Helge Hansen Helgevold Lund (1886-1957) Alternate

HANSON, HELGEVOLD, KVALE, LUND, RISDALL

Posted By: Eileen Reed (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:07:01

November 12, 1886 --- March 18, 1957

SERVICES FOR HELGE LUND, FRIDAY

Helge H. Lund, 70, life-long resident of the Thor community died Monday afternoon at Mercy hospital at Fort Dodge follow an illness of several months.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 2 p m. at the Thor Lutheran church with the Rev. O. O. Brandt officiating. Burial will be at Ulensvang Cemetery, Thor. Preliminary services will be held at the Sacquety chapel at 1:15 p.m.

Mr. Lund is survived by his wife Belle four sons and one daughter, Peter of Clarion; Norris and Harold of Thor; Nellard of Goldfield and Mrs. Harold Kvale of Eagle Grove. Also surviving is a brother John Hanson of San Francisco. Calif.

The Eagle Grove Odd Fellows will conduct their services at the chapel Thursday night at 8 o'clock.

Eagle Grove Eagle --- Eagle Grove, Iowa
March 21, 1957

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Helge Lund, 71, Lifelong Resident of Thor, Died Monday Evening

Thor—Helge H. Lund, 71, farmer and lifelong resident of the Thor community, died Monday evening at the Mercy hospital in Fort Dodge after a lingering illness.

Funeral services will be held this afternoon (Friday) at 1:15 o’clock at the Lutheran church in Thor with the Rev. Olaf O. Brandt officiating. Burial will be in the Ullensvang cemetery at Thor.

Mr. Lund is survived by: his wife; four sons, Norris and Harold Lund of Thor, Peter Lund of Clarion and Nellard Lund of Goldfield; one daughter, Mrs. Harold Kvale of Eagle Grove, and one adopted brother, John Hanson of San Francisco, Calif.

Humboldt Republican --- Humboldt, Iowa
March 22, 1957

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Helge H. Lund

The Lutheran church was filled to capacity for last rites for Helge H. Lund, 70, Friday afternoon, March 22 at 2 p m. The Rev. Olaf Brandt officiated. Burial was in Ullensvang cemetery near Thor.

John Moklebust sang two selections during the services, accompanied by Mrs. Alvin Thorson, organist, Mrs. Donovan Click and Mrs. John Morgan were in charge of floral tributes.

Casket bearers were James Tokheim, Alvin Halgrim, Irvin Nessa, Harry Crovisier, Joe Gerhart and Mody Peterson.

Mr. Lund was born in Sande, Norway, November 12, 1886. He was the adopted son of Peder and Torkelanna Lund. He came to this country at an early age, and spent all the years of his life in this country on the farm south of Thor.

He was united in marriage to Belle Risdall on April 4, 1908 at the Risdall home near Thor. The couple had been engaged in farming from the time of their marriage until Mr. Lund passed away at Mercy hospital, Fort Dodge, March 18, following a long illness.

He was a member of the Lutheran church.

He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers, two sisters and an infant son, Elmer. He is survived by his wife Belle, one daughter, Mrs. Harold Kvale of Eagle Grove, four sons, Peter of Clarion, Nellard of Goldfield and Norris and Harold of Thor; six grandchildren also survive, and one brother, John Hanson of San Francisco, Calif.

Humboldt Independent --- Humboldt, Iowa
April 1, 1957

Additional Notes: Helge’s father’s name was Faltin Helgevold. Helge was the youngest of seven children when Faltin and Helga (wife) Helgevold immigrated to North America from Norway on the S.S. Sardinian 14-24 April 1887 (see ship’s manifest in attached story). At the time, Helge was a five-month old infant. The mother Helga apparently died within a few months after immigrating to the U.S. in 1887. At some time after arrival in U.S., the infant son Helge was adopted by Peder J. Lund and his wife, TorkelAnna (see 1900 U.S. census record for Helge Lund) who raised Helge as an adopted son. Based on the 1900 U.S. census, Peder and TorkelAnna had been married 22 years and had two previous children, both living, but those two children were not living with their parents in 1900. Some of this information was probably documented more fully in the 1890 U.S. census, but those records were presumably loss in the infamous fire. My great “Uncle Jack”, John W. Hanson (aka Johannes Helgevold) of San Francisco, was an older brother of Helge Lund and apparently visited the Lund family often (in Thor, Iowa), including his niece Iona (Lund) Kvale and her husband Howard Kvale. I knew my Uncle Jack (b. 1881 in Norway, d. 1973 in San Francisco) as a child and teenager when I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, but I never met any of my other Norwegian relatives who remained in Iowa. These are my personal interpretations based on the available records and my own mother’s recollections. –Donald E. Campton, Jr. (4 January 2009).

Date of Birth: 12 Nov 1886 Place of Birth: Sandeid, Rogaland, Norway. Hand-written, Norwegian parish record documenting birth of Helge Hansen Helgevold. Source: Rogaland county, Sandeid in Vikedal-Sandeid Parish register (official) nr. A 11 Birth and baptism record 1886, Page 6