OBITUARY: Rachel Nubson Norby, 1875-1946, Mitchell County, Iowa



                       Rachel Nubson Norby 

Funeral services were held on Wednesday afternoon at the Champion
Funeral Home and at the Rock Creek Lutheran Church for Mrs. Rachel
Norby, 71, who died at the Park Hospital in Mason City Sunday
afternoon of a cerebral hemorrhage and pneumonia following a major
surgery last Tuesday.  The Rev. S. O. Sorlien conducted last rites
and burial was in the Rock Creek cemetery.

Rachel Nubson was born in Cedar Township in Mitchell County on May 23,
1875 to Christopher and Marit Lindelien Nubson.  She attended the
Cedar township school and was married to Lauritz H. Norby at the
Rock Creek Lutheran church.  They established their home in Cedar
Township in 1904, where they lived until her husband’s death in
1939.  Since then she made her home with her two daughters.
Mrs. Norby had not been seriously ill until a week ago.

Surviving are her daughters, Mrs. Edwin (Thelma) Jellum and Mrs.
Clifford (Katherine) Larson, both of Osage.  Also surviving is
her brother, Nels Nubson of Carrington, ND and four sisters: Alma
and Lena at home, Mrs. Carl (Martha) Field, Osage, and Mrs. Gunia
Ask of Mitchell.  Three grandchildren also survive her.

Preceding her in death were her husband; one son, Ronald; one brother,
Alfred; and one sister, Mrs. Harold (Marie) Fosholdt.



       Copyright 2004, Steve Norby