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MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 10/ /1946

BRAGSTAD FUNERAL PLANNED SATURDAY
LONG ILLNESS RESULTS IN DEATH OF GREENWOOD WOMAN WEDNESDAY

Greenwood--Mrs. Oline Bragstad, 82, who had been ill for a number of years, died at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 16, 1946 at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sloniker, City of Greenwood, Clark County.

Mrs. Bragstad, nee Jeauntte, was born in Norway July 2, 1864, and was married to Ole Bragstad Nov. 5, 1886, in Trondhjem, Norway. The Bragstads lived there for three years and then came to America, directly to Greenwood in 1889.

Mr. Bragstad operated a blacksmith shop for several years and then moved to a farm, northeast of Greenwood, where he and his wife lived until 1920, when they moved to Longwood. The Bragstads observed their golden wedding anniversary in 1936. Mr. Bragstad died in March, 1941, and since that time she made her home with the Slonikers.

Mrs. Bragstad was a member of the Longwood Lutheran Ladies Aid Society and United Lutheran Church in Greenwood.

The body will lie in state at the Stabnow Funeral Home beginning this evening and until the time of the funeral services Saturday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the funeral home. At 2 o'clock another service will be held at United Lutheran Church, Greenwood. The Rev. A. E. Norson officiating. Interment will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery.

Surviving are six children, Olaf and Bernard, Milwaukee Oscar, Detroit, Mich. Mrs. Olaf (Matilda) Sorenson and Mrs. Tobert (Emma) Jackson, Milwaukee and Mrs. Earl (Olga) Sloniker, Greenwood. Another daughter died in infancy. There are 18 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

Preceding her in death were her husband, a brother in Norway, and two brothers and a sister in the United States.