Frank W. LARSON, D.V.M.

LARSON, HANSEN, JOHNSON, SOINE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/20/2011 at 12:48:12

November 9, 1883 -- November 15, 1953

LAST RITES SATURDAY FOR DR. FRANK LARSON, FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH

Funeral services for Dr. Frank W. Larson, 70, who died in Tucson, Arizona Sunday, November 15, 1953 after a brief illness, were held Saturday, November 21 at the First Lutheran church here with the Rev. O.A. Langehough officiating.

Frank W. Larson, D.V.M., was born in St. Ansgar, November 9, 1883 the son of Henry and Helmina Hansen Larson. He lived in St. Ansgar until 1898 when he moved with his parents to a farm near Meltonville. In 1903 he entered Iowa State College at Ames, and was graduated from the Veterinary college in 1909. For a short time after his graduation he practiced veterinary medicine in Eagle Grove. Then he became a Federal meat inspector in Chicago, and later at Sioux City. In 1911 he was married to Alma Johnson of Meltonville. In 1916 he become a laboratory technologist for the Sioux City Serum Company, which later became the Allied Laboratories. Here he pioneered in the production of anti-hog cholera serum. He continued this service for over 30 years after which he retired and returned to St. Ansgar where he had lived part of each year, spending the other part in Arizona.

Dr. Larson was a member of the Lutheran church and was always active in the services of the church where he lived. He is survived by his wife, Alma Johnson Larson, two brothers, Henry A. of Dodge City, Kansas and Carl W. of Buffalo, New York; two sisters, Mrs. Florence Larson of Washington, D.C. and Alvina Soine of Mr. Vernon, Washington; also many nieces and nephews. Burial was in the First Lutheran cemetery with Rev. Langehough in charge of the committal services.

St. Ansgar Enterprise - Iowa
ca. November 1953

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FORMER ST. ANSGAR VETERINARIAN DIES

ST. ANSGAR -- Relatives received word of the death of Frank Larson, 67, sometime during the night Sunday at Tucson, Arizona. The body will be brought to St. Ansgar where funeral services will be held. Mr. Larson and his wife, the fomer Alma Johnson, of St. Ansgar, spent their winters in Arizona. He was a former Iowa state veterinarian with headquarters at Sioux City and was known as an inventor. He had retired some time ago.

Mason City Globe Gazette -- Iowa
November 16, 1953