Birdsall CARLSON

CARLSON, JACOBSON, THOMPSON, BIRKLAND, OLSON, MCCORMICK, SPANGLER, FLUMERFELT

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/28/2012 at 22:07:41

March 25, 1915 -- March 26, 1967

Birdsall Carlson Rites Held

Birdsall Carlson, 52, Goldfield, died Sunday at Lutheran Hospital in Fort Dodge. Mr. Carlson had been In falling health for two years. Death was due to a self inflicted gunshot wound, according to Dr. Robert Dunn, Webster County Medical examiner. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the United Presbyterian Church in Goldfield with the Rev. Kay Mills officiating. Burial was in Glenwood Cemetery at Goldfield. He is survived by his wife, Dorothy, and four children, Mrs. Don Flumerfelt, Eagle Grove; Ole, Goldfield; Emogene and Jerry, at home. Other survivors include three brothers, Tilman, Clarion; Gordon, Kanawha; and Robert, Flagstaff, Ariz.; and six sisters, Mrs. Tilbert Thompson, Clarion; Mrs. Marion Birkland, Somers; Mrs. Burdette Thompson, Clarion; Mrs. Bennie Jacobson, Goldfield; Mrs. Orville Olson, Greenbush, Minn.; and Mrs. Glenn McCormick, Sioux Falls, S. D.

Mr. Carlson was born near Kanawha and as a child moved to the Goldfield area. On Sept. 23, 1942 he married the former Dorothy Spangler, and the couple made their home in Goldfield. Mr. Carlson was the owner-operator of a trucking business.

Wright County Monitor -- Clarion, Iowa
Thursday, March 30, 1967