OBITUARY: Rev. B.E. Nyjordet, Worth County, Iowa

Rev. B.E. Nyjordet (43) was born July 6, 1919 to Carl and Oline Nyjordet, 
Portland, ND.  He graduated from Mayville H.S.and Mayville College, ND, 
attended the Univ. of Denver in Colorado and the Univ. of ND, Grand 
Forks.  He served a parish at Greenbush, MN before coming to Silver Lake 
Church in 1957.

He served the Bristol congregation the past two years, also.  He was 
preceded in death by his father and two brothers, Kalmer, killed in WW 
II and Phillip, killed in a tragic accident as a child.

Immediate survivors are his mother; a brother, Lawrence, Burney, CA and four 
sisters, Mrs. Marie Swanson, Marshall; Sara Nyjordet, Brainer; Ester 
Nyjordet, Minneapolis and Mrs. Ronald (Ruth) Nelson, missionary in 
Cameroun, Africa.  (lengthy article about his death in Graphic 
5-29-1963).  Funeral was held at Silver Lake Church, with Rev. 
H.W. Siefkes, Mason City, the president of the Iowa District of the 
American Lutheran Church.  Rev. Nyjordet was buried in the Silver Lake 
Cemetery.


Copyright (c) 2001 by Elaine Bergan 
This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives.
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