Funeral services for Asle Skattum will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 7, at St. Catherine Catholic Church in Luverne with the Rev. Andrew Beerman officiating. Burial will be in St. Catherine Catholic Cemetery, Luverne. Visitation is from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, in Engebretson Funeral Home in Luverne and will resume one hour prior to the funeral mass at the church on Friday.
Asle Ole Skattum, 92, Luverne, formerly of Hills, died Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2001, In Luverne Community Hospital.
Asle Skattum was born to Oliver Marius and Minnie (Sjolseth) Skattum on May 14, 1909, on the family farm in Lyon Township, Lyon County, Iowa. He attended Hills Public School for 12 years and then worked on the family farms for 10 years.
He married Rose Ann McDermott of Beaver Creek on Aug. 2, 1940, at St. Catherine Catholic Church in Luverne. Following their marriage they lived in Fullerton, Calif., until 1941 and then made their home in Sioux Falls, S.D., where he worked at Zip Feed Mills.
He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1945. Following his tour of duty with the Master Corps in Austria he resumed his life in Sioux Falls working at Zip Feed Mills until 1947 when they moved to Hills.
He purchased the Hills Feed Mill. In later years he was co-owner of a trucking and excavating company in Hills, owned his own trucking business, farmed the family farms with his brother, Donald (Toby) Skattum, owned a fertilizing business, then worked at the Hills Co-op Elevator until his retirement in the 1970s. They continued to live in Hills until they moved to Luverne in 1997. He entered Mary Jane Brown Good Samaritan Center in April 1999. Mrs. Skattum died Aug. 26, 2000.
Mr. Skattum was a member of St. Catherine Catholic Church in Luverne where he was also a member of the Knights of Columbus. He was a 54-year member of the American Legion Post #399 of Hills and was on the Hills City Council. He enjoyed gardening and taking care of his lawn. He also enjoyed fishing in his earlier years.
Survivors include two sons, Roger (Donna) Skattum, Edgewood, Iowa, and their children, Laura (Mark) Boomgaarden, Prior Lake, and Tom Skattum, Chicago, Ill., and Paul (Jeanne) Skattum, Rochester, and their children, Meghan and Joshua, Rochester; two brothers, Wendell (Teddy) Skattum, Deerwood, and Mark (Jeanette) Skattum, Denver, Colo.; and a sister-in-law, Harriet Skattum, Hills.
Mr. Skattum was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Rose Ann, two brothers, Orlando and Donald Skattum, and three sisters, Myrtus Earl, Marie Johnson and Sylvia Godfrey.
Engebretson Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.