Josie Seldahl (1870-1937)

SELDAHL, JOHNSON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 5/17/2021 at 16:53:13

From Nevada Evening Journal November 1, 1937 (page 3)

Funeral Services Held for Josie Seldahl

Special to the Journal
Huxley, Nov. 1--Funeral services for Josie Seldahl were held Friday afternoon with a short prayer service at the home at 1:30 and at two o'clock at the Palestine church. Mrs. T. H. Mason and Mrs. Seward Larson sang "The Old Rugged Cross," after which Rev. Buland had scripture reading. A mixed quartet, Walter Christopher, Javerna Maland, Silas and Beulah Tweedt sang "Going Down the Valley."

Rev. Buland then delivered the sermon, basing his text on the 14th verse in the 13th chapter of the Book of Hebrews "or here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come."

Mrs. Mason and Mrs. Larson then sang another duet "No Night There."

The floral offerings were beautiful and there were numerous gifts to the missions in her memory by relatives and friends.

The pallbearers were T. H. Mason, A. J. Iverson, Irving Thompson, Endren, Orval and Leonard Johnson.

Josie Seldahl, daughter of Endren and Elizabeth Seldahl, was born at the family homestead south of Huxley, February 10, 1870 and passed away October 26, 1937 at the age of 67 years, eight months and 16 days. She was baptized and confirmed in the Fjeldberg church but later joined the Palestine church where she was a member until her death.

She is survived by one sister, Mrs. J. C. Johnson near Elkhart, one brother Peter, two nieces, three nephews and one great niece. Her parents and one sister have preceded her in death.

She had lived her entire life at the farm home where she was born and grew to womanhood. She was faithful in her duties in the home where she and her brother have lived for so many years. In failing health the past year or more, she had been in Nevada at the sanitarium and the Lutheran hospital in Des Moines at different intervals and had recently returned that she might be with loved ones when death relieved her of her infirmities.

The funeral services were largely attended, many coming from a distance.