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History of the Lost Island Lutheran Church Centennial
A detailed history outlines the Lost Island Lutheran Church origins from a 1872 sod house as Our Savior's Norwegian Danish Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, its growth, key pastors, land donations, church building and parsonage, shared ministers with Graettinger, schoolhouse conversion, fires in 1943, and the 1934 dedication of the current church after a severe depression era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lost Island
Jesus
Lost Island Lutheran Church
Our Savior
T.H. Dahl
Knute Thoreson
Norte
Lars Thoreson
Hovda
Halvor Rierson
Flaate
Trondson
Sabjorm Thoreson
Norre
Peter Halverson
Anna Sporan
Lars Thorese
Haakon Thoreson
Hande
Chicago
Holseth
Lost 'Sland
Teller Johnson
J. Roy Beck
C. Stoltz
Simon Thoreson
Gunild Thoreson
Lutheran Church
Ruthven
L.O. Wigdahl
L. J. Hauge
H. Engh
Estherville
St. John's
Depew
Hauge
Ladies Aid
Preser Tillie Rierson
Ristagen
Hans Krohn
Lena Krohn
Ole Larson
Jens Duhn
Tondrue
Man Norris
Samuel Simonson
Trondru
Pastor Hauge
Lars Jondal
Tondru
S. Simonson
P.F. Gull
Emmetsburg
Iowa
J.D. Swalestuen
Engh
Tillie Rierson
Graettinger
Swalestuen
Andrew Sampson
P. F. Gylling
Sam Roseland
Jasper
Minnesota
A. H. Gjevre
Our Church
Cylinder
A.I. Lande
Gjevre
East Graettinger
Merle Hansen
Bear Creek
Grand Meadow
Minneapolis
Clemensen
South Nannut
S.O. Sande
Ottoson
Bode
John Rierson
Isaac Nyborg
Andrew Lande
C. Nyborg
Sande
Seneca
Kossuth
L.O. Wigdah
M. Mandsager
H.C. Holm
Hearst
P.K. Iverson
Chas, Christianson
Martin E. Simonson
A. J. Bonstead
C.J. Lande
Chris Norris
T. W. Harmansen
Spencer Construction Company
Astrup Larsen
George Schubert
Gateway Mission