Obit: Moen, Thurston Duane (1945 - 1947)

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Surnames: Moen, Stapel, Singstock, Larson, Heggelund, Brieske, Hansen, Johnson, Gustafson

----Source: Spencer Record, Spencer, Wis.) 09/25/1947

Moen, Thurston Duane (6 NOV 1945 – 20 SEP 1947)


Drowns In Water Tank Saturday

Funeral services were conducted Monday afternoon for Thurston Duane, 22-month old son of Mr. and Mrs. Thurston Moen, route 2, who drowned when he fell into a water tank on their farm at 10:45 A. M. Saturday.

The Rev. A. C. Stapel officiated at the rites, which were held at the Hansen Funeral Home, Marshfield, at 2 p. m. and at Slidre Lutheran Church, Mill Creek, at 2:30. Burial took placee in the church cemetery.

The child was at play with other children of the family when the accident occurred. Members of the Spencer Fire Department responded [t]o a call for aid and applied artificial respiration until the Dr. arrived and the Marshfield Fire Department was also called and came with oxygen but the life of the child was unable to be saved.

Thurston Duane Moen was born at Spencer on November 6, 1945. He is survived by his parents and six brother and sisters, Virgil, Evelyn, Jeanette, Gordon, Sanford and Pearl; one half brother, Adolph Singstock; and by three grandparents, Mrs. Carrie Moen, Spencer Route 2, and Mr. and Mrs. Martin Larson, Richfield Township and a great-grandmother, Mrs. Karen Heggelund.

Out of town people who attended the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. James Brieske and daughter Sharon of Sparta, Mrs. Rueben Brieske and Mrs. Wm. Brieske of La Crosse and Mr. and Mrs. B. Hansen and son Howard, Mrs. Ida Johnson and son Wayne and daughter Barbara and Mr. Ed. Gustafson of Chicago.