SUDDEN DEATH

ANOTHER PIONEER GONE

H. O. Dahl, Prominent Citizen of Otranto Township Dropped Dead Near His Home Last Thursday.

EMMA AMANDA VOLSTAD DAHL

Funeral services for Mrs. Henry Dahl of Lyle will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Our Savior's Lutheran church in Lyle, Rev. Stanley Gjervik and Rev. Ralph Yeates officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Mona, Mitchell county, Iowa.

Friends may call at the Worlein Funeral home until 10 a. in. Sunday. The casket will be closed at 1:30.

Margaret Elizabeth Capretz -- Austin

LYLE -- The funeral for Margaret Elizabeth Capretz will be 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Lyle with the Rev. Barbara Finley-Shea officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Mona, Iowa.

Mrs. Capretz, 80, of Lyle, formerly of Austin, died Saturday morning (Oct. 7, 2000) at Austin Medical Center.

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR MRS. BURINGRUD, THURSDAY, JAN 15.

Mrs. Laura Buringrud of Northwood passed away at the University hospital in Iowa City on Sunday morning. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday from the North-wood Funeral Home at 1 o'clock and at the Mona church at 2.30 p. m. Interment will be in the Mona cemetery.

Oliver G. Blakestad, 74, Dies at Lyle, Sunday, July 28

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at Our Saviors Lutheran church at Lyle for Oliver G. Blakestad, father of Mrs. L. R. Falk and Mrs. Luther Tollefson of St. Ansgar. Mr. Blakestad died at his home in Lyle early Sunday morning following a lingering illness. The Rev. T. G. Torvik, pastor of the Lutheran church was in charge of the obsequies with burial in the Mona cemetery.

Herbert Ralph Bjork -- Austin

AUSTIN -- The funeral for Herbert Ralph Bjork will be 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Austin with the Rev. James Mikkelson officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Mona, Iowa.

Mr. Bjork, 83, of 1205 Ninth St. N.W., a retired Hormel Foods Corp. employee, died Monday (May 12, 1997) at Benedictine Hospital in Kingston, N.Y.

Mona, Iowa- Dale T. Bensend, 75, of Mona, Iowa died on Tuesday, November 7, 2006 at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City, Iowa. A Funeral was held Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006 at 10:30 a.m. at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Lyle, Minn., with Rev. Barbara Finley-Shea officiating. Burial was at Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Mona, Iowa.

Funeral services were held on Thursday, June 27, 1985, at Mona Lutheran Church, for Mrs. Norris (Ardella) Anderson, 62, of Toeterville who died on Tuesday, June 25, 1985, at the St. Ansgar nursing home. The Rev. G. Grant officiated and burial was in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Mona.

Ardella Grace (Kittleson) Anderson was born in St. Ansgar, on September 12, 1922. She was baptized in the Methodist Church in St. Ansgar. She attended grade school in St. Ansgar. She was later employed by the local produce company of St. Ansgar.

Grandma Inga Olson died last Monday morning at her home at the age of ninety years and seven months. She was laid to rest at the Mona Cemetery beside her husband and children Thursday afternoon. She was born in Norway, Aug. 26, 1821. She and her husband Lars, came to Chicago and to Lyle in 1873 where he was in the furniture business.

Mrs. Lena Arneson passed away Sunday at her home about a mile east of London after several months of illness. Mrs. Arneson was about seventy-four years of age. The funeral was held Wednesday and interment was made at Mona Cemetery. Rev. Moe had charge of the funeral.

Peder P. Dock

Funeral services for Peder P. Dock, who died of paralysis at the St. Olaf Hospital Sunday were held yesterday afternoon from the Mona Lutheran church and interment made in the Mona cemetery.

Edna Dock.

Miss Edna Dock, who has been in the hospital in Minneapolis for several weeks, was brought home Thursday evening, and passed away Saturday evening at 5 o'clock, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Dock, Jr.

Esther Olson.

The funeral of the late Esther Olson was held at the Lutheran church in Lyle, Monday, at 1:00 o'clock and was conducted by Rev. A. Elmer Moe. interment was made in the family lot at Pleasant Hill cemetery.

Silas B. Perkins.

Silas Perkins of Lyle, a barber, died suddenly at his home there last Sunday evening. He was at his work as barber until the shop closed on Saturday evening. Ben went to Lyle from London about ten years ago to learn the barber trade of R. P. Gibson.

Mrs. Dorothea Siverson

Claude S. Dock

Mrs. Samuel Volstad

Mrs. Samuel Volstad, a resident for several years of Lyle passed away in this city last Monday at St. Olaf hospital. She had been there for two weeks and during the fifteen years previous had undergone seven operations.

Matie Helfritz

Matie Melvina, the infant daughter of mr. and Mrs. W. B. Helfritz of Lyle died Saturday afternoon at 1:30 after an illness of about 15 days. Little Matie Melvina was born Saturday march 20th last and was six months, 12 days old. The funeral was held last Monday afternoon and interment was made in Pleasant Hill cemetery.

Funeral Services Held For
Mense Fossey May 4 At
Our Savior's Church, Lyle

Funeral services for Mense P. Fossey, 91, of Lyle, Minn., who died Friday, May 1 at St. Ansgar Good Samaritan Center, were held Monday, May 4 at Our Savior's Lutheran church, Lyle, with the Rev. Harold Luecke officiating.

Mr. Fossey was born February 18, 1896 in Otranto Township, Mitchell County, the son of Anton and Olivia (Christianson) Fossey. He attended Pleasant Hill Prairie school. He was baptized and confirmed at Mona Lutheran church.

Workers Give Cemetery Face-lift

Mona's Pleasant Hill Cemetery received a face-lift August 30 when a work party was organized to straighten up the cemetery. The work force was headed by Jeffrey Anderson of Anderson Memorials of Austin and Norris Anderson of the Mona Cemetery Board. Seven community members donated their time to help with the project, including Norman Blakestad, Ira Hofland, Dean Duenow, Robert Gleason, Tom Knutsen, Joe Follmuth and David Gunderson.

Mrs. Norris Anderson Funeral To Be June 27 Mona Lutheran Church

Funeral services for Mrs. Norris Anderson, 62, of Toeterville, who died Tuesday morning, June 25 at the St. Ansgar Good Samaritan Center, will be held Thursday, June 27 at 1:30 p.m. at Mona Lutheran church with the Rev. Gaylord Grant officiating.

Burial will be in Pleasant Hill cemetery. A complete obituary will appear in next week's Enterprise.

St. Ansgar, Iowa- Funeral services for Helen Eleanor Nelson, 92, of St. Ansgar, were held Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2005 at the Mona Lutheran Church, Mona, Iowa, with Rev. Lydia Mittag officiating.

Burial was in Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Mona. Helen died on Sunday, Oct. 9, 2005 at Mitchell County Regional Health Center, Osage, Iowa.

The Rev. and Mrs. Clifford Schroeder of Kenyon and Mrs. Rhoda Schroeder attended the funeral of Mrs. Rhoda Schroeder's brother, Chester Reistad at Austin Saturday. Interment was in Pleasant Hill cemetery, Mona.

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OLE RUNNING.

Ole Running of Lyle, whose death at the hospital in Austin we noted last week was born in Mitchell county, Iowa, Feb. 7th, 1872, where he lived until the spring of '98 when the family moved to the farm west of Lyle. He came to Lyle a few years later where he has since been engaged in the blacksmith business. He was a member of the Lutheran church.