OBITUARY: Eloi Edward Engebretson, 1880-1957, Mitchell County, Iowa




                            Ed Engebretson

Dies; Funeral Saturday

Funeral services were held Saturday afternoon at the Champion Funeral Home
for Ed Engebretson, 77, of Osage, who died Wednesday at him home here.
Death was caused from a cardiac condition from which he has suffered for
a year.  [He died February 27, 1957.]

Rev. Paul R. Johnson, pastor of the Methodist church, was in charge of
the services.  Burial was in the Osage cemetery.

Eloi Edward Engebretson was born September 27, 1880, at Meroa, the son of
Mr. and Mrs. Simon Engebretson.  He attended the rural schools in the Rock
Creek community, where he grew to manhood.

He was married April 24, 1917 to Alice Richardson of Osage. They have
lived in Osage and St. Ansgar.  He had been employed at the Cedar Valley
Produce for a number of years.

Survivors included his widow, Alice, six children: Mrs. Garland Olson of
Chicago; Mrs. Fred Wieland Jr., of Osage; Charles of Elma; Merlyn, Mrs.
Walter Martin and Joan of Osage; six grandchildren and one sister, Mrs.
Maude Herzog who is a resident of a nursing home in Mason City.

He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters and two brothers.

[Published 1957]


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