Eleanor Lucille Larson (1918-1948)

LARSON, BROOKS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:12

From Nevada Evening Journal April 2, 1948 (page 6)

Funeral Services For Eleanor Larson Held Wednesday

Story City, March 31--Funeral services for Eleanor Larson were held Wednesday afternoon March 24 in Story City at the parental A. S. Larson home at 1:30 in the St. Petri Lutheran church at 2 o'clock with interment in the Story City cemetery. Serving as casket bearers were Leslie Jacobson, Richard Munsen, Dean R----man, Willard Holm, Emery Teglan and Arnold G. Johnson.

Besides the beautiful floral offerings a total of $322.45 was given in memorials to the St. Petri Building Fund, Blank Memorial Hospital, Story City Memorial Hospital, M----- and S---- Mission.

Miss Marjorie Jacobson soloist sang two numbers at the church "One Sweetly Solemn Thought" and "The Lord's Prayer," and the Rev. S. T. Nelson who officiated at the services, read the following obituary.

Eleanor Lucille Larson daughter of Albert and Randie Larson, was born in Jasper, Minnesota the 18th of September 1918. She was baptized in Minnesota on October 2, 1918 and confirmed May 14, 1933 at the St. Petri Lutheran church in Story City by the Rev. Walter B. Scarvie. During her years in St. Petri she was a faithful member of the Junior and Senior choir.

Eleanor attended the Story City public school and following graduation enrolled at Iowa State College at Ames where she graduated in 1940. While in college she was a member of the Girls Glee Club, the Iowa State College Orchestra and Sigma Alpha Iota Sorority.

After graduating from college she taught home economics for three years in the public schools and Greene and Keokuk, Iowa. The past four years, her plans have been frequently interrupted because of her health. During that time however, she spent some time at Iowa Sate College six months as dietician at the Iowa Methodist Hospital and from August 1946 to the present time she was a dietician at the Raymond Blank Memorial Hospital in Des Moines. She thoroughly enjoyed her work with the children and in the short time she as at the hospital she made a large circle of friends who again did much for Eleanor and the family during her last illness.

Following a nine-week period of hospitalization Eleanor passed away at the Iowa Methodist Hospital on March 10th at the age of 29 years, 6 months and 2 days. Friends and acquaintances will remember her as one with a pleasant smile and winning personality with high ideals in her work. Of her it can be said "Tribulation worketh patience and experience hope and hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our heart by the Holy Ghost which giveth unto us." (Rom 5:3-5)

Eleanor leaves to mourn her departure her mother and father and one sister, Marcella, Mrs. William R. Brooks of Des Moines, and a host of friends.