Funeral Services Held for Sorenson At Storm Lake
Church of Christ
Funeral services for the late Jesse Sorenson were held
Saturday afternoon at the Storm Lake Church of Christ preceded by a
prayer service for only the immediate relatives and family at the Kroll
Funeral home.
The body of the church was filled and chairs were brought in to
accommodate the crowd. There was a profusion of flowers in sprays and
baskets completely banking the altar.
Rev. F. L. Van Voorhis, interim pastor of the church, conducted
the service. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Platt sang "Ivory Palaces,"
"Under His Wing" and "Nearer My God to Thee."
Rev. Mr. Van Voorhis spoke most impressively and sympathetically
and expressed the deepest sympathy of the community for those left to
mourn. The minister used Matthew chapter 9: verses 18 to 31, as the
basic text for his sermon. Scriptures read were the fourteenth chapter
of John, verses 1 to 14 and the twenty-second chapter of Revelation,
verses 1 to 5, as follows:
"And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as
crystal proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb in the midst
of the street thereof. And on this side of the river and on that was the
tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, yielding its fruit every month; and
the leaves of the tree were of the healing of the nations. And there
shall be no curse any more; and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall
be therein; and his servants shall serve him; and they shall see his
face; and his name shall be on their foreheads. And there shall be night
no more; and they need no light of lamp, neither light of sun; for the
Lord God shall give them light; and they shall reign forever and ever."
Bearers were Victor Robinson, Cletus Crissey, Don Hughes,
Clarence Christensen, Carl Christensen, and Lyle McDiarmid. Interment
was in Storm Lake Memorial cemetery.
The minister read this obituary:
Jesse LeRoy Sorenson was born March 7, 1913, at Alta, Iowa, the
son of Dona and Oscar Sorenson. He received his education in the schools
of that community and was a member of the Methodist Sunday school.
On April 6, 1935, he was married to Pauline Thorpe, daughter of
Lee and Olga Thorpe.
Because of physical disability, he was not permitted to serve in the
armed forces of this country. During the war he worked in Hanford,
Wash., on the atomic bomb plant.
The two years following the war he farmed near Rembrandt. He then became
one of the members of the Thorpe, Thorpe & Sorenson Construction
company of Storm Lake.
He died suddenly Nov. 25, 1948.
He leaves to mourn his passing, his wife, Pauline, one daughter,
Jane; his mother, Dona; four sisters, Viola, Gladys, Jeannette and
Grace. Jesse also leaves to mourn many relatives and friends.
Jesse will be missed by all who knew him for he was a friendly,
home loving person, liked by all with whom he was acquainted.
(1948) |
