Iver A. "Bill" Knudson

Iver A. "Bill" Knudson, 77, of Seneca, Kansas, died Tuesday, June 5, 2001, at Stormont Vail Hospital in Topeka. He was injured Friday June 1, 2001, in a car accident at the corner of US Highway 36 and 6th Street in Seneca and transferred from the Nemaha Valley Community Hospital in Seneca to Topeka the same day.
      He was born September 9, 1923, at Zearing, Iowa, the son of Ingebret and Alma Tullberg Knudson. When he was ten years old, the family moved to Poplar, Wisconsin. He attended school in Iowa and in Wisconsin. During World War II, on May 26, 1943, he was inducted into the US Army. He was discharged February 16, 1946. He served in the U.S. as an airplane engine mechanic.
     On July 23, 1946 he married Vera Phillips at Sts. Peter & Paul Church in Seneca, Kansas. She survives of the home in Seneca. They lived in the Seneca area and Bill worked at the Gambles Store in Seneca. In 1968 they moved to Washington, KS, where they owned and operated a Gambles Store until 1976. They returned to Seneca because of his ill health and built a home at Lake Nemaha south of Seneca. They moved into Seneca in the spring of 1998.
      He was a member of Sts. Peter & Paul Church, the St. Joseph Society at the church, the Knights of Columbus #1769, the Earle W. Taylor Post #21 of the American Legion, and the Seneca Memorial Post #7458 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, all in Seneca. Bill enjoyed fishing, big band music, and had a collection of small trains.
      Survivors besides of wife, Vera, are four sons, Gary Knudson of Mayetta, Kansas; Robert Knudson of Belleville, Kansas; Tom Knudson of Augusta, Kansas; and Eugene Knudson of Seneca; two daughters, Sandy Feldkamp of Aurora, Colorado and Diane Morton of Salina, Kansas; a brother, Adrian Apple of Poplar, Wisconsin; two sisters, Edna Riveland of Fortuna, North Dakota and Inez Carlson of Poplar, Wisconsin; thirteen grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
      He was preceded in death by a brother Curtis Apple.
      The mass of Christian burial will be 10 A.M. Friday at Sts. Peter and Paul Church in Seneca. The burial will be in St. Bede's Church Cemetery at Kelly, Kansas. The rosary will be prayed at the Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca at 7 P.M. on Wednesday and Thursday evening, He will lie in state at the funeral home after 4 P.M. Wednesday.
      Memorials may be given for Sts. Peter & Paul Church and sent in care of the family.