Jerome Curtis LARSON

LARSON, ASBE, GRABER, OLSEN, SUDERMAN, YEPSEN, THORSON, EICHNER, LOGLI, MACKEY, KLOPPEN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/19/2008 at 11:14:50

THOMPSON, IA - Jerome C. Larson, 86, of Thompson died Tuesday (July 8, 2008) at the Good Samaritan Center in Albert Lea, Minn. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m., Saturday, July 12, at the Evangelical Free Church in Britt with the Rev. Stan Johnson officiating. Burial will be at Rose Hill Cemetery in Thompson. Visitation will be held from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, July 11, at the Petersen Lund Funeral Home, 505 N. Clark St., Forest City, and will continue one hour prior to services at the church.Memorials may be directed to the Evangelical Free Church in Britt.

Jerome Curtis Larson, the son of Joachim and Sena (Asbe) Larson, was born Oct. 10, 1921, on a farm near Kanawha. He attended country school near his home and helped his father on the farm. He later moved to San Diego, Calif. where he was employed at Consolidate Aircraft for a time. Jerome served his country in the U.S. Army during WWII. Following his honorable discharge he worked in Chicago. On June 3, 1944, he married Maxine Graber in Chicago. In 1945, they moved west of Forest City and farmed. From 1956 to 1961 they lived in San Diego, Calif., before returning to the Forest City area where they continued to farm until retiring in 1983. In 1988 they moved into Thompson where they resided until 2005 when Jerome entered the Good Samaritan Center in Albert Lea, Minn. He enjoyed traveling, fishing, music, playing table games and doing carpentry. He was a member of the Evangelical Free Church in Britt.

Jerome is survived by his wife, Maxine, of Albert Lea, Minn.; four children, Ronald (Karen) Larson of San Antonio, Texas, Betty Ann (Roger) Olsen of Thompson, the Rev. Wayne Larson of Baltimore, Md., and Richard (Faith) Larson of Forest City; grandchildren, David (Marjean) Olsen of Mason City, James (Karen) Olsen of River Falls, Wis., and Paula and Mitchell Larson of Forest City; five great-grandchildren; sisters Viola Suderman of Hillsboro, Kan., Lavon Yepsen of St. Paul, Minn., Lorraine Thorson of Ankeny, Shirley (Earl) Eichner of Milo, and Virginia (Richard) Logli of Ankeny; and a brother, Luther Larson of Oregon. He was preceded in death by his parents; sisters, Harriet Mackey and Anna Mae Kloppen; and brothers, Harley, Marshall and Vernon Larson. Petersen Lund Funeral Home.

Mason City Globe Gazette, IA
7/11/2008