John and Anna Elizabeth (Olson) Swenson Aas
John Swenson Aas was born in Tydal Norway on April 8, 1836. His parents were Sven Jonsen Hilmo b.1809 and Elizabeth Olsdatter Aas b.1805. In 1860 at the age 24 he was united in marriage to Anna Lisbet Ingebrigtsdatter, who was
born in Tydal, Sor Trondelag, Norway on September 26, 1837 to Gidsken Hansdatter Brendåstrøa and Ingebrigt Olsen Aas. After their marriage they lived in Tydal on the Aas Farm. In the 1865 census for Norway they were living on the Aashaugen (øvre) Gård with their 3 sons and Anna’s parents. Before leaving their native land the name Aas was added to their name. In 1866 they immigrated to this country with their three sons, Ole, Sam, and Engebright. The ocean voyage was rough but with their strong faith and trust in God they come to Lansing, Iowa where they resided until 1874. They then moved to Lake Park, Minnesota and lived there a short time before coming to Flom Township, Norman County.
Here they homesteaded in Section 32 where they lived the rest of their life. A daughter Lena was born in this country.
John Swenson was an ardent pioneer worker with a strong and rugged constitution. As time progressed he built a home for his family, and then helped build a church. Before the church was built, they held services in their homes, often without a pastor. A pastor was called to serve their new church. With the coming of more settlers it was easier for Anna, his wife, to get together with other women to help sew, and shoulder each other's trials and hardships, of which there were many.
The Indians settled there also, and when treated kindly, proved to be friendly neighbors. Anna was the first Ladies Aid President of the Immanuel Church in 1880. A group of ladies from the surrounding neighborhood came in lumber wagons, walked, and carried their children, or pushed them in pushmobiles to the Swenson home. Mrs. John Nysetvold was secretary-treasurer, with Reverend Nykrem as their pastor. The first twenty-five cents was given by John Homervick of Lake Park, Minnesota. From this time the Ladies Aid met regularly at homes and school houses. The afternoons were spent knitting, crocheting and quilting. These articles later were sold and the money used to further the work of the Ladies Aid.
John's and Anna's eldest son Ole, born in 1859, never married and died at an early age in 1896.
Sam, born in 1861, married Josephine Skofstad. They had five sons, Ernest, Clarence, Arthur, Sidney and Orin and one daughter Edith. Sam died in 1930,
Lena, born in 1877, married Edward Syverson of Ulen, Minnesota. They lived in St. Paul, Minnesota and had one daughter, Evelyn. Lena died in 1944. Engebrigt (Ed), was born September 1, 1865. His boyhood days were spent in Lansing, Iowa and Lake Park, Minnesota, where he began confirmation instructions. Later they moved to Flom Township where he continued his instruction, but often had to walk from Flom to Lake Park crossing the Buffalo River to get there. He was a member of the first confirmation class held in Ulen, Minnesota in 1881. It took place in Arne Evan's log cabin located on a farm on the river bank a short distance northwest of Ulen. As a boy, Engebrigt and his brothers made friends with the Indians. The Indians would often pitch their tents on the farm and come to the house to ask for food. Most of them were friendly and when the boys' parents went for supplies, which sometimes took several days, they visited with the Indians.
Engebrigt (later known as Ed) returned to Norway because of ill health, but came back in 1902 and was united in marriage to Katherine Veum. Katherine was born in Aurland, Norway March 14, 1884. She was the eldest daughter of Torsten and Ann Veum. Katherine came from a family of five girls and three boys. She was sixteen years old when she came to America with an uncle, aunt, and cousins. She worked for some of her cousins until her marriage to Ed. They made their home with Engebrigt's parents and cared for them. Engebrigt's father reached the age of ninety-eight lacking only ten days of his ninety-ninth birthday. He died in 1935 and Anna in 1923. Katherine and Ed had nine children. Mrs. Eddie (Anna) Erickson of Twin Valley, Minnesota, Mrs. Art (Cora) Olson of Santa Cruz, California, John of Ulen, Minnesota, Mrs. Victor (Mabel) Brabender, Mrs. William T. (Selma) Meyer, and Arnt all of Moorhead, Minnesota. Lawrence of Twin Valley, Minnesota. Norman of Dilworth, Minnesota and Mrs. Lester (Alpha) Gunnerson of Ada, Minnesota.
