OBITUARY: Eleanor Helene Ingeborg Klemesrud, 1910-2004, Mitchell County, Iowa
                                                          
[ Adapted from: Mitchell County Press-News, October 20, 2004 ]



                          Eleanor H. Klemesrud

Funeral services for Eleanor Helene Ingeborg Klemesrud, age 93, of Osage,
Iowa, and formerly of Minneapolis, Minn., were held Saturday, Oct. 16, 2004,
at the Rock Creek Lutheran Church, 3269 Foothill Avenue, Osage, with
Rev. R. Dawson Tornes officiating. Interment was in the Rock Creek
Cemetery.  Eleanor died on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2004, at the Faith Lutheran
Home in Osage.

Eleanor was born Nov. 11, 1910, on the family farm in West Cedar Township,
Mitchell County, near Nora Springs.  She was named for her mother,
Ingeborg Severina Maakestad Klemesrud, who was also born in Iowa.
Eleanor's father, Harald K. Klemesrud, immigrated to the USA from
Valdres, Norway in 1866, at the age of seven.  Eleanor was baptized
Jan. 15, 1911, by Rev. J.A. Urness at Rock Creek Lutheran Church, and
was confirmed on May 25, 1924, by Rev. O.C. Myhre.

She attended West Cedar Township No. 3 rural school, graduated
from Osage High School in 1928, and continued her education in
stenography at Hamilton Business College in Mason City.  She had
a life long career of housekeeping and kitchen work in many states.
Eleanor also worked at Major Erickson Funeral Home in Mason City,
and worked as a cook at the Fuller Seminary in California.  In the
1940's, she moved to Winnetka, Ill., and was employed at the Hearthstone
Tea Room in Evanston, Ill.  In 1951, she moved to Minneapolis, Minn.,
where she was employed by the Minneapolis Gas Company, working for
17 1/2 years in their home service department,  retiring in 1974.

After her retirement, she was very active in mission work through
her church, St. Paul's Lutheran Church. On March 16, 1999, she moved
to the Faith Lutheran Home in Osage, to be near her family and friends,
at which time she rejoined Rock Creek Lutheran Church.

Eleanor was preceded in death by her parents, an infant brother Omar;
three sisters, Cora, Lillie and Ruth; and four brothers, Herbert,
Clarence, Olaf, and Theodore (Ted).

She is survived by a brother Lorin Klemesrud of Osage; three nephews,
Robert Klemesrud and wife Joan of Osage, Kent Klemesrud Daly and
wife Carrie of Watsonville, Calif., and Tom Klemesrud of Thompson;
two nieces, Cleone Weaverling and husband John of Osage and Mary
Lou Dean and husband Richard of Osage; and numerous great-nieces
and nephews.

Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, Osage was in charge of arrangements;
(641)732-3706.


    Copyright 2004, K. Kittleson, for IAGENWEB