Peter A. Gustafson, aged 85, for many years a resident of the Triumph community near Tidioute, died at his home there Sunday afternoon.
Born in Smoland, Sweden, April 27, 1868, he came to America at the age of 28 and had lived on the farm where he died for 53 years. He was married to Selma Peterson in 1888 and to them was born one son, Oscar Gustafson of Wellsville, N.Y. She died in 1890 and the following year he married Lena Engdahl, who died in 1929. To them were born twelve children, the following surviving: Harry and Theodore Gustafson, Mrs. Lily Bloom and Mrs. Ida Linder, of Titusville; Mrs. Mabel Rhodes and Miss Mary Gustafson of Warren; John and Frank Gustafson, at home. There are 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren, a brother, Swan Gustafson of Jamestown, N. Y., and a sister, Mrs. J. W. Johnson of Gresham.
The body will be taken from the Sage funeral home in Tidioute to the family residence this evening where friends may call. Services will be conducted from the Swedish Lutheran church at Triumph at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday. Rev. George R. Kroon of Emanuel Lutheran church, Titusville, will officiate and interment will be in the church cemetery.
Source: The Monday, August 16, 1948, edition of the Warren Times-Mirror, page 10, columns 1-2.
Born in Smoland, Sweden, April 27, 1868, he came to America at the age of 28 and had lived on the farm where he died for 53 years. He was married to Selma Peterson in 1888 and to them was born one son, Oscar Gustafson of Wellsville, N.Y. She died in 1890 and the following year he married Lena Engdahl, who died in 1929. To them were born twelve children, the following surviving: Harry and Theodore Gustafson, Mrs. Lily Bloom and Mrs. Ida Linder, of Titusville; Mrs. Mabel Rhodes and Miss Mary Gustafson of Warren; John and Frank Gustafson, at home. There are 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren, a brother, Swan Gustafson of Jamestown, N. Y., and a sister, Mrs. J. W. Johnson of Gresham.
The body will be taken from the Sage funeral home in Tidioute to the family residence this evening where friends may call. Services will be conducted from the Swedish Lutheran church at Triumph at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday. Rev. George R. Kroon of Emanuel Lutheran church, Titusville, will officiate and interment will be in the church cemetery.
Source: The Monday, August 16, 1948, edition of the Warren Times-Mirror, page 10, columns 1-2.
Peter A. Gustafson, aged 85, for many years a resident of the Triumph community near Tidioute, died at his home there Sunday afternoon.
Born in Smoland, Sweden, April 27, 1868, he came to America at the age of 28 and had lived on the farm where he died for 53 years. He was married to Selma Peterson in 1888 and to them was born one son, Oscar Gustafson of Wellsville, N.Y. She died in 1890 and the following year he married Lena Engdahl, who died in 1929. To them were born twelve children, the following surviving: Harry and Theodore Gustafson, Mrs. Lily Bloom and Mrs. Ida Linder, of Titusville; Mrs. Mabel Rhodes and Miss Mary Gustafson of Warren; John and Frank Gustafson, at home. There are 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren, a brother, Swan Gustafson of Jamestown, N. Y., and a sister, Mrs. J. W. Johnson of Gresham.
The body will be taken from the Sage funeral home in Tidioute to the family residence this evening where friends may call. Services will be conducted from the Swedish Lutheran church at Triumph at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday. Rev. George R. Kroon of Emanuel Lutheran church, Titusville, will officiate and interment will be in the church cemetery.
Source: The Monday, August 16, 1948, edition of the Warren Times-Mirror, page 10, columns 1-2.
Born in Smoland, Sweden, April 27, 1868, he came to America at the age of 28 and had lived on the farm where he died for 53 years. He was married to Selma Peterson in 1888 and to them was born one son, Oscar Gustafson of Wellsville, N.Y. She died in 1890 and the following year he married Lena Engdahl, who died in 1929. To them were born twelve children, the following surviving: Harry and Theodore Gustafson, Mrs. Lily Bloom and Mrs. Ida Linder, of Titusville; Mrs. Mabel Rhodes and Miss Mary Gustafson of Warren; John and Frank Gustafson, at home. There are 18 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren, a brother, Swan Gustafson of Jamestown, N. Y., and a sister, Mrs. J. W. Johnson of Gresham.
The body will be taken from the Sage funeral home in Tidioute to the family residence this evening where friends may call. Services will be conducted from the Swedish Lutheran church at Triumph at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday. Rev. George R. Kroon of Emanuel Lutheran church, Titusville, will officiate and interment will be in the church cemetery.
Source: The Monday, August 16, 1948, edition of the Warren Times-Mirror, page 10, columns 1-2.
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