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Sterling Alvin Gunnar Knudson

23 Nov 1906 – 16 Feb 1991

Birth23 Nov 1906
Death16 Feb 1991
CemeterySunset Memorial Gardens
Minot , Ward County , North Dakota , USA
Added byDebraD. on 21 May 2016
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Sterling A. Knudson, 84, Minot, died Saturday in his home. He was born on November 23, 1906, at Beardsley, Minnesota, to Claus and Emma Knudson. When he was 3, he came with his family when they homesteaded south of Minot. They returned to Beardsley a few years later and he grew up there. He graduated from the cadet school program in the high school at Augsburg College, Minneapolis, and then attended college at Augsburg, the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and Minot State University for a total of three years. After his college years, he returned to Beardsley and began working as an agent for State Farm Insurance. He came to Minot in 1929 to work with his father, who owned and operated a State Farm agency . He later assumed operation of the agency and continued to operate the business at 715 N. Broadway until his death. He had been with State Farm for more than 60 years. He married Hattie B. Erickson, in 1939. She died in 1980. He married Audrey Dreyer Bjornson November 28, 1981, in Minot. He was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church, Minot, and the Minot Elks Lodge. Survivors include: wife; daughter, Cheri Crankshaw, Minot; step-sons, David Bjornson, Barnesville, Minnesota, Allen Bjornson, Minot; one granddaughter; several step-grandchildren and step- great grandchildren; sister, Eunice Iverson, Minnetonka, Minnesota; brothers, Clarence, Minneapolis, Arthur, San Pedro, California, Elrie, Harris, Minnesota. Funeral services were held on Tuesday in the Zion Lutheran Church, Minot. MINOT DAILY NEWS, Monday, February 18, 1991, page A5, column 1.

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