John Iversson ELLINGBOE

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1944-MN-013186
• Baptism: 12 Feb 1882, Vang Lutheran Church, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota
• Confirmation: 23 Aug 1896, Vang Lutheran Church, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota

Notes:

In church records for baptism and confirmation as Iver/Ivar Johan. Shown as Iver J. in the 1900 census. Shown as John I. in the 1930 census.

In the 1910 census, he and his wife were servants on the farm of Thomas and Berith Thorson in Warsaw Twp, Goodhue County. Berith is the sister of Annie Ellingboe.

Indicated as “Alvin” (?) on Myron’s gravestone or cemetery records and on Arnold’s gravestone or cemetery records.

Registered for the draft as Iver Johan Ellingboe on September 12, 1918, in Faribault. Indicated as born on January 1, 1882. Farmer. Resides in Dennison, Goodhue County. He is employed in Northfield. His nearest relative is his wife Anna. He is of medium height and build with blue eyes and light brown hair.

He owned 1 share of the Nerstrand Farmers Mercantile and Elevator Company as of January of 1959.

A 1911 land ownership map of Hickory Twp in Red Lake County, Minnesota, shows a John I Ellingboe owning a 160 acre parcel, the southwest corner of Section 22.

Died:
Heart attack.

Buried:
252 HN 4 S

John married Anna R (Annie) SVIEN on 21 Feb 1906 in Holden Twp, Goodhue County, Minnesota. Anna (daughter of Anders Anderson SVIEN and Marit Asbjørnsdatter BREKKE) was born on 24 Jun 1885 in Minnesota; died on 9 Apr 1978 in Rice County, Minnesota; was buried in Vang Lutheran Church Cemetery, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1911-08722
• Baptism: 30 Jun 1911, Vang Lutheran Church, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota
• Confirmation: 25 Oct 1925, Vang Lutheran Church, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota

Notes:

Or Iver Arnold, the name in his confirmation record.

Listed in the index of Minnesota birth certificates as Ivar Arnold Ellingen.

He owned 1 share of the Nerstrand Farmers Mercantile and Elevator Company as of January of 1959.

The 1960 Faribault city directory shows Arnold Ellingboe as living in Dennison.

Zip Code of last residence: 55018

Buried as Arnold I. with parents shown as Alvin and Anna Svien Ellingboe. Buried with Erick and Johanna.

Buried:
buried “with Erick and Johanna”

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1916-28496
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1979-MN-023248
• Confirmation: 27 Apr 1930, Minnesota

Notes:

The 1916 birthdate is shown for him in the index of Minnesota birth certificates (in which he is “Alvin”). Other sources have said, incorrectly, 1918.

In the 1936 Faribault city directory, which includes Northfield, he is Myron Ellingboe, helper, employed by St. Olaf College and living in Ytterboe Hall.

In the 1940 census, he was living at home with his parents and brother in Northfield Twp, Rice County. He was a retail salesman of household appliances.

In the 1956 directory for the St. Paul suburbs, he is a salesman for Sears. He lives in St. Paul.

Ellingboe Myron A. Faribault Daily News 17/Sep/1979 Myron A. Ellingboe, 63, of Inver Grove Heights, formerly of rural Dennison, died Friday, Sept.14, at Miller Hospital, St. Paul. The funeral service was held Sunday afternoon at Vang Lutheran Church in rural Dennison, with the Rev. Richard Mork and the Rev. Orville Wold officiating. Internment was in the church cemetery with military rites provided by the Northfield veterans organization. The deceased was a past commander of Eugene H. Truax Post No. 4393, VFW. Pallbearers were Thomas Barrett, Paul Ellingboe, Robert Falvin, William Miller, Michael Morton and Robert Zeik. Arrangements were made by the Boldt Funeral Home of Faribault. Myron Alvin Ellingboe, son of Anna (Svien) Ellingboe, was born on May 15, 1916 in rural Rice county. He married Adah Jenner on January 10, 1948, at Olivia. She preceded him in death this past May 17. Ellingboe was employed by Sears Allstate Insurance Co. He is survived by his son, William, of Fountain Valley, Calif.; two grandsons; two brothers, Arnold and Bennard Ellingboe of Dennison.

