DECEMBER 1954
1 – Fred A. Herringer, husband of the former Ida Peterson of Northwood, at Noonan, N. Dak.
1 – Mrs. Emma Lee, 72, the former Emma Solland of Joice, at Finley, N. Dak., where she had lived since 1908.
20 – Gust Glauwitz, 84, formerly of Grafton, at Minneapolis.
24 – Mrs. Vern Kalvig, 77, the former Anna Marie Thiel, at a Mason City hospital.
25 – Mrs. Iver Iverson, 77, of Houston, Texas, the former Ellen Josephine Thompson, formerly of Northwood, at the home of her sisters, the Misses Emma and Dena Thompson in Northwood.
29 – Harry Lauritz Peterson, 60, at his home in Barton Township.
29 – Ole K. Klabo, 97, second white child born in Northwood. Mr. Kalbo, a resident of Worth County most of his life, died at a Waseca hospital.
31 – Jerry Juhl, 60, former Northwood man, at his farm home near Clear Lake, suicide.
JANUARY
2 – Mrs. Ole O. (Liv) Ellingson, 89, resident of Northwood until 17 years ago, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Roy Reierson, Hillsboro, Ore.
8 – Mrs. Lewis Sola, Minneapolis, the former Blanch Berg of the Deer Creek community, at a Rochester hospital of an asthmatic attack.
9 – Gustav Muller, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Dale Muller, Deer Creek Township, at Park hospital.
10 – Claude Earl Finch, 61, Kensett native, at his home northeast of Mason City.
12 – Bradley Scott Smith, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd Smith, Northwood.
16 – Peter Olaf Kvale, 60, at the home of his sister, Mrs. Emil Hanson, Northwood, after 6 months of failing health.
17 – Miss Martha Sophia Foss, 77, Northwood, at Mercy hospital, Mason City, who broke her hip in a fall Jan. 2nd.
19 – Nels T. Nelson, 92, former Silver Lake farmer, at his home at Albert Lea.
20 – Mrs. Maria Myli, 85, the former Maria Olson, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clayton Land west of Northwood, after two years of failing health.
21 – Mrs. Anna Backhaus, 76, Manly, at her home.
21 – Mrs. Gayhart Gabriel, the former Letha Seuser, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Milo Pangburn, Northwood. Mrs. Gabriel had been bedridden since a stroke in 1952.
21 – Miss Nettie Narveson, 76, at a Mason City hospital after a two-month illness. A life-long resident of the county, her death was due to cancer.
22 – Miss Lettie B. Nelson, 75, Kensett, at the Good Samaritan home, Mason City, where she had lived several years.
24 – P. J. Fibelstad, 82, former Joice elevator owner, at the home of a daughter at Albert Lea.
27 – Torger Quam, 89, of near Glenville, at the home of a nephew, Henry O. Quam.
28 – Bert Prestholt, 49, Lake Mills, husband of Mrs. Joy Prestholt, Northwood teacher, of a heart ailment.
29 – Mrs. Henry White, 64, Kensett, at a Belmond hospital where she had been taken the previous September for treatment of a heart condition.
30 – Willis M. Lawson, 61, former Freeborn County agent, at his Albert Lea home of carbon monoxide poisoning from a defective furnace.
30 – Hans Kuhlmann, 80, long a Northwood resident at a Mason City hospital after a one-day illness.
31 – O. A. Kays, 88, Northwood resident prior to 1896, at his home at Waterloo.
FEBRUARY
4 – Mrs. John Prihoda, Deer Creek, the former Minnie Foss, at Austin [Minn.] after six weeks hospitalization for a broken hip.
4 – Robert B. Walker, 64, Glenville native, at Waterloo where he moved in 1913.
5 – Miss Maud Cooper, 70, Manly, at a Cherokee hospital.
6 – Mrs. Nels Robertson, 83, Lyle, the former Helena Marie Hanson, after a two-year illness.
