OBITUARY: Irene C. (Sanden) Edwardson, 1917-2004, Worth Co., Iowa
[Adapted from Northwood Anchor online - posted Jan 21, 2004]
Irene C. Edwardson
Funeral service for Irene C. Edwardson, 86, of St. John's Lutheran Home,
will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21, at the Bayview/Freeborn Funeral
Home Chapel. The Rev. Jeff Lager-Hagemeister will officiate. Interment
will be in the Elk Creek Cemetery, rural Kensett, Iowa.
Irene died on Sunday, Jan. 18, 2004.
Irene C. Edwardson was born on June 17, 1917, in Worth County, Iowa,
the daughter of Amund and Julie (Hanson) Sanden. She was baptized and
confirmed at the Bristol Lutheran Church. She attended school at Bristol
Township #5 and Kensett High School. She was a former member of the
Bristol Lutheran Church and a member of Oakland Lutheran Church.
On Nov. 25, 1933 she married Anton (Tony) Edwardson at the Little
Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. Tony preceded her in death.
Survivors include her daughter Elaine and her husband Donald (Dick) Carlsen
of Albert Lea, Minnesota; granddaughter Wendy Nelson, grandson Kim and his
wife Tammie Carlsen; great-grandchildren Jennifer Nelson, Jason Nelson,
Wendy Carlsen and her special friend Jeff Runden, Anne and her husband
Brian Egeness, Chris Baldwin and Dustin Baldwin; great-great-grandchildren
Jake Nelson, Nicholas Runden, Laura Runden and Hailey Egeness.
She was preceded in death by her husband Tony; her parents; her brothers
Abel, Helmer, Clarence and Gilman Sanden and her sister Alpha Harang.
Copyright 2004, K.L. Kittleson
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