Surnames: Larson, Bakke, Thompson, Hansen, Nordby

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 05/01/1930

Larson, Ruth Minnette (13 Oct. 1903 - 25 Apr. 1930)

Ruth Minnette Larson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lars Larson, was born at Abbotsford, Wisconsin, October 13, 1903.

She attended the Abbotsford Public school and graduated from high school in 1921. She entered the Wausau Business Institute and completed the secretarial course in 1922.

After graduation she accepted a position as secretary at Wisconsin Rapids; and since then had done secretarial work in Blackwell, Park Falls and Marshfield, Wisconsin.

Because of failing health she stayed at home until in May 1929 when she entered the Mt. Washington Sanatorium at Eau Claire. She passed away April 25, 1930.

Funeral services were held at the home and at the Norwegian Lutheran Church of Curtiss, April 28th. Rev. Nordby of Baldwin offered words of comfort to relatives and friends.

She leaves to mourn her death her mother and father, six sisters and three brothers: Mrs. Albert Bakke, Curtiss; Mrs. Arthur Thompson, Curtiss; Martin Larson, at home; Mrs. Marius Hansen, Larsen, Wis.; Mr. Oscar Larson, Oshkosh; Emma S. Larson, Berlin, Wis.; Mabel Larson, teaching Pleasant Hill school; Helen Larson, Stevens Point and Malcolm Larson, attending school at Abbotsford, Wis.

Card of Thanks

We wish to express our most sincere appreciation for the acts of kindness, messages of sympathy and the beautiful floral tributes received from our friends in our sorrow, the loss of our beloved daughter and sister Ruth.

Mr. and Mrs. L. Larson and family