Lundtvedt, Gladys Eleanor (Tweeten) -- 1923 - 2000

ANDERSON, TWEETEN, LUNDTVEDT, INGVALSON, ODELL, ROED, BUCHMEIR

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Date: 6/29/2010 at 07:51:52

Decorah Public Opinion, Tuesday, December 26, 2000

Gladys Eleanor Lundtvedt

Gladys Lundtvedt, 77, of Decorah, died Tuesday, Dec. 19, 2000 at the Aase Haugen Home in Decorah.

Funeral services were held Friday, Dec. 22 at 11 a.m. at Decorah Lutheran Church with Rev. James Glesne and Rev. Ole Winter officiating.

Pallbearers were Dawn Decker, Gary Ingvalson, Adam Lundtvedt, Daniel Lundvedt, Dwayne Lundtvedt, Steve Lundtvedt, Nancy Lundtvedt Swalve and Mike Tweeten.

Organist was Diane Kvamme. Soloist Rev. David H. Andreae performed "Den Store Hvide Flok." The congregation sang "Amazing Grace," "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" and "How Great Thou Art."

Burial was in the Lutheran Cemetery with Fjelstul Funeral Home of Decorah handling arrangements.

Gladys Eleanor Lundvedt was born May 15, 1923 to Lewis and Matilda (Anderson) Tweeten in Bucyrus, N.D. in Adams County.

She was baptized in Wolf Butte Lutheran Church in Bucyrus by Rev. Ken Engestad and was confirmed her faith at Mabel Lutheran Church by Rev. Hovenrose. She attended rural schools in N.D. and Mabel.

Gladys Lundtvedt lived in Minneapolis, where she went to cosmetology school, worked at a dry cleaning business, and then was a beautician.

She liked playing cricket stick and anne I over, and enjoyed dancing and music.

On Sept. 26, 1945, she marred Gilman Julian Lundtvedt in rural Spring Grove in the home of her sister, Leila and Grant Ingvalson. The ceremony was officiated by Rev. Hovenrose.

The couple were the parents of two sons, and farmed in Glenwood Township until 1968, when they moved to Decorah.

Gladys Lundtvedt was a member of Decorah Lutheran Church, and was active in the Church Circle. She had been a resident of Aase Haugen Home since July 30,1996.

She is survived by her husband, Gilman Lundtvedt, two sons, Roger of Ridgeway, and Donald and DiAnn of Burr Oak; six grandchildren: Steve Lundtvedt of Ridgeway; Nancy and Lane Lundtvedt Swalve of Des Moines; Adam Lundtvedt of Ridgeway; Dawn and Daniel Decker of Dillsburg, Pa.; Daniel and Tiffany Lundtvedt of Decorah; Dwayne and Lisa Lundtvedt of Rochester, Minn., and six great grandchildren: Tyler, Teressa, Daria, Dakota, Declan and Janaye.

She is also survived by three sisters, Leila Ingvalsort of Spring Grove; Esther and Roy O'Dell of Minneapolis and Charlotte Roed of Spring Grove, and one brother, Morris and Geneva Tweeten of Spring Grove.

Gladys Eleanor Lundtvedt was preceded in death by her parents, one sister, Mabel Buchmeir and one brother, Otis Tweeten.

Transcribed by an IA GenWeb Volunteer from obituaries found in the Howard-Winneshiek Genealogy Society Library, Cresco, Iowa.