Arlo Ivan Kolden

Name: Arlo Ivan Kolden Dates: Birth date: August 3, 1926 Death date: November 25, 2011 Obituary: Arlo Ivan Kolden, 85, formerly of Vienna, died peacefully Friday evening in Sioux Falls. Visitation will be on Tuesday, November 29, 2011 from 5-7 PM at Arne-Weerts Funeral Home in Clark. Funeral Services will be held on Wednesday, November 30, 2011 at 11:00 AM at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Vienna with Pastor David Larson officiating. Dorothy Fuller will be the organist. Visitation at the church will start at 10:00 AM Burial will follow at Pleasant Lutheran Cemetery of rural Vienna with the American Legion Johnny Fonken Post 113 out of Willow Lake, performing military graveside rites. Pallbearers will be Dale Peterson, Gary Kolden, Les Kolden, Dan Brenden, Eric Brenden and Brad Terhark. Arlo Ivan Kolden was born on August 3, 1926 in Foxton Township, Clark County to Magnus & Agnes (Steen) Kolden. He attended grade school in Foxton Township, one year at Naples High School then graduated from Clark High School in 1944. Arlo was drafted into the US Army in 1945 and served over in Germany. After his military service he started farming. Arlo loved farming and the farm life so much that he did it his whole life. Arlo married Theresa Smith on March 20, 1948 in Vienna. Some of the activities Arlo enjoyed were playing cards, shooting pool, shooting gophers, drinking coffee and conversing with people. He loved to have company come over and to speak Norwegian whenever he could. Arlo took two trips to Norway during his lifetime. He was a life member of the Vienna American Legion #277, Present member of the Clark American Legion, Member of Lutheran Brotherhood, N.F.O, in which he held many offices in the local organizations, and current member of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Vienna; in which he was in the choir there as well as Pleasant Lutheran Church choir. Arlo is survived by his wife Theresa of Sioux Falls; son, Randy Kolden of Sioux Falls; brothers, Merle (Joanne) Kolden of Wallace, Lee (Alice) Kolden of Lake Preston and Milo (Janice) Kolden of Clark, numerous nieces, nephews and cousins in this country as well as in Norway. Arlo is preceded in death by his parents, a sister, Mavis Porter, a brother-in-law, Vincil Porter and a sister-in-law, Lucille Kolden. Back