The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-05-27
Pastors Pay
Tributes to
Rev.Joneson
900 ATTEND RITES FOR
CHRISTIAN PASTOR
HERE SUNDAY

Nearly 900 persons attended
funeral services for Rev. Oscar
JOneson Sunday afternoon in the
Church of Christ which he had
served as pastor for nine years.
The rites were conducted by
Rev Willard Leavens Of Fair
mont whom Rev. Joneson ordain-
ed in the ministry in January
1880.
Sincere high tributes were paid
by Redwood Falls ministers who
presented brief eulogies on his
life.
Rev. C. E. Martin of the Meth
OdiSt Episcopal church introduced
his fellow pastors who included
Rev Godfrey O'SulIivan of St.
GATHERINGS church, Rev. J. P.
Linn Of the Presbyterian church,
Rev. c. G. SWalWell of the MAJ
arene church, Rev O. S. Monson
of the Middle Creek and North
Redwood Evangelical churches,
Captain Tom Moss Of the Episco-
pal church and Rev. w. Henry
Wostby of the English Lutheran
church.
Rev. Westby summed up the
expressions of appreciation of
Rev. Joneson's life and work with
Biblical quotation, HE went
about doing good"
Out-Of-tOWn ministers who
spoke were Rev. Roland Wilder of
Truman who offered prayer.
Rev. Bruce Mathews of the Tracy
and LambertOn Christian church.
es and Rev J. H. SieWert of Bell
ingham.
The Redwood Falls ministers
also served as honorary pail bear
ers.
Pail bearers were C. D. Clip
fell, S. S. Wetmore, E. w. Dun
can, Willard Neuenburg, Walter
WOlVerton and Frank Young and
women in charge of flowers in
Guided Mrs. J. A. Storts, Mrs.
George Eckhart, Mrs. E. w. Dun
can and Mrs. Walter King.
There were services for the
family only at the home at %.
m. Sunday and final rites were
held Monday at the Beaver VAL
ley Lutheran church near Valley
Springs, South Dakota.
Sixty-four persons from Red
wood Falls attended the Beaver
Valley rites at which DR.. Ford,
pastor of the church, told of Rev.
Joneson as a small boy and youth,
describing his dependability,
studiousness and perfect adapta-
ton for the ministry. DR.. Ford
confirmed Rev. Joneson as a
young man. Rev. Paul Willard of
the Worthington Church of Christ
and Rev. C. Frost of the Sioux
Falls church also spoke.
He was laid to rest in the chur-
Chyard cemetery, a beautiful
place, beneath two evergreen
trees which were planted by his
father. His parents graves are
there also.
Oscar A.-Joneson was born in
Valley Springs township, South
Dakota, January 81, 1888. In 1903
he was confirmed in the Swedish
Lutheran church at Beaver VAL
ley.
He attended and completed the
first eight grades in the country
school there and went to Gusta-
Vus Adolphus college at st. Peter
for two years. He then attended
Bethany college at Lindsborg,
Kansas, for two years.
December 81, 1909 he married
Ada Brown of Independence,
Kansas. They moved to Coffey-
vile, Kansas, and it was there
that he united with the Church of
Christ. They remained for about
two years in Coffeyville where he
worked in the oil business.
Later he attended Drake uni
VerSity at Des Moines, Iowa, from
which he graduated in 1914. AS a
student he preached in Chester
field, Iowa and after his gradual
ton he was ordained there.
He then moved to OsaWatomie,
Kansas, for two years and from
there to Cherryville for a short
ministry.
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