Katherine was a very devoted and busy mother, bringing up a large family, canning, sewing, knitting, and helping with outdoor chores, besides being a good friend and concerned neighbor. She was active in church work, the president of her Ladies Aid, and on many committees. In 1943 Katherine and Ed retired from the farm and moved to Moorhead, Minnesota. Their oldest son, John, bought the farm: and he and his wife Bernice, still live there. After moving to Moorhead, Katherine received her Life Membership from the Womens Missionary Federation of the N.I.C.A. In 1952 they celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary with an open house at the Immanuel Church, where they were Charter Members. Ed Swenson died March 29, 1956 at the age of ninety-one. Katherine lived alone doing little favors for friends and her children. She loved to help others and this is what made her most happy. In 1967, she became ill and spent some time in the hospital. After that, she was unable to live alone and is now residing at the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home in Twin Valley.
Martinus Larsen and Anna Maria (Larsen) Aasgaard
Martinus was born in Stange, Hedmark, Norway on April 29, 1858. He was the son of Lars Jensen Oerbaek Aasgaard, born February 18, 1830 in Eidsvold, Akershus, Norway and his wife Marthe Krestine Olsdatter Brohaugh, born September 13, 1830 in Eidsvold, Akershus, Norway.
Pastor James Hulberg wrote the following about the family:
“Lars Jensen and Marthe Krestine Brohaugh Aasgaard came to America from Norway in July 1869. They settled on the farm in Section 7, the Town of Hale, Trempealeau County, WI--later owned by Milo Rongstad.
Lars and Krestine lived in Stange, Prestegjold, Stor Hammer, Norway as prosperous farmers on the Aasgaard Farm. Unlike many in Norway at that time, they had plenty of land and employed servants and laborers. They were content until they heard from some Brohaughs from America of the new-found paradise. One of the Brohaughs was Marte Krestine's brother, a pioneer educator at the Lutheran Seminary located at Red Wing, Minnesota. So they sold their land and prepared to bring their seven children to the new world. When they left Norway, they took the name of the Aasgaard Farm.
They left Oslo on a boat called the "Anna Delieus" and eight weeks later landed in Quebec. The family suffered greatly on the trip from lack of food. One daughter died and had to be buried at sea. From Quebec they took a train to LaCrosse, WI.
Lars had planned to settle in Goodhue County, MN where the land was level and the soil was rich, but in LaCrosse, someone talked them into going to Hale Township in Trempealeau Co. because it looked so much like Norway.
The family had little money and no food, so they left some of their children along the way to work with various farmers. The children worked for room and board and one even got a bonus of a $2 pair of shoes!
After Lars and Krestine were settled, the sent for their children. The Aasgaards found Hale Co. to be very hilly and regretted they hadn't gone to Goodhue Co. Lars walked 130 miles to Red Wing, MN and returned full of gloom because he had not settled there. He also walked to LaCrosse (60 miles) when they needed provisions.”
The siblings of Martinus are as follows:
1-Othilde AASGAARD was born in Eidsvoll Akershus Norway.
2-Jens Larsen AASGAARD was born in Eidsvoll Akershus Norway 1854. Jens died 1950 in California. He married Alette LARSEN Sorlie in Wisconsin, 1877. Alette was born in Eidsvoll Akershus Norway 1860. She was the daughter of Hans F. LARSEN and Ingeborg Maria Andersdatter ROIESTUEN. Alette died 1936 in California. She was a sister of Mrs. Martinus L. Aasgaard (Anna Maria).
