OBITUARY: Alfreda Jeanette Baklund Hopperstad, 1912-2004, Worth County, Iowa

[Adapted from: Northwood Anchor online - Posted 2-25-2004]




                       Alfreda Jeanette Hopperstad

Alfreda Jeanette Hopperstad, 91, of Northwood, died Monday, Feb. 23, 2004,
at the Lutheran Retirement Home in Northwood, Iowa.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, at the Silver Lake
Lutheran Church, rural Northwood, with Rev. Thomas Hagen officiating.
Burial will be in the Silver Lake Lutheran Church Cemetery.

Alfreda Jeanette Hopperstad was born on April 29, 1912, in rural Worth
County, Iowa, the daughter of Oscar and Annette (Breiseth) Baklund.  She
was baptized and reaffirmed the faith of her baptism through confirmation
at the Silver Lake Lutheran Church.  She graduated from Northwood
High School in 1930.  After graduating from high school she taught
school in the Hartland Township School #5 for four years.

She married Raymond A. Hopperstad in November 1936, at the Lutheran
Parsonage near Northwood.  After their marriage together they farmed
in Hartland Township for 40 years.  Alfreda moved to Northwood in 1980,
and later to Maple Court Apartments, and most recently to the Lutheran
Retirement Home in Northwood.

She was a very active member of Silver Lake Lutheran Church.

Left to cherish her memory are her children; Jerry Hopperstad and his
wife Jan of Northwood, Lonny Hopperstad and his wife Mary of Albert Lea,
Minnesota, Judy Hamilton and her husband Ron of Seminole, Florida,
and Vicky Schmidt and her husband Gary of Fargo, North Dakota; nine
grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren; two nieces and two nephews;
as well as other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband Raymond, and a
sister Olga.



     Copyright 2004, K.L. Kittleson