Alma Sophia (Schroeder) GULSVIG

GULSVIG, OVERBECK, SCHROEDER, KNODT, MEYER, WELZEL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/14/2010 at 15:45:37

Funeral services for Alma Gulsvig were held Friday, Oct. 22, at 1:30 p.m. at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Postville, Iowa. The Rev. Julius L. Peterson and the Rev. David R. Nelson officiated. The Schutte Funeral Service of Postville was in charge of arrangements. Burial was in the Postville Cemetery.

Alma Sophia Gulsvig, daughter of Bernhard F. and Louise (Overbeck) Schroeder, was born Dec. 21, 1889 in Grand Meadow Township, Clayton County, Iowa. She passed away Oct. 18, 1982 at Community Memorial Hospital in Postville. She was baptized on June 22, 1890 and confirmed April 5, 1903 in the St. Paul Lutheran Church, Postville, Iowa. She attended school in the Postville Community and later was engaged in the millinery business in Belmond, Iowa, and also operated a Millinery Store at Elgin, Iowa. She was a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church. On Jan. 20, 1915, she married Albert Gulsvig at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Postville. To this union two daughters were born. The couple farmed east of Gunder until March, 1950 when they moved to Postville to retire. They continued their interest in farming until March, 1973.

She is preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Albert, who died in 1974, a brother, John A. Schroeder and five sisters, Mrs. E. H. (Margaret) Knodt, Rosemount, Minn., Mrs. William (Kathryn) Meyer, Castalia, Mrs. Carl (Minnie) Welzel, Postville, Louise Schroeder and Amelia Schroeder, both of Cedar Rapids.