Gunder Dybendahl

DYBENDAHL, BJELLAND, DAHL

Posted By: Peter Gausmann (email)
Date: 1/23/2010 at 06:12:30

GUNDER DYBENDAHL

Among those who were at one time active in promoting the progress of Winnebago county but who have been called to their final rest, is numbered Gunder Dybendahl, who was born in August, 1856. He belonged to that class of worthy citizens that Norway has furnished to Iowa. Coming to America in his boyhood days he here lived a life of usefulness and activity which, however, was terminated in death March 7, 1896, when he was forty years of age.

Mr. Dybendahl was united in marriage in 1888 to Miss Lena Bjelland, who still survives. They became the parents of five children, all of whom are yet living: T. Andrew, who operates the home farm for his mother; Selma, who is the wife of S. L. Dahl, of Estherville, Iowa; Laura, at home; Sidney, who is connected in business with his brother Andrew, their attention being given to tbe development and further improvement of two hundred and forty acres of land; and Julia, who is at home. Mrs. Dybendahl still owns the old homestead farm of eighty acres which is situated on section 2, Linden township. To the property has been added various good buildings and a number of substantial and high class improvements. Mrs. Dybendahl is a member of the Lutheran church, to which Mr. Dybendahl also belonged. High and honorable principles guided him in all the relations of life and those who knew him entertained for him warm regard, for he always displayed those qualities which in every land and clime command the good will and confidence of one's fellows.

Source: History of Winnebago County and Hancock County, Iowa: A Record of Settlement, Organization, Progress and Achievement, Vol. II. Pioneer Publishing Company (Chicago), 1917. p. 74.