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Submitted: 9/15/19 • Approved: 9/15/19 • Last Updated: 9/18/19 • R270212-G270209-S3
Birth 15 Dec 1916
Minnehaha County, South Dakota, USA
Death 11 Nov 2009 (aged 92)
Robbinsdale, Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA
Elsa V. Songstad
(December 15, 1916 - November 11, 2009)
Elsa Songstad, 92, of Robbinsdale, MN, formerly of Sioux Falls, SD, died on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 at North Memorial Hospital in Robbinsdale. Her funeral service will be held on Saturday, November 14, 2009 at 1:00 p.m. at Kahler Funeral Home, Dell Rapids. Interment will be in the Norway Cemetery near Garretson. Visitation with the family present will be held for two hours prior to the service.
Elsa Hermanson was born December 15, 1916 at home in Edison Township. She grew up on the family farm and attended rural school and graduated from Garretson High School in 1935.
She married Ole Songstad on June 15, 1940 at Norway Lutheran Church. They made their home in Garretson, moving to Sioux Falls in 1963.
Elsa was employed at Luther Manor and McKennan hospital for 22 years.
She was preceded in death by husband, parents, two brothers and three sisters. Survivors include a son Lyle (Marsha) of Fargo, North Dakota, two daughters, Judy (Brooke) Biedinger of Frederic, WI. and Lue Ann Songstad of Brooklyn Park, MN., four grandsons, Todd (Tracy) Songstad, Chris (Jenn) Songstad, Frank (Jill) Biedinger, Bart (Liz) Biedinger and 9 great grand children.
Contributed on 9/15/19
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