Marjorie Ingrid (Lien) SIMERSON

SIMERSON, LIEN, TORESDAHL, NELSON, MURRAY, TRYGSTAD, HOOVER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/4/2007 at 12:02:01

Mason City Globe Gazette
9/03/1995

BELMOND -- Marjorie Ingrid Simerson, 86, passed away Thursday (Aug. 31, 1995) at North Iowa Mercy Health Center East, Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Trinity Lutheran Church with the Rev. James Carpenter officiating. Burial will be in Belmond Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 2 to 9 p.m. today at Ewing Funeral Home.

Marjorie, the daughter of Henry Lien and Tena Toresdahl Lien, was born on Aug. 16, 1909 on the Lien farm outside of Kanawha. She was baptized and confirmed at the St. Olaf Church. She attended Olaf Country School and graduated from Kanawha High School in 1925. Marj attended St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn., the Iowa State Teacher's College, and MacPhail School of Music and Drama in Minneapolis. She taught at a French settlement of Huguenots near Woolstock. On Oct. 10, 1931 she was united in marriage with Harold C. Simerson in Peoria, Ill. The couple moved into the Simerson homestead where Marjorie lived until 1980 when she moved into Belmond. She had many interests and activities centered around her home, her church, and her community. After being a farmer's wife, her life remained full with her love of art, hardanger, rosemaling, genealogy, traveling and music, including playing piano and being church organist since the age of nine. Marj participated in the Friendship Tour `People to People' to Russia and China. She was an active member of the Trinity Lutheran Church, loving the yearly Kaffe Lags. She was also a member of Century Club, rural Study Club, Belmond Area Arts Council, Phi Beta National Music Sorority, Valdres Samband, and the Sons of Norway.

Marjorie is survived by her daughters, Sandra Nelson of Des Moines, and Sara Murray and her husband, Bill of San Francisco, Calif.; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild, Sabina Trygstad and Christopher Trygstad and his wife, Becky and their son Dakota; her sister, Helen Hoover of Lakeside, Calif.; numerous nieces and nephews and a host of friends. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Harold in 1970; two brothers and two sisters.