OBITUARY: Robert J. Ericksen, Worth County, Iowa [Northwood Anchor Newspaper online - www.northwoodanchor.com - 10/23/2001] Robert J. Ericksen, 63, services held in Glenville Funeral services for Robert J. Ericksen, 63, Glenville, were held Thursday, at First Lutheran Church in Glenville. Rev. Mark Wendland officiated. Robert died Sunday, Oct. 21, 2001 at the Albert Lea Medical Center. Robert J. Ericksen was born Nov. 22, 1937, to Nels and Ebba (Hanson) Ericksen in Freeborn County. The family lived on a farm by Marine Point until Robert was nine-years-old and then moved to a farm in rural Glenville. He was baptized and confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church in Albert Lea. He graduated from Albert Lea High School in 1955. On Oct. 20, 1956 he married Ramona Leah Sanderson at First Lutheran Church in Glenville. Robert was a farmer all his life and raised his family on the rural Glenville farm. He also drove school bus the first year Glenville had school buses, surveyed land for the ASCS office, drove milk truck from 1959 for four years, was a crop adjuster for North Central Crop Ins., and drove trucks hauling bituminous material. Robert was a member of First Lutheran Church in Glenville and the Elks Lodge in Albert Lea. Survivors include his wife Mona of Glenville; son Clark and wife Debra and their children Luke and Vicki, Brooke, Becky and Jon and great-grandchildren Cherysh, Jade and Destiny; daughter Dawn Kaasa and husband Tim and their children Kellen, Taryn and Devin; sisters, Esther Nelson and her husband Richard of Glenville, Marian Hanson and husband Albert of Glenville, Ann Pavlian and husband Peter of San Diego, CA and Audrey Olson and husband Marvyn of Edmond, OK; brother, Virgil Ericksen and wife Carol of New Orleans, LA; mother and father-in-law Leon and Burnette Sanderson of Glenville; sister-in-law Pauline Kohnke and husband John and many nieces, nephews and cousins. Robert was preceded in death by his parents. Copyright (c) 2001 by Kermit Kittleson; This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. (Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.) **************************************************************************** USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material,must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ****************************************************************************