7 – Judge M. H. Kepler, 84, Northwood lawyer since 1898 and judge of the 12th judicial district for 32 years; at his home after a year of failing health.
12 – Miss Barbo Brunsvold, 96, a Worth County resident 90 years of her life, at the Good Samaritan home at Mason City where she had spent the past year.
12 – Edward H. Hove, 90, Minneapolis, a native of Northwood, at a Rochester, Minn. Hospital.
17 – Mrs. Halvor Quanbeck, 82, the former Caroline Gordon of Joice, at a hospital at Fargo, N. Dak., where she had been living with a daughter.
19 – Mrs. Ole Anderson, 80, Carpenter, the former Mary Knutson, at the Wass nursing home at Mason City where she had been cared for since a stroke the previous summer.
20 – Miss Ruth Lovick, 33, former Joice girl who had been bedridden 15 years with arthritis, at a Tucson, Ariz. Hospital of a cerebral hemorrhage.
22 – H. Thorval Iverson, 77, Worth County native, at Thief River Falls, Minn.
22 – Oluf H. Styve, 76, Albert Lea, who once operated a bicycle shop in Northwood, at the veterans hospital at Minneapolis.
24 – Walter E. Nelson, 67, Glenville resident 18 years, at an Albert Lea hospital of a heart ailment.
25 – Mrs. Charlotte Johnson, Beloit, Wis., sister of H. R. Cleophas, Forest City, former Kensett banker, in an auto accident in which her brother was injured near Nashua.
26 – Mrs. Oscar Gunderson, 85, the former Karen Marie Benson, formerly a resident of Northwood and Hartland Township, at Grand Rapids, Minn.
27 – Lewis T. Heltne, 70, life-long Silver Lake Township farmer, at his home.
25 – Grand Anderson, 52, Lake Mills, former Joice man, of a heart attack.
31 – Mrs. Nels Thorson, 92, wife of former Northwood druggist and resident here until 1946, at the home of a son in Waterloo. She was the former Emma Westbury.
MARCH
1 – Hans Johnson, 64, long a Fertile resident, at his home of heart disease.
2 – William Petznick, 78, retired Grafton farmer, at a Mason City nursing home after four years of poor health.
5 – Mrs. LeRoy T. Bosworth, Manly, in Chicago after an extended illness.
6 – Mrs. Hans Hanson, 82, the former Lena Betsey Severson, life-long resident of Barton and Deer Creek Townships, after a brief illness.
7 – Mrs. Robert Hooven, 36, the former Aletha Pangburn of Kensett, at her home at Whittier, Calif., following a stroke.
7 – A. O. Johnson, 73, retired Fertile farmer, later a Kensett and Nora Springs resident, at Nora Springs, of heart disease.
7 – Hollis Hanson, 24, former Hanlontown man, trucking out of Clarion; found dead in a cabin at Bedford, Pa., of bronchial pneumonia.
9 – Mrs. Charlotte M. Shinn, 85, for many years a Fertile resident, at Mason City.
12 – Floyd Morley, 54, Forest City, Worth-Winnebago conservation officer, at the Forest City hospital, of heart disease.
13 – Floyd Cerney, 56, Union Township farmer.
16 – Mrs. Oscar Bergo, 68, the former Alvina Anderson, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. August Neumann.
15 – Mrs. Edith Snyder Dorman, former Northwood resident, at Chico, Calif.
17 – Mrs. Gusta Hanson, 76, Sisseton, S. Dak., the former Gusta Wold of Worth County, at University hospital, Minneapolis.
19 – Orval Abrams, 49, formerly of Hanlontown, patient at the state TB hospital at Oakdale, of blood clot following surgery.
20 – Mrs. Edward Sheka, 71, the former Julia Chladek, Union Township, at her home following a heart attack.
20 – Airman 1st Class Darrell D. Larson, 20, formerly of St. Ansgar, drowned at Guam, Marianas Islands, where he was swimming in the ocean.
24 – Mrs. Fred Herringer, 79, the former Ida Peterson of Northwood, at Noonan, N. Dak.
