OBITUARY: Iver Ones, 1854-1947, Mitchell County, Iowa



                               Iver Ones

Funeral services were held for Iver I. Ones, 93, at the Champion Funeral
Home and at the Rock Creek Lutheran Church with the Rev. S.O. Sorlien in
charge.  Burial was made in the Rock Creek Lutheran cemetery.  Mr. Ones
died Monday December 2, 1947 after suffering a stroke.  He had been making
his home with his daughter, Mrs. Ida Nydegger, of Des Moines the past two
years.

Iver I. Ones was born in Stavanger, Norway in May 1854.  He was married
in 1882 to Ingeborg Arno.  They immigrated to America after their marriage,
establishing their first home at Ossian, Iowa.  They came to Mitchell County
in 1886, settling on a farm in Rock Township.  Mrs. Ones died in 1938 and
in 1945 Mr. Ones went to Des Moines to live.

Surviving are two daughters: Mrs. Emma Nelson, of Osage, and Mrs. Ida
Nydegger of Des Moines, two sons: John, of Osage and Christ, of Tolley,
North Dakota.  Also surviving are 15 grandchildren and ten great-
grandchildren.



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