mrs: J. P. Larson and daughter Myrtle of Emmetsburg, Mr. and Mrs. Aug. Brandt of Des Moines, George Campbell, A. R. Peel, Marie Jondall, Ethel Carpenter, Mable Sather, Anna Peterson, Alma Johnson, Alma Somme, Sylva and Julia Grinde, Anna Gjerde. Julia Peterson, Lizzie Lund, Bertha Omundson, Knutson Hegland and Mrs. B. Holland, all of Ames, and many relatives and friends from Jewell.