Marian Iverson

Marian (Mrs. Harris) Iverson, died Tuesday, June 17, 2014, in Fergus Falls.

Marian was born, December 28, 1926, at St. Luke’s Hospital in Fergus Falls, the daughter of Frank and Luetta (Abendschein) Schreiber of Western Township, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. She was baptized and 1st and 2nd communion and confirmed at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church by Father B.H. Wessling.

She attended rural school district #56 in Western Township and the Fergus Falls High School, graduating in 1945. After graduation she worked as an assistant bookkeeper at Hintgen-Karst Electric Company in Fergus Falls.

Marian and Harris Iverson were married April 25, 1947, in Fergus Falls, by Father B. H. Wessling. After a brief employment with “Muggs” Townsend at carnivals in Iowa, they returned to Western Township to take over the Schreiber farm.

Harris and Marian farmed there until April of 1965. In the fall of that year Marian began working in the principal’s office at the Fergus Falls Senior High School. She worked there until 1971, at that time they moved to Alexandria. Her next employment was at Jefferson Senior High School in Alexandria as a teacher’s aide in the English and Social Studies department. Her job there was discontinued due to government cutbacks in 1982. At that time, Marian became Editor of the Family Pages of the Echo Press in Alexandria until retirement in 1993. She then worked for her niece as the bookkeeper for Professional Real Estate Service in Alexandria from 1993 to 1995 when she once again retired.

Marian enjoyed all her jobs and made many friends no matter where she went. Although Marian and Harris did not have any children of their own, she loved her nephews and nieces.

Marian was preceded in death by her husband, Harris Iverson, her sister, Florence Stock, her parents, as well as a nephew, Bob Stock.

She is survived by her sister-in-law, (Harris’s sister), Violet Lien of Moorhead, as well as 23 nieces and nephews and many, many great and great-great nieces and nephews, maybe even some great-great-great nieces and nephews.

Marian’s wish was to be buried near the farm, “Being buried near the farm means a lot to me as I’m a country girl at heart”.

Memorials preferred to Western Presbyterian Church Cemetery Fund.

Visitation: Visitation and coffee fellowship will be held one hour prior to the service at the funeral home
Service: 10:30 am Saturday, June 21, 2014, Olson Funeral Home Chapel, Fergus Falls
Clergy: Father Alan Wielinski
Interment: Western Presbyterian Cemetery, rural Fergus Falls
Funeral Home: Olson Funeral Home, Fergus Falls