3-Olava AASGAARD was born in Eidsvoll Akershus Norway 1856. Olava died 1953. She married Gilbert (Gulbrand) PEDERSON in Albion Trempealeau Wisconsin, 1/29/1874. Gilbert was born in Norway 1852. Gilbert died 1928 in Wisconsin.
4-Ole Larsen AASGAARD was born in Stange Hedmark Norway 1860. He married Brita GRINDE in Twin Valley Minnesota. Brita died 1939 in Minnesota.
5-Inge Marie AASGAARD was born in Stange Hedmark Norway 1863. Inge died 1869 in Anna Delis Ship coming to America.
6-Laura Karen AASGAARD was born in Stange Hedmark Norway 1/16/1865. Laura died 9/28/1938 in Ashland Wisconsin, at 73 years of age. She married Anton Pederson SINRUD in Elk Creek Wisconsin, 11/17/1883. Anton was born in Norway 12/16/1858. Anton died 2/7/1948 in Ashland Wisconsin, at 89 years of age.
7-Mathilde AASGAARD was born in Eidsvoll Akershus Norway 1868. Mathilde died 1893. She married Ole O RONGSTAD.
Lars’ parents were Jens Andersen Korslund b. 1795 and Mari Nielsdatter Oerbaek, b. 1793. Lars had 3 brothers, Niels Jensen Korslund, Bernt Jensen Korslund and Anders Jensen Oerbaek. Lars and his wife Marthe Krestine and their 6 children, Olava, age 13, Laura, age 4, Jens, age 15, Martinius, age 11, Ole, age 9 and Mathilde, age 11 months emigrated from Norway. The landed in Kvebek (Quebec).
Marthe Krestine’s parents are Ole Kristoffersen Brohaugh b. about 1808 and Berthe Olea Jensdatter, b. 1811. Marthe’s mother died when she was six years old. Her father then remarried to Karen Andersdatter Langseth in 1838. They had 8 children, with one dying at a young age. Karen died in 1861. In 1869, Ole and his 7 surviving children from his second marriage immigrated to America. They left in April 23 and arrived in New York City on May 17th on the ship “Alepo”. From New York they traveled on to Red Wing, Minnesota, the last stage of the journey being made by river steamboat. The family lived in Red Wing for about a year. Ole then purchased an 80 acre farm near the village of Esdaile, in Pierce County, Wisconsin, just across the river from Red Wing.
Martinus came to the United States in 1869 at the age of 11 years with his parents and siblings and settled in Arena in Dane County, Wisconsin, where he worked for fifteen years. The name Aasgaard, comes from the Aasgaard Farm in Stange in Hedmark, Norway, where the family lived before they immigrated to America.
The name Aasgaard means "farm by the creek" in Norway is located north of Oslo near Lake Mjosa, the largest lake in Norway.
He was married in Wisconsin and in April of 1885, to Anna Maria Larsen, b. 12/12/1863 in Eidsvold, Akershus, Norway. Her parents were Hans F. Larsen, b. about 1804 in Eidsvold, Akershus, Norway and Ingeborg Maria Andersdatter Roiestuen, b. about 1809 in Eidsvold, Akershus, Norway. They came to America in 1867 and homesteaded near the town of Garfield, in Jackson County, Wisconsin. Anna Maria’s siblings are as follows:
1-Julia LARSEN was born in Eidsvold, Akershus, Norway. She married Ludwig PERSON.
2-Albert LARSEN. He married Sena SNEVE.
3-Christian LARSEN was born in Eidsvold, Akershus, Norway. He married Cleante JOHNSON.
4-Lewis LARSEN was born in Eidsvold, Akershus, Norway. He married Ingeborg.
5-Indiana LARSEN was born February 8, 1854 in Eidsvold, Akershus, Norway. She married Andrew MOEN.
