Laura S. Leidal dies at age 98

Funeral services for Laura S. Leidal, 98, a London Township resident, were held Saturday at 1:30pm at Deer Creek Valley Lutheran Church, rural Glenville. The Rev. Theodore Anderson officiated and internment was in the London Deer Creek Cemetery.

Mrs. Leidal died Wednesday, June 23, at the Lutheran Retirement Home, Northwood.

She was born July 29, 1883, in London Township, Freeborn County, Minnesota, to John and Anna Bergeson. She was a lifelong resident of London Township. On Jan. 2, 1911 she married Albert M. Leidal. She was a housewife and was a member of the Deer Creek Valley Lutheran Church and the ALCW. She belonged to a prayer fellowship group and the church circle and was a member of the mothers club of the rural London Township School District 125.

She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Richard (Anna) Dorle, White Bear Lake, Minn.; two sons, Curtis Leidal, Northwood, and Kermit Leidal, Austin, Minn.; 14 grandchildren; 28 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one daughter, Clara; two sons, Quinten and Glen; one great-grandson, Jason Leidal; three brothers and seven sisters.
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Quote from the Lyle Centennial Book 1870-1970 and the section was on Johannes Bergeson and his family. She was interviewed in the summer of 1970.. "Mrs. Albert Leidal, now 87, the only living daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Johannes Bergeson, lives west of Lyle. She told of the time Jessie James and his gang came to the farm and shod their horses in the old barn. They put the horseshoes on backwards, they learned later. This was so that anyone who tried to track them would be misled into thinking they were going south instead of north. It was revealed later that this occurred just before the bank robbery at Northfield by Jessie James and his gang."