AUSTINSON INFANT GRAVESIDE RITES

Graveside services were held Friday, November 11 at Six Mile Grove Lutheran cemetery for Mitchell Dean Austinson, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Austinson of Stewartville, who was born November 9 and lived only two hours. The Rev. James Bergman of Stewartville officiated.

Survivors are his parents, his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dunker and paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. LaVern Austinson, all of Lyle.

Following the service the family all met at the Robert Nelson home in Lyle.

John Nelson Funeral Held
Six Mile Grove

Funeral services for John Nelson, 78, who was killed in a car accident near Grafton May 9 were held Friday, May 13 at Six Mile Grove Lutheran church with the Rev. S. Klemesrud officiating and interment was in the church cemetery.

John Delfin Nelson, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Martin D. Nelson, was born March 10, 1888 in Mower county, Minn., one of a family of eleven children.

Ole Lillegaard Funeral Held At Six Mile Grove

Ole Lillegaard, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ole Oleson Lilligaard, was born May 23, 1873 in Lyle.

His mother passed away when he was an infant and he was raised by foster parents near Adams, Minn, where he resided until he returned to Lyle to help care for his father.

On December 5, 1899 he was united in marriage to Signe Stoe in the parsonage by the Rev. J. Muller Eggen. One daughter and two sons were born to this union.

Ole Lillegaard
Funeral Held At
Six Mile Grove

A lifetime Nevada township resident, Ole Lillegaard, 92, died Saturday evening at the Good Samaritan Center in St. Ansgar, following a eight week illness. He had been a patient at Memorial hospital, Osage until he entered the Center in September.

Funeral services were held on Tuesday, October 12 at the Six Mile Grove with the Rev. S. Klemesrud officiating and interment was in the church cemetery.

Survivors include his wife, Sarah, one daughter and two sons.

John P. Skolte Funeral Held At Six Mile Grove

Funeral services for John P. Skolte, 87, who died Saturday, February 13 at Comforcare Nursing Home in Austin, were held at the Six Mile Grove Lutheran church with the Rev. Stanley Klemesrud officiating.

John P. Skolte was born November 28, 1878 in Valdres, Norway, the son of Peter and Ingeborg Torsteinson. He migrated to the United States at the age of 20. In 1905 he was united in marriage to Nettie Viste at Adams, Minn. Mrs. Skolte died in 1924.

A. C. Bisbee Funeral Held At Six Mile Grove

Funeral services for Allen Clark (A. C.) Bisbee, 86, who died Thursday, July 2 in St. Paul, were held Monday, July 6 at the Six Mile Grove Lutheran church with the Rev. Stanley Klemesrud officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery.

(A.C.) Allen Clark Bisbee, was born September 21, 1878 in Nevada township, the son of Augustus C. and Helen Houghton Bisbee.

A. C. Bisbee Dies
In Bloomington
Last Thursday

A. (Allie) C. Bisbee, 85, of Bloomington, Minn., passed away in a St. Paul Hospital Thursday, July 2.

Mr. Bisbee was a former resident of Union township north of Toeterville where he was engaged in farming for several years.

Funeral services were held Monday, July 6, at Six Mile Grove Lutheran church with Rev. Stanley Klemesrud officiating with interment in the church cemetery.

He is survived by two daughters, three sons and one sister.

A complete obituary will appear next week.

Funeral Rites Held for Alice Thovson

Miss Alice J. Thovson, 81 who has lived in Mona the past 20 years, passed away Monday March 2, at the Lutheran Retirement Home in Austin, Minn, where she and her sister had moved only last December.

Funeral services were held on Thursday, March 5, at Six Mile Grove Lutheran church with Rev. Stanley Klemesrud officiating and interment was in the church cemetery.

Gunhild Eggen
Funeral At
Six Mile Grove

Gundhild Elizabeth Eggen, commonly known as Libbie Eggen, was born in Mitchell County, Iowa near Mona, December 7, 1870 to Ole and Anna Larson.

Mrs. Hattie Knutson.

Mrs. Hattie Swenson Knutson, who has been sick for the past year, passed away Saturday at her home three miles west of Lyle. The immediate cause of her death was cancer of the lungs.

