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- Man, 74, Expires
LACONA - Thorleif Ormasen, 74, of 8503 Smartville Road, a native of Norway, and a former Great Lakes seaman, died Wednesday evening in the House of the Good Samaritan, Watertown, after a long illness.
The funeral will be Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Taylor Vida Funeral Home, Pulaski, with Rev. Ivan Greenfield, pastor of the Sandy Creek United Methodist Church, officiating. Spring burial will be in Wesleyan Cemetery, Boylston.
Friends may call at the funeral home this evening from 7 to 9 and Friday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A Masonic service will be conducted at the funeral home Friday at 8 p.m. Donations may be made to NOCA or NOCHBI.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Edith Ridgeway Ormasen; a son. Walter, a state trooper captain at Haines, Alaska: a daughter, Mrs. Robert (Hilda) Clemens, Pulaski: a brother, Karl, Horten, Norway: three grandsons, four granddaughters, one greatgranddaughter and a niece and a nephew in Norway. A son. Carl, died in 1959.
Born April 24. 1900, at Kongsberg. Nor-way. a son of Claus and Sophie Anderson Ormasen, he came to the United States in- 1922. married Edith Ridgeway of Sandy Creek in 1925 and had since lived in this region.
Mr. Ormasen worked as a seaman on the Great Lakes and for 20 years was employed by the Oswego County Highway Department until retirement in 1962. Since retirement he worked as an antique furniture refinisher.
He was a member of Sandy Creek Lodge 564, F & AM, was a silver star member of the Sandy Creek Grange and also was a member of the Lutheran Church of Norway.
Source: Watertown Daily Times, March 13, 1975
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