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1191

Adria Funston

TOLLEFSON, Herbert Orlando (I38364)

1192

Adria Funston

HALVORSON, Alma Matilda (I38365)

1193

Adria Funston

In the 1950 census, he was a farmer in Frankville Twp, Winneshiek County.

TESLOW, Francis Norman (Frank) (I38367)

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Adria Funston

Viola Teslow, age 98, of Decorah, IA, died Saturday morning, November 8, 2014 at Mayo Clinic Hospital, Saint Marys Campus in Rochester, MN.

Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at Washington Prairie Lutheran Church in rural Decorah, with Rev. Mark Kvale officiating. Burial will be in church cemetery.

Visitation will be from 4:00-7:00 p.m. Tuesday, November 11 at Fjelstul Funeral Home in Decorah and on Wednesday beginning at 10:00 a.m., one hour before the service, at the church.

Esther Viola (Tollefson) Teslow was born March 6, 1916 at home in rural Calmar, Iowa, the daughter of Herbert and Alma ( Halvorson) Tollefson. She was baptized March 19, 1916 at Springfield Lutheran Church and confirmed June 7, 1931 at Washington Prairie Lutheran Church. Viola attended rural country school and then graduated from Decorah High School with the Class of 1936, earning a Normal Teaching certificate by taking extra classes. She then did substitute teaching for a little while.

Viola was united in marriage to Francis Norman “Frank” Teslow on February 11, 1939 at the Springfield Lutheran Church parsonage. To this union, six children were born: Janet, Patricia, Susan, Gary, Debra and Dianne.

Frank and Viola farmed for many years and she was an active farm wife and homemaker, raising her family. She later worked for 18 years at Decorah Community Schools in food service at the high school. She was a member of Washington Prairie Lutheran Church where she was very active in circle. The church was very important to her.

Viola loved spending time with her whole family, especially her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and she really enjoyed their visits; she also loved to cook for her family and all of their gatherings. She was a very good lefse maker, loved to play cards, reading, embroidery, making quilts, gardening, and enjoyed dancing with Frank.

Viola became a resident of Wellington Place Assisted Living in September 2011.

Viola was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Frank on January 30, 2006; one daughter, Janet Funston on October 2, 2007; one brother, Walter Tollefson; four sisters, Lillian Johnson, Helen Tollefson, Pearl Tollefson and Edna Grace Austad; two sons-in-law, Fred Gates and Marvin Manness; two grandchildren, Sherri and Kevin Funston; and a great-grandson, Cody Nikkel.

Viola is survived by one son, Gary (Sue) Teslow of Decorah; four daughters, Patricia Manness of Barstow, CA, Susan (George) Vondruska of Watersmeet, MI, Debra (Stan) Moellers of Decorah and Dianne (Vince) Story of Billings, MT; one son-in-law, Stan Funston of Cedar Rapids, IA; eleven grandchildren; eighteen great-grandchildren; and a sister-in-law, Theresa Teslow of Frankville, IA.

TOLLEFSON, Esther Viola (I38366)

1195

Adria Funston (Janet’s granddaughter)

TESLOW, Janet Vernelle (I38382)

1196

after 12 Sep 1918, the day he registered for the draft

TORRISON, George Cornelius (I30877)

1197

after 1801 on Kvie 96/5

REMMISBREKKEN, Sigrid Jøgersdatter (I43111)

1198

after 1801 on Søre Lien according to Milo Rubinger

KJØS, Gjartrud Endresdatter (I23562)

1199

after a “serious operation”

FORSYTHE, Isabel (I8097)

1200

After being abandoned by both of her parents, she seems to have been essentially raised by, or at least lived with, her grandparents. In the 1940 and 1950 censuses, she was living with her father’s parents in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, as Doris M La Fountain, age 3 and 13.

There was another Doris LaFountain of roughly the same age who lived in Montana.

Called Marie LaFountain and Mrs. Marie Tenney on her daughter Terry’s death certificate. She was also called Marie in the obit of her paternal grandmother.

She and Frank were foreclosed upon in April of 1967.

She died as Doris Marie Pedey, wife of Frank O. Pedey. She died of head trauma as the passenger in a vehicle that ran into a parked truck. The time of the accident was 11:20 p.m. on July 10th.

LAFOUNTAIN, Doris Marie Bernadette (I29508)