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Stevens Point Daily Journal
- April 1, 1957 A resident of Scandinavia Village, Edward S. Erickson, 80, died Sunday at 6:30 p. m. at the Iola Hospital after a short illness. Mr. Erickson was a resident of the Scandinavia area all his life farming in the Town of Scandinavia until moving to the village 20 years ago. He was born in Scandinavia Feb. 4. 1877. a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ole Erickson. On July 23, 1907, he was married in Scandinavia to Annie Mork who survives. Also surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Lawrence Bobbe, Amherst, Mrs. Walter Snyder, Chicago, Mrs. Clifford Otterson, Scandinavia, and Mrs. George Radtke. Neenah; a granddaughter; four grandsons, and a niece. Funeral services will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday at the Scandinavia Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Elmer R. Larson officiating, and burial will follow in the parish cemetery. The body is at the Voie Funeral Home. Iola. ____________________________
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Stevens Point Daily Journal - December 15, 1971 The manager of the Scandinavia Telephone Co. for the past 15 years, Raymond M. Voight, 63, died at 11:35 a.m. Tuesday at St. Michael's Hospital. He had been ill for the past two months. Funeral services are scheduled for 1:30 p. m. Friday at Scandinavia Lutheran Cemetery The Rev. Arthur J. Reesenes will officiate. Burial will follow in the parish cemetery. Friends may call after 3 p.m. Thursday at the Voie Funeral Home, Iola. Mr. Voight was born April 3, 1908, in Tigerton, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Otto Voight He was raised in Tigerton and graduated from Oshkosh Normal School in 1935. He then worked for his lather in the building construction business for five years He later moved to Scandinavia and became manager of the telephone company. He married the former Evelyn Hotz on July 20, 1940, in Scandinavia and she is among survivors.
Other survivors include one sister, Mrs. Dale (Marcella) Schwertfeger,
Oshkosh, and nieces and nephews. ____________________________
Stevens Point Daily Journal - September 3, 1963 Friends may call at the Voie Funeral Home in Iola after 3 p.m. Wednesday. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the Scandinavia Lutheran Church with the Rev. Eldon Person officiating. Mrs. Hotz was born in Scandinavia Aug. 23, 1883, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ole Gurholt. On April 9, 1908, she married Emil A. Hotz at Scandinavia. They lived
in the Village of Scandinavia
since 1916. Mr. Hotz died in 1961. ____________________________
Stevens Point Daily Journal = April 17, 1961 Emil
Hotz, Scandinavia, for many years secretary and treasurer of the
Scandinavia Telephone Co., died at 8 o'clock Saturday morning at the Iola Hospital. Ill
for two weeks, he had been a hospital patient 10 days. As a
young man, he was a rural school teacher, and later was a dairy farmer in
the Scandinavia area. He moved to the Village of Scandinavia
in 1916, and was manager of the Farm Produce Co. there for several years
and secretary-treasurer of the Telephone Co. for 22 years. Mr. Hotz served
on the Scandinavia town and village boards and the Scandinavia school board,
and was a member of the Waupaca County Board. He
is survived by his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Raymond (Evelyn) Voight,
Scandinavia; a foster son, Gordon Lewison, Wisconsin Rapids; three
grandchildren; two brothers, Henry, Fayetteville, Ark., and Oscar,
Shawano. and a sister, Mrs. Louis (Florence) Olson, Watertown. ____________________________
Stevens Point Daily Journal - January 20, 1955 Friends may call at the Swenson funeral home, Iola, after Friday noon. Mr. Trinrud died Wednesday morning at St. Michael's hospital. He had entered the hospital the night before. He was born in the town of Scandinavia April 3. 1877. a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Trinrud, and spent all his life there with the exception of one year in Waupaca. His marriage to the former Martha Sodersten, who preceded him in death, took place March 23. 1905. Surviving are five daughters, Mrs. Lynn Olson, Holman, Miss Eunice Trinrud, in California, Mrs. Sylvan Gurholt and Mrs. Delmar Gurholt, town of Scandinavia, and Mrs. Edwin Carr, Amherst Junction, and two sisters. Mrs. Amelia Bestul and Mrs. George Sheveland. village of Scandinavia, ____________________________
Stevens Point Daily Journal - November 16, 1939
Funeral arrangements have not been made. Miss Tobie had been ill for only a short time. An asthmatic condition which caused a heart attack is believed to have been the cause of her death. ____________________________
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Stevens Point Daily Journal - December 6, 1960 Stevens Point Daily Journal - December 7, 1960 Mrs.
