OBITUARY: Stanley E. Klemesrud, 1919-1977, Mitchell County, Iowa




                       Stanley E. Klemesrud

Services for the Rev. Stanley Klemesrud, 58, a Lutheran minister in
Minnesota and former resident of Mitchell County were held Thursday,
July 12th in Highland, MN and at the Rock Creek Lutheran Church, rural
Osage, Iowa.  Rev. Klemesrud died Monday, July 11, 1977 in Highland,
Minnesota.  Bishop Elmos Argimson officiated at the Highland, Minnesota
services, and the Rev. Paul Metzger, pastor of the Rock Creek Lutheran
Church, was in charge of the service at the church in the afternoon.
Burial was made in the Rock Creek Lutheran cemetery.

Rev. Klemesrud had been serving a joint parish in Highland and Whalen,
Minnesota for the past eight years.  He and his wife were missionaries in
Japan from 1953 to 1959 and he served several parishes including Six Mile
Grove and Mona Lutheran churches.

Stanley Elton Klemesrud was born January 1, 1919 in Cedar Township,
Mitchell County, Iowa, to Syver and Ella Shoger Klemesrud.  He was a
graduate of Osage High School, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota
and Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Survivors include his wife, the former Selma Hagen; a daughter, Karen;
two sons, Tim, at home and Paul, Winona, Minnesota; and a brother, Kinley
Klemesrud of Osage, Iowa.



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