Erick Theodore Russell (1887-1909)

RUSSELL

Posted By: Alan Nicholson
Date: 4/26/2010 at 22:15:07

Roland Record
2 December 1909

Victim of Consumption

Tuberculosis Claims Young Farmer Boy Living Northwest of Here - Has Suffered With Disease for Whole Year - Funeral Tuesday

Erick Theodore Russell died at the home of his father, Nels Russell, last Saturday morning from consumption, from which he had been a sufferer for more than a year. The diseased was born Feb. 3, 1887, and was 22 years, 9 months and 24 days old when called by Death. Besides his father he leaves two brothers, one sister and one half-brother to mourn his untimely death.

The funeral services were held from the Lutheran church at Randall on Tuesday afternoon, Rev. G. O. Paulsrud, of Randall officiating, after which interment took place in Marmelund cemetery. The sorrowing ones are accorded the sympathy of neighbors and friends in the hour of their affliction.