Alma Mae (Patton) Larson (1895-1965)

CARLISLE, FISHER, LARSON, MORSE, PATTON, WEHRHEIM, TRAVERS

Posted By: Eileen Reed
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:57

The Eagle Grove Eagle
Eagle Grove, Iowa
Thursday, May 13, 1965
Page 8, Column 3

Goldfield Chronicle

Funeral services for Mrs. Harry Larson, 69, were held at 2 p.m. Monday at Goldfield Methodist church. The Rev. Phillip Halvorsen pastor of Holmes Baptist church officiated and burial was in Glenwood Cemetery.

Mrs. Larson died Thursday night at Clarion Community hospital where she had been a patient one week. She had not been well, however, for a number of years.

The former Alma Patton, she was born in Nebraska.

Surviving are her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Robert Wehrheim of Clarion and Mrs. Marvin Fisher of Eagle Grove, five grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Also surviving are one sister and one brother, Mrs. Edna Larson of Goldfield and Maynard Patton of Mason City.

Obituary

Mrs. Alma Larson was born on Aug. 17, 1895 near Stockholm, Nebr., to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Patton. She departed this life from the Clarion hospital on Thursday evening, May 6 at the age of 69 years, 8 months and 18 days.

At the age of five years Mrs. Larson moved with her parents to the Renwick community. She spent the rest of her life in that vicinity and in the vicinity of Goldfield and Eagle Grove

On April 3, 1912 she was united in marriage to Harry Larson in Clarion and started farming near Goldfield. To their union were born two daughters Mrs. Robert Wehrheim of Clarion and Mrs. Marvin Fisher of Eagle Grove. They also helped in raising three orphan boys Milford Morse, Robert Carlisle of Boulder, Colo., and Dean Travers of California.

Mrs. Larsen received the Lord Jesus Christ as her personal Saviour and was baptized together with her husband and daughter by Pastor Harvey Peterson into the membership of the Goldfield Baptist church on Aug 5, 1928. She was a member of the Goldfield Baptist Mission circle and of The D.O C. Club.

She suffered her first stroke in June of 1948 and they retired to Goldfield that fall. She has been an invalid from that time until the present.

Those who remain to mourn her passing include her husband, her two daughters, five grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, one sister Mrs. Edna Larson of Goldfield, one brother, Maynard Patton of Mason City.