OBITUARY: Russell Bertram Lunde, 1897-1961, Mitchell County, Iowa



                       Russell Bertram Lunde

Russell Bertram Lunde, 64, died Sunday morning, June 18, 1961, at the
Mental Health Institute at Independence, IA, where he had been a patient
since February 14, 1956.  He had suffered a heart attack Tuesday
afternoon, June 13th.  Mrs. Lunde and her brother, George H. Marshall,
went to Independence Thursday to visit him.  Mrs. Lunde was leaving
for Independence again Sunday morning when the death message came.

Funeral services were held at 2 o'clock Tuesday June 20th, in the Nora
Springs Methodist church, conducted by the Rev. Howard Eldrenkamp,
church pastor, and by the Rev. Amedee Fredette of the local Lutheran
church.  Burial was in Park cemetery, with the Sheckler Funeral home
in charge.

Mr. Lunde was born on December 12, 1897 north of Nora Springs, in
Mitchell County.  He was one of five children of Gabriel and Anna
Christina (Heggerusta) Lunde, both of whom were natives of Norway.
A sister and a brother, Maren and Hans, died in infancy.  Another
brother, Melvin Rudolph Lunde, died June 26, 1953.  One brother,
Gustav Adolph Lunde, survives.

He was baptized and confirmed in the Rock Creek Lutheran church of
rural Osage.  He farmed all his life until 1956.  He was married
on November 24, 1920 to Pearl M. Marshall, who survives him.




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