Sara (Simerson) TRYGSTAD MURRAY

MURRAY, SIMERSON, LIEN, TRYGSTAD, NELSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/24/2006 at 00:14:45

Sara Simerson Murray, 61, of San Francisco, California, formerly of Belmond, died Tuesday, May 21, 2002 at the Azienda Sanitaria Delle Zone Siena in Montepulciano, Italy. Funeral services were held Monday, June 3, at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Belmond with Pastor Rod Hopp and Pastor Lowell Halvorson officiating. Burial was at the Belmond Cemetery. The Dugger Ewing Funeral Home of Belmond was in charge of the arrangements.

Sara, the daughter of Harold Chester and Marjorie Ingrid (Lien) Simerson was born September 18, 1940, at the Simerson home. Sara was baptized at St. Olaf Lutheran Church near Kanawha, and confirmed at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Belmond. She graduated from Belmond High School in 1958. Sara majored in vocational home economics and graduated from St. Olaf College in 1962. She taught home economics in Clear Lake High School for one year. She was married to David J. Trygstad on August 17, 1963, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Belmond. The couple lived in California, Arizona, and Louisiana, before moving to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in 1969. Sara taught at Lincoln High School in Sioux Falls. A daughter, Tanja Liv, was born prematurely and died December 22, 1967. Sara and David later adopted two children, Sabina and Christopher. Sara and David then moved to Pipestone, Minnesota, where she taught senior high and middle school home economics. Sara and David divorced in 1979. On August 27, 1982, Sara married Laurence William Murray at Hope Lutheran Church in San Mateo, California. They made their home in Benica, California, and later moved to the San Francisco area. Sara and Laurence traveled extensively. Sara was a member of St. Mark's Lutheran Church in San Francisco.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Harold C. and Marjorie Lien Simerson; and one daughter, Tanja Liv. Sara is survived by her husband, Laurence, of San Francisco, California; daughter, Sabina Dawn Trygstad of Winnipeg, Canada; son, Christopher Cory Trygstad and his wife, Becky of Springfield, Illinois; grandchild, Dakota Mystic Trygstad of Springfield, Illinois; step-children, Brenda Murray, Jenny Murray, Laurie Murray; step-grandchildren, Zachary, Laurisa, Beau, Thomas; and sister, Sandra Simerson Nelson of Belmond.

June 04, 2002
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