29 – John Sulik, 53, Davenport trucker, in a truck – train collision at the highway 218 crossing north of St. Ansgar.
29 – Fred Wahlers, 85, at his home at Albert Lea; a farmer south of Myrtle for many years.
30 – Mrs. Elling Ellingson, 82, the former Carrie Fjeld, at the home of her brother, N. E. Field, Fertile.
30 – W. F. “Bill” Wahrer, 63, Mason City, secretary-treasurer of the North Central National Farm Loan association, of heart disease.
31 – George Hoban, 67, Oak Park, Ill., husband of the former Margaret Savre of Northwood, of heart disease.
APRIL
2 – Mrs. Thor Rinden, 68, Joice, of heart disease. She was the former Olina Lien.
3 – Roger Kirk, 58, Mason City, former PG & E official and farm manager.
3 – August H. H. Neumann, 34, Northwood carpenter, of ulcer and cancer.
4 – Arthur D. Flatt, 86, Gordonsville, at a Rochester hospital following a lingering illness.
7 – Emmet M. Giles, 53, Portland, Ore., husband of the former Mabel Linder of Northwood.
9 – Rev. G. Scheider, 66, Methodist pastor at Plymouth and Rock Falls, at Mason City hospital following a brief illness.
10 – Mrs. Harriet W. Haugen, 75, the former Harriet Walker of Northwood, at National City, Calif., where she had lived the past eight years.
12 – Ernest C. Arzberger, 82, retired Grafton farmer, at the Good Samaritan home, Mason City, where he had lived for two years.
14 – Mrs. C. P. Christensen, 75, the former Magda Georgia Tosdal, Northwood native and resident here since 1938; after a long illness.
18 – William G. Knapp, 78, brother-in-law of Mrs. George E. Whitcomb and a frequent Northwood visitor, at his home at Evanston, Ill., after a brief illness.
26 – Nelson Holmen, brother of Mrs. G. B. Burtness of Northwood, at his home at Madison, Wis.
27 – C. Oscar Martinson, 69, Lake Mills, father of Lawrence Martinson, Northwood.
27 – Hugh B. Cornick, 68, Northwood native, resident of Albert Lea 35 years, of a heart ailment.
28 – Harlan B. Wall, 42, Northwood, after four years illness of heart disease.
30 – Nels C. Nelson, 68, Northwood elevator employee, at his home.
MAY
3 – Miss Oline Bergo, 80, life-long county resident, at the home of her niece, Miss Gladys Bergo, after a six-week illness.
3 – Mrs. Anna (Bratrud) Skar, 70, Hanlontown, at Good Samaritan home, Mason City, after a several month illness following a stroke.
6 – Mrs. G. F. Seidel, 75, the former Maud Mae Wood, Manly, at a Mason City hospital after a long illness.
6 – W. H. Cramer, 83, formerly of Manly, Rock Island railroad official, at Chicago.
6 – Carolyn Sola, 13, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Sola of near London, Minn., of rheumatic fever.
9 – Gust Ostmo, 94, retired Joice farmer, at home after four months of failing health.
13 – Reuben Fistler, 76, Clear Lake, of injuries in an auto accident; he was father of Marvin Fistler, of Northwood.
14 – Mrs. Alfred N. Fenney, 53, the former Effie Hendrickson, at the Kensett Township farm home, of a sudden illness.
19 – Donald Lee Wogstad, 6, accidentally struck by a school bus in front of his home in Deer Creek Township. He was the son of Clayton Wogstad.
19 – Ole Johnson, 76, life-long county resident, at his home near Joice, of pneumonia.
20 – Gilbert Peterson, 65, Kensett farmer, at a Mason City hospital after an eight-month illness of cancer.
23 – Albert Emil Urdahl, 70, variety store owner and veteran Northwood businessman, at his home after a five-month illness of heart ailment.
26 – N. C. Siverling, 83, formerly of Glenville, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Clarence Schultz, Kansas City.
