Folstad, Florence A. (Hexom) -- 1918 - 1987

FOLSTAD, HEXOM, JOHNSON, TESLOW, JORGENSON, GOLA, HILL, JENSEN, BASLER

Posted By: Barry M. Dahl (email)
Date: 11/26/2010 at 12:14:50

Funeral services were held Friday, June 5, at 11 A.M. at the Hesper Lutheran Church for Mrs. Maynard Folstad, 69, who died June 2 at the Aase Haugen Home in Decorah the Rev. Landis J. Olson officiated. Burial was in the church cemetery.

The form Florence Hexom, she was born Jan. 3, 1918, in Glenwood Township, Winneshiek County, IA the daughter of Carl and Emma (Johnson) Hexom.

She was a graduate of Wakon, IA High School and took LPN Nurses Training in Chicago.

She married Maynard O. Folstad of Mabel on July 21, 1976 at Fountain, MN. They farmed near Mabel until moving to a farm near Decorah.

Survivors are two sons, Rodney Teslow, Fridley, MN, Clayton Teslow, Jackson, MS; two daughters, Lois Jorgenson, Coon Rapids, MN, Linda Gola, Minneapolis; Two step-sons, Mark Folstad, Hesper, IA, Alvin Folstad, Decorah; 9 grandchildren; a brother, Arnold Hexom, Waverley, IA; three sisters, Esther Hill, Decorah, Mabel Jensen, Bennett, NE, Helen Basler, North Brook, IL.

She was preceded in death by a son, Carl Teslow and two brothers.

The Fjestul Funeral Home in Decorah was in charge of arrangements.

Source, the Mabel Record of June 10, 1987.