Mrs. Christian Burtness nee Christie Solum, parents Knut E. and Torgum Solum, was born at Orfordville, Rock Co. Wisconsin on March 5, 1849. She was baptized April 9th of the same year in Luther Valley Congregation by the Rev. G. F. Dietrickson. christie was confirmed at Spring Grove, Minn., where she was united in marriage by the Rev. F. C. Claussen to Christen Burtness in 1868 at the old stone church.
Mr. and Mrs. Burtness began their married life at Spring Grove, and moved to Amherst, where they farmed until 1904, when they moved to Harmony, where Mrs. Burtness has lived forty years. She joined Greenfield Congregation many years ago, was a kind neighbor, good mother and one who loved the Word of God.
Mrs. Burtness departed this life on Friday morning, Nov. 10th to be with her Lord and Saviour at the age of 95 years, 8 months and 6 days, being at the time of her death the oldest mother in the Greenfield Church.
Her husband died in 1929, also two children, a daughter and son, Mrs. Theoline Lee and Peter Burtness. Those who survive her are the following: two daughters, Mrs. Leva Russell, Detroit, Mich. and Mrs. Clara Onstine, Henrytown; three sons, Helge of Lenora, Cornelius at St. Paul and Allen of Norfolk, Va.; thirteen grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon from the Burtness home in north Harmony and the Lutheran Church, the Rev. O. C. Brenna officiating. He based his sermon on 1 John 2, 102. Mrs. Willard Johnson sang two solos, "One Sweetly Solemn Thought" and "No Night There". Friends gave many memorial wreaths to old people's homes, radio work, red cross, missions and the Greenfield Church. These in memoriams together with the floral wreaths spoke in unmistakable language of sympathy and love. Interment was made beside her husband in the Elstad Cemetery, fifteen miles northeast of Harmony.
The pallbearers were: Nels Elton, Ole Oleson, Robert Fosburg, Roy Knudslien, Ivar Halvorson and Tollef Sanderson.
Mr. and Mrs. Burtness began their married life at Spring Grove, and moved to Amherst, where they farmed until 1904, when they moved to Harmony, where Mrs. Burtness has lived forty years. She joined Greenfield Congregation many years ago, was a kind neighbor, good mother and one who loved the Word of God.
Mrs. Burtness departed this life on Friday morning, Nov. 10th to be with her Lord and Saviour at the age of 95 years, 8 months and 6 days, being at the time of her death the oldest mother in the Greenfield Church.
Her husband died in 1929, also two children, a daughter and son, Mrs. Theoline Lee and Peter Burtness. Those who survive her are the following: two daughters, Mrs. Leva Russell, Detroit, Mich. and Mrs. Clara Onstine, Henrytown; three sons, Helge of Lenora, Cornelius at St. Paul and Allen of Norfolk, Va.; thirteen grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon from the Burtness home in north Harmony and the Lutheran Church, the Rev. O. C. Brenna officiating. He based his sermon on 1 John 2, 102. Mrs. Willard Johnson sang two solos, "One Sweetly Solemn Thought" and "No Night There". Friends gave many memorial wreaths to old people's homes, radio work, red cross, missions and the Greenfield Church. These in memoriams together with the floral wreaths spoke in unmistakable language of sympathy and love. Interment was made beside her husband in the Elstad Cemetery, fifteen miles northeast of Harmony.
The pallbearers were: Nels Elton, Ole Oleson, Robert Fosburg, Roy Knudslien, Ivar Halvorson and Tollef Sanderson.
Mrs. Christian Burtness nee Christie Solum, parents Knut E. and Torgum Solum, was born at Orfordville, Rock Co. Wisconsin on March 5, 1849. She was baptized April 9th of the same year in Luther Valley Congregation by the Rev. G. F. Dietrickson. christie was confirmed at Spring Grove, Minn., where she was united in marriage by the Rev. F. C. Claussen to Christen Burtness in 1868 at the old stone church.
Mr. and Mrs. Burtness began their married life at Spring Grove, and moved to Amherst, where they farmed until 1904, when they moved to Harmony, where Mrs. Burtness has lived forty years. She joined Greenfield Congregation many years ago, was a kind neighbor, good mother and one who loved the Word of God.
Mrs. Burtness departed this life on Friday morning, Nov. 10th to be with her Lord and Saviour at the age of 95 years, 8 months and 6 days, being at the time of her death the oldest mother in the Greenfield Church.
Her husband died in 1929, also two children, a daughter and son, Mrs. Theoline Lee and Peter Burtness. Those who survive her are the following: two daughters, Mrs. Leva Russell, Detroit, Mich. and Mrs. Clara Onstine, Henrytown; three sons, Helge of Lenora, Cornelius at St. Paul and Allen of Norfolk, Va.; thirteen grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon from the Burtness home in north Harmony and the Lutheran Church, the Rev. O. C. Brenna officiating. He based his sermon on 1 John 2, 102. Mrs. Willard Johnson sang two solos, "One Sweetly Solemn Thought" and "No Night There". Friends gave many memorial wreaths to old people's homes, radio work, red cross, missions and the Greenfield Church. These in memoriams together with the floral wreaths spoke in unmistakable language of sympathy and love. Interment was made beside her husband in the Elstad Cemetery, fifteen miles northeast of Harmony.
The pallbearers were: Nels Elton, Ole Oleson, Robert Fosburg, Roy Knudslien, Ivar Halvorson and Tollef Sanderson.
Mr. and Mrs. Burtness began their married life at Spring Grove, and moved to Amherst, where they farmed until 1904, when they moved to Harmony, where Mrs. Burtness has lived forty years. She joined Greenfield Congregation many years ago, was a kind neighbor, good mother and one who loved the Word of God.
Mrs. Burtness departed this life on Friday morning, Nov. 10th to be with her Lord and Saviour at the age of 95 years, 8 months and 6 days, being at the time of her death the oldest mother in the Greenfield Church.
Her husband died in 1929, also two children, a daughter and son, Mrs. Theoline Lee and Peter Burtness. Those who survive her are the following: two daughters, Mrs. Leva Russell, Detroit, Mich. and Mrs. Clara Onstine, Henrytown; three sons, Helge of Lenora, Cornelius at St. Paul and Allen of Norfolk, Va.; thirteen grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon from the Burtness home in north Harmony and the Lutheran Church, the Rev. O. C. Brenna officiating. He based his sermon on 1 John 2, 102. Mrs. Willard Johnson sang two solos, "One Sweetly Solemn Thought" and "No Night There". Friends gave many memorial wreaths to old people's homes, radio work, red cross, missions and the Greenfield Church. These in memoriams together with the floral wreaths spoke in unmistakable language of sympathy and love. Interment was made beside her husband in the Elstad Cemetery, fifteen miles northeast of Harmony.
The pallbearers were: Nels Elton, Ole Oleson, Robert Fosburg, Roy Knudslien, Ivar Halvorson and Tollef Sanderson.
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