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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
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 Posted - 27/01/2015 : 08:31:58
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The daughter Laura Odegard's obituary:
Grand Forks Herald (ND) - Thursday, May 20, 1993
Deceased Name: LAURA STEIN
Laura M. Stein, 95, formerly of Grand Forks, died Monday, May 17, 1993, Trinity Medical Center,
Laura Odegard was born Feb. 25, Hillsboro, N.D., the daughter of and Marie Odegard. She attended school in Grand Forks and married Roy Herbert McDonald Dec. 13, 1915, in Crookston. He died May 29, 1922. She married William Stein Oct. 31, 1925. He died Dec. 23, 1945. She worked for Panovitz's Draperies, R.B. Griffith's Department Store and Bill Larson and Co. She later made draperies in her home.
Survivors are her son, Roy James McDonald, Alexandria, Va.; daughters, Jean E. Drake, Alameda, Calif., and Mideyn (Mrs. Leonel), Fontaine, Minot; 11 grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; sister, Alice Watson, Suisan City, Calif.; and brother, Elmer, Grand Forks.
She was preceded in death by daughter, Isabel McDonald; son, William Stein; sister, Hazel Maddock; and brothers, Henry, Albert, and Alvin.
Services: 10 a.m. Saturday in First Presbyterian Church, Grand Forks.
Visitation: 4 to 7 p.m. Friday in Norman Funeral Home, Grand Forks, and one hour before services in the church.
Burial: Nisbet Cemetery, Mallory, Minn. In lieu of flowers, the family prefers memorials to First Presbyterian Church or Nisbet Cemetery Memorial Fund.
Edition: FINAL
Page: 2B
From Marie Halvorson Gystad's second marriage:
ELMER NELSON: Newspaper Obituary and Death Notice
Grand Forks Herald (ND) - Wednesday, March 18, 1998
Deceased Name: ELMER NELSON
Elmer Nelson, 84, formerly of Grand Forks, died Tuesday, March 17, 1998, in Deaconess Health Care Center, Northwood, N.D.
Elmer Albert Nelson was born May 7, 1913, the son of Albert Elmer and Marie (Halvorson) Nelson, in Grand Forks, where he attended school. He married Frances Ann Murphy. He began working for Great Northern Railway in 1943. He retired in February 1975 as an engineer for Burlington Northern Railway. Frances Nelson died in June 1989.
He is survived by sons, Duane (Rita), Eden Prairie, Minn., Richard, Grand Forks, and Dennis (Helen), Thompson, N.D.; daughters, Debbie (Stephen) Rucinski, Grand Forks, and Diane (Phillip) Martin, Gilby, N.D.; 14 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and a sister, Alice Watson, in California.
He was preceded in death by brothers, Albert Odegard and Henry Odegard; and sisters, Laura Stein and Hazel Maddock.
Services: 11 a.m. Thursday, Norman Funeral Home, Columbia Road.
Visitation: 9 a.m. Thursday until time of service in the funeral home.
Burial: Sunnywood Gardens Cemetery.
Edition: FINAL
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Edited by - jkmarler on 27/01/2015 08:37:39 |
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
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7790 Posts |
Posted - 23/03/2015 : 21:37:34
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Originally posted by jwiborg
I contacted Lars E. Øyane, a Luster County Historian who put up the Worth County, Iowa baptism database at Digitalarkivet.
Below is his fantastic reply! 
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"I suspect Anna Halvorsdotter to be born in Skrautvaal, Nord-Aurdal County in Valdres, Norway on Apr. 3, 1856, a twin, daughter of Halvor Haldorson and Marit Olsdotter, then servants at the Gigstad farm.
The 1865 census shows the family as crofters at the Brenden croft under the Dokken farm in Nord-Aurdal."
I hope this helps...
Sincerely yours,
Lars E. Oyane
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Jan Peter
Lars, we wondered how you came to identify this Anne as Anne Sorbo who died in 1905? |
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
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Posted - 23/03/2015 : 21:41:59
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The obituary for Marie Nelson (whose maiden name given variously as Halvorson or Gystad) in the Grand Forks Herald, did not mention any surviving siblings nor her parents's names. The only pertinent detail was that
"...she was born November 28, 1868 and came with her parents to Goodhue County, Minnesota when she was two years old...." |
Edited by - jkmarler on 23/03/2015 21:44:32 |
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searching Anne Halvorsen family
