Emma Christopherson (1895-1923)

CHRISTOPHERSON, VALEN, HANEY, OSWOOD, WINTERS

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 4/22/2024 at 21:23:46

From the Roland Record, Roland, Story County, Iowa, August 23, 1923.

YOUNG LADY BURIED TODAY

Daughter of Roland Resident Passes Away at Los Angeles Following an Operation for Removal of Tonsils.

Emma Christopherson, daughter of Ole Christopherson, was born at Radcliffe, Iowa, March 21, 1895, and died at Los Angeles, California, age 28 years, 5 months and 5 days. Death came following a tonsil operation.

She attended Ellsworth college at Iowa Falls and later took up nurse's training at Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines, where she graduated in June, 1919. She was taken sick with the flu in the fall of 1918 and never regained her usual health and strength after that. In 1921, accompanied by here oldest brother she went to California for her health. She has been employed as nurse in a hospital at Long Beach, Calif., since the summer of 1922. Her throat had been bothering her considerably for some time and last Thursday she submitted to a tonsil operation. At first the operation was apparently successful, but a relapse came and she passed away quietly on Friday morning at ten o'clock.

She leaves to mourn her death her father, five brothers and four sisters, Chris of Los Angeles, Martin and Lewis of North Yakima, Wash., Alfred of Garden City, Henry and Mrs. T. J. Valen of Roland, Mrs. O. J. Haney of Independence, Mrs. Cecil Oswood of Alden and Mrs. M. P. Winters of Ogden, besides other relatives and friends. Her funeral is being held today at the Lutheran church at Radcliffe, Rev. J. J. Lee conducting the service. Her body will be laid to rest in the Radcliffe cemetery beside that of her mother, who died in the year 1900.