26 – Mathias Hoffman, 61, at his home near Hanlontown after a 10-year illness.
28 – Christ Benson, 76, Fertile farmer, at a Clear Lake rest home after a 6 ½ year illness following a stroke.
29 – Mrs. Southwick N. Larson, 53, Kensett farm woman, at a Mason City hospital after several months’ illness of a heart ailment.
30 – George Escherich, 78, formerly of the Hanlontown vicinity, at his home at Reva, S. Dak.
31 – I. B. Johnson, 58, Lake Mills farmer, at Mason City hospital after a long illness.
31 – Joseph Oscar Wright, 44, Des Moines, at a Mason City hospital, of injuries received in the crash of his light plane, May 11, at the Gilbert Hagen farm.
JUNE
3 – Henry Tabbert, Union Township farmer, at a Rochester hospital after a stroke.
3 – Dr. G. S. Westly, 68, Manly physician for 30 years and former president of the state board of health, at his home.
6 – Roger Wayne Oleson, 52, operator of pony farm at Kensett, of a heart ailment.
6 – Steve Miller, former Union Township farmer, at his home south of Plymouth.
7 – Claud Morris, 64, hired man at the Barney Logemann farm, of heart disease, in his trailer house.
10 – Mrs. Oscar Bergo, 72, lifelong county resident, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Selmer Forde, Northwood, after a brief illness.
12 – Mrs. Oscar I. Olson, 70, the former Ella Mabel Hendrickson of Deer Creek, at her home at McConnell, Ill., after a brief illness.
13 – Melvin Mostrom, 62, lifelong Kensett farmer, at a Mason City hospital after a long illness.
15 – Jacob B. Jaspers, 53, retired Northwood farmer, at his home. He had not been will since a stroke two years before.
16 – Mrs. Andrew H. Johnson, the former Ella Fely of Northwood, at a hospital near her home at Rivercourse, Alberta [Canada]
17 – Miss Lenore Bohach, formerly of Union Township, at her home at Iowa City.
18 – John H. Dralla, 75, former Northwood farmer, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. John Orvedal.
17 – Susan Mae, 4, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Coffey of Silver Lake Township, crushed under a cultivator near which she was playing.
18 – Mrs. William Borchardt, 93, the former Margaret Anna Arzberger, formerly of Grafton, at her home in Osage after a 2 ½ year illness.
22 – Mrs. Nels E. Brunsvold, 79, the former Thea Kittleson, at her home at Hanlontown, after a heart attack.
22 – Theodore O. Grosland, 68, Albert Lea, retired Northwood farmer, at a Rochester hospital, following a year’s illness.
25 – Mrs. R. D. Smith, 92, a Northwood resident 64 years, at the Good Samaritan home in Mason City after an extended illness.
23 – Truls Pladsen, Park Rapids, Minn., Worth County native, at the veterans hospital in Minneapolis.
25 – W. H. Hegemann, 77, Waukon, principal of Northwood schools from 1906 to 1916, at a veterans hospital.
25 – Kenneth Eugene Harris, 15, son of Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Harris of near London, Minn., of injuries received when his motorbike collided with a train at London.
26 – Mrs. Knut Singelstad, 63, Silver Lake, the former Anna Solheim, at Naeve hospital, Albert Lea, after a long illness.
26 – Nels Nelson, 73, Chicago, formerly of Glenville, at Chicago following surgery.
27 – Albin D. Magnuson, 78, Hanlontown, retired vegetable grower, at a Mason City nursing home.
30 – Rev. H. V. Riggs, 65, pastor of the Bolan E.U.B. [Evangelical United Brethren] church at University hospital, Iowa City, of a kidney ailment.
JULY
2 – Bernard Orcutt, 47, Fertile, of a heart attack at his farm near Fertile.
2 – Herman G. Feldt, 65, Grafton farmer, in the office an Osage physician where he had been taken following a heart attack.
