Gurine (Vallem) Michaelson 1891 - 1980

MICHAELSON, VALLEM, BORTON, SETTLE, EGLAND, RYERSON, MURRAY, MARSH, WOODBURY, HESS, LEE

Posted By: Linda H Meyers (email)
Date: 6/4/2008 at 21:19:52

Gurine Michaelson, 88, died Sunday, January 20, 1980 at the Story City Memorial Hospital.
She was born July 25, 1891 at Garden City, Iowa to Osmund J. and Melinda Vallem. She taught school near Garden City prior to her marriage. On May 17, 1911 she married Willie E. Michaelson. They farmed near Zearing, Blue Earth, Minn., and in Winnebago County, Iowa. He died November 11, 1942.
She maintained a home in Nevada from 1942. She served as a practical nurse for 19 years in California.
Services were held at 10 a.m. at Bethany Manor, Story City, Tuesday, January 22. The Rev. Enoch Hall was in charge. A second service was held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Memorial Lutheran church in Nevada with the Rev. Walter Lack in charge. Graveside services were held at 3 p.m. at Evergreen Cemetery, Blue Earth, Minn.
Survivors include eight daughters. Verna Borton and Laura Settle, both of Nevada, June Egland of Roland, Blanche Ryerson of Woden, Mildred Murray, Moline, Ill., Fern Marsh, Long Beach, California, Dorothy Woodbury, Arlington, Virginia, and Virginia Hess of El Cajon, California; two sons, Milford Michaelson of Thompson, Iowa and Orlo Michaelson of San Deigo, California; 29 grandchildren; 34 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild, and one sister Emma Vallem Lee.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, one son, one daughter and ten brothers and sisters.

---from the Story City Herald Jan. 23, 1980