Edna M. Eckstrom 1907 - 1969

ECKSTROM, HANSON

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 10/18/2020 at 23:05:06

Sioux City Journal
21 November 1969

MRS. LENNIE E. ECKSTROM

Mrs. Lennie E. Eckstrom, 62, 315 Sparks St., died Friday morning at the home of a daughter in Des Moines after an illness of four months. She had been visiting there.

Mrs. Eckstrom, the former Edna M. Hanson, was born March 24, 1907, in Sioux City and had lived here all her life. She was married to Mr. Eckstrom April 27, 1929, in Sioux City. She worked as a cashier at the Younker-Martin store for 25 years. She was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church and of its Lydia Circle and also belonged to the Anniversary Club.

Survivors include the widower; a son, William E. of Washington, D.C.: two daughters, Mrs. Robert (Lennice) Boles of Des Moines and Mrs. Wayne (Eileen) Kading of Anaheim, Calif.; four sisters. Miss Esther Hanson and Mrs. Earl Eckstrom, both of Seattle; Mrs. Myron Jacobs of McDonald, Kan., and Mrs. Edward Nelson of Chicago, and 10 grandchildren.

The body was taken to the Nelson-Berger Northside Funeral Home.