105.08
Cross
1875 Approximate
Vivian Church Cross. Material: wood. Size: Description: white painted wooden cross - on back in pencil: "Cross from Vivian Lutheran Church so. [southeast] of Waldorf, Otto Arnoldt and Dick Sandberg" - this church identified as the St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Waldorf.
Wooden cross from the steeple of "Vivian" Lutheran Church St. John's Evangelical Lutheran) southeast of Waldorf on County Road 64 at 45th Street; church has been removed but small cemetery remains. This was retrieved by Dick Sandberg. Dick was born in 1934. The church was razed by Otto F. Arnoldt, year unknown. Mike Schlie of Janesville has the bell from the church. Dick Sandberg was on the Waseca County Historical Society Board of Directors from 1961 - 1979, Vice President of the Board in 1972 and 1973.