Monona County IA Archives Obituaries.....Westergaard, Lucia Bjornsen July 28, 1982 ************************************************ 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 21, 2009, 9:20 pm unknown LUCIA WESTERGAARD (From the collection of Vivian Norby Andersen) Lucia, daughter of Nicholai and Patricia Bjornsen, was born in Vinum, Denmark, in 1897, the next to youngest in the family of three daughters and seven sons. By 1920 Lucia met and married another young Danish émigré Knud Westergaard, who was engaged in farming in the Whiting area with brothers Peter, Chris, and Walter. Lucia and Knud were married on May 20, 1920. To their family were born two children – Harold Jens in 1921 and Ellen Marie in 1924. Preceded in death by Knud in 1966, and Harold in 1973, Lucia died suddenly on July 28 in West Des Moines, I. Lucia lived for the last four months of her life with her daughter and son-in-law West Des Moines, IA. Her family includes Ardyce (Mrs. Harold) Westergaard, and five grandchildren and their families. (Date notation: 1982) File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ia/monona/obits/w/westerga1718gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/iafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb