Ethelyn May Erickson

Ethelyn May Erickson was born May 27, 1914, to Jens P. and Mathilda Nelsen Wyrum. Her parents were born in Denmark and immigrated to the United States. Ethelyn's mother was a homemaker and helped with the farm work. Her father was a farmer who came here to work and met his wife in the States. One of Ethelyn's favorite memories growing up was all the friends she had at school. She loved playing sports and was captain of the basketball team. Ethelyn graduated from Alden High School in 1933. She married Elmer L. Erickson on October 14, 1938. Ethelyn was self-taught and worked as a bookkeeper at both the Conger and Alden grain elevators. Survivors include her husband, Elmer of Buffalo; her daughter, Marie Anthony Sunlitis of Buffalo, MN; her son, Edward Barbara Erickson of Houston, TX; granddaughters: Nancy Kalke of Minneapolis, Charlene Thomas McDonnell of Buffalo, and Karen Russell Point, also of Buffalo; great-grandchildren: Karin and Philip Rossin, Jack and Andrew McDonnell, and Kandace, Joseph, and Erickson Point; sister, Lydia Erickson of Lake Mills, IA; sisters-in-law, Glayds Weyrum of Alden and Lillian Wyrum of Albert Lea; and many nieces and nephews. Ethelyn was preceded in death by her parents; brothers: Oscar N, Weirum, Marshall E. Wyrum, Arndt E. Weyrum, Jens P. Wyrum, Jr., and Russell L. Wyrum; and sisters, Olga C. Bjorklund and Marjorie A. Beiber. Ethelyn was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. We will all miss her very much.