Karl Larsson
| Date of Interment or Death | 02/21/1948 |
|---|---|
| Location | Old Fairview |
| Section | D |
| Block-Lot-Grave | 9-6-1n |
Obituary
Karl Larsson Rites Friday In Wahpeton
Science School Teacher Dies Tuesday Morning
Karl Larsson, 52, who has been teacher in electrical trades and electrical engineering at the Science School for nearly 25 years, died of a heart ailment at St. Mary hospital, Wahpeton on Tuesday morning shortly after midnight. Previous to his death he had been confined to the hospital for 17 days. Last summer he took special treatments at St. John’s hospital in Fargo but was able to attend to many duties up to the end of January.
Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at two o’clock from Bethel Lutheran church with Rev. P. A. Gisvold officiating. Interment will be Fairview cemetery. Services were originally planned for Thursday but were postponed when one of the worst blizzards of the winter halted all activity and closed roads.
Active pallbearers are G. W. Haverty, Ben H. Barnard Odin Wold, F. H. McMahon, Earl Smith and Alvin Hans and James Horton. Honorary pallbearers are E. F. Riley, George Hedner, John Halvorson, J. Meyer Johnson, Peter Odness and Harvey Bisek. At the funeral service there will be a solo “Den Store Hvide Flok” sung by Mrs. Alvin Hans and also singing by a men’s quartet.
For the next three years, he was employed in Sweden in electrical engineering and instrument and construction work. He came to the United States in 1921 and worked in the electrical field in New York and Minneapolis.
During this time he did some post-graduate work at the University of Minnesota. He came to the Science School in the fall of 1921 as teacher in electrical trades and electrical engineering and he has been in continual service here since that time. He was a master electrician and former member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. At various times during his year of service at the
school he did special engineering were for the Otter Tail Power Company and he conducted at various times special meter schools for power companies in the Northwest. In 1928 he was married to Mildred Sveneby, Fergus Falls. Surviving him are his widow and two daughters Nancy 12, Marion 10, residing at their home in Wahpeton: a brother, Gustave, and two sisters, Nimmi and Eli residing in Sweden.
Since his coming to Wahpeton Karl Larsson has been a member of and earnest worker in the Bethel Lutheran Church of Wahpeton. For many years he was a trustee of the congregation. He has also taken an active part in community civic and education affairs having been at one time president of the local PTA
For sterling qualities of mind, personality and character, Karl Larson won and kept the friendship of fell-citizens in community and of teachers, students and alumni of the Science School. In a recent article on the Science School, published by Technical education news of New York, he was singled out as a typical veteran teacher of trades and engineering equally prominent in both lines.
In addition, he was since boyhood well-read and deeply interested in civic affairs of the nation and of the world. He was an excellent husband and father devoted home-loving. Colorful and thorough as teacher, he holds the respect of former students many of whom are in highly responsible positions throughout our nation. To them and to others he was in the routine of school work “Mr. Larsson.”
For them and others he remains ever known in memory and affection as “Karl.”
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Location
Old Fairview is located on the southern half of the cemetery grounds.