Frank Wilmer Martinson 
Frank Wilmer was born on March 25th, 1905 in Hilton Township, Iowa Co., IA.1 Frank Wilmer's father was Knud W. Martinson and his mother was Ellen Larson. His paternal grandparents were Martin Martinson and Annie Peterson; his maternal grandparents were Elling Larson and Berta Thostenson. He had four brothers and four sisters, named Martin Knud, Edwin, Carl Elmer, Leonard Theodore, Bertha Malinda, Anna Mathilda, Alma Charlotte and Edvena Bertina. He was the youngest of the nine children. He died at the age of 94 on November 21st, 1999 in West Branch , IA. He was buried on November 24th, 1999 in First Lutheran Cemetery, Hilton Twp., Iowa County.General Notes
Cause of Death:<CAUS> Old age
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Frank W. Martinson, 93, died Saturday November 21, 1998, in
Crestview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, West Brach, after an
extended illness.
Survivors included a son, Edwin and wife Shirley of Center Point;
two daughters, Mary Ellen Sandersfeld and husband Russell of Amana, and
Gloria Burgy of Williamsburg; 13 grandchildren; and 14
great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his wife; a son, Harold Sr.; two
great-grandsons, Todd & Jeffrey Simmons; his parents; four brothers:
Martin, Edwin, C. Elmer and Leonard; and four sisters, Bertha Heitshusen
Feemster, Annie Hummer, A. Charlotte Drummond and Edvena Hunzelman.
Frank Wilmer Martinson was born March 25, 1905, in Hilton Township,
Iowa County, Iowa, the son of Norwegian immigrants Knud and Ellen Larson
Martinson. He received his education in the Center Star & High Prairie
country schools in Iowa County and was among the first to attend Hilton
Consolidated School in Conroy. He married Irene Schwarting August 22,
1927, and the couple farmed east of Williamsburg and then purchased the
farm where they lived the remainder of their lives. Irene preceded him
in death November 24, 1987. Besides farming the majority of his life,
Frank worked at the Colony Village Restaurant in Little Amana for over 20
years. He was a member of First Lutheran Church, rural Conroy, and in
earlier years was a member of the Ladora Saddle Club. He had a great
love of horses and he halter and saddle broke many of them.
Details of Frank Wilmer's family with Irene Katrina Alvine Schwarting
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