OBITUARY: Halvor Leraaen, 1896-1996, Mitchell County, Iowa

[From Mason City Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa, July 30, 1996 (edited)]
                           



                            Halvor Leraaen

ST. ANSGAR, IOWA--Halvor Leraaen, age 100, died Saturday, July 27, 1996,
at the St. Ansgar Good Samaritan Center.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today at First Lutheran Church,
with the Rev. Stephen Engelstad and the Rev. Robert Porisch, officiating.
Burial will be in First Lutheran Cemetery.

Visitation was held from 7 to 8 p.m. Monday at Schroeder and Sites Funeral
Home.

Halvor Leraaen was born May 21, 1896 in Uvdal, Norway.

Survivors include his wife, Violet, of St. Ansgar; two daughters, June
Ulring and Mary Kay Mark, both of Columbus, Ohio; six grandchildren;
and two great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one sister, four brothers.



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