4 – Mrs. Kari Elverum, 97, formerly of Kensett, at her St. Ansgar home.
5 – Miss Mary Smith, Mason City, one-time teacher in Worth County rural schools, at her home in Mason City.
5 – Mrs. John E. Amundson, 83, Northwood, the former Florence Siverling of Carpenter, at the Good Samaritan home, Mason City, where she had been cared for the past two years.
14 – Donald Ruby, 26, Riceville, formerly of Fertile, in an auto accident near New Haven.
15 – William P. Crawford, 82, Manly resident for the past 30 years, at his home.
16 – Rasmus L. Flatness, 81, retired Northwood farmer and elevator employee, at his home after a year of failing health.
16 – Rev. E. A. Henderson, 68, retired Lutheran minister, at his farm home this side of Lake Mills.
16 – Mrs. Verle Jones, 65, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Krogh of Northwood, at Cedar Rapids, her home, of a brain tumor.
20 – Walter August Hollatz, 64, Carpenter farmer, on the way to a hospital after a heart attack when shelling corn at the Lowell Jaspers farm.
20 – Mrs. Dow S. Thomson, formerly of Northwood, at San Diego, Calif.
22 – Mrs. Charles W. Bistline, 73, Mason City, mother of Mrs. Joe Gullickson and Ed Bistline, Northwood.
22 – Arleigh Dahl, 46, Joice farmer, at his home, of a heart attack.
22 – Mrs. Minnie Rachut of near St. Ansgar.
24 – Gilbert J. Dahl, 61, Worth County native but a resident of Albert Lea 45 years.
30 – Victor Carlson, 89, former Deer Creek farmer at the home of a daughter in Des Moines where he had lived four years.
30 – Mrs. George Giddings, 64, the former Serena Mathilda Ouverson, following a heart attack.
AUGUST
3 – Edward O. Prestegaard, 68, Rose Creek, Minn., who retired from farming in Deed Creek Township 9 years before, following a stroke.
5 – Benjamin K. Troe, 73, former Silver Lake farmer, at his home in Northwood.
7 – Mrs. Aimee J. Willing, 76, resident of Northwood most of her life, at a Mason City hospital.
12 – Peter W. Anderson, 62, Manly, former highway commission foreman for Worth County.
15 – Botolf G. Odden, 83, for 50 years a resident of Grove Township, at the home of his son, Leif, after a long illness.
16 – Frank Edward Adams, 53, Northwood farmer, Northwood farmer, of coronary thrombosis, at his home.
17 – Mrs. John Stroner, 70, the former Ann Kraubetz, Manly, at an Osage hospital after a stroke.
23 – Mrs. Conrad W. Paulus, 89, the former Elizabeth Christine Bracher, Grafton, at the Good Samaritan home, Mason City.
24 – Mrs. Tom J. Rusley, 70, Joice, former Tilda Kvaslerud, at a Mason City hospital, of a heart attack.
26 – Mrs. Seymour Ellingson, of near Joice, the former Nellie Winden, at a Mason City hospital of a heart attack.
28 – Mrs. H. H. Satterlee, 68, former Northwood resident, at Long Beach, Calif., of a heart ailment.
28 – Hans Martin Bendickson, 77, Silver Lake farmer, at his home.
30 – Mrs. Edward Berry, 71, the former Reila Hattery, Joice, farm wife, at Naeve hospital after breaking her leg near the hip.
31 – Oscar Ford, 77, at a Clear Lake nursing home; he had been in poor health since a stoke 8 years ago.
SEPTEMBER
1 – Mrs. John Hill, the former Bertha Hall of Fertile, at Moscow, Idaho.
5 – Cecil C. Smith, 52, formerly of Manly, at Minneapolis veterans hospital.
6 – Mrs. Andrew J. Lee, 70, Mason City, the former Stina Tollefsrud, Carpenter native, at a Mason City nursing home.
8 – Mrs. Orville M. Baker, the former Mary Frances Carberry, 86, Deer Creek – Otranto resident most of her life, at Austin [Minn.].
9 – Mrs. J. A. Johnson, 83, Clear Lake, the former Martha Fankell of Fertile, at a Cherokee hospital after a six-week illness.
9 – Mrs. Martin O. Field, 72, formerly of Joice, at Forest City.
10 – Mrs. Henry (Eva Merrill) Perkins, 82, Northwood native and one-time county teacher, at Los Angeles, Calif.
11 – Rev. A. M. Whitby, former Northwood Baptist pastor, at Madelia, Minn.
12 – Mrs. Caroline Sondrol, 57, Silver Lake native, at Naeve hospital, of cancer.
13 – Peter Manuel Reinsmoen, 67, lifelong Joice area resident, at his home after a two-year illness of leukemia.
14 – Mrs. H. G. Crocker, 72, the former Ethel Toye of Northwood, of Saratoga, Calif., of leukemia, at Letterman hospital, San Francisco.
16 – Rev. W. H. Busbey, 86, retired minister and Northwood resident for 10 years, at Austin [Minn.]
19 – Christ K. Thoen, 89, one of Northwood’s oldest residents at Good Samaritan home, Mason City.
19 – William B. Skellenger, 72, Lake Mills house mover, at his home, of cancer.
21 – Martin C. Perleberg, 65, lifelong resident of London Township, at his home following a stroke a month before.
22 – J. W. Irons, Mason City loan association secretary, at a Mason City hospital.
26 – Carl Gustav Olson, 75, Worth County farmer, at his home on the Elmer Weidler farm.
27 – John Oliver Myhre, 71, Des Moines watchmaker, native of Fertile, at his home.
29 – Mrs. Guy Peterson, 56, the former Hilma Irene Berg of Northwood, at her home at Joshua Tree, Calif., of heart disease.
OCTOBER
1 – Louis F. Madson, 82, pioneer businessman in Northwood and co-organizer of phone and electric companies here, at Mason City rest home, of heart disease.
2 – Andrew Hansen, 80, Danish immigrant who formerly farmed near Northwood, at Albert Lea.
3 – Christian Skjeveland, 85, once a Northwood blacksmith, at Albert Lea, where he had made his home.
4 – Carl O. Vold, 79, Northwood, lifelong county former and mason, at a Mason City hospital following emergency surgery.
11 – Mrs. John Hagen, 93, the former Anna Marie Dahl, probably the county’s oldest native resident, at the Good Samaritan home, Mason City, where she had been two months.
12 – Jerry Isaacs, 9, and Sharon Isaacs, 7, children of Mr. and Mrs. Garland Isaacs, Grafton, and Jimmy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Birchard Isaacs, Osage, in a car-truck crash near Grafton.
13 – Charlene Isaacs, 7, twin of Sharon Isaacs, at an Osage hospital of injuries in the accident.
14 – Donna Jean Isaacs, 11, daughter of Garland Isaacs, at a Rochester hospital, of injuries received in the accident.
16 – Adolph C. Burtness, 66, Hanlontown native, at his farm home at Holt, Minn.
17 – Niels Peter Madsen, 69, at his farm home west of Northwood, of a heart attack.
18 – Seymour Reyerson, 52, former Northwood farmer, by suicide at the state mental health institute at Independence.
18 – Mary Beth Hunter, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Hunter, Fertile, at a Rochester hospital.
26 – Mrs. Halvor G. Rugland, 82, the former Anna Johnson, for many years a Hartland resident, at a Lake Mills rest home.
26 – Mrs. Hans Halvorson, 85, the former Louisa Dahl, Silver Lake native, of a stroke at the home of her son, Lawrence, near Emmons.
28 – Mrs. Gilbert J. Thompson, 77, the former Ella Olmstead, lifelong resident of Northwood and vicinity, at the Good Samaritan home, Mason City.
29 – Mrs. Mike Dvorak, former Bolan resident, at Cedar Rapids.