Confirmation:
according to Ancestry’s indexing of the ELCA records, the location was Valley Grove in Nerstrand

Buried:
252 HN 4 S

Myron married Adah Delphine JENNER on 10 Jan 1948 in Rice County, Minnesota. Adah (daughter of Arno JENNER and Alma LECHELT) was born on 18 Jul 1918 in Rice County, Minnesota; died on 17 May 1979 in Ramsey County, Minnesota; was buried in Vang Lutheran Church Cemetery, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1919-26794
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2004-MN-007044
• Baptism: 14 Sep 1919, Vang Lutheran Church, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota
• Confirmation: 17 Sep 1933, Vang Lutheran Church, Dennison, Goodhue County, Minnesota

Notes:

Shown as Bennard Ingaman Ellingboe is his kids’ birth certificates.

Shown as Bennard I. on his gravestone.

WWII Veteran of the 45th Thunderhead Div, 157th Infantry Co.

Obit from the Faribault Daily news, February 27, 2004 edition:

Bennard Ellingboe

NORTHFIELD -- Bennard Ellingboe, age 84 of Cannon Falls and formerly of Dennison, died Monday, Feb. 23, 2004, at the Emergency Room of the Cannon Falls Hospital. He died while attending a friend’s funeral at the Wangen Prairie church.

Funeral Services will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday at the Dennison Lutheran Church in Dennison. Burial at the Wangen Prairie Cemetery with full military honors. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Bierman Funeral Home in Northfield.

His obit in the Northfield News:

Bennard I. Ellingboe was born on Aug. 14, 1919, in the quaint rural town of Dennison located in Rice County. His parents were Anna Svien Ellingboe and John Ellingboe. He died while attending a friends funeral at Wangen Prairie Church, on Feb. 23, 2004. The funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. today at Dennison Lutheran Church, and the burial will follow at Wangen Prairie cemetery. Visitation was from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Bennards favorite funeral home, Bierman Funeral Home.

Bennard grew up on the Ellingboe family farm in Dennison. He attended school in the area. He worked on his parents farm until the age 22, when he was drafted into the Army and served in World War II. He served in the 45th Thunderbird Division, infantry, and bravely fought in three major battles -- Sicily, Anzio Beachhead and the march through Italy to capture Rome. By the end of the capture of Rome, Bennard was one of a few in his battalion of soldiers to survive. The Battalion was disbanded. He then transferred to France, where he worked in the 1203 Engineers fire department. He finally returned home to the Dennison area in September 1945.

During his tour in Europe, Bennard wrote letters to his girlfriend, Evelyn Frettem, back home. Bennard and Evelyn married on July 28, 1946, at Wangen Prairie Church. Bennard and Evelyn bought a former church parsonage in Dennison and raised their four children -- John, Paul, Helen and James. Bennard and Evelyn spent 50-plus years in Dennison until moving to Cannon Falls in 2001. Bennard took advantage of the GI bill after returning from the Army and became an apprentice painter. He worked with Paul Kinsella, a local Northfield paint contractor. He was also self-employed for a time. He later went to work as a painter for Carleton College and for Sheldahl. However, he spent most of his painting career painting the dorms, homes and buildings owned by St. Olaf College. Bennard admirably chose to work for St. Olaf in 1961, so that his children would receive free college tuition at a Lutheran College.

Bennard was a member of the Vang Lutheran Church in Dennison before his marriage. He was a member of Dennison Lutheran Church since 1946. He served on the Church Council for many years. Bennard and Evelyn fondly attended and ate at all of the lutefisk suppers in Goodhue and Rice county churches. Bennard also served on the Dennison City Council. He was a member of the Sons of Norway, the VFW, and, of course, an active member in the Dennison Birthday Club. Bennard will be remembered for helping neighbors with getting their mail and helping them out whenever they needed it. He also helped Evelyn care for his mother-in-law for several years. Bennard had a great sense of humor! He loved to tell stories, often more than once. He and Evelyn attended practically every funeral of every friend and every relative since they were married. They had great conversations at every social event. Bennard and Evelyn truly appreciated the friendship of so many in the area, but especially the close friendship of Gene and Joyce Schrader and Dale Lilleskov. Bennards good pal, Orie Ims, provided hours and hours of political conversations.

