OBITUARY: Othilda (Leverson) Lunde 1881-1967 Mitchell County, Iowa




                       Othilda Leverson Lunde

Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at Rock Creek Lutheran
church, rural Osage for Mrs. G.A. Lunde, 86, of rural Nora Springs, who
died August 28th at Mitchell County Memorial hospital in Osage.  She
had been ill several months.

The Rev. Donald Berg, church pastor, conducted services.  C.R. Champion
and Sons made arrangements, and burial was in Rock Creek cemetery.

Othilda Laurinda Leverson was born on May 15, 1881 in Albany, WI, the
daughter of Ole and Sofia Leverson.  She moved to Iowa with her parents
when she was twelve years old and lived in the Osage-Nora Springs
vicinity for the remainder of her life.  She was baptized as a child
in Wisconsin and confirmed at Rock Creek Lutheran church in 1896.
In addition to her grade school education, she attended the CedarValley seminary in Osage for one year.

She was united in marriage to Gustav Lunde on April 30, 1908, remaining
on the Lunde farm.

Surviving are three sons: Gaylord and Herbert of rural Osage, and
Arleigh of rural Nora Springs; two brothers, Oscar and Emmet Leverson
on Osage; eight grandchildren, and two great grandchildren.

Her parents, her husband, who died on February 18, 1967, and one son
Raymond, who died in 1934, preceded her in death.



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