{"id":2280,"date":"2017-01-27T14:02:52","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T20:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2017-02-01T15:44:04","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T21:44:04","slug":"eugene-thorson-clermont-iowa-january-27-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/2017\/01\/eugene-thorson-clermont-iowa-january-27-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Thorson, Clermont, Iowa, January 27, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Eugene Thorson, 91, of Clermont, Iowa died Friday, January 27, 2017<\/strong> at his home in Clermont. Alf Eugene Thorson, the son of Alphie and Myrtle (Lien) Thorson, was born September 30, 1925 on a farm in rural Clermont.\u00a0 He graduated from Clermont High School in 1943.<\/p>\n

Eugene was united in marriage with Anna Bachtell at the Ossian Lutheran Church in 1953.\u00a0 To this union five children, Catherine, Barbara, Pamela, Mark, and Evan, were born.\u00a0 Eugene and Anna farmed outside of Clermont for many years.\u00a0 He retired from farming about three years ago.\u00a0 In addition to farming, Eugene was a substitute rural mail carrier for several years.<\/p>\n

Eugene was a member of the East Clermont Lutheran Church and served on the church council.\u00a0 He was also a board member of the Gunder Cheese Factory.\u00a0 Eugene enjoyed woodworking, going to auctions, and visiting with family and friends.\u00a0 He loved collecting and fixing clocks of all types.<\/p>\n

Eugene is survived by his wife, Anna, of Clermont, Iowa; four children, Catherine Champion of Port Charlotte, Florida; Barbara (Mark) Henry of Port Charlotte, Florida; Pamela (Arnie Luzum) Williams of Fredericksburg, Iowa; and Evan (Christy Fish) Thorson of Clermont, Iowa; ten grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; one brother, Charles (Bona) Thorson of Clermont, Iowa; one sister, Velma Moorhead of Phoenix, Arizona; several nieces and nephews and special family friend, Julie Larson.<\/p>\n

Eugene was preceded in death by his son, Mark Thorson; his parents, Alphie and Myrtle; and one sister, Minerva Bacon.<\/p>\n

Visitation <\/strong>will be Wednesday, February 1, 2017 from 4-7 p.m. at Schutte-Grau Funeral Home in Clermont, Iowa and one hour before services at the church on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Funeral Services<\/strong> will be at 11:00 am on Thursday, February 2, 2017 at the East Clermont Lutheran Church, rural Clermont, Iowa.\u00a0 Rev. Ron Roberts will be the officiant.<\/p>\n

Schutte-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service, Clermont, Iowa is helping the family with the arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eugene Thorson, 91, of Clermont, Iowa died Friday, January 27, 2017 at his home in Clermont. Alf Eugene Thorson, the son of Alphie and Myrtle (Lien) Thorson, was born September 30, 1925 on a farm in rural Clermont.\u00a0 He graduated from Clermont High School in 1943. Eugene was united in marriage with Anna Bachtell at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2306,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[144],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-thorson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}