Rosholt's Funeral Set Mrs. Rosholt the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. William Nueske. was born at Wittenberg on Nov. 13, 1888. Her marriage took place at Wittenberg on Jan. 20, 1916, and since then the couple had lived on a farm in the Town of Scandinavia. Among Mrs. Rosholt's survivors are her husband: two sons, Jacob Jr., Anoka, Minn. and Robert. Milwaukee, and seven grandchildren. The body is at the Voie Funeral Home, Iola, where friends may call after 2 p.m. Thursday. ____________________________
Stevens Point Daily Journal - August 25, 1966 Mr. Rosholt was the son of John G. Rosholt, a lumberman and sawmill operator who in 1885 settled in the community which is now named after him. Mr. Rosholt and three of his 3 sons, Carl, Jen and Milton, founded the State Bank of Rosholt in 1904. Jacob Rosholt was born Aug. 15, 1876, in the Town of Scandinavia, where he grew up and later farmed on the family homestead for most of his life. Eleven years ago he moved to the village of Scandinavia, where he resided until entering Riverside Hospital several months ago. He married the former Kathryn Nueske at Wittenberg on Jan. 20, 1916. Mrs. Rosholt died in 1960. Mr. Rosholt is survived by two sons, Jacob Jr., Iola, and Robert, Elko, Nev.; and a half-sister, Mrs. Mabel Lockery, Rosholt; seven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Funeral services for Mr. Rosholt are scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church, Iola, with the Rev. Kenneth L. Roufs officiating. Burial will follow in the parish cemetery. Friends may call from 3 p.m. until noon Saturday at the Voie Funeral Home in Iola, and from noon until the time of the services at the church. ____________________________
Stevens Point
Weekly Journal - March 6, 1915
Surviving him are his widow and six children. G. A. Gnllikson, city; P.
A., Rosholt: Carl, at home; Mrs. A. Berg, McIntosh, Minnesota;
Mrs. Oscar A. Solvred, Thorpe, and Mrs. Roy Solvred, Waupaca. He also
leaves three sisters, Mrs. Isaac Nelson of the town of Scandinavia,
Waupaca county, and two in Norway. ____________________________
Stevens Point Daily Journal - February 27, 1924 Mrs.
Arve Gullikson, long a resident of the town of New Hope and mother of G.
A. Gullikson of Stevens Point, died at 6:30 o’clock Tuesday morning at the
home of her son, Carl J. Gullikson in New Hope.
There survive the following sons and daughters: Mrs. Arne N. Berg,
McIntosh, Minn.; G. A. Gullikson, Stevens Point; P. A. Gullikson, Rosholt;
C. J. Gullikson, New Hope; Mrs. O. A. Solvrud, Thorp, Wis.; Mrs. Ida
Solvrud, Chippewa Falls. Twenty-nine grandchildren and several great
grandchildren also ____________________________
Stevens Point Daily Journal = June 18, 1935 Mrs. Carl J. Gullikson of the of town of New Hope died Tuesday night at 8 o'clock at her home following an illness of nine years. She suffered a stroke nine years ago and since that time had been an invalid. Last Sunday afternoon, she had another stroke. Mrs.
Gullikson, whose maiden name was Amelia Wimme, was born in New Hope 58
years ago. Surviving are her husband, who is a brother of G. A. Funeral services will be held Monday noon at 12:30 o'clock at the Gullikson home In. New Hope, followed by services at the Iola Lutheran church. Interment will take place in the Scandinavia cemetery. ____________________________
Stevens Point Daily
Journal - October 11, 1969 He was born in the Town of New Hope on Dec. 20, 1911, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl J. Gullikson. He attended school in New Hope and in 1935 he married Julia Mork. They farmed in New Hope until 1960, when he began employment for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service, Mr. Gullikson was a past director of the Wisconsin Farmers Union, and was a director of the Wisconsin Association of Cooperatives, president of the Portage County Farmers Union Co-op and a director of the Iola Farmers Co-op. He is survived by his wife; a son Donald, at home, and a brother, Arthur Gullikson, 2718 Algoma St. He was preceded in death by his parents. Funeral services are scheduled for Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at Our Savior's Lutheran Church at Iola.
Friends may call at the Voie Funeral Home at Iola after 3 p.m. on Tuesday. |