MRS. JOHN H. CARLSON SUMMONED BY DEATH; FUNERAL HELD FRI.

Deceased Was The Victim Of Cerebral Hemorrhage - Was Almost 60 Years Of Age

At her family home in Severance township on the morning of Tuesday, May 17th, occurred the death of Mrs. John H. Carlson aged 69 years, 8 months and 17 days, her demise resulting from a cerebral hemorrhage which afflicted her six weeks previous and which had kept her bedfast thereafter.

The deceased, nee Bessie Holmquist, was born in Isanti county, Minnesota, Sept. 1st 1878, where she was baptized and confirmed, and where she spent her youthful life. At the age of 22, on the 26th day of May, in the year of 1900, she was united in marriage to her surviving husband, the ceremony taking place in Severance township where, since then, she had continually made her home.

She was the mother of thirteen children, four of which preceded her to the grave. The nine surviving children are: Philip Carlson of Severance; Lloyd, Delphin and Roger, of, West Newton; Mrs. Edgar (Dora) Hoppenstedt of Minneapolis; Mrs. Rose Peterson of Steger, Ill., and Jewel, Jeanette and Bertha, at home. Also, she leaves to mourn her passing ten grand-children, 2 sisters, Mrs. Ellen LaRue, of Lewiston, Idaho, and Mrs. Melvin Fitzgerald, of San Mateo, Cal., and one brother, Harry Holmquist, of Walla Walla, Wash.

Mrs. Carlson was a woman of quiet disposition, yet she possessed a personality that gained for her a legion of friends who grieve with the family circle over her passing.

Funeral services were conducted last Friday afternoon at the home at 1:30 o'clock, followed by services in the Clear Lake Sw. Baptist church, of which congregation she had been a devout member since August 17th, 1890, with the Rev. Bergfalk of Mankato, officiating. These services were very largely attended, attesting to the high esteem in which the departed one was held by her neighbors and other friendly acquaintances. During the obsequies special hymns were sung by the Rev. Bergfalk and a quartette from the M. E. church of Lafayette. Pall bearers were the Messrs. John Lagerstedt John Dahl, Aug. Landquist Theo. Ostrem, Frank Johnson and Albert Jacobson. Girls in charge of the profuse floral tributes were four nieces, namely, Aster and Evelyn Carlson, Rozetta Swanson and Mrs. Bellin, all of Minneapolis.

Relatives and friends from a distance present at the funeral rites were Mrs. Mabel Johnson, Mrs. Nordberg, Mrs. Ruth Swanson and children, Aster, Evelyn, Carl and Harold Carlson, Mr. and Mrs. Bellin and son, Mr. Edgar Hoppenstedt and daughter, Jean, Mr. F. W. Hoppenstedt, Mrs. A. Foster and Mrs. Jos. Melan¬der, all of Minneapolis; Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Swenson and son, of Cambria; Mr. and Mrs. Julius Johnson and son, of Sleepy Eye, and Mr. and Mrs. James E. Carlson and Mrs. Clayton Huston, of Buffalo, Minn.

Gibbon Gazette
May 26, 1938