Humboldt County
Historical Association
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Humboldt, Iowa
50548
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Lake Lutheran or Lakeview
Cemetery
Section 23, Lake Township
Lakeview Lutheran Cemetery is on the church site at 3250 190th Street,
County Road C30.
Lake Church was formally
organized with 68 members on May 23, 1891 as the Lake Norwegian
Evangelical Lutheran Church. The church building was built in 1893 for
approximately $1250. It was enlarged in 1917 and again in 1976 to its
present size.
The church has eight sons
of the congregation who have become ministers. One of these, Dr. Kent S.
Knutson, became the second Bishop of the American Lutheran Church from
1971 to 1973. He and his wife Norm are buried in the church cemetery.
The longest serving
pastor was Rev. T. J. Severtson, who served from 1934 to 1973, almost
forty years.