Anna Lundahl (1876-1955)

LUNDAHL

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 6/2/2023 at 22:22:42

From The Slater News April 14, 1955 (page 1)

Rites Wednesday For Anna Lundahl

Funeral services were conducted from the Riis Funeral home on Wednesday, Apr. 13 and at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church for Anna Lundahl, former resident of Slater for many years. Pastor L. O. Bjorlie was in charge.

Otis Ihle sang "The Old Rugged Cross" and "Abide With Me." Mrs. Robert Newman was organist.

Pastor Bjorlie's message was based on Philippians 3:10. "That I might known Him and the power of His Resurrection."

Pallbearers were Andrew Estrem, Ingwal Estrem, Albert Lehman, L. P. Earp, P. O. Louks and A. L. Peterson.

Burial was in the Palestine Cemetery, near Huxley.

Obituary.

Anna Lundahl was born in Des Moines on June 1, 1876, and received her education in the grade schools and high schools in that city. After leaving Des Moines the family lived in Houston, Tex., and Joliet, Ill. Later, with her widowed mother, she settled in Slater because she preferred to live in a small town. Here she was industriously employed as a seamstress and gained the reputation of doing excellent work.

As a faithful member of the Bethlehem congregation here she taught in the Sunday school for many years and was otherwise active in the work of the congregation. For many years she made a home for her invalid mother.

On Dec. 2, 1954, she took up her residence in the Sunset Home at Story City where she enjoyed very much the comforts and accommodations it provided for her.

A malady she no doubt had carried for some time compelled her to be hospitalized at the University Hospitals in Iowa City on Mar. 16. She submitted to an operation and apparently seemed to make progress toward being discharged when her condition became worse and she passed away at 10 o'clock on Monday morning, Apr. 11, at the age of 78 years.

She was preceded in death by two sisters and her father and mother, and was the last survivor of her family.

At the hospital she was visited by Rev. Arthur C. Proehl of the Zion Lutheran Church, who reported that she gave him a very warm welcome, and she expressed to him most heartily her appreciation of his ministrations.