Services Held for John Hollerud

A Lyle area retired farmer John Hollerud, age 71, died at St. Olaf hospital in Austin Saturday morning, October 15, from a week's illness.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, October 18 at Six-Mile Grove Lutheran church with the Rev. Stanley Klemesrud officiating and interment was in the church cemetery.

A complete obituary will appear next week.

C. R.

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Mrs. Linnea Hollerud Funeral Held At Six Mile Grove

Funeral services for Mrs. John (Linnea) Hollerud, 84, who died August 7 at Sacred Heart Hospital in Austin, were held August 10 at Six Mile Grove Lutheran church with the Rev. G. Grant officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery.

Linnea Hollerud, daughter of Anders and Charlotte (Johannson) Anderson, was born at Asker, Norway March 6, 1892 and was the fourth child of a family of 13 children.

Nels Olson, an old settler living east of this village, died Sunday, aged 78 years. He was a native of Norway and came here in 1855. In 1843 he was married to Anna Paulson. Seven children were born to them. Funeral services were held Tuesday.

-- Jacob Knutson, who lived 4 miles south of Rose Creek, died this morning, the 10th. He has lived in Mower county for twenty years.

Knut Jacobson.

Knut Jacobson died at the home of his son, Andrew K. Jacobson, in Nevada township, Monday, January 2, 1922. he had injured his hip last summer and since that time had been confined to his bed, suffering considerable pain recently which was borne with patience.

Alice Austinson of Riceville dies at 86

RICEVILLE, Iowa -- Alice Austinson, 86, of Riceville, Iowa, died this morning (Oct. 24, 1994) at her home.

The former Alice Johnson was born Sept. 21, 1908, in St. Ansgar, Iowa. On Sept. 18, 1929, she married Mandeville Austinson in St. Ansgar. The couple farmed until retiring several years ago.

Aslak Asmundson

The funeral of the late Aslak Asmundson who passed away at his home near Fergus Falls, Minn., April 15th, was held from the Six Mile Grove church last week Thursday and was conducted by Rev. Elmer Moe.

The deceased was born in Norway February 8th, 1857, and at the age of 12 he came to this country with his parents and settled in Mower County.

Guttorm Aslakson lost his only boy last week. He was about a year old.

Gladys Ashley -- Lyle

LYLE -- The funeral for Gladys Ashley, 91, will be at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Six Mile Grove Lutheran Church in Lyle, with the Revs. Russell Wangen and Lydia Mittag co-officiating. Burial will be in the Six Mile Grove Cemetery.

AUSTIN — The funeral for Harriet Mildred Ostenson DeMar will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Worlein Funeral Home Chapel in Austin. Burial will be in Six Mile Grove Cemetery, rural Lyle.

Mrs. DeMar, 92, of Austin, died Thursday (Dec. 13, 2007) at St. Mark’s Lutheran Home.

She was born Dec. 7, 1915, to Alfred and Thea Ostenson in Nevada Township near Lyle. She was baptized and confirmed at Six Mile Grove Lutheran Church and attended Pinehurst country grade school.

Casper Ashley Funeral Held
Six Mile Grove

Funeral services for a Lyle area farmer, Casper T. Ashley, 72, were held Saturday, July 19, at Six Mile Grove Lutheran church with the Rev. Einar Unseth officiating.

Interment was in the church cemetery.

Mr. Ashley died at his farm home Wednesday, July 16 after suffering a heart attack, following many years of illness.

Mrs. Ashleson died Sept. 23rd, of Bright's disease. She had been ill but a few weeks. The funeral took place at Six Mile Grove church.

Mary Arneson Funeral Held
Our Savior's

Funeral services for Miss Mary Arneson, 89 were held Saturday, January 6 at Our Savior's Lutheran church, Lyle, with the Rev. M. Johnson officiating. Interment was in Six Mile Grove Lutheran cemetery. She died January 3 at Comforcare Nursing Home, Austin.

Mary Arneson, daughter of Lars and Martha Arneson was born January 19, 1878 on a farm in Nevada twp. Later in life she moved to Lyle where she resided with a sister, Anna, until the death of her sister in 1961, then made her home with a nephew, Conrad Dyrland and family.

The funeral of Ed Arenson (sic) was held at the Six Mile Grove church last week Tuesday. For a number of years Mr. Arneson operated a farm east of Mona.