Obit: Ostenson, Melvin E. #4 (1890 - 1959)

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Surnames: Ostenson, Goodspeed, Gosse, Lein, Moen

----Source: Thorp Courier (Thorp, Clark Co., Wis.)  07/23/1959

Ostenson, Melvin E. #4 (28 SEP 1890 - 18 JUL 1959)

Melvin Edward Ostenson, 68, was found dead last Saturday in the barn on his farm 1 ½ miles east of Curtiss (Clark Co., Wis.).  Clark County authorities said he had hanged himself.

A daughter, Miss Ethel Ostenson who lived with her father, and two of the man’s nieces, Miss Gale Goodspeed and Miss Gloria Goodspeed, Jackson, Ohio, visited at the Ostenson home, found the body after returning from a call to the home of a relatives in the area.

Miss Ostenson told authorities that her father had been despondent since the death of his wife May 5.  Officers who investigated were Sheriff Frank Dobes and Coroner Robert Lulloff.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Lulloff Funeral Home at Colby.  The Rev. Orval Egbert of Greenwood officiated, and burial was made in Pine Hill Cemetery in Curtiss.

Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Adelaide Goodspeed, Jackson, Ohio; Ethel Ostenson at home; one son, Roy Ostenson, Bloomer; five grandchildren; one brother, Roy Ostenson, Curtiss; four sisters, Eda Ostenson, Christine Ostenson and Mrs. Carla Lein, all of Curtiss; Mrs. Ella Moen, Cottage Grove, Ore.