Bertha (Berg) ANFINSON

ANFINSON, BERG, FRY, BALMER, PETERSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/24/2009 at 11:24:05

ESTHERVILLE, IA--Service for Mrs. Bertha Anfinson, 80, of Estherville will be 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Estherville Lutheran Church, with burial in East Side Cemetery. Friends may call at Henry Funeral Home. Mrs. Anfinson died Thursday at Holy Family Hospital. Born Jan. 13, 1895 in Etne, Norway, she came to the United States when she was 16. She was married to Eli Anfinson Jan. 2, 1914 at Clarion. They came to Estherville in 1935 where she has lived since. Her husband died in 1955. Survivors include one son and two daughters, Lloyd of Des Moines, Mrs. Bernard Fry of Wells, and Mrs. Niels Balmer of Estherville; 10 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; and one brother, Louis Peterson of Saskatchewan, Can.

Fairmont Sentinel, Fairmont, Minnesota
January 17, 1975