6-Alette LARSEN Sorlie was born in Eidsvoll Akershus Norway 1860. Alette died 1936 in California. She married Jens Larsen AASGAARD in Wisconsin, 1877. Jens was born in Eidsvoll Akershus Norway 1854. He was the son of Lars Jensen Oerbaek AASGAARD and Marthe Krestine Olsdatter BROHAUGH. Jens died 1950 in California.
Martinus and his wife,Anna Maria, moved to Minnesota. All their worldly possessions were represented by fifty dollars in cash. His brother Ole, had come to Norman County before him and was teaching school in Home Lake Township, School District No. 44. He was rooming at the John Homelvig farm to which Martinus and his bride came with a rented team of horses and wagon. He returned the team to Ada, making the trip back on foot: twenty six miles largely covered by swamps and water. In the spring of 1886 Martinus Aasgaard homestead one hundred and sixty acres of land in Section 26, Home Lake Township; and in 1898 he bought forty adjoining acres to increase his holding. He was granted ownership in October of 1892. He carried out an extensive series of improvements, including new building, the erection of fences and the setting out of groves. One well known feature of the farm was a well built round barn. In those days farmers had no cream separators so they took their milk to a creamery to be separated--sold the cream and took the skim milk back home with them. In 1891 a creamery was established in Home Lake Township. It was located north of what was known as Home Lake--the only lake in Norman County. Martinus Aasgaard and Anton Lerud helped organize this creamery and were stockholder. A few years later this creamery was sold to the Twin Valley Creamery Association and they moved the building to a site north of Twin Valley where it operated for many years. Mr. Aasgaard helped organize School District No. 16 in 1886--to serve the children living farther south in the township. A new building was put up for $55--the lumber cost $278.18 and M. Aasgaard painted it for $5. Martinus was the first clerk of the school board of District No. 16 and held that position for several years. He was a life long member of Wild Rice Synod Church and served the congregation as
trustee for several years. He died in 1904 at the early age of forty six years.
The first year in Home Lake Township was one of hardships; credit was difficult to obtain and money was still more difficult to secure.
Lawrence, the oldest of their nine children, was born at this time (1885). He grew up to the life of a farmer and in 1909 bought a farm of his own in Home Lake Township and married Hannah Albertson. Both are now deceased. They had six children.
Inez, the second child of Martinus and Maria, was born in 1887. She was married to Warner Johnson and they had five children. They also farmed in Home Lake Township and are now deceased. (See Warner and Inez Johnson)
Mina was born in 1891 and was married to Ole Nysetvold, a contractor and builder, and they lived in Twin Valley. They are now deceased. To their union eleven children were born.
Oliver was born in 1893 and he stayed at home and helped his mother farm until he died in 1922.
Almer was born in 1895. He was drafted to serve in the first World War and gave his life for his country in France.
Julia was born in 1897. She married Sidney Aamoth and they had two children. He died and later she married John M. Bentley and they had two daughters. Julia died and John has died also.
Clarence was born in 1900 and was killed in an accident in 1928.
Two sons died in infancy, Phillip b.1903 and Joseph b.1889. They are buried in Wild Rice Cemetery.
The Aasgaard's were esteemed people in the community and were interested in the welfare of their family and were sympathetic to the needs of their neighbor's. Often, in the absence of a doctor, an undertaker, or a pastor, Martinus acted in those capacities, doing the best he knew how to show concern for his fellow man.
Martinus and Anna Maria are buried in Wild Rice Lutheran Church Cemetery.
Ole Larsen and Brita (Grinde) Aasgaard
Ole was born in Stange, Hedmark, Norway on January 29, 1860. He was the son of Lars Jensen Oerbaek Aasgaard, born February 18, 1830 in Eidsvold, Akershus, Norway and his wife Marthe Krestine Olsdatter Brohaugh, born September 13, 1830 in Eidsvold, Akershus, Norway. Ole came to America with his parents and siblings in 1869. He was a brother to Martinus L. Aasgaard. He first lived with his family at Whitehall, Wisconsin. He was educated in the schools at Beloit, Wisconsin and later attended Beloit college and the Luther college at Decorah, Iowa. He moved to Norman County in 1885.
