Alma Engebretson 1918-2005
Alma Engebretson, 87, of Clearbrook, died on Sunday, December 25, 2005 at the Clearwater County Memorial Hospital in Bagley.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, December 29, at 11 a.m. at the Elim Lutheran Brethren Church in Clearbrook, with Pastors Tom Seaver and Richard Walvatne officiating. Visitation will be on Wednesday, December 28, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Cease Family Funeral Home in Bagley with a prayer service at 6 p.m. and one hour prior to the services at the church. Interment will be at the Elim Lutheran Cemetery at Clearbrook.
Alma (Hahn) Engebretson was born May 17, 1918 at Catawba, Wisconsin, Price County, to parents Frederick and Amelia (Sellner) Hahn. She attended school -- the first ten grades at Catawba, and then finished her junior and seniior year in Waukesha, Wisconsin, graduating from Waukesha High in 1937 while living with her uncle and aunt.
She then worked in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Mount Sinai Hospital for four years as a nurse's aid and Edwards Motor Company for five-and-a-half years.
She married Ernest Engebretson on October 22, 1949. She and Ernest farmed in Clearbrook for 32 years until the time of Ernest's death in 1981.
She was a charter member of Elim Lutheran Brethren Church and very active as Sunday school superintendent and teacher, vacation bible school leader and teacher and president of Mission Friends. She was also very active in 4-H and Garden Club. In her later years, she spent many years visiting friends and neighbors, bringing them something she had baked ad quietly sharing her time with them.
She is survived by two sons, Gordon (Roxanne) Engebretson, and Dennis (Jacky) engebretson, both of Clearbrook; one great grandson; six grandchildren; one daughter, Judy Engebretson of Clearbrook; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband Ernest, six brothers, William, Alvin, Alfred, Arthur, Ervin and Emil; and two sisters, Emma Erdmann and Lily Hahn.
Alma Engebretson, 87, of Clearbrook, died on Sunday, December 25, 2005 at the Clearwater County Memorial Hospital in Bagley.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, December 29, at 11 a.m. at the Elim Lutheran Brethren Church in Clearbrook, with Pastors Tom Seaver and Richard Walvatne officiating. Visitation will be on Wednesday, December 28, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Cease Family Funeral Home in Bagley with a prayer service at 6 p.m. and one hour prior to the services at the church. Interment will be at the Elim Lutheran Cemetery at Clearbrook.
Alma (Hahn) Engebretson was born May 17, 1918 at Catawba, Wisconsin, Price County, to parents Frederick and Amelia (Sellner) Hahn. She attended school -- the first ten grades at Catawba, and then finished her junior and seniior year in Waukesha, Wisconsin, graduating from Waukesha High in 1937 while living with her uncle and aunt.
She then worked in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Mount Sinai Hospital for four years as a nurse's aid and Edwards Motor Company for five-and-a-half years.
She married Ernest Engebretson on October 22, 1949. She and Ernest farmed in Clearbrook for 32 years until the time of Ernest's death in 1981.
She was a charter member of Elim Lutheran Brethren Church and very active as Sunday school superintendent and teacher, vacation bible school leader and teacher and president of Mission Friends. She was also very active in 4-H and Garden Club. In her later years, she spent many years visiting friends and neighbors, bringing them something she had baked ad quietly sharing her time with them.
She is survived by two sons, Gordon (Roxanne) Engebretson, and Dennis (Jacky) engebretson, both of Clearbrook; one great grandson; six grandchildren; one daughter, Judy Engebretson of Clearbrook; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband Ernest, six brothers, William, Alvin, Alfred, Arthur, Ervin and Emil; and two sisters, Emma Erdmann and Lily Hahn.
Alma Engebretson 1918-2005
Alma Engebretson, 87, of Clearbrook, died on Sunday, December 25, 2005 at the Clearwater County Memorial Hospital in Bagley.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, December 29, at 11 a.m. at the Elim Lutheran Brethren Church in Clearbrook, with Pastors Tom Seaver and Richard Walvatne officiating. Visitation will be on Wednesday, December 28, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Cease Family Funeral Home in Bagley with a prayer service at 6 p.m. and one hour prior to the services at the church. Interment will be at the Elim Lutheran Cemetery at Clearbrook.
Alma (Hahn) Engebretson was born May 17, 1918 at Catawba, Wisconsin, Price County, to parents Frederick and Amelia (Sellner) Hahn. She attended school -- the first ten grades at Catawba, and then finished her junior and seniior year in Waukesha, Wisconsin, graduating from Waukesha High in 1937 while living with her uncle and aunt.
She then worked in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Mount Sinai Hospital for four years as a nurse's aid and Edwards Motor Company for five-and-a-half years.
She married Ernest Engebretson on October 22, 1949. She and Ernest farmed in Clearbrook for 32 years until the time of Ernest's death in 1981.
She was a charter member of Elim Lutheran Brethren Church and very active as Sunday school superintendent and teacher, vacation bible school leader and teacher and president of Mission Friends. She was also very active in 4-H and Garden Club. In her later years, she spent many years visiting friends and neighbors, bringing them something she had baked ad quietly sharing her time with them.
She is survived by two sons, Gordon (Roxanne) Engebretson, and Dennis (Jacky) engebretson, both of Clearbrook; one great grandson; six grandchildren; one daughter, Judy Engebretson of Clearbrook; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband Ernest, six brothers, William, Alvin, Alfred, Arthur, Ervin and Emil; and two sisters, Emma Erdmann and Lily Hahn.
Alma Engebretson, 87, of Clearbrook, died on Sunday, December 25, 2005 at the Clearwater County Memorial Hospital in Bagley.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, December 29, at 11 a.m. at the Elim Lutheran Brethren Church in Clearbrook, with Pastors Tom Seaver and Richard Walvatne officiating. Visitation will be on Wednesday, December 28, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Cease Family Funeral Home in Bagley with a prayer service at 6 p.m. and one hour prior to the services at the church. Interment will be at the Elim Lutheran Cemetery at Clearbrook.
Alma (Hahn) Engebretson was born May 17, 1918 at Catawba, Wisconsin, Price County, to parents Frederick and Amelia (Sellner) Hahn. She attended school -- the first ten grades at Catawba, and then finished her junior and seniior year in Waukesha, Wisconsin, graduating from Waukesha High in 1937 while living with her uncle and aunt.
She then worked in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at Mount Sinai Hospital for four years as a nurse's aid and Edwards Motor Company for five-and-a-half years.
She married Ernest Engebretson on October 22, 1949. She and Ernest farmed in Clearbrook for 32 years until the time of Ernest's death in 1981.
She was a charter member of Elim Lutheran Brethren Church and very active as Sunday school superintendent and teacher, vacation bible school leader and teacher and president of Mission Friends. She was also very active in 4-H and Garden Club. In her later years, she spent many years visiting friends and neighbors, bringing them something she had baked ad quietly sharing her time with them.
She is survived by two sons, Gordon (Roxanne) Engebretson, and Dennis (Jacky) engebretson, both of Clearbrook; one great grandson; six grandchildren; one daughter, Judy Engebretson of Clearbrook; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband Ernest, six brothers, William, Alvin, Alfred, Arthur, Ervin and Emil; and two sisters, Emma Erdmann and Lily Hahn.
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