Ford County IL Archives Obituaries.....Samuelson, Augusta J October 19, 1945
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Paxton Record 25 Oct 1943
Death of Mrs. A. W. Samuelson Friday Night
   Mrs. A. W. Samuelson, 86, one of Paxton’s dearly beloved ladies who had made
her home here since 1869, passed away in Burnham City Hospital, Champaign at
10:30 o’clock p.m. on Friday after receiving treatment since September 7, 1945,
for a hip fracture.  Her death removed the last living charter member of the
Mission Covenant church in Paxton where she was a faithful and devout worshiper
in all of the years of her useful christian life.
   The deceased was born in Smaland, Sweden, on August 24, 1859, daughter of the
late Carl and Ann Burklund who came to America with their family in 1869.  On
Jan. 17, 1884, she was united in marriage to Axel W. Samuelson, the new home
being established in Paxton where it was maintained until Mr. Samuelson’s death
on April 25, 1943.  Since that time she had resided with her daughter and
husband Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Laurence in Paxton.
   Surviving are the daughters Mrs. Laurence of this city; Mrs. Carol Bengtson,
of Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. W. F. Johnston, of Champaign, and one son Carl
Samuelson, of Paxton. A son and daughter died in infancy and a son Harry
proceded her in death in 1940 while a resident of Los Angeles.
   Mrs. Samuelson, the youngest of a family of eight children to survive their
parents, had been in a state of coma in the Champaign hospital for twenty-four
hours proceding her death.  Her children, including her daughter and husband Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Bengston who arrived from Los Angeles, Calif., recently, were with
her in the hospital when the end came peacefully.
   Mr. and Mrs. Samuelson, who were married nearly sixty years before the
former’s passing in 1943, raised one of the fine families of the community in
which is reflected the love and reverence borne by her to them.

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