Wilhelmenia Kristine (Larson) Ford (1865-1937)

LARSON, FORD, BARR, OLSON, WILSON

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 6/8/2022 at 18:44:44

From Nevada Evening Journal October 28, 1937 (page 1)

Mrs. Lars Ford Died Shortly After Leaving Hospital

Special to the Journal:
Kelley, Oct. 28--Within a few hours after she had been released from Mary Greeley hospital at Ames, where she ad submitted on October 14 to an operation for the amputation of a leg, Mrs. Lars A. Ford, 72, until recently a resident of Kelley, died at the home of her her daughter Mrs. Floyd Barr in Ames at 11 p. m. Wednesday.

The funeral will be held Saturday at 2:30 at Bethany Lutheran church, Kelley, with her pastor Rev. E. R. Rorem in charge. Burial will be in the Kelley cemetery.

Mrs. Ford had been taken to the hospital on October 13, after a longtime suffering from diabetic gangrene. Her illness had covered over a period of several years, but she had been failing rapidly during the past seven months.

Mrs. Ford was a native of Bergen, Norway, where she was born Wilhelmenia Kristine Larson, on February 20, 1865. She came out to Story county with her people in 1886 and here she was married in 1893 to Lars A. Ford and they located and made their home on a farm near Kelley, which had been her home throughout the balance of her life, until she left to make her home with the daughter a few months ago.

The husband die in 1932 and two sons had also preceded the mother in death. She is survived by two daughters, Mae Ford and the daughter Mrs. Barr of Ames in whose home she died; one son Milford Ford of Newton; a brother William Larson of DeForrest, Wis.; two sisters Mrs. Goodman Olson of Kelley and Mrs. J. F. Wilson of White Bluffs, Washington, and three grandchildren.