Sine Hanson Peterson Wambsal (1853-1930)

GEE, HANSON, HELGESEN, MADSON, NELSON, PETERSON, ROBINSON, SUNDE, WAMBSAL

Posted By: Eileen Reed
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:43

Sine Hanson was born in Langeland, Denmark, Dec. 26, 1853, and died in Goldfield, Ia., August 18, 1930, aged 76 years, 7 months and 22 days. She came to America 40 years ago and settled near Goldfield where she has since resided. She was married to Soren Peterson soon after her arrival in America. To this union was born a daughter who lived but a few hours. Mr. Peterson lived but a short time and was laid to rest beside his infant daughter in the Goldfield cemetery.

On June 16, 1901, Mrs. Peterson was married to Nicholi Wambsal, who died in July, 1924.

Jesus said (John 15.15) "Henceforth I call you not servants—but I call you friends." Some one has asked what is wealth? The reply was "Write down a list of a person's friends and you have the answer." Mrs. Wambsal was rich in real friends and the number of her friends would include the entire circle of her acquaintance. To know her was to respect and esteem her. Large hearted, cordial, generous in the extreme, she lived a life of kindly usefulness and was an inspiration and a blessing to the entire neighborhood.

Mrs. Wambsal loved flowers and her yard and garden was always a riot of bloom and one of the brightest spots in Goldfield, where the friends and neighbors were welcome and where they were shared liberally with all who came. Mrs. Wambsal could enter into the spirit of the poet who sang of the “Bright, Bright Flowers”:

They were left as a proof of the lovliness
Of Adam’s and Eve’s first home;
They were left as a type of the joys that bless
The just in the world to come.

Mrs. Wambsal was a fountain of joy and will be greatly missed by all who knew her. She leaves to mourn her passing from this life to the higher life, a sister living in Denmark; seven step-children, Oscar Wambsal, Arthur Wambsal, Mrs. Ray Sunde, Mrs. Mary Glee [Gee], Mrs. Harold Helgesen, Mrs. H. P. Madson and Mrs. A. J. Nelson; another step-son, Freddie Wambsal, a soldier boy, gave his life in the World War. Also, a brother-in-law George M. Nelson, Sr. of Goldfield, Nels Nelson of Wabsha, Minn., Mrs. Chris Nelson of Rice Lake, Wis., A. J. Nelson of Renwick, Hans Nelson and Anna M. Robinson of Goldfield, these last five are the children of Mrs. Wambsal’s sister Mrs. Geo. M. Nelson who died in December 1929. There is a very large group of grand-nephews and nieces and other relatives and a much larger company of friends and neighbors.

The funeral services were held in the United Presbyterian church in charge of Rev. D. M. Simpson who stressed the fact that Mrs. Wambsal belonged to the great “Aristocracy of Goodness”. The music was in charge of Miss Betty Keith with Jeanette Beveridge of Monmouth, Ill. at the piano. Interment was in the Glenwood Cemetery, Goldfield, Iowa.

A beautiful soul has gone from our community to join that larger company in the great beyond: She still lives in blessed memory. –Goldfield Booster, Thursday, September 4, 1930

The Eagle Grove Eagle --- Eagle Grove, Iowa
Thursday, August 28, 1930