CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - TVEDT Lena Graverholt

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Cedar County News, 3/4/1954


Pioneer Lady Dies Thursday 

Mrs. Lena Tvedt, 90, is Buried at Paragon

Maskell- Funeral services were held at Zion Lutheran Church here Monday 
afternoon for Mrs. Lena Amalie Tvedt, one of Cedar county’s oldest 
residents, who died February 25 at her home in Maskell.

Rev. C M Grikndland and Rev. O L Levorson of Hartington officiated at 
the last rites and burial was Paragon cemetery east of Hartington under 
the direction of Smith funeral Home. Pallbearers were Glen, Darrell, 
Raymond, Carleton, Harry and Areden Nelson.

Mrs. Tvedt is survived by two daughters, H. Louise of Maskell and Mrs. 
L.S. Nelson of Mineapolis; one son Carl W. Tvedt of San Fernando, Calif., 
six half brothers, Elmer and Alfred Nelson of Maskell, Minor Nelson of 
Newcastle, Ole G. Nelson of Wayne, Albert Nelson of Long Beach, Calif., 
and Melvin Nelson of Newcastle, and two half sisters, Mrs. Charles Mallory 
of Sioux City, and Mrs. Sam Packwood of Newcastle.

The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marcus N Graverholt, Lena Amalie was born 
September 8, 1863, at Setskog, Holand Hemnes, Norway. After the death of 
her mother she came to the United States with her father in 1869. The 
family settled near Red Wing, Minn., and later in Florence, near Omaha. 
In  1870 her father obtained a homestead south of Maskell.

On February 6, 1879, she was married to Rev. Nels G Tvedt of Gayville, SD. 
They lived there about a half a year and then moved to the Paragon community 
east of Hartington. In 1915 the family moved to Maskell. Rev. Tvedt died 
in 1921.

She was baptized in the Lutheran Church in Norway and confirmed in Lime 
Creek Evangilical Lutheran Church south of Maskell. The Ladies Aid of 
Maskell gave her the first life membership in the Women’s Missionary Federation.

Relatives and Friends from a distance who attended the funeral were Carl 
Tvedt of San Fernando, Calif., Mr. and Mrs. L S Nelson of Minneapolis, Mr. 
and Mrs. Ole G Nelson of Wayne, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Erickson and daughters of 
Randolph, Mr. and Mrs. William Heier of Winside, Mrs. Effie Booth of Yankton, 
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Smith of Wakonda, SD., Roy Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Herman 
Nelson and Gabriel Nelson of Vermillion, Mr. and Mrs. Arden Nelson of Ponca, 
and Carl and Gladys Nelson of Tulare, SD.