The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-03-11
Giimmestad
Rites Held
At Belviiew
A. o. GIMMESTAD, II
DIED AT HOSPITAL
HERE SATURDAY

tad, prominent resident of this
community for many years, was
buried here Tuesday afternoon
after a large assembly of friends
and relatives had paid last re-
spects at rites conducted in the
First Evangelical Lutheran
church. Mr.. Ginmestad died at
the Redwood Falls hospital at the
age of II Saturday afternoon
from cardiac asthma from which
he had suffered for several years.
Mr.. Gimmestad was born Aug
ust 5, 1865 in Gloppen, Nordfjord,
Norway, the son of Ole Mathiason
Gimmestad and Eli Christensen
(MardahD Gimmestad.
He came direct to Swedes For
est township with his parents and
brothers, Matthias and Christian
and sister, Berte and settled on
the farm known as the Chimes
tad homestead, just below Boiling
Springs.
He attended common school in
district Swedes Forest and la
ter studied at Window Institute
at Montevideo and Beeman's Bus
mess College at Red Wing.
AS youth he herded cattle on
the open prairieS and later clerk
ed in stores in Belview and sold
machinery and bought grain. In
1893 he established the Chimes
tad Land and Loan Agency in
which he was active until the time
of his death. In 1905 he, with
three others, established the Bel
view Mercantile and in 1906
he entered the banking business
in the State Bank of Belview. He
helped incorporate the Delhi State
Bank, of which he was president
for two years and helped organize
the Redwood County State Bank
at Redwood Falls, serving as one
of its directors. He also was &C
tive in organizing several other
business organizations in the Bel
view community, was a member
of the. Belview Council for sever
al years and president of the Bel
view Creamery association. He
was a member of the Board of
directors of the Redwood County
Telephone Co., for several years
and the first president of the Bel
view Farmers Elevator and its
treasurer for several years. For
% years he was treasurer of the
Nordfjordlag of America. He also
operated several farms near Bel
view and in North Dakota.
A firm believer in education he
was a member of the BelvieW
board of education for about 20
year and saw to it that his chill
dren received college education.
Always an active member of
the Norwegian Lutheran church,
he was confirmed in 1880 and was
a chapter member of the First
Evangelical Lutheran church at
Belview, and its treasurer from
its organization until 1882.
He married Anne Malene Hegdal
June II, 1892 and was the father
of ten children one of whom died
in infancy in 1901. The living
children are: Oscar, Agnes and
Walter of Belview, Bernard of
Dawson, Alfred of Hutchinson,
William of Winona, Mrs. Elmer
Swanson, Wanamingo, Ella of st.
Louis and Mrs. Roy A. Lundblad,
MINNEAPOLIS. There are nine
grandchildren and one brother,
Matthias of Minneapolis.
Among the out of town people
who attended the funeral were
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Lyslo, Brown
ton; Mrs. Russell Sherman, Luz
verne; Hannah and Richard OAR
cad and Nina Cole, Granite Falls,
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Ellingson,
Wabasso; Reuben Strand, Morton:
E. S. Lee, Hutchinson; John As
sabo, Ole and Oscar Steen, Orion
vile; Frank Clague, o. A. Stems
vad, E. H. Bollum, A. D. McRae,
Miss Lois Fall, Miss Rosemary
Strong, Mr.. and Mrs. Claus
Maurstad, Mr.. and Mrs. Casper
Olson and Mr.. and Mrs. B. o.
Lyslo, Redwood Falls; DR.. and
Mrs. Kolseth, Sanborn; Mrs. Mar
lie Gilbertson, and Mrs. c. Preus,
Madison, South Dakota; Oscar
and Peter Hegdahl, Nunda, South
Dakota; c. c. Enestvedt, Mrs.
Lars Loken, Mr.. ard Mrs. Arnold
Olson, and Mr.. and Mrs. War
Haugen and daughter, Clanhfield;
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Hagen, Mr.. and
Mrs. Arthur Hustad, and Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Lundblad, Minneapolis,
DR.. E. Miller, Gibbon; Mr.. and
Mrs. L. B. Seljevold, Averill; An
drew Davidson, Renville; Ole En-
estvedt, Sacred Heart.