OBITUARY: Irwin Martinus Sorensen, Worth County, Iowa


                        Irwin Martinus Sorensen

[Northwood Anchor online - www.northwoodanchor.com - Posted June 11, 2002]

Irwin Martinus Sorensen, 81, of Northwood, IA, died Wednesday June 5, 2002,
in a motorcycle accident west of Northwood.

Funeral services were Saturday June 8, 2002, at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial
Chapel, with the Rev. Spencer Thury, (Riverside Friends Church, Mason City,
IA)  officiating.  Interment was at Clear Lake Cemetery.  Military Honors
will be presented by the Clear Lake V.F.W.  

Irvin was born July 21, 1920, the son of Chris and Petra (Bach) Sorensen,
at their home in Clear Lake, IA.  When Irvin was a small child, the family
moved to a farm south of Clear Lake, IA.  He received his education in
country schools, starting south of Clear Lake.  Later the family moved
to a farm northwest of Mason City, IA in Lime Creek Township.  Irvin
graduated from the 8th grade at Lime Creek # 4 in 1934.  

Irvin made a scooter in 1937.  He traded this for his first motorcycle--a
single cylinder Harley Davidson the first of many he has owned.  He had
won several trophies racing motorcycles.

Irvin served in the U.S. Navy from February 1945 to August 1946 on an
Amphibious Cargo Ship, the U.S.S. Truesdale in the South Pacific area.
When he returned home, he farmed with his father north of Clear Lake.
They moved to a farm northwest of Northwood, IA in March of 1947, where
he had since resided.

Irvin is survived by two brothers, Thorvald Sorensen, Plymouth, IA and
Hans Sorensen and his wife Beth, of Menomonee Falls, WI; three sisters,
Edith Skene, Ventura, IA, Helen Bergman, Britt, IA, and Frances Miller,
Ventura, IA; a sister-in-law, Alta Sorensen, Rockford, IA and also many
nieces and nephews.

Irvin was preceded in death by his parents, a sister, Olga Smeby in 1966,
a brother, Verner Sorensen in 2001, four brothers-in-law, three sisters-in-
law, and a nephew, Chris A. Sorensen in 1974.







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

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