OBITUARY: Norman Conrad Blakestad, 1908-1999, Mitchell Co., Iowa



                         NORMAN CONRAD BLAKESTAD 

ST. ANSGAR - Norman Conrad Blakestad, 90, of St. Ansgar, died Friday, (April
23, 1999) at the Good Samaritan Center, St. Ansgar. 

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. today at the First Lutheran Church,
St. Ansgar, with the Rev. Robert Porisch officiating. Burial will be in the
Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Mona, Iowa.

Visitation was held from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Schroeder & Sites Funeral
Home, St. Ansgar.

Norman was born on Dec. 8, 1908, to Otto and Bessie (Hanson) Blakestad, in
Otranto, Iowa. He graduated from the Otranto High School in 1926. Norman
married Carol Pacey on Sept. 25, 1939, at her parent's home east of Otranto.
They were the fifth generation to live and farm on the family farm near
Otranto. Norman was a member of the First Lutheran Church, St. Ansgar. He
held various church offices at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Lyle, Minn.,
and also at the First Lutheran Church, St. Ansgar. For many years, Norman
was a 4-H leader and also on the County Conservation Board.

He enjoyed entertaining family and friends, and boating and fishing at home
on the Cedar River.  He was preceded in death by his parents; infant
daughter, Karen; brother, Sophus; three sisters, Grace, Beatrice and Loreen. 

Norman is survived by his wife, Carol, of St. Ansgar; a daughter, Sheryl
Adams of Denver, Iowa; two sons, Alan of Avoca, Iowa, and Dale of St.
Ansgar; and seven grandchildren, Brian, Cynthia and Lora Adams, and Troy,
Jerod, Ryan and Mandy Blakestad.



    Submitted to IAGENWEB Feb. 2005 by Kathy Pike