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Samuel L. Linn Dies at Farm Home
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83-Year-Old Resident of Frankfort
Township
Dies After Paralytic Stroke on April
6.
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FUNERAL LAST SATURDAY
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The death of Samuel L. Linn, 83, occurred at his farm home in Frankfort
township Thursday, April 6, after a paralytic stroke suffered four days
before. Funeral services were held Saturday, April 8, at 2 p.m. from the
home and from the Mission Covenant church in Stanton at 2:30 p. m., in
charge of the Perryman service, and with Rev. Otto Nelson officiating.
Pallbearers were nephews of the deceased as follows: Gordon Hogberg,
Paul Hogberg, Harry Olson, Martin Olson, Eric Olson, and Clarence Linn
of Essex. Music at the home was by Rev. Nelson, soloist, and at the
church a male quartet—Russell Bergstrom, Glendon Johnson, Clifford
Palmquist and Bert Palmquist, sang, with Mrs. Clifford Palmquist at the
piano. In charge of the flowers were Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Urn and Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. Anderson. Interment was in the
Mission cemetery
northeast of Stanton.
Deceased was born in Jonskopping Lan, Sweden, December 14, 1860, a son
of Mr. and Mrs. Jonas Linn, and came from Sweden when three years old
and lived at Linn Center, Illinois, until 1869, when they came to Page
county, where they lived near Bethesda. He was married at Nyman, June
24, 1896, to Matilda Christine Hogberg. They moved to the farm near
Stanton in 1907 and this had been their home ever since. Mrs. Linn died
there June 4, 1943. Survivors are sons and daughters as follows: Carrie,
Nannie, David and Elin Linn, all at home, Ernest Linn in Red Oak, Elmer
in Elliott, and Pfc. Vincent Linn at Anzio Beachead, in Italy. A
brother, Frank, lives at Essex, and a sister, Mrs. Edna Lundstedt, at
Guide Rock, Neb. A son, Reuben, died in Omaha September 20, 1941. Mr.
Linn was a member of the Mission Covenant church in Stanton.
THE SUN, Red Oak, Iowa, Thursday, April 13, 1944. |
