Torger C. Soma
1906 - 1955 (49 years)
Person ID: I2889 "Hessevaag-Bakke" | Last Modified: 25 Feb 2021
1912 - 1991 (79 years)
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Name Torger C. Soma Gender Male Birth 8 Feb 1906 Griggs County, North Dakota, USA 
Died 2 Jul 1955 Griggs County, North Dakota, USA 
Torger C Soma Buried Westley Cemetery, Cooperstown, Griggs County, North Dakota, USA 
Notes - RITES HELD TUESDAY FOR TORGER SOMA, KILLED IN PLANE CRASH SATURDAY
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon in Trinity Lutheran Church for Torger G. Soma, 49, who was killed Saturday morning when his plane crashed six miles south and a mile west of Cooperstown. [1]
- RITES HELD TUESDAY FOR TORGER SOMA, KILLED IN PLANE CRASH SATURDAY
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Family
Wife Inga Njaa (ID:I2885)
b. 2 Feb 1912, Cooperstown, Griggs County, North Dakota, USA
d. 3 Mar 1991, Cooperstown, Griggs County, North Dakota, USA (Age 79 years) Marriage 17 Jun 1930 Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota, USA Children + 1. Jergen Soma (ID:I2890)
b. 9 Jan 1931, Cooperstown, Griggs County, North Dakota, USA
d. 27 May 2019, Cooperstown, Griggs County, North Dakota, USA (Age 88 years)+ 2. Georgine Constance Soma (ID:I2891)
b. 27 Jun 1934, Cooperstown, Griggs County, North Dakota, USA
d. 27 Feb 2005, Fargo, Cass County, North Dakota, USA (Age 70 years) -
Event Map
Birth - 8 Feb 1906 - Griggs County, North Dakota, USA 
Marriage - 17 Jun 1930 - Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota, USA 
Child - Jergen Soma - 9 Jan 1931 - Cooperstown, Griggs County, North Dakota, USA Child - Georgine Constance Soma - 27 Jun 1934 - Cooperstown, Griggs County, North Dakota, USA Died - 2 Jul 1955 - Griggs County, North Dakota, USA 
Buried - - Westley Cemetery, Cooperstown, Griggs County, North Dakota, USA = Link to Google Earth 
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Source Citations
- [FIND-A-GRAVE] Find a Grave, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92402557/torger-c-soma.
RITES HELD TUESDAY FOR TORGER SOMA, KILLED IN PLANE CRASH SATURDAY
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon in Trinity Lutheran Church for Torger G. Soma, 49, who was killed Saturday morning when his plane crashed six miles south and a mile west of Cooperstown. He was well known as a large-scale farmer and road construction contractor.
Mr. Soma, who owned several sections of land frequently used the airplane for visit land holdings and to check on construction crews, had been spraying fields Saturday morning.
After finishing, he flew to a nearby road, where his construction crew was working. Witnesses said he apparently tried to turn at a low altitude and the plane stalled and crashed as it started into a spin.
Soma was killed instantly and the plane was demolished. The crash occurred about a mile and a half from the farm where he was born.
A lifelong resident of this community, Mr. Soma was born February 8, 1906, and attended local schools and NDAC.
He married Inga Njaa June 17, 1930, at Moorhead, Minnesota. They farmed south of Cooperstown until two years ago, when they moved into town. He was president of the Farmers Oil Company of Cooperstown at the time of his death, and had served on the district school board and the town board.
He leaves Mrs. Soma; his mother, Mrs. Gina Soma, Cooperstown; two sons, Jergen, on the home farm and David at home; four daughters, Mrs. Earl (Georgine) Lynnes, Walcott, ND, and Margaret, Karen and Carla at home; four brothers, Ingvald, Jonas and Omund of Cooperstown and Oscar of Finley; and five sisters, Mrs.Nettie Pickett, Burbank, CA, Mrs. Carl O. Johnson, Cooperstown, Mrs. Carl Jordahl, Lidgerwood, ND, Mrs. Ray Campbell in Oregon and Mrs. E. H. Vermiluyea, Cottonwood, MN.
Burial was at Westly church cemetery south of Cooperstown.
Published in the Griggs County Sentinel-Courier, Cooperstown, North Dakota, July 7, 1955.
Submitted by Dennis C. Olson #48363213