I.J. (Ing) Engebretson Died 1942

ENGEBRETSON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 3/8/2018 at 14:47:52

Sioux City Journal
14 January 1942

I.J. (Ing) Engebretson, 51, native Sioux Cityan and for many years a salesman here, died today at the Veterans Hospital in Minneapolis. He had been at the hospital several weeks.

Military services and burial will be Saturday afternoon at Fort Snelling, near St. Paul.

Mr. Engebretson was well known here as a candy salesman.

He enlisted early in the First World War, joining the field hospital company organized in Sioux City by the late Dr. Van Buren Knott. He went to Camp Cody, New Mexico and overseas with the unit.

After the war Mr. Engebretson and Miss Ellen Johnson were married here. They moved to Minneapolis 15 years ago.

Mr. Engebretson was a member of the First Lutheran Church here and of the American Legion.

Besides his widow he is survived by his mother, Mrs. Anna Engebretson, 2033 Jennings Street, and six sisters, Miss Clara Engebretson, Mrs. Nellie Hall and Miss Lucille Engebretson, all of Sioux City, Mrs. Pearl Nelson of Huntington Park, California, Mrs. Kalma Halseth of Indianapolis, Indiana and Mrs. Nina Long of Los Angeles.