30 – Mrs. Oscar Amundson, 58, the former Amanda Tweed, Joice farm wife, at her home of cancer.
NOVEMBER
1 – Mrs. William Shanks, 76, former Vinnie Winona Turner, once a resident near Northwood; at the Good Samaritan home, Mason City.
1 – Rupert R. Sheumaker, 51, Lyle, died of a heart attack at his home.
4 – Peter A. Dahl, 89, Manly farmer, at his farm home.
8 – Miller H. Trilhus, 82, retired Worth County farmer, at his home in Albert Lea of a heart ailment.
11 – Mrs. D. W. Dunton, formerly of Bolan, at Rock Falls.
12 – C. H. Cornelius, 74, Joice farmer, at his home after an eight-month illness from a stroke.
14 – Ole Nubson, 82, Kensett mechanic, suicide by hanging in his former garage building.
14 – Nottov Grimstvedt, 92, father of State Senator, Jacob Grimstead of Lake Mills, at his home in Nissedal, Norway.
16 – Mrs. Albert (Lucy) F. Struck, 85, lifelong resident of Gordonsville, at the home of her son, Wehrmann.
17 – Edward D. Wright, 79, retired Northwood farmer, and businessman, at his home following a stroke.
17 – Mrs. John Levorson, 83, the former Julia Harmon of Kensett, at her home at Flandreau, S. Dak., following a three year illness.
26 – Mrs. Andrew Nelson, 79, Kensett, at Poole nursing home, Mason City, where she had been cared for the past 2 ½ months.
27 – Frank H. Lent, 58, former Hanlontown resident, at the Des Moines veterans hospital after a long illness.
27 – Hans Anderson, 74, Kensett, at a Mason City hospital where he had been a patient 12 days.
29 – Mrs. L. P. (Julia) Holm, 80, resident of Deer Creek Township and Northwood 45 years, at a Mason City hospital; she broke her hip about three before and never fully recovered.
30 – LaVerne Carberry, 63, Council Bluffs railroad man, formerly of Meltonville, at his home, of cerebral hemorrhage.
30 – Mrs. Ira Yeadon Barber, 71, at her home in Gordonsville, after a 2 year illness.
DECEMBER
1 – Owen Hamersly, 79, South English, brother of G. C. Hamersly of Northwood, at Mason City.
1 – James Rue, 69, former Northwood plumber, at a Mason City hospital of cancer.
3 – Dr. H. F. Swanson, 66, St. Ansgar native, professor at college, Blair, Nebr., author of history of St. Ansgar.
4 – Charles Beers, 61, Lake Mills, at his home after a year’s illness of cancer.
12 – Edward Clausen, 52, Northwood native, for many years in the Merchant Marines, at San Francisco, of heart disease.
17 – Mrs. Emma H. Helvig, 64, Forest City, after a long illness.
17 – Jeffrey Holstad, 55, brother of Morris Holstad, Northwood, of drowning at Willamina, Ore.
18 – Mrs. Robert Kuhn, 52, the former Ora Calhoun, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Orin Calhoun, Fertile, of a heart ailment.
19 – Mrs. Caroline Hjelmeland, Fertile, at Mercy hospital, Mason City, following major surgery.
19 – Mrs. Rasmus (Caroline Hovlik Rodberg) Hjelmeland, 76, Fertile, at Mercy hospital after a short illness.
21 – James A. Drain, 83, Northwood railroad man, at a Charles City hospital after several years’ care at the Good Samaritan home, Mason City.
22 – Bennie Olson, 70, Minot, N. Dak., of lung ailment. He was husband of the former Esther Rustad of Northwood.
26 – Selmer “Sam” Herfendahl, 49, formerly of Emmons, at his home at Bremerton, Wash., of a heart attack.
26 – Clarence Wright, 83, Northwood native, at Beardsley, Minn., of heart disease. He moved to Beardsley 50 years ago.
29 – Mrs. S. L. Bielefelt, 76, former Northwood farm woman, at her home near Roland.
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