OBITUARY: Oris Tilfred Golberg, Mitchell County, Iowa


[Mitchell County Press-News, online, www.mcpress.com, Posted Nov. 27, 2001]



                          Oris Tilfred Golberg

Funeral services were held Monday, November 26, 2001 at Our Savior’s Lutheran
Church, Lyle, MN for Oris Tilfred Golberg, age 99, of St. Ansgar. Rev.
Barbara Finley-Shea officiated. Burial was in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery,
Mona, IA. Oris died November 22, 2001 at the Good Samaritan Center, St. Ansgar.
Schroeder and Sites Funeral Home, St. Ansgar, in charge of arrangements.

Oris Tilfred Golberg, son of Olaf and Andrena (Austinson) Golberg was born
June 22, 1902 on a farm near Lyle, MN. He was baptized into the Lutheran
faith on Aug. 10, 1902 at the Six Mile Grove Lutheran Church, rural Lyle,
and confirmed his faith at age 14 on June 3, 1917 at Our Savior's Lutheran
Church, Lyle, MN.

As a young man, Oris played baseball and continued his love of the game as a
Minnesota Twins fan.

On March 25, 1933, Oris was married to Clara Nelson at the Lyle Parsonage.
This union was blessed with three children, twin sons, Nels and Olaf and a
daughter, Karen. 

As a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church of Lyle, he served on the Board
of Trustees and was active in the Lutheran Brotherhood. He was a member of
the Mona School Board and served as an election official for Otranto Township.

His adult life was spent on the farm south of Lyle where he raised his
family, did general trucking and farmed until 1975 when he and his wife,
Clara retired to Lincoln Apartments, Osage, IA.

Realizing the need for additional assistance in their daily needs, In
September of 1987, they moved to Worth Living Center, St. Ansgar, IA until
due to failing health, Oris entered the Good Samaritan Center in St. Ansgar
in March of 1997 where he passed away on Nov. 22, 2001.

Oris was preceded in death by his wife, Clara on Feb. 26, 1995; his parents;
two brothers, Johnel and Harvey; and one grandson, Steven Golberg.

Those that survive him include his two sons, Olaf and wife, Florence of
Tempe, AZ and Nels and wife, Shirley of St. Ansgar; a daughter, Karen Cook
and husband, Robert of Charles City; grandchildren, Kathy Golberg of San
Fransico, CA, Lisa Dockstader and husband, John of St. Ansgar, Brent Golberg
and wife, Karla of Owatonna, MN, Wendy Patterson and husband, Chris of St.
Ansgar; great-grandchildren, Zachary and Derick Helgeson, Alison Golberg of
Owatonna, MN, Garrett and Alexandra Patterson of St. Ansgar; and also one
niece, nephews and cousins.






Copyright (c) 2001 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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