Obit for PALMGREN, Christine (b.1839 d.1909), Chisago Co., MN
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Chisago County Press, Thursday, April 15, 1909

It is the painful duty of your correspondent to record the death of 
Mrs. Christine Palmgren, who peacefully passed into the great beyond 
at 3 a.m., last Saturday morning, aged 70 years, 10 months, and was 
thus very nearly 71 years old. She died from pneumonia and was until 
the very last a patient sufferer and resigned to her fate. This good 
woman, who everybody loved for her kind heart and gentle disposition, 
was born in Dädesjö socken, Småland, Sweden, in 1839, where she spent 
her chidhood and blossomed into womanhood, and where she was married 
to Gustaf Palmgren in 1867. In the year 1869 she emigrated together 
with her husband to America, coming diredct to the Chisago Lake 
colony, in the midst of which she has ever since resided. In the 
early days she was a member of the Swedish Lutheran Churcdh in Center 
City, but in 1874 she moved to Chisago City together with her family 
and then beame a member of the Lutheran Church at Chisago Lake and 
has during all these years been a faithful supporter of the church. 
She leaves a husband, Gustaf Palmgren and an only daughter, Mrs. 
August Lofgren. The funeral services which were held from the new 
church last Tuesday afternoon were deeplyh impressive and the church 
was filled to its utmost capacity, Rev. Slätt officiating. The floral 
tributes were many and beautiful, giving a sad but loving evidence of 
how deeply this good woman was loved and respected in the entire 
community. The remains were interred in the West End cemetery. Mr. 
Palmgren has requested the writer to thank from the very bottom of 
his heart all the friends who have been of assistance to him during 
these trying days and for the many kind expressions of sympathy which 
have come to him from each and every one. The PRESS desires to tender 
the grieving father and daughter its sincere sympathy in this their 
great bereavement. May she rest in peace and everlasting bliss.

(Further notice in the Center City "social notes": The funeral of 
Mrs. Palmgren of Chisago City was attended by some of her relatives 
from this place. It was an event to be always remembered as it was 
the first funeral service ever held in the new church.)

(Note: her death certificate lists her as a widow, and mother of two 
children, one still living at the time of her death. Clearly, 
however, from the obituary, her husband was still living at the time 
of her death.)