Newella Marjorie (Thompson) ENGH

ENGH, JOHNSON, THOMPSON, NEWMAN, LIND, NEPSTAD, HANSON, HALFPOP

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/10/2008 at 20:42:24

KANAWHA - Newella Marjorie Engh, 98, passed away Sunday (July 11, 1999) at the Belmond Community Hospital, at Belmond. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Kanawha Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Keith Sievers officiating. Interment will be in the Norway Township Cemetery, Kanawha. Friends may call after 4 p.m. today at the Ewing Dugger Funeral Home, Kanawha, and one hour prior to services on Wednesday at the church.

Newella, the daughter of Olaf and Carrie Johnson Thompson was born on Dec. 9, 1900 near Belmond. At the age three, she moved with her parents to a farm north and east of Kanawha. She attended rural school near the family farm. She was united in marriage with Emery Newman on Oct. 5, 1921 in Kanawha. The couple farmed in the Kanawha area until 1976, when they retired and moved into Kanawha. She was a member of the Kanawha Lutheran Church and was a lifetime member of the Boone Township Womens Club. Newella enjoyed sewing and was considered by many as a expert seamstress. She was able to maintain her own home until June 10, 1999 at which time she became a resident of the Kanawha Community Home.

Survivors include a son, Donald and wife, Mildred Engh, of Kanawha; a daughter, Lois Lind, of Marathon, Iowa; 10 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild; four sisters, Mildred Hanson, of Albert Lea; Lula Nepstad, of Batavia, Ill.; Esther Engh, of Eagle Grove; and Maxine Evans, of Kanawha. Newella was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Emery on Jan. 4, 1993; a son, Clifford and his wife, Doreen Halfpop Engh on Dec. 24, 1973; a son-in-law, LeRoy Lind, along with three sisters and three brothers.