MRS. MARTIN EVENSON DIES AFTER EXTENDED ILLNESS
Mrs. Martin Evenson, a Deer Park resident since 1922, died at her home Dec. 26 (1956) after an extended illness.
Hannah Christina Anderson was born Jan. 12, 1886, in Stokha, Norway, the youngest dauter of Carl and Hella Oliva Anderson. May 8, 1906, she was united in marriage to Martin Evenson. In the spring of 1908 she came to the United States to join her husband who had come over a few months after their marriage. They lived first at Baldwin, moving to the Deer Park vicinity in 1922.
Last May 8th Mr. and Mrs. Evenson celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with their children. Mrs. Evenson's health had been failing for the past 8 years, and she had been confined to her bed the past year. Dec. 20 she suffered a stroke, sleeping peacefully away Dec. 26 at 8:15 a.m., at the age of 70 years.
Mrs. Evenson is survived by her husband and six children, Ruth (Mrs. Alfred Bader), New Richmond; Alice (Mrs. Alfred Ness), Amery; Ida (Mrs. Leonard Lentz), New Richmond; Carl, Wheatland, N.D.; Hannah (Mrs. Clifford Flanum), Amery; and LeMoyne, Deer Park. There are 14 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren. Two sisters, Sophia and Clare, in Norway, also survive Mrs. Evenson.
Funeral services for Mrs. Evenson were held Dec. 28 in Trinity Methodist church, Deer Park, with Rev. Virgil Brown officiating. Mrs. Alex Johnson sang "Beyond the Sunset" and "Rock of Ages", accompanied by Mrs. Henry Anderson. The pallbearers were her grandsons, Warren, Harold and Richard Bader, Virgil Ness, Victor Lodermeier, and Laverne Josephson. Interment was in Calvary cemetery, Deer Park, and the Stenberg Funeral Home, Amery, was in charge of arrangements.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank all our friends and neighbors for their kind deeds toward us during the long illness and now the loss of our wife and mother. Thanks, Rev. Virgil Brown, for your visits; Dr. Armstrong, for your wonderful service; for the gifts from the American Legion Auxilliary, the Ladies Aid and Mrs. Axel Johnson, to the pallbearers, the church custodian and for the flowers and memorial gifts presented in Mother's honor. May God bless each one of you.
In deepest appreciation:
MARTIN EVENSON
MR. AND MRS. LEMOYNE EVENSON
MR. AND MRS. LEONARD LENTZ
MR. AND MRS. ALFRED NESS
MR. AND MRS. CLIFFORD FLANUM
MR. AND MRS. ALFRED BADER
MR. CARL EVENSON
