Skogen, Magnus 1871 – 1943

SKOGEN, SKOGGEN, HAALAND, HANSON, NELSON, HILLESTAD

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 10/19/2016 at 18:27:05

Magnus Skoggen Died

Magnus C. Skoggen of Madison township died Saturday at the Decorah hospital where he had been a patient two weeks with an infected hip. He was 69 years old, having been born June 23, 1873, in Trondhjem, Norway. He came to this country and to Winneshiek county when he was 19 years old. In 1915 he was married to Marie Haaland.

Mrs. Skoggen survives with the following children, Edna, at home and Mrs. Gilbert Hanson of Austin, Minn. Also surviving are the following brothers and sisters, John and Ellis, both of Lancaster, Minn.; Christine Nelson of Ostrander, Minn., and Johanna Hillestad of Decorah.

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at the Olson-Iverson funeral home and the Madison Lutheran church with the Rev. M.B. Quill officiating. He was carried to his grave in the adjacent cemetery by Realph and Peter Ask, Ole Bakken, Alfred Gilbertson, Hans Solum, Elvin Larson and Henry Tollefson.

Source: IAGenWeb Special Project Iowa Old Press database: Decorah Journal January 14, 1943

Transcriber’s Note: His gravestone shows the last name spelled as Skogen and that he was born in 1871 instead of 1873.

Madison Lutheran Cemetery
 

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