{"id":1139,"date":"2019-04-25T15:46:33","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T15:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2019-04-25T15:46:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T15:46:33","slug":"albert-w-carlson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/albert-w-carlson\/","title":{"rendered":"Albert W. Carlson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MERRIMAC \u2013 Albert W. Carlson, 90, loving husband of Charlotte (Sedlmaier) Carlson, passed away on Saturday, April 6<sup>th<\/sup>, 2019 at his home, surrounded by his family.\u00a0 Born in Boston, he is the son of the late Ingvald and Elsie (Nyren) Carlson.<\/p>\n<p>Albert grew up in East Boston and was a graduate of East Boston High School. Before moving to Merrimac, he resided in Lynn from 1964 to 2004.\u00a0 He is a proud veteran, having served in the United States Army during the Korean War.\u00a0 Albert is a member and Past President of the American Legion Post 291 in Lynn and the German American Club of the North Shore.\u00a0 For 47 years, Albert worked for Liberty Mutual Insurance Company.\u00a0 He enjoyed Irish music, dancing, sports and puzzles. Albert had a great sense of humor and will be remembered for funny jokes he would tell.\u00a0 Albert and his wife traveled all over the United States.\u00a0 He was also an active member of the Messiah Lutheran Church in Lynnfield.\u00a0 Above all, Albert was a loving and devoted family man, who will truly be missed.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his wife of 65 years, Charlotte, he is survived by children: Harald Carlson of Sandwich and Sonja Carlson of Easton, PA, Rolf Carlson and his husband Stephen Gilman of Boston, Kurt Carlson and his wife Cindi of Waltham, Sandra Carlson of Methuen; a brother: Carl Carlson of Birmingham, AL; four grandchildren, for whom he was a surrogate father: Victoria, Aaron, Lucas and Amelia Lustenberger; ten additional loving grandchildren: Kristin, Karin, Andrew, Colin, Sean, Brendan, Shannon, Kurt, Brian and Abigail; ten great grandchildren, fifteen nieces and nephews and several cousins including Edith Sundquist of Chelmsford. He is predeceased by his sisters Lillian Gray and Caroline Midgette and his brother Walter Carlson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MERRIMAC \u2013 Albert W. Carlson, 90, loving husband of Charlotte (Sedlmaier) Carlson, passed away on Saturday, April 6th, 2019 at his home, surrounded by his family.\u00a0 Born in Boston, he is the son of the late Ingvald and Elsie (Nyren) Carlson. Albert grew up in East Boston and was a graduate of East Boston High [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ma","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comeaufuneral.com\/2025-1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}