Lurena Christine Kathrine (Wessel) SODERBERG

WESSEL, SODERBERG, HARTWICK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:43

15 December 1892 --- 2 March 1970

L. Soderberg Rites Today At Burt

Funeral services for Lurena Soderberg, 77, Burt, will be held at 2 p.m. today (Thursday) in the United Methodist Church at Burt with the Rev. Wendell Burroughs officiating. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery, Algona, with Garry Funeral Home, Bancroft in charge of arrangements.

Lurena Wessel was born Dec. 15, 1892, at Dubuque, Ia. She was the daughter of Rev. George and Clara Hartwick Wessel and the family later moved to Burt where Rev. Wessel served the Methodist Church for some time. She was a student at Charles City College for two years and graduated from Bethesda Hospital at Cincinnati, Ohio with a major in social service. Miss Wessel was married to Fridolf Soderberg at McGregor, Ia. March 2, 1948. She operated a convalescent home in Bert for several years and died Monday at St. Ann Hospital in Algona. She was a member of the United Methodist Church at Burt, a charter member of their W.S.C.S. and a member of the Fidelis class and Shirley circle. Mr. Soderberg is her only immediate survivor.

Algona Upper Des Moines --- Algona, Iowa
5 March 1970

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[Lurena Christine Kathrine Wessel lived with her parents in Klemme, Iowa in the early 1900's where her father was a minister]