Monona County IA Archives Obituaries.....Ellison, Mary Knutson 1963 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ia/iafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn Jarvey iandaz@cox.net November 3, 2009, 7:23 pm unknown Mary Ellison Dies at Vermillion (From the collection of Vivian Norby Andersen) Mrs. Mary Ellison, 91, a former resident of the Soldier community and a resident of Vermillion, S. D. the past 46 years, died Saturday morning in a Vermillion hospital. Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday at Trinity Lutheran church there, with Rev. Dale Larson officiating. Burial was in the Pleasant Valley Lutheran cemetery at Lesterville, S. D. under direction of the Elmore- Wagner funeral home. Mrs. Ellison was the former Mary Knutson and was born at Soldier April 28, 1872. She married Thore O. Ellison February 4, 1895. He died in 1931. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran church, the ALCW auxiliary, Order of Eastern Star and the Rebecca Lodge at Vermillion. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Grace Johnson of Vermillion and Mrs. Mildred Giedd of Avon, S. D.; five grandchildren and six great- grandchildren. Among those preceding her in death were one sister, Sarah (Mrs. J. C. Johnson), and three brothers, Peter C., Lewis and Charley Knutson. Attending the funeral from Soldier were Mrs. Etta Knutson, Mrs. Emma Hanson, Mr. and Mrs. Wilton McDole and Mrs. John Wade. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ia/monona/obits/e/ellison1380gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/iafiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb