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Lurena W. Wessel Soderberg

1892 - 1970

 

L. Soderberg Rites Today At Burt

Funeral services for Lurena Soderberg, 77, Burt, will be held at 2 p.m. today (Thursday) in the United Methodist Church at Burt with the Rev. Wendell Burroughs officiating. Burial will be in Riverview Cemetery, Algona, with Garry Funeral Home, Bancroft in charge of arrangements.

Lurena Wessel was born Dec. 15, 1892, at Dubuque, Ia. She was the daughter of Rev. George and Clara Hartwick Wessel and the family later moved to Burt where Rev. Wessel served the Methodist Church for some time. She was a student at Charles City College for two years and graduated from Bethesda Hospital at Cincinnati, Ohio with a major in social service. Miss Wessel was married to Fridolf Soderberg at McGregor, Ia. March 2, 1948. She operated a convalescent home in Bert for several years and died Monday at St. Ann Hospital in Algona.

She was a member of the United Methodist Church at Burt, a charter member of their W.S.C.S. and a member of the Fidelis class and Shirley circle.

Mr. Soderberg is her only immediate survivor.


 
source: Algona Upper Des Moines, 5 Mar 1970, page 1, column 3

 

 
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Lurena W. Wessel Soderberg: born 15 Dec 1892 - died Feb 1970

Grave marker at Riverview Cemetery, Algona, Kossuth County, Iowa

Daughter of George Henry Wessel, born 1863 - died 1944 and Clara Adeley Hartwick, born 1869 - died 1946

Wife of Fridolf Carl Soderberg, born 1889 - died 1973

Sister of:
Earl Hershel Wessel (1895 - 1896)



source: Find-A-Grave, memorial# 66280228

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