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Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m., April 25 at Rush Family Chapel at Onawa with Evangelist John Lizer officiating. Casket bearers were Russ' grandsons, Brent, Dustin, Russell, Jared and Gavin Lawrenson and Jason and Justin Stevens and Ross Roling. Honorary bearers were granddaughters, Jami Sherer, Courtney Barker, Amanda Weelborg, Melissa Stevens and Emma Roling. Burial was at Solider Valley Cemetery in Pisgah. Visitation was held April 24 at Rush Family Care Service.
Russell Allen Lawrenson was born Jan. 19, 1931 on a farm near Moorhead, the son of Darrell and Edith (Anderson) Lawrenson. His family moved into Moorhead where he was raised and graduated from Moorhead public schools in 1949. His team took third place in the Iowa State Basketball Tournament in 1949.
He and Margaret Guttau were united in marriage Sept. 3, 1950. The couple lived in the Mondamin area where they farmed and raised their five children. He served on the Harrison County Fair Board for 28 years and was a crop adjuster for the Farm Bureau for 33 years. He loved meeting people and the challenges of adjusting. Russ retired after 58 years of farming.
Survivors include his wife Margaret of Mondamin; three sons, Darrell and his wife Lenyce Lawrenson, Ron Lawrenson and Russ Jr. and his wife Susan Lawrenson all of Mondamin; two daughters, Marilyn and her husband Maynard Stevens of Lawrence, Kan., and Rhonda and her husband Ed Roling of Madison, S.D.; 12 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, three sisters, Ethel Mae Wakehouse, Vivian Dunlap and Shirley Lawrenson, who died in infancy.
Rush Family Care Service
1629 Tenth Street
Onawa, IA 51040
712-423-3293
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