Folkedahl, Gene A.   -- 1954 - 1977

FOLKEDAHL, NELSON, RILLING, FOSSUM, FOLTZ

Posted By: Barry M. Dahl (email)
Date: 11/15/2010 at 16:50:05

Gene Folkedahl's obituary from the Mabel Record.

Gene Folkedahl, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Folkedahl, Hesper, died Saturday morning at Lutheran hospital in LaCrosse of heard injuries suffered in a one-vehicle accident Friday evening.

The accident took place about 7:15 p.m. on CSAH 28, one mile south of Mabel.

Folkedahl was a passenger in a 1976 four-wheel drive vehicle, driven by Randy Wennes, 23, Abel. a second passenger was James Larson, Mabel.

According to Fillmore county Sheriff Carl Fann, that while heading south Wennes lost control when negotiating a left curve. The vehicle careened off the right side of the roadway, then shot back onto the highway where it skidded sideways and turned over once on the roadway. it then ran into the left ditch and turned over, coming to rest on its top. All three men were thrown out of the vehicle.

Folkdahl and Larson were taken in the Mabel ambulance and Wennes in the Spring Grove ambulance to Lutheran hospital in LaCrosse. Larson received a fractured jaw and Wennes multiple fractures and laceration.

Charge are pending as a result of the accident.

Folkedahl was born November 4, 1954, at Spring Grove, the son of Andrew and Nina (Nelson) Folkedahl. He attended Hesper school and was a 1972 graduate of Mabel-Canton high school

Survivors are his parents; two brothers, Forrest, Hesper, Ia., Sanford, Marengo, Ia.; three sisters, Mrs. Mavis Rilling, Mrs. John (Odis) Fossum Cedar Rapids, IA., Mrs. Ronald (Lola) Foltz, Hesper.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Hesper Lutheran church. The Rev. Bernhardt Polesky officiated. Burial was in the Hesper public cemetery.

The Mengis Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.