Archie F. STOCKSETH

STOCKSETH, MOLSTAD, ROSHEIM, SWENSON, WAGNER, MCDANIEL, OLSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/2/2007 at 08:58:33

Mason City Globe Gazette
05/06/1997

Archie F. Stockseth, 89, of Belmond, died Saturday (May 3, 1997) at the Belmond Community Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at St. Olaf Lutheran Church,, with the Rev. Lowell Halvorson officiating. Interment will be in St. Olaf Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 2 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Tenold Funeral Home. Those wishing to make an expression of sympathy may direct them to the Archie Stockseth Memorial Fund.

Archie F. Stockseth, the son of Henry O. and Anna (Molstad) Stockseth, was born on Oct. 20, 1907, in his family farmhouse, west of Belmond, where he has lived since birth. He farmed the same farm until his retirement in 1971. Archie enjoyed his nieces and nephews and his love of the land, he carried through with his garden and strawberry bed. The education of others was very important to Archie, and he established the Stockseth Scholarship Fund at the Belmond-Klemme High School and at Waldorf College in Forest City. He recently donated the funds for a complete computer lab at the Belmond-Klemme high School. Archie entered the Belmond Health Care Center on March 27, 1997, and was a resident of the Belmond Community Hospital from April 3, 1997, until his death on May 3, 1997.

Survivors include nephews, Art Stockseth of Belmond; Richard Stockseth of Humboldt; Irwin Rosheim of St. Paul, Minn.; Donald Swenson of Ames; and Merlin Stockseth of Belmond; nieces, Margorie (Rosheim) Wagner of Tucumcari, N.M.; Maxine (Swenson) McDaniel of Blythedale, Mo.; Ruth (Stockseth) Olson of Lake Mills,; and Lois Stockseth of Belmond; and many grandnieces and grandnephews. Preceding him in death were his parents; a brother, Harry; sisters, Mamie Rosheim and Hazel Swenson; and two nephews, Vernon Swenson and Gerald Swenson.

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