Published in Pilot-Tribune, 11/7/1957

MRS. IVARSEN, 66, IS BURIED

LIFETIME ORUM FARM WOMAN DIES; SERVICES AT ORUM CHURCH

Mrs. Pete Ivarsen, lifetime resident of the Orum vicinity west of Blair, died last Thursday night at Dodge County Community Hospital in Fremont, just four days after her 66th birthday.

The body was removed to the Campbell Mortuary. Services were held at the Orum Lutheran Church at 2 p.m. Sunday, the Rev. Roy Jorgensen in charge and interment followed in Orum Cemetery.

Mrs. Ivarsen, as Martha Larsen, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Simon Larsen, was born at Orum Oct. 27, 1891. Surviving are her husband, Pete; and two sisters, Mrs. Robert Petersen of Fremont and Mrs. Christena Raymond of Anselmo, Nebr.

(Note: The Orum Cemetery’s actual name is “Lincoln Cemetery.)