Esther Loretta (Meints) HALVERSON

HALVERSON, MEINTS, HENN, WILHAM, HAUGEN, CARPENTER, OFSTETHUN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/31/2007 at 10:03:50

Esther Loretta Halverson, 70, of Belmond, died on Sunday (Jan. 4, 1998) at her farm home. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Belmond, with the Rev. Lowell Halvorson officiating. Interment will be in St. Olaf Church Cemetery in Belmond. Visitation will be held from 3 until 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Tenold Funeral Home in Belmond, and one hour prior to services on Thursday at the church. Those wishing to make an expression of sympathy may direct them to the Esther Halverson Memorial Fund.

Esther Loretta (Meints) Halverson, the daughter of William and Tillie (Henn) Meints, was born April 29, 1927, on a farm in rural Belmond. She graduated from Belmond High School. She was united in marriage to Gus Halverson on Jan. 27, 1946, at her parents’ home in Belmond. To this union, three children were born: Leslie, Curtis and Mary. Esther was a member of the St. Olaf Lutheran Church and associate member of the Love of Christ Lutheran Church in Mesa, Ariz. She enjoyed her children and grandchildren, and also enjoyed genealogy and making quilts for both her churches.

She is survived by her husband, Gus; one son, Leslie Halverson and his wife, Katie, of Fresno, Calif., and their children, Adam, Kristin and Emily; a son, Curtis Halverson, of Belmond; a daughter, Mary and her husband, Bruce Wilham, of Russell Springs, Ky., and their children, Nicholas and Amanda; her mother, Tillie Meints, of Belmond; sisters, Grace, Mrs. Harold Haugen, of Dows; Marion and her husband, Merrel Carpenter, of Alexander; Karen and her husband, John Ofstethun, of Clarion; sister-in-law, Naomi, Mrs. Conrad Meints, of Duluth, Minn.; brothers, Glenn Meints and his wife, Jan, of Belmond; and Bill Meints and his wife, Ayoka, of Kansas City, Mo.; and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her father, William Meints; brother, Conrad; and a brother in infancy.

January 6, 1998
Mason City (Iowa) Globe Gazette