Obituary - Ella K. Westberg

Area Pioneer Ella Westberg Dies at Age 91

Ella Katherine Westberg, a native of Sweden and long-time resident of the Troy-Moscow region, died yesterday at Paradise Villa of the infirmaties [sic] of age. She would have been 92 on Sunday.

She was born Ella K. Johnson, Sept. 29, 1882, in Sweden. She came to the United States in 1888 with her parents, who first settled in South Dakota. The family moved to Troy about 1905.

Miss Johnson taught school for two years at Cornwall, near Joel, and for one year at Kendrick. She had prepared for a teaching career at Vermillion University in South Dakota, teaching in that state for three years before coming to Idaho with her parents.

She married Carl Westberg at Troy in 1910. He died in 1927. Six sons and one daughter were born to the couple. The Westbergs had a farm in the Aspendale area southeast of Moscow. Mrs. Westberg kept the farm and family together during the hard times after her husband's death. Mrs. Westberg lived in Moscow for a number of years before moving to Paradise Villa. She was a member of the United Church of Moscow and a former member of the Aspendale Club.

She is survived by six sons, Wilbur, Carl, Glen and John Gordon, all of Moscow; Raymond and Clinton of Pullman; a daughter Helen (Mrs. Glenn) Lynam, Albuquerque, N.M.; a sister, Mrs. Ethel Dodge, Priest River; 21 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

The funeral will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at Short's Chapel with burial to follow at Burnt Ridge Cemetery near Troy.

The family suggests memorials to the charity of the donor's choice.

Unknown newspaper, (handwritten date September 1974)
Transcribed by Jill Leonard Nock

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