John Olaus RUDNINGEN

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His obit in the Northfield News, via Dalby:

John Rudningen, life-long farmer in the Nerstrand area, died very unexpectedly on Wednesday afternoon, March 2, 1966. The funeral service was held Saturday afternoon, March 5th, at Valley Grove Lutheran Church near the Rudningen home, the Rev. O. G. Otterness officiating. Interment was in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were Albert Rudningen, Arthur Quie, Norman Shelstad, and Carl Hope, all of Nerstrand, Aldon Severson of Mankato, and Armin Sundet of Faribault. The arrangements were made by the Zanmiller Funeral Home.

Mr. Rudningen was born March 3, 1896, the son of Andrew and Anna (Hanson) Rudningen. He was born, lived all of his life, and died on the same farm place. He was baptized and confirmed in Valley Grove Lutehran Church and was a life-long member there. He is survived by his wife, the former Theresa Severson, to whom he was married on March 9, 1927, at Nerstrand; by one son, Arnold of Faribault; three grandchildren; two foster sisters, Mrs. Mathilda Knutson of Northfield and Mrs. Amanda Main of Seattle. He was preceded in death by his brother, Sigurd.

John married Theresa SEVERSON on 9 Mar 1927 in Rice County, Minnesota. Theresa was born on 23 Jun 1898 in Rice County, Minnesota; died on 26 May 1980 in Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In the 1900 census, he and Anna and Ole and John lived on a farm, that Andrew owned, free of a mortgage, in Wheeling Twp, Rice County, Minnesota.

Andrew married Anna Mary HANSON on 26 Jan 1886 in Rice County, Minnesota. Anna was born on 9 Mar 1858 in Minnesota; died on 24 Dec 1936 in Rice County, Minnesota; was buried in Valley Grove Cemetery, Wheeling Twp, Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The 1900 census shows her father as being born in Denmark and her mother in Norway. She is shown as having had two children, both still alive.

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Married:
as Andres O Rudningen and Annie Maria J Telle

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From Rice County Families, published in 1981 (via Dalby):

Rudningen Family. 

Ole Rudningen and his wife, Gunhild, came from Halengdal, Norway, in about 1853 and settled in Beloit, Wisconsin, for a short time. In the spring of 1855 they started their journey to Minnesota in a covered wagon. Gunhild chased their cattle on foot to their new home, a 160-acre farm in Wheeling Township, 2 miles north of Nerstrand. They had 4 sons:  Ole, Sever, Andrew and Adolph, and a daughter, Anna. The children all grew up on this farm and then Ole, Adolph, and Anna moved to Sunburg in western Minnesota.

Sever stayed on the home place and Andrew homesteaded on 80-acre farm in Wheeling Township, Section #5, and later bought the adjoining 80 acres. On March 7, 1885, Andrew married Anna Hanson and they have 2 sons, Sigvard and John. When Andrew started to farm, all he had was a team of horses, 4 cows, and a few pieces of machinery. One morning 5 horse-back riders rode into Andrew’s yard and watered their horses in the creek; they talked to Andrew for awhile and then left. A couple of days later, Andrew learned that the First National Bank in Northfield had been robbed and that the 5 men he had talked to were Jesse James and his gang.

Sigvard and John farmed with their dad until Sigvard married Mary Vesledahl and moved to the old home place and farmed with his Uncle Sever until Sigvard died in 1916. John married Theresa Severson, daughter of John and Anna Quie Severson, on March 9, 1927, and they had 1 son, Arnold. John farmed with his dad until 1940 when Andrew died; then he farmed with his son, and all during World War II they sawed lumber for the government. On June 28, 1952, Arnold married Ramond Eisen and in 1953 left the farm.  John continued to farm until 1966 when he passed away; Theresa stayed on the farm until 1969 when it was sold. Theresa died in May of 1980. Arnold is in his 26th year at the Owatonna Tool Company and he and Ramona live on a 40-acre farm in Walcott Township. They have 3 children: Mrs. Alan (Lynne) Minske, Mrs. David (Julie) Kobliska and John William (Bill), and 2 grandchildren--Jason William and Brianna Lynne Minske.

Ole married Gunhild Andersdatter. Gunhild was born in 1834 in Norway; died on 23 Apr 1909 in Rice County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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From the Rice County Journal, 28 April 1909, via Dalby:

On Friday last, April 23, wood place in a kitchen oven to dry was left so long that it became ignited. When Mrs. Gunhild Rudningen, 75 years old and residing on a farm near Nerstrand, opened the oven door and admitted the air, the flames darted forth setting fire to her clothes and enveloping her whole body, causing burns from which she died. Mrs. Rudningen was alone in the house at the time but her cries brought the neighbors. When help reached her, however, she was found dead from burns and shock.