OBITUARY: Hans O. Walstad, Mitchell County, Iowa



                   HANS O. WALSTAD, RETIRED TAILOR, DIED

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at Our Savior's Lutheran
church for Hans Walstad, 80, a retired Osage tailor, who died Sunday morning
at Mitchell County Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Walstad had been in failing health,
and was a patient at the hospital for the past month.

The Rev. Obert Hoven and the Rev. Ed Schlachtenhaufen, associate pastors of
Our Savior's were in charge of the services. Arrangements were by C.R.
Champion and Sons and burial was in the Osage Cemetery.

Hans O. Walstad was born in Holmestrad, Norway, July 25, 1885, the son of
Ole and Matilda Walstad. He was educated in Norway and became an apprentice
tailor there. When he was 17 years old he came to the United States and began
work as a tailor for Leuthold and Evens in Osage.

His marriage to Anna Rinnan of Osage took place Nov. 20, 1904. He worked as
a tailor in LeRoy and Riceville. The family returned to Osage in 1910, and
he practiced his trade until his retirement.

Mr. Walstad was a lifelong member of the Lutheran Church, and was a Mason.

Surviving are his wife, Anna, of Osage; one son, Ernest of Minneapolis; four
daughters, Mrs. A. J. Sieberl (Ellen) of Moline, Ill. and Mrs. Roy Birum
(Thelma) and Mrs. Melvin Weinschenk (Gertrude) of Osage and Mrs. Morris
Serleth (Shirley) of Mason City; 12 grand-children, and 18 great grand-
children.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one brother, Olaf of LeRoy, two
sisters in Norway, and one daughter, Harriett.






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