OBITUARY: Thea Olga (Lundene) Horgen, 1891-1950, Mitchell Co., Iowa

                             
                      Thea Olga Lundene Horgen

Thea Olga Horgen, daughter of Anton and Marie Norby Lundene, was born on
May 18, 1891 in Floyd County, Iowa.  She died at the home of her son,
Kenneth, near St. Ansgar on March 11, 1950.  The cause of death was a
heart attack.

She was baptized and confirmed in the Rock Creek Lutheran church.  She
was educated in the public schools of her native community, after which
she attended both the St. Ansgar and Cedar Valley seminaries.  After
this, she taught in the rural schools of Floyd County for four years.

On June 7, 1913, she was united in marriage with Edwin R. Horgen.  The
Horgens first farmed south of Osage, later moving to a farm northwest
of Osage.  After her husband’s health failed, Mrs. Horgen together
with her sons, operated a farm northwest of St. Ansgar for eight years.

The past two years Mrs. Horgen has been an assistant in preparing
lunches in the St. Ansgar schools.

Survivors include her husband and four children: Glendon, of St. Ansgar;
Mrs. Robert (Marvelyn) Frank, of Chicago; Kenneth and Virgil, of
St. Ansgar.  One daughter, Theresa Lucille, died in infancy.  She is
also survived by eight grandchildren, two brothers: Hans, of rural
Rudd and Amos, of rural Otranto; and four sisters: Mrs. Elmer (Alice)
Larson of Osage, Mrs. Lloyd (Cora) Larson of Rudd, Mrs. Ervin (Mabel)
Nelson of Waterloo, and Mrs. Elza (Ida) Steelman, of Yakima, WA.

Funeral services were held March 14, at the Osage Lutheran church and
burial was in the Osage cemetery.



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