Minnie Josephine (Worrall) Sunnoe (1905-1951)

WORRALL, SUNNOE, BEAVER, IHLA, BROH

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

From Nevada Evening Journal April 28, 1951 (page 4)

Funeral Services For Mrs. Oscar Sunnoe At Story City

Funeral services for Mrs. Oscar Sunnoe were held in Story City, Friday afternoon, April 20 at 1:30 in the Larson-Peterson Funeral home and in the Immanuel Lutheran church at 2:00, with the Rev. A. O. Skibsrud officiating. Special music at the church service was rendered by the high school mixed chorus, and by Miss Lois Lander.

Schools were closed all afternoon in respect to its employee. Members of the faculty and the school board attended services in a body.

Pall bearers were Cyrus Hanson of Austin, Minn.; Hawley Peterson, Jewell; Paul Jones, Slater; Embert Munsen, Gaylord Johnson and Orville Paulson of Story City. Burial was in the Fairview Cemetery in Story City.

Obituary

Minnie Josephine Worrall was born April 1, 1905 at Thorne, N. D., to parents George and Cora Worrall. Receiving public school instruction in the community of her parental home, she grew to womanhood there. On December 24, 1932 she was united in marriage to Oscar Sunnoe of Story City, Iowa by the late Pastor Hans Oppedal, in the St. Paul's Lutheran parsonage near Stanhope, Ia.

Establishing her home together with her husband in the Story City community, Mrs. Sunnoe was employed with her husband as custodian in the public schools there. In the course of her employment, Mrs. Sunnoe suffered a severe injury in the summer of 1948, followed by long season of convalescence. Being recovered from her injury, Mrs. Sunnoe resumed her duties as an employee of the school, and resumed her usual duties in her home and community.

Mrs. Sunnoe was taken suddenly ill on April 1, 1951, and after a short illness passed away while a patient at the Methodist hospital in Des Moines on April 16. Death came at the age of 46 years, 16 days.

Shortly after the time of her marriage, Mrs. Sunnoe was received into membership in St. Paul's Lutheran Congregation at Stanhope by Christian instruction and baptism. Together with her husband she transferred her membership to Immanuel Lutheran church in Story City, in which fellowship she was a faithful member at the time of passing.

Mrs. Sunnoe was preceded in death by her mother, two sisters and two brothers. Besides her husband she is survived by her father, George Worrall; two sisters, Mary (Mrs. Alfred Beaver) and Mae (Mrs. Gilmer Ila) and brothers, Melvin, John and George Worrell, Jr., all of Rollette, N. D., and brothers Joe, Fred, Theodore and Charlie of Loma, Montana. She is also survived by many nieces and nephews, and one aunt, Mrs. William Broh of Duncombe, Ia.

During her life, Mrs. Sunnoe endeared herself to a host of friends, among those with whom she lived and worked. The entire community is saddened by her untimely passing and only god can heal the sorrow of those who mourn her death.