Services for BERNARD SONKSEN

Born August 19, 1907
Douglas Twp., Audubon Co., Iowa
Entered Into Rest October 5, 1947 at M.E. Hospital, Omaha
Age 40 years, 1 month, 16 days
Services Held at Trinity Lutheran Church October 8, 1947
Clergyman Rev. William Kanning

Matthew 6, verse 10.
"THY WILL BE DONE IN EARTH,
AS IT IS IN HEAVEN"
"Beloved, "It is well!"
God's way are always right;
And perfect love is o'er them all,
Tho' far above our sight.
Beloved, "it is well!"
The path that Jesus trod,
Though rough and strait and dark it be
Leads home to heaven and God."

Interment Manning Cemetery
Pall Bearers Alfred David, Elmer Noelck, William Ahrendsen, August Jurgens, Emil David, William Noelck

Bernard Sonksen, Audubon Farmer, Taken By Death
Bernard Sonksen, Audubon farmer, died at 8:20 p.m. Sunday in the Methodist Hospital, Omaha, after a two-week illness. He was 40 years old.

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Trinity Lutheran Church, Lincoln Township, with Pastor William D. Kanning officiating. Burial will be in the Manning Cemetery.

Mr. Sonksen was born August 19, 1907, in Douglas Township, Audubon County, a son of Jens and Dorathea (Asmus) Sonksen. He was a lifelong resident of this community.

He was married April 19, 1938, at the Audubon Lutheran Church to Olivene Munksgaard, who survives.

Also surviving are three children: Paul 8; John 4, and Carroll, 4 and one-half months; two sisters; Christine (Mrs. George) Mohr of Audubon and Jessie (Mrs. Arlo) Pfannkuch, Oakland, California; two brothers, Herman of Manning and Julius of Audubon, and his father. His mother died in February 1947.
Carroll Daily Times Herald, October 17, 1947

Bernard Sonksen
Services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Lincoln Township for Bernard died Sunday at a Carroll Hospital. Burial was in Manning Cemetery.

Mr. Sonksen, a farmer and auctioneer, spent most of his life in Lincoln Township. He was president of the Trinity Lutheran Church congregation at the time of his death.

Surviving are his widow and three children; his father, Jens Sonksen of near Manning; two brothers: Herman of near Manning and Julius Sonksen of Audubon; and two sisters: Mrs. George Mohr of Manning and Jessie of California.
Daily Nonpareil, October 9, 1947

Bernard Sonksen is buried in the Manning City Cemetery.
Section D Row #2 south - north.