Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1943-04-29
Respected Bruno
Young Woman Is
Called By Death
Mrs. Jacob Storebo Dies
Wednesday of Last Week,
Funeral Held Sunday.

MRS. JACOB StOrebO OF Bruno passed
away Unexpectedly at the Lakeside
Memorial hospital in Pine City
shortly before noon on Wednesday,
April 81, few hours after becom-
ing the happy mother of a fine,
healthy daughter.
Mrs. Storebo, nee Margit Palm,
was born in st. Hilaire, this state,
March 10, 1911, the daughter of Rev.
and Mrs. S. T. Palm. In 1912 her
father was called to Trail, Mimi,
and in 1920 to Brook Park where
Mrs. Storebo grew to Womanhood
and received most of her education
and religious instruction. In 1880
she graduated from the Park Region
Lutheran Academy in Fergus Falls
and in the fall of 1882 entered nurses
training at the Lutheran Deaconess
hospital in Chicago, but was unable
to complete her training.
A Private Nurse.
During the years that followed she
did private nursing in Chicago, Min
neapolis and ST. Paul, as well as in
stitutional nursing in the Asbury hos
pital and the Augustana Home for
the Aged in Minneapolis, and the
Lakeside Memorial hospital in Pine
City.
Her consciousness in her work
was activated by keen desire to
serve, and she spent herself in be-
half of the patients in her care and
was greatly loved and esteemed by
those to whom she thus ministered
Mrs. Storebo also attended the
Lutheran Bible Institute in Mime
apolis, and for several summers did
parochial school teaching in north
ern Minnesota. AT recurrent inter-
walls she spent a considerable amount
of time at home with her parents.
From childhood she was not physi-
cally strong, but her desire to serve
and her consideration for others,
characterized by simple humility
of spirit, made it possible for her to
give much in spite of physical diff
ficulties.
Joins Parents in Death.
On August 81, l941, she was united
in marriage to Jacob A. Storebo
Mr.. Storebo's work has necessitated
his being absent from home a good
deal, she had spent most of the past
winter at her childhood home in
Brook Park. She was with her mother
when the latter passed away in jan
uary of this year. Her father also
preceded her in death in June OF
last year, as did a younger sister ir
1925.
Left to mourn her sudden passing
are her husband, Jacob A. Storebo
and her infant daughter, Margit Car
oline; six brothers, Martin of Mime
apolis, Benjamin of Duluth, Olaf Of
International Falls, Henrik of De-
troit, Mich, Harald and Erling OF
Brook Park; three sisters, Lydia
(Mrs. Carl Finstad) of Thief River
Falls, Edwardine (Mrs. Ozro Keeton)
of North Little Rock, Ark, and Val
borg of Brook Park, besides large
number of other relatives and hos
of friends.
Services at Brook Park.
Funeral services were held ir
Brook Park Sunday, April Is, anc
she was laid to rest beside her ia.
Their and mother in the Brook Parl
cemetery. Rev. Nels Benson of Oal
Park conducted brief service in thu
home. Linnea and Leila Mae Ben.
son sang when the Mists Have
Rolled Away" At the service il
the German Lutheran church Rev
Benson led in Scripture reading anc
prayer, and Rev. j. Florentin An
derson of Oak Lake, pastor of thu
Emmanuel Lutheran church il
Bruno, of which the deceased was ;
faithful member, delivered the mes
sage.
Linnea and Leila Mae Benson, ac
companied by Miss Julia Clausen
sang Come Unto Me When Shadow
Darkly Gather" and Children of tn,
Heavenly Father" Linnea, as las
tribute to the departed, sang an
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