The first teacher in Home Lake Township was Ole Aasgaard who received $105 for a three month term. The school year was divided into two terms: the first starting about March 10 and running to the first part of June--and the second from November first to the middle of January. Spelling, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, grammar, and history were taught., he also clerked in a general store in Twin Valley when he was not teaching and children loved to have him wait on them because he gave such generous helpings of candy for their pennies. He lived in Twin Valley, MN.
He became a “self made” and “quite thought-provoking” philosopher. He wrote the book, “Fragments of Truth”.
He married Brita E. Grinde on November 25, 1887 at Syre, Minnesota. She was the daughter of Erick O. Grinde and his wife Randi. Brithe was born in Norway and came to America with her parents and brother Ole E. Grinde. She had the following siblings born in Home Lake Township:
1-Andreas Edward Grinde, born March 12, 1883. Never married. He died in 1949 at Ada, Minnesota.
2-Mrs. Syneva Thune
3-Anna Grinde
4-Mrs. Ed (Nettie) Garvick
5-Mrs. Oline Peterson
6-Sigvart
Brita lived in Home Lake Township before her marriage to Ole. They had the following children:
1-Idun, married to Howard Knudson. Lived Fargo, ND.
2-Dagney,was married to Sophus Thompson and lived at Dallas, Texas.
3-Eva, was married to Andrew Roden and lived at Fargo, ND.
4-Erling Leander, was born November 20, 1891 and died on September 15, 1979 at Sacramento, California. Marriage unknown. Had 3 daughters. He served in WW I.
5-Rina, was married to Emil Frederickson and lived at Fargo, North Dakota. She Died ca. 1975. two children.
6-Ole Gifford, d 1966. Marriage unknown – son in Minneapolis and daughter married to one Weber, Casselton.
7-Alma. Lived in Fargo, ND.
In 1918 they moved to Fargo, North Dakota, when he retired from the grain and lumber business in which he had been engaged for a long period of years at Twin Valley, Minnesota and at Tolna and Bremen, North Dakota. He was a member of the First Lutheran Church in Fargo and was buried at Zion Lutheran Cemetery in Twin Valley, Minnesota. Brita died in 1939 and is also buried at Zion Lutheran Cemetery in Twin Valley, Minnesota.
A Horrible Accident
Little Charley Aasland Meets With a Horrible Accident
Such it was that befell Charley, the nine year old son of Tenny Aasland, Friday evening. Mr. Aasland keeps his cow in Rev. Krogstad’s pasture north of town and the boy was bringing the animal home as he had done before, all spring. He had been in the habit of tying the rope by which he led the cow, around his waist and though frequently warned of it’s danger he had the halter tied around him again this evening. After watering at Campbell’s barn and reaching the house occupied by John ‘Hawley, the cow was frightened by a dog and start to run, throwing the lad down. Mrs. Hawley was near enough to attempt stopping the cow when it had run a few rods but she did not succeed. The rope was long enough to clear the boy of the cow’s heels, standing still, but the frightened brute ran the living bundle was tossed up into the air and bounding forward would strike the cows heels to be kicked and trampled upon at every bound. Not far from the start the body of the boy came in contact with the stump of a small tree and though almost sound the stump was broken off, so forcible was the collision. The cow, evidently thinking a dog was at its heels, became more frightened as it ran and instead of running home it took the main road leading southwest and then turned west towards John Boppre’s residence where Mr. Boppre, Ed Gilge and Fred Green succeeded in stopping it and cutting the rope which Ed Gilge did with his teeth. The boy was unconscious. The rope around his waist had drawn tight so it was with difficulty it could be removed. With the exception of a fracture of the scull no bone was broken but the little body was literