Obit for BUTENHOFF, Mrs. Willie (Esther) (b.1910 d.1979), Clay Co., MN

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ESTHER ELIASON THOMPSON OBIT, #840T ( Not sure but this was in the file I 

received)

Name & date of newspaper unknown



Mrs. Willie (Esther) Butenhoff, age 68, passed away Tuesday morning in 

St. Luke's Hospital in Fargo. She had been in failing health for the past 

eight years.



Funeral services will be held Friday morning at 11:00 a.m. in Trinity 

Lutheran Church of Sabin with Pastor Wayne Anderson officiating.



Rose Marie Johnk will be the soloist and Susan Johnk will be the 

organist.



Pallbearers will be six nephews, Eddie Butenhoff, Dennis Butenhoff, Alvin 

Hansen, Don Eliason, Ronald Eliason and Gerald Eliason. Interment will be 

in Trinity Lutheran Cemetery of Sabin. Visitation will be held Thursday 

afternoon and evening in the Dobmeier Funeral Home.



Esther, daughter of John Eliason and Hilma Soderberg, was born Dec. 31, 

1910, on her father's farm near Buxton, N. Dak. She attended school and 

grew to womanhood in the Buxton area. She then worked in the Buxton and 

Fargo Area.



She married Willie E. Butenhoff of Baker June 16, 1948, in the Butenhoff 

farm near Baker. The couple farmed in the Baker area, retiring in 1971. 

They moved into Barnesville in 1973 where she has made her home until the 

time of her death.



She was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church of Barnesville and the 

Barnesville Senior Citizens.



She is survived by her husband, Willie, two sisters and two brothers, 

Mrs. Henry (Marie) Hanson, Broadhead, Wis.; Mrs. Elmer (Helen) Hovet, 

Buxton, N. Dak., David Eliason, Grand Forks, N. Dak.; and Reuben Eliason, 

Rice Lake, Wis.



She was preceded in death by her parents and five brothers.



NOTE: according to her stone in the cemetery, she died 6/19/1979.

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