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Rasmus Michaelsen Stone

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Rasmus Michaelsen Stone

Birth
Brønnøy kommune, Nordland fylke, Norway
Death
3 Jul 1928 (aged 72)
Alexandria, Douglas County, Minnesota, USA
Burial
Alexandria, Douglas County, Minnesota, USA GPS-Latitude: 45.9000176, Longitude: -95.3890007
Plot
Add'n 3-Div F-Blk 1-Lot 3-grave 2; Interment #1691
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July 12, 1928, Alexandria Citizen News, p. 6, col. 2
ObituaryBrothers-in-law Die Two Days ApartOluf T. Hove passed away at his home in La Grand Township last Thursday, following an illness of carcinoma. His brother-in-law, Rasmus Stone, who had been making his home with the Hove family, died Tuesday of last week at the Tanquist Hospital, where he had been confined four weeks, ill with the same disease.(next were obit details of Mr. Hove)Rasmus Stone was a native of Norway, having been born December 23, 1855. At the age of thirteen years, in 1868, he came to the United States with his parents who settled in Belle River Township, this county. They lived there until 1887, when his parents bought a farm on the west side of Lake Winona, where they lived for several years. In 1912 Mr. Stone went to Spokane, Washington, where he spent the next fourteen years of his life. In 1926 he returned here and has since made his home with his sister, Mrs. Hove in La Grand, until his last illness overtook him and he was taken to the hospital, where he died.A double funeral service was held Sunday afternoon with a brief prayer service at Anderson's Chapel, followed by a regular service at the First Lutheran Church at 2:30 o'clock, conducted by the pastor Rev. C. E. Hansen. "Some Day" by Oley Sweet, was sung by Mrs. C. E. Hansen, Miss Irene Koch, Rev. C. E. Hansen and C. A. Kolstad. by request the same quartet sang "God Be With You 'Till We Meet Again." Interment was made in Kinkead cemetery. Pall bearers for Mr. Hove were six of his sons; for Mr. Stone: L. E. Olson, John Ekman, C. E. Shogren, John Severson, Chas. Hanson and Oscar Erickson.
July 12, 1928, Alexandria Citizen News, p. 6, col. 2
ObituaryBrothers-in-law Die Two Days ApartOluf T. Hove passed away at his home in La Grand Township last Thursday, following an illness of carcinoma. His brother-in-law, Rasmus Stone, who had been making his home with the Hove family, died Tuesday of last week at the Tanquist Hospital, where he had been confined four weeks, ill with the same disease.(next were obit details of Mr. Hove)Rasmus Stone was a native of Norway, having been born December 23, 1855. At the age of thirteen years, in 1868, he came to the United States with his parents who settled in Belle River Township, this county. They lived there until 1887, when his parents bought a farm on the west side of Lake Winona, where they lived for several years. In 1912 Mr. Stone went to Spokane, Washington, where he spent the next fourteen years of his life. In 1926 he returned here and has since made his home with his sister, Mrs. Hove in La Grand, until his last illness overtook him and he was taken to the hospital, where he died.A double funeral service was held Sunday afternoon with a brief prayer service at Anderson's Chapel, followed by a regular service at the First Lutheran Church at 2:30 o'clock, conducted by the pastor Rev. C. E. Hansen. "Some Day" by Oley Sweet, was sung by Mrs. C. E. Hansen, Miss Irene Koch, Rev. C. E. Hansen and C. A. Kolstad. by request the same quartet sang "God Be With You 'Till We Meet Again." Interment was made in Kinkead cemetery. Pall bearers for Mr. Hove were six of his sons; for Mr. Stone: L. E. Olson, John Ekman, C. E. Shogren, John Severson, Chas. Hanson and Oscar Erickson.


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