Mabel (Bendt) Tobiason, 91, Enid, Okla., formerly of Luverne, died Sunday, March 9, 2003, at Methodist Home.
Services were Thursday, March 13, in Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Christopher Hall officiated. Burial was in Zion Lutheran Cemetery at Fairmont, Okla.
Mabel Bendt was born to Frederick and Mary (Luitjens) Bendt on Aug. 2, 1911, in Luverne. She graduated from Luverne High School in 1929. She then attended beauty school in Sioux Falls, S.D., graduating in 1932. She worked as a beautician in Sioux Falls.
She married Trygve “Trig” Tobiason in 1942 at Luverne. They farmed for several years before moving to the Enid area in 1984.
Survivors include her husband, Trig Tobiason, two sons, Orvin Tobiason, Covington, La., and Darrell Tobiason, Enid; two grandchildren; and one sister, Dora VanWesterhizen, Orange, Calif.
Mrs. Tobiason was preceded in death by one granddaughter, four brothers and two sisters.
Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Methodist Home.
Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