Bennard was an excellent gardener. He enjoyed planting flowers on all the graves of family members each spring with Evelyn. They would take water in plastic containers and make sure each plant on the graves was watered when it had not rained. Bennard could make a seemingly dead plant spring back to life and bloom. This was analogous of Bennards ability to survive lifes obstacles thrown his way. Bennard was a real survivor: World War II, lutefisk and meatball suppers, fumes of latex, oil-based, and epoxy paint, diabetes and all those close calls with death from 1991 to Christmas 2003. On Thanksgiving Day, 2003, Bennard had a heart attack while still managing to accompany his grandchildren to "A Cat in the Hat," movie before agreeing to go United Hospital. Bennard survived several heart attacks, a stroke, bypass grafts, stents and finally a pacemaker. He took so many medications at the end that he had developed a close personal relationship with the pharmacist at Medicap in Northfield. Bennard is survived by his children: John (Linda), of Seattle, Wash.; Paul (Bonnie), of Plymouth; Helen Jones, of Sioux Falls, S.D. and James, of Cannon Falls; grandchildren: Cindy (husband Steve) and Kristin, of Seattle, Wash.; Meggan and Mason, of Plymouth; Jacob, Julia, and Jessica, of Grand Forks, N.D.; niece Elsa Frettem, of St. Paul and her friend Bernard Gonzales, and nephew, Peter Frettem, of Cannon Falls. Bennard was preceded in death by his wife, Evelyn Ellingboe, August 10, 2003; father and mother, John and Anna Ellingboe; brother and sister-in-law, Myron and Ada Ellingboe; and brother Arnold Ellingboe. Contributions in Bennards memory would be appreciated to Dennison Lutheran Church, the American Heart Association, the American Cancer Society, or the Minnesota DFL Party.

From a letter to the editor of the Cannon Falls Beacon, dated July 13, 2004:

As the Fourth of July weekend approaches, I can’t help think about my recently deceased grandpa, Ben Ellingboe, who lived in Cannon Falls, and his love for politics. The many parades this weekend will undoubtedly bring politicians and their staff to towns all over Minnesota. As a Bronze Star veteran from World War II, Ben would have wanted everyone to thank the veterans who make peace possible and vote for those politicians who won’t cut funding from veteran’s health care programs.

Mason Ellingboe

The 1953 Northfield city directory shows him as “employee, Carleton College.” The 1955 city directory shows him as “painter, Carleton College.” The 1959 Northfield city directory shows him as “painter, Paul J. Kinsella” and living in Dennison, MN. The 1968, 1970, and 1972 city directories show him as “painter, St. Olaf College” and living in Dennison.

Birth:
Other sources incorrectly show his birth date as April 14th.

Baptism:
as Bernhardt Ingeman

Buried:
78 SN 25

Benhardt married Evelyn Thelma FRETTEM on 28 Jun 1946 in Goodhue County, Minnesota. Evelyn (daughter of Oliver FRETTEM and Anne Severine FLATEN) was born on 14 Oct 1920 in Goodhue County, Minnesota; died on 10 Aug 2003 in Cannon Falls, Goodhue County, Minnesota; was buried on 13 Aug 2003 in Wangen Prairie Cemetery, Warsaw Twp, Goodhue County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Born as William Rinn. The Social Security Claims Index says he was born at Fort Snelling.

In the 1950 census, he is listed apart from his parents, apparently correcting an oversight. He seems to be listed twice. He is listed as William J Rinn, 7, with his grandparents, Arno and Alma Jenner, in Nerstrand.

Of Fountain Valley, California, at the time of his parents’ deaths in 1979.

He was probably the Bill Ellingboe, sales manager for Hardin/Sea Ray in Lido Isle near Los Angeles.

William married M.S. WALL [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]