Source: Greenwood Library Scrapbook Collection

MARSHFIELD NEWS HERALD 2/ /1946

MRS. IRVA HINDAL DIES THIS MORNING
SERVICES FOR GREENWOOD WOMAN WILL BE CONDUCTED SUNDAY

Greenwood--Mrs. Irva Hindal, 57, died at 4 o'clock this morning at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Irving Sherman, Greenwood, Clark County. She had been in poor health since October, and had been hospitalized at Madison from Dec. 28 to Jan. 5 and prior to that was a patient at an Eau Claire hospital.

Funeral rites will be conducted Sunday afternoon, Feb. 17, 1946 at 2 o'clock at United Lutheran church, Greenwood, the Rev. A. E. Norson officiating. Interment will be made in the Greenwood Cemetery. The Royal Neighbors of America of Greenwood, of which she was a member, will attend the rites in a body.

Mrs. Hindal, the former Mabel Fisher, daughter of Luman and Sophia Fisher, was born Nov. 4, 1888, at Edgewood, Iowa, and was married at Lancaster, Iowa, in 1907 to Irva Hindal.

The Hindals lived in Greeley, Iowa, for a time and then went to Montana, where they spent 15 years. In 1925 they came to Greenwood, moving to Sheldon 11 years ago and returning to Greenwood last July.

Surviving are her husband a son, Clair, Sacramento, Calif. who with his family returned home three weeks ago after visiting his mother here a daughter, Mrs. Irving (Velma) Sherman, Greenwood two grandsons, Dennis and Dale Hindal a brother, Fred Fisher, Edgewood, Iowa and a sister, Mrs. Louin (Grace) Tieden, Elkader, Iowa.

Her parents, three brothers, Frank of Sacramento, Calif., Lyle of Edgewood, Iowa, and Len of Manchester, Iowa, and a sister, Mrs. Nick Lang of Strawberry Point, Iowa, preceded her in death.