Anundsen, Arthur F. 1868 - 1910

ANUNDSEN, GARDNER

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 6/15/2023 at 15:46:46

Source: Decorah Republican Oct. 13, 1910, P2 C3

SUMMONED BY DEATH.
Arther F. Anundsen Passed Away Monday Morning at Fargo—Bright’s Disease the Cause.
All Decorah was shocked, Tuesday, when a telegram came to Ben Bear from E . J. Weiser stating that Arthus F. Anundsen, eldest son of B. Anundsen, editor of Decorah-Posten, had died that morning in a hospital at Fargo, following a brief illness from bright’s disease.
The first intimation that Mr. Anundsen was in a serious condition came to C. J. Weiser, Saturday, in a telephone message from Detroit, Minn. He departed at once for Fargo where he was advised Arthur would be taken for treatment. On his arrival there he found his friend nearly blind and in a semi-conscious state, which gradually grew worse and in spite of all that could be done death ensued on Tuesday as stated above. Close friends had been kept posted and to them the end was not unexpected, but to all others the news came as a complete surprise.
Arthur Fernando Anundsen was born in Decorah in 1867{?} and at the time of his death was in his forty-fourth year. He was educated in and graduated from public schools, and for some time thereafter was employed in the First National Bank. Following his service in the bank he was engaged with his father in a clerical position in the Posten office, later taking the law course at the state university. For a time he acted as collector for a manufacturing firm in Ohio but eventually returned to Iowa to follow the practice of his profession. Later he moved to Oklahoma and participated in the early activities of that territory, just prior to its becoming a state. After a short residence here an opening came to him to engage in the banking business at Detroit, Minn., and he became the president of the First National Bank of that city.
Always active in any undertaking that he chose to assume he soon made a place for himself in his new home, and while he was striving to do for himself and his family he was not selfish as to the interests of the community in which he had cast his lot. He engaged extensively in the land business and it was through the interest that he took, publicly in the daily press of his adopted state and privately in conjunction with others, that many were drawn to the territory that surrounds Detroit to make their homes.
On January, 1, 1891, Mr. Anundsen was married to Miss Mabel I. Gardner. To them six children were born, and these, with their mother, survive to cherish the memory of a kind and loving husband and father.
From boyhood to the time of his death, the deceased won friends by a geniality that was rare. In addition to this he was gifted in an intellectual way and no occasion found him without the ability to meet demands that were frequently made upon him. His death is a blow to those who were closely associated with him by ties of business and friendship but more than all others will his family and his father feel the great bereavement that has come to them. To these there goes out the sympathy of the community.
The remains were brought from Fargo yesterday afternoon and the funeral will be held to-day at 2:30 o’clock at the home of B. Anundsen.

Transcriber’s Note: His gravestone in Phelps Cemetery shows his date of birth as Jan. 12, 1868.

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