Karen (Nielsen) Lund (1882-1924)

LUND, NIELSEN, SORENSEN, JENSEN

Posted By: Ken Akers (email)
Date: 10/1/2007 at 20:57:49

Audubon County Journal (IA)
Oct. 9, 1924, pg. 1

OBITUARY

Karen Lund, nee Nielsen, was born
August 14, 1882, in Lunde, near
Odense, Denmark. Her home was a
typical danish farm, where she not
only learned the best methods of
tilling the soil and tending the stock,
but also enjoyed the higher cultivation
of the soul life. When she was past
her twentieth year of age she turned
the attention towards the luring land
of romance beyond the Atlantic.

In the fall of 1904 she arrived at Ex-
ira, Iowa, and met a friend of former
years, Mr. Peter Lund, a widower,
and the friendship ripened into love,
which culminated in wedlock in the
spring of 1905. They made their home
on several farms in Audubon county,
except one year, when they were down
in Missouri. Their last residence was
about three miles northwest of Exira,
where she was suddenly taken ill Fri-
day morning October 3rd by a myster-
iously benumbing disease, evidently
Sleeping Sickness, and passed out of
life Monday. To the wedlock were
born six children, George, Thorvald,
Eiler, Anna, Agnes, and Dagny, the
oldest being 18 years of age, and the
youngest 9 years, who all join their
father in mourning the loss of a good
and gifted mother.

Mrs. Lund had a host of friends to
whom her sudden and strange demise
is a great shock. We all feel the loss,
but the sympathy of all is directed to
the bereaved husband and the chil-
dren, of whom none is beyond the
need of the tender, guiding hand and
loving heart of a mother. May God
protect them in his infinite wisdom and
mercy.

Besides above mentioned immediate
relatives, the deceased is survived by
one brother and two sisters in Den-
mark, and two brothers, Rasmus Niel-
sen of Council Bluffs and Peter Niel-
sen, Adair county, and one sister, Mrs.
Mike Sorensen, Massena, Iowa.

Early in infancy Mrs. Lund was
baptized and thus put on Christ. At
dire age she was confirmed in the
Lutheran form of the Christian faith,
to which she adhered to her death.
She and family formerly belonged to
St. John's Church west of Exira, but
a couple of years ago transferred to
the Lutheran church in town, which
was closer to their present home.

Funeral service takes place Friday
at 2:00 p. m. in the Danish Lutheran
Church in Exira. All in the english
language. Interment in the Exira
cemetery. Rev. P. C. Jensen in charge.

Sources: Exira, Iowa Quasquicentennial book (1857-1982), FAMILY HISTORIES, page 131

Exira, Iowa Sesqui History Book (1857-2007), page 186