Elsie E. Thorson, 82, 1910 Myrtle St., died Thursday in a Sioux City hospital after a brief illness. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Riverside Lutheran Church. The Rev. James Sandvik will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-9 p.m. today in the Nelson-Berger Northside Chapel. Mrs. Thorson, the former Elsie Emilia Nelson, was born April 27, 1904, on a farm near Akron, Iowa. She lived most of her childhood in Vermillion, S. D., where she attended public schools. She married Ernest G. Thorson Dec. 16, 1922, in Clay County, S. D. The couple moved to Sioux City in 1932 from Sioux Falls, S. D. She had formerly been employed in sales at the S. S. Kresge Variety Store, Younker-Davidson Department Store and as a clerk-receptionist for the Toller Drug Store. Mr. Thorson died in 1963 in Marshalltown, Iowa. Mrs. Thorson was a member of Riverside Lutheran Church and Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. She was a former member of First Lutheran Church where she served as a Sunday School teacher and a former president of the Ladies Aid Society. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Bernard (Florence) Brennan of Westbury, N. Y., Mrs. William (Eunice) McAllister of Sioux City and Mrs. William (Janice) Rens of Grand Rapids, Mich.; two sons, Gerald E. of Brentwood, Calif., and Neil E. of Columbus, Neb.; three sisters, Selma Papajohn of Sioux City, Myrtle Nelson of Fairmont, Minn., and Mrs. William (Alma) Russell of Manson, Iowa; 34 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. A memorial has been established in her name with Riverside Lutheran.
The Sioux City Journal, October 24, 1986
The Sioux City Journal, October 24, 1986
Elsie E. Thorson, 82, 1910 Myrtle St., died Thursday in a Sioux City hospital after a brief illness. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Riverside Lutheran Church. The Rev. James Sandvik will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4-9 p.m. today in the Nelson-Berger Northside Chapel. Mrs. Thorson, the former Elsie Emilia Nelson, was born April 27, 1904, on a farm near Akron, Iowa. She lived most of her childhood in Vermillion, S. D., where she attended public schools. She married Ernest G. Thorson Dec. 16, 1922, in Clay County, S. D. The couple moved to Sioux City in 1932 from Sioux Falls, S. D. She had formerly been employed in sales at the S. S. Kresge Variety Store, Younker-Davidson Department Store and as a clerk-receptionist for the Toller Drug Store. Mr. Thorson died in 1963 in Marshalltown, Iowa. Mrs. Thorson was a member of Riverside Lutheran Church and Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. She was a former member of First Lutheran Church where she served as a Sunday School teacher and a former president of the Ladies Aid Society. Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Bernard (Florence) Brennan of Westbury, N. Y., Mrs. William (Eunice) McAllister of Sioux City and Mrs. William (Janice) Rens of Grand Rapids, Mich.; two sons, Gerald E. of Brentwood, Calif., and Neil E. of Columbus, Neb.; three sisters, Selma Papajohn of Sioux City, Myrtle Nelson of Fairmont, Minn., and Mrs. William (Alma) Russell of Manson, Iowa; 34 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. A memorial has been established in her name with Riverside Lutheran.
The Sioux City Journal, October 24, 1986
The Sioux City Journal, October 24, 1986
Family Members
Siblings
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
