OBITUARY: Laverne Orville Rohlfsen, 1928-2002, Worth Co., Iowa



                      Laverne Orville Rohlfsen

[ The Northwood Anchor online -- December 17, 2002 ]

Laverne Orville Rohlfsen, 74, Grafton, died Friday, Dec. 13, 2002 at Mercy
Medical Center-North Iowa in Mason City.

Funeral services were Tuesday at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Grafton with
the Rev. Wayne Ellingson officiating. Burial was in the Grafton Cemetery.

Laverne was born on Oct. 25, 1928, to Orville and Clara (Beermann) Rohlfsen
in Cherokee, IA. He attended country school for his first three years of
schooling, then Lutheran Parochial School, Germantown, IA through the
eighth grade. He attended high school in Paullina, graduating in 1947.
He enrolled in Iowa State Teachers College, Cedar Falls, in 1947. He was
drafted into the U.S. Marine Corps in 1951, he played football a Camp
Pendleton, CA, and made the base team. He was honorably discharged from
the Marines in 1953. Laverne returned to college, at what is now the
University of Northern Iowa, and graduated in 1954. While there he
received three football letters.

His first teaching job was in Rockwell City, where he coached and taught
from 1954-1956.

He married Mary E. Purdie on May 29, 1955, in Rockwell City. They moved
to Northwood where he was a teacher and coach from 1956 to 1960. He sold
insurance for two years. They moved to Grafton in 1962 where he was a
junior high school teacher and coach from 1962 to 1989. He retired in
1989. Laverne sold multi-peril crop insurance for 20 years.

Survivors include his wife, Mary, of Grafton; three sons, Dar and his
wife, Ann, of Ankeny, Bill and his wife, Renee, of Mason City, Todd and
his wife, Netty, of Jessup; one daughter, Robin and her husband, Karl
Johnson of Auburn, Ala; 10 grandchildren; one brother, Orlen Rohlfsen
and his wife, Phyllis, of Newell; a brother-in-law, Melvin Kisher of
Newell; sister-in-law, Miriam Rohlfsen of Des Moines and many nieces
and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Elaine (Rohlfsen)
Kisher, and brother, Dr. Don Rohlfsen.



Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: Not necessarily related to the subject of this obituary.)

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