Jorgina “Julia” (Stoltsmark) Skogeboe/Skogerboe (1868-1935)

STOLTSMARK, SKOGEBOE, SKOGERBOE, MILLER, ASKELSON, BLY, GREELEY, CHENTLAND

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 7/30/2024 at 22:30:57

From Story City Herald March 7, 1935 (page 5)

OBITUARY OF MRS. TOLLEF E. SKOGERBOE

Mrs. Tollef E. Skogerboe died Sunday afternoon, Feb. 24, 1935, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. R. D. Miller, 1301 Collins St., Austin, Minn., at the age of 65 years, 10 month and 13 days, after a short illness of a heart attack.

Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Schutte Funeral Home, the Rev. Henry Nass of the St. Olaf Lutheran church officiating. Burial was at Oakwood cemetery.

Jorgina Stoltsmark was born in Vigedal, Norway, April 11, 1868. She was married to Tollef E. Skogerboe in 1895, and they came to the United States to make their home, first locating at Leland, Ill., for a while, then moving to Roland, where they lived until 1912. They then moved to Story City, where they lived until 1912. They then moved to Story City, where they lived until three years ago, when they moved to Austin, Minn., to make their home with their children.

She leaves to mourn her death her husband and nine children: Mrs. R. D. Miller, Mrs. Albert Askelson, Mrs. Ellis Bly, Mrs. Lyle Greeley, Delmer and Mayer Skogerboe, all of Austin, Minn.; Alfred of Eagle Grove; Mrs. Otis Chentland and Mrs. Martin Chentland of Garden City; and two sisters in Norway.

The pallbearers at the funeral were Albert Askelson, Ellis Bly, Raymond Miller, Martin Chentland, Otis Chentland and Lyle Greeley.