Monona County IA Archives Obituaries.....Ballantyne, Sophia Skow July 16, 1962
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Pioneer Soldier
Lady Dies Suddenly                     (From the collection of Vivian Norby 
Andersen)

	Mrs. Sophia Ballantyne, one of the real pioneers of the Soldier 
community, died suddenly Monday afternoon at the Turin Nursing home where she 
had gone on Friday.  She was 81 years old.
	Mrs. Ballantyne had been in fairly good health all along and had lived 
alone in her home next to the telephone office where her children visited her 
often.  Then on Friday she decided she would like to go to the nursing home 
and apparently had been getting along fine.
	Mrs. Ballantyne came to Soldier from Norway when a child of three.
	Funeral services will be held this Thursday, July 19 at 2:00 p.m. at 
Soldier Lutheran Church.  Pastor Maynard Moen will officiate.  Mrs. Norman C. 
Hanson will be soloist and will sing “The Old Rugged Cross” and “Ivory 
Palaces”.  She will be accompanied at  the organ by Miss Jean Amunson.
	Interment will be in Spring Valley cemetery at Moorhead under the 
direction of Pearson Funeral Home of Soldier.  Bearers will be Clarence Lamb, 
Martin Kalskett, Andy Swenson, Oscar Wingate, William Lee and Orren Rude.
	Sophia Amelia Ballantyne, daughter of Ole and Bollette Skow, was born 
in Norway December 29, 1880 and passed away at the Bennett nursing home in 
Turin Monday, July 16 at the age of 81 years, six months and 17 days.
	She came to Soldier with her parents at the age of three years and was 
baptized and confirmed in the Soldier Lutheran Church.
	She was united in marriage to Mark Ballantyne at Onawa March 13, 
1901.  To this union four children were born.	
	Mr. Ballantyne died in 1954.
	Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Mable Thompson of Soldier and Mrs. 
Gladys Smith of Woodbine; two sons, Andrew of Soldier and Floyd of Sierra 
Vista, Arizona; one brother, Bennett Skow of Onawa and one sister, Mrs. Ella 
Severson of Sioux City; 10 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren and a host 
of other relatives and friends.
	She was preceded in death by her husband and parents; three brothers, 
Oscar, Julius and Louis Skow, and four sisters, Nellie, Bertha, Anna and Ida.

Note**  Other information list her birth as 1881 and d. 1962.


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