Mrs. Alfred Haugen Funeral Held Mona Lutheran

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Thursday, February 1, 1968
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Mrs. Alfred Haugen Funeral Held Mona Lutheran

Funeral services for Mrs. Alfred Haugen, 68, of rural Mona, were held Thursday, January 25 at Mona Lutheran church with the Rev. S. Klemesrud officiating. Interment was in Pleasant Hill cemetery, Mona. Mrs. Haugen died at Mitchell County Memorial hospital in Osage Monday, January 22.

Clara Henrietta Haugen, the youngest child of Jens and Anna Sandvig was born on a farm east of Mona in Mitchell county September 16, 1899. She was baptized and confirmed in the Six Mile Grove Lutheran church and was a member there until her marriage. She then became a member of Mona Lutheran.

She attended the Mona grade school, graduated from the Lyle high school in 1919 and received her degree in Home Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1925.

On August 20, 1932 she was united in marriage to Alfred B. Haugen of Lyle, by the Rev. O. M. Langehough. They established their home on a farm east of Mona. She was the mother of three children, all of whom survive.

She is survived by her husband, Alfred; two daughters, Mrs. Dale (Mary) Sievert of Coon Rapids, Minn, and Mrs. Thomas (Ann) Knudsen of Lyle; one son, John of Lyle. Also five grandchildren; a sister, Louise Sandvig, and one brother, John Sandvig, both of Lyle.

Preceding her in death were her parents, three sisters, Mary who died in 1928; Emma in 1963 and one sister who died in infancy; also three brothers, who also died in infancy.