Funeral services for Agnes Arnold, 96,
will be held Tuesday at 2pm at Calvary Baptist
Church. The Rev. Ross Lokken will
officiate.Interment will be in Geneva Cemetery.
Mrs. Arnold died Saturday at Good Samaritan
Center. A lifetime Freeborn County resident, she
was a memberof Calvary Baptist Church and
church circles. She married Edwin
Arnold December 16, 1903 in Geneva. She is
survived by her son Alvie,Hartland; two
daughters, Mrs William Benson, Clarks Grove and
Mrs Clarence Wright,Owatanna; eight
grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren,9
great-greatgrandchildren; and one sister, Mrs
Alice Andersen, Albert Lea. She was preceded in
death by her parents, her husband in 1957,four
brothers,and five sisters. Friends may call at
Bonnerup & Son Funeral Chapel today until 9pm.


Agnes Arnold 1885-1981
Being one of the older daughters, Aunt Agg was one of the girls that Grandma Larsen had time to teach to sew. And she did a lot of it - both dress making and "fancy work." She was also a good cook. While Uncle Ed was driving a gravel truck for N.J. Nelson, Aunt Agg did the cooking for the truckers, who lived in the early version of a mobile home. ( Actually, they were constructed of wood and looked like a boxcar on wheels - only smaller!) During those years, there was a great deal of road construction going on, and the gravel haulers were a large part of the job. Wherev er "N.J. " (Nelson) contracted for a job, the truckers went, and Aunt Agg followed the trucks and set up her "cook shack" to prepare the meals. Ummmm, good!
She was also a prolific reader of anything between covers of a book. It was only after glaucoma affected her eyes did she curtail her reading and sewing. She lived at Good Samaritan Center about five years when she could no longer live alone because of her failing eyesight and other health problems. Her obituary follows:
Funeral services for Agnes Arnold, 96, Good Samaritan Center will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Church. The Rev. Ross Lokken will officiate. Interment will be in Geneva Cemetery. Mrs Arnold died Saturday (Nov. 7, 1981) at Good Samaritan Center.
A lifetime Freeborn County resident, she was a member of Calvary Baptist Church and church circles. She married Edwin Arnold Dec. 16, 1903, in Geneva. She is survived by her son Alvie, Hartland; two daughters, Mrs Wm. (Marion) Benson, Clarks Grove and Mrs Clarence (Bernice) Wright, Owatonna; eight grandchildren, 25 great grandchildren; nine great-great grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs Alice Andersen, Albert Lea. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband in 1957, four brothers, and five sisters. Friends may call at Bonnerup & Son Funeral Chapel today until 9 p.m.