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Albret resite til Amerika i 1883, 12 år gamal, saman med foreldra og to yngre søsken.
Married Bertha Tomine Hegland. To this union the following children are known to have been born:
1) Ervin Wilhelm Shafland (1902-1997)
2) Sanford Oswald Shafland (28 Feb 1907-5 Jan 1959, buried in the Pacific Lutheran Cemetery, Seattle, Wash.)
3) Lester Benjamin Shafland (4 Dec 1909-28 Apr 2007, buried in Danville, Vermilion Co., Illinois)
4) Irene Bessie Shafland (26 May 1912-)
5) Lydia Eveline Shafland (Mrs. Lester George Schreiber)(1 Apr 1915-)
6) John Pershing Shafland (3 Jan 1919-8 Jan 2002)
7) Berdella Irene Shafland (1905-1911)
Obituary transcribed by Dena Gray-Fisher, source: The Roland Record, Roland, Story County, Iowa, November 6, 1930
"SHAFLAND DIED LAST SATURDAY
FUNERAL HELD YESTERDAY FOR FORMER MAYOR AND BUSINESS MAN
L. Shafland, who conducted a jewelry business in Roland for 38 years, died shortly after noon Saturday at the state hospital at Clarinda, where he had been receiving treatment. Word was received Saturday morning that he was suffering an attack and Mr. and Mrs. Ervin W. Shafland of Des Moines left for Clarinda at once, but he passed away before they arrived. He had been gradually getting worse and the last two weeks was kept in the hospital ward, although he had been able to be up part of the time.
The body was brought to his home here Sunday and the funeral was held yesterday at the residence and at Bergen church, with interment in the Roland cemetery.
Louis Shafland was born in Norway on January 14, 1871, the sixth child of Osmund and Elizabeth Shafland. The greater opportunities that America offered, caused the family to migrate to America when Mr. Shafland was twelve years old.
They came directly to Story county, Iowa, and settled near Cambridge. The financial status of the family made it necessary for Mr. Shafland to hire himself out to whomever had work for a twelve year old lad. He continued working by the month, supporting himself and contributing towards the support of his fast aging parents, until he realized that his possibilities for succeeding were limited for him on the farm.
At the age of twenty years he served an apprenticeship to Axel Masen, a jeweler at Cambridge. Then he came to Roland to practice his recently acquired trade, and opened his place of business here in 1892. His first years in business were filled with not a little success.
On March 7, 1901, he was united in holy wedlock to Miss Berthine Hegland of Roland, and to this union were born seven children. Of these one, Berdella, preceded the father in death. The other children are, Ervin W., resident of Des Moines; Sanford O., student at Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul., Minn., Lester B., student at Luther College, Decorah; and Irene, Lydia and John, at home.
Mr. Shafland enjoyed robust health until 1918 when heart complications became apparent. In 1920 he suffered a first attack of dropsy. The remaining ten years of his life were spent in flighting heart and dropsical complications. In November 1929 his condition became noticeably worse suffering a third attack. Once more his buoyant spirit weathered the storm only to be subjected to another lingering attack in the spring of 1930. From then on his condition alternately was beter and worse, climaxing in his death on November 1, 1930 at 1:15 o'clock p.m., at the age of 59 years, 9 months and 18 days. Until the last he personally held out hope and expectations for his recovery.
A fight against faily health during the last twelve years did not prevent Mr. Shafland from continuing his business. He continued the jewelry business that had become nearly second nature to him, and managed his varied interest with unfaltering and mature judgment up until November 1929. Even then had he not been forced to resort to hospital care he would not have conceded the reins of his business. His confidence in hismself and his ability overcame all obstructions that physical malady could build. Not only did this confidence apply to his business, but in each attack of illness he was bolstered up with a pluck and determination that would not meet defeat, even after doctors had given up hope for his recovery.
His business, which through a period of thirty-eight years standing had enjoyed the goodwill of the surrounding communit and of the wholesale companies with which he had come into contact, was closed out during he summer of 1930 by his sons.
In politics, Louis Shafland had figured throughout the years that he has spent in Roland. He served on the Board of Education, and in 1916 he was elected mayor of Roland and served in that capacity for six years, being elected for three successive terms. During his administration several extensive projects were undertaken, among them the graveling of the streets and the installation of the sewer system. His interest in politics did not cease with his administration as mayor, but continued in a larger field being interested in state and national affairs. He became very active in his support of his various candidates, most of whom he came to know more or less intimately.
Louis Shafland was a professed Christian, a member of Bergen Lutheran church, Roland. His interest in his church was intense, to the extent that his interest had precedence over his business. This lively interest maintained until the last, and this same interest was the motive for the prominent place that was his in church circles.
Besides the widow and the six living children, four brothers and two sisters live to mourn his death. Omund Shefland, a resident of Woodville, Wis.; Chris Shefland, also of Woodville; Ole Shefveland, a pastor at Dalton, Minn.; Mrs. Jones Lewis at Cambridge, and Mrs. Osmund Lewis of Belmond."
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1871 - 1930 (59 år)
