OBITUARY: Alice Katherine Fossey Smesrud, 1911-1981, Mitchell County, Iowa
                                    
[St. Ansgar Enterprise, 19 NOV 1981]



                      Mrs. Vernon Smesrud Funeral
                     Held At First Lutheran Church

  Funeral services for Mrs. Vernon Smesrud, 70, of St. Ansgar, who died
November 12 at Methodist hospital, Rochester, Minn., were held November 16
at First Lutheran church here with the Rev. Stephen Engelstad officiating.

  Alice Katherine Smesrud, the daughter of Otto and Anna Fossey, was born
in Osage January 11, 1911. She attended grade school at Pleasant Prairie
school north of St. Ansgar, and graduated from Osage high school in 1929.

  June 23, 1932 she married Vernon L. Smesrud of St. Ansgar. They resided
in the St. Ansgar and Osage area before moving to Little Rock, Ark. and
later Springdale, Ark. where they lived for 21 years before returning to
St. Ansgar in June of 1977.

  Mrs. Smesrud was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran faith, and was
an active member in numerous church and civic organizations.

  She was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters, Irene and Olive,
and two brothers, Oliver and Kenneth.

  Mrs. Smesrud is survived by her husband, Vernon of St. Ansgar; her step
mother, Mrs. Esther Fossey of St. Ansgar; one sister, Mrs. Edith Griffith
of Harrisburg, Penn.; two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Robert Nyman of Key Largo,
Fla. and Mrs. Shirley Fossey of St. Ansgar, 10 nieces and nephews and 20
grand nieces and nephews.

  Burial was in the First Lutheran cemetery with Rev. Engelstad in charge
of committal services.




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