TORGER AND GERTRUDE NELSON Their

TORGER AND GERTRUDE NELSON
Their Ancestors, Descendants and Related Families
(1685 - 1976)

Compiled by Twila Ruth (Eckstrom) Schroeder -- March 1, 1976

Twila Ruth (Eckstrom) Schroeder

July 16, 1925 ---- November 10, 2012

Twila Schroeder, 87, of Kanawha, passed away Saturday, November 10, 2012, at her home in Kanawha, Iowa. Funeral services for Twila Schroeder were held on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 at 10:30 AM at Kanawha Lutheran Church, 124 West 4th Street, with Pastors Char and Geoffrey White officiating. Burial was in the Amsterdam Township Cemetery in Kanawha. Visitation was held on Tuesday, November 13, 2012 from 5-7 PM at Ewing Funeral Home, 118 East 2nd Street, in Kanawha and continued one hour prior to services at the church.

Twila Ruth Eckstrom was born July 16, 1925, in Ames, Iowa, the only child of Carroll and Minnie (Nelson) Eckstrom. She was baptized at the Lutheran Church in Ames, and confirmed at the Kanawha Lutheran Church. In 1943 she graduated from Kanawha High School. From then until her marriage, she was employed at Central Life Insurance Company in Des Moines. On September 15, 1946, Twila married former classmate William Schroeder. They had been co-salutatorians of their graduating class. Twila and Bill made their home on the Schroeder farm north of Kanawha until moving into town in July of 1979. Two children were born to them: Steve Alan and Karen Sue.

Twila served as an organist at the Kanawha Lutheran Church for 63 years. She was also active in the work of the church and community, including writing and directing the pageant for Kanawha's Centennial celebration in 1999.

Twila was survived by her husband Bill of Kanawha; son Steve (Pat) Schroeder; daughter Karen (Larry) Lang; three grandchildren: Sam Schroeder, Kathy (Americo) Moldonado and Jim (Suzi) Lang; six great-grandchildren: Yuvia, Andres, Miguel, Aaron, Isaiah and Elsa; along with other family members and friends. She was preceded in death by her mother Minnie Ellsworth.

TORGER NILSEN SKAUGE and GERTRUDE OLSDATTER SEVERAAS were born in Lindaas, Hordaland, Norway and were married August 22, 1890 near Jewell, Hamilton County, Iowa. In 1912, Torger bought a 240-acre farm in Belmond Township of Wright County, Iowa, for the sum of $27,246.00. This transaction was finalized on February 28, 1913, and recorded in Deed Book 57, page 98, in the Wright County Courthouse in Clarion, Iowa, as the "E 1/2 of SW 1/4 and the SE 1/4 of Section 30, Township 93 North, Range 24 West of the 5th P.M., except for one acre of said SE 1/4 used for school purposes."

Torger Nelson September 19, 1864 --- December 10, 1954

Gertrude Olsdatter Severaas Nelson December 26, 1867 --- November 20, 1954

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