Severt
Engevik, 87
St.
Paul - Severt Engevik, 87, died Friday, June
29, 2001 at Lyngblomsten Care Center in St. Paul.
Funeral
services will be held at 11:30 a.m. on Friday, July
6, at Holcomb-Henry-Boom North Chapel in Shoreview.
Interment will be in Fort Snelling National
Cemetery in Minneapolis with Holcomb-Henry-Boom
Funeral Home in charge of the
arrangements.
Severt
Edward Engevik was born on August 21, 1913, at his
parents' home in Veldt township of Marshall county,
the son of Elias E. and Josephine (Droen) Engevik.
He attended elementary school at a country school
near Gatzke and two years of high school at the
Northwest School of Agriculture in Crookston. He
graduated from Middle River High School in 1934.
From 1936 to 1942, Severt managed Cities Service
Gas Station in Gatzke. In 1942, he was inducted
into the U.S. Army. He took is basic training at
Fort Leonardwood, Missouri before being transferred
to Randolph Field in San Antonio, Texas where he
was a link trainer instructor for most of the
remainder of the war. After being discharged in
1945, he returned to Gatzke where he worked as a
rural mail carrier for a few years. Severt then
moved to Minneapolis where he was in real estate
sales and also worked for the Minneapolis Public
Works Department.
On
July 8, 1980, he married Ruth Craig, and the couple
lived in the Mora area during
retirement.
During
his last years, he resided at Lyngblomsten Care
Center in St. Paul with his nieces, Carol Kelsey
and Judy Rakestraw providing his primary support.
Severt
is survived by two brothers, Rueben (DeLoris) and
Bernard (Blanche); a sister-in-law; and several
nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his
wife, Ruth; a brother, Ervin; and three sisters,
Annette Nornes, Evelyn Moore and Alice Engevik.
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