Mrs. C. Andrews, Viborg Pioneer, Dies Here at 77
Mrs. Christina Murie Andrews, 77, who had been residing with her daughter, Mrs. C. H. Dickey of Rt. 4, died Tuesday morning at the residence following an illness of over five years.
Funeral services have been set for 1 p.m. Thursday at the Miller Funeral Home with the Rev. Robert Emmons officiating. Mrs. C. B. Van Ausdall will be organist. Burial will be at the Viborg Baptist churchyard cemetery.
Mrs. Andrews was one of the last two pioneers who had homesteaded in a sod house near Viborg about 1880. She was born March 17, 1873, at Chicago and came to South Dakota with her parents when she was a small child.
The former Christina Murie Olsen married her husband, Nels C. Andrews, who died in 1933, on May 16, 1895, at Viborg. She was a member of the Baptist church.
After her marriage, Mrs. Andrews moved to Irene in 1899, where her husband was in the lumber business. In 1918, the coupled moved to St. Cloud, Minn., where Mr. Andrews was also engaged in the lumber business, and on to Canton, S.D., in 1925, where Mr. Andrews published a newspaper. They came to Sioux Falls in 1931.
Survivors include three daughters, Mrs. C. H. Dickey of Rt. 4, Mrs. L. M. Stewart of Tacoma, Wash., and Mrs. E. O. Akerson of Wayzata, Minn.; one son, Newell C. Andrews, San Mareno, Calif.; four grandchildren, and one brother, Arthur R. Olsen, of Sioux Falls.
Source: The Daily Argus-Leader, Sioux Falls, SD
Wednesday, July 5, 1950
Submitted by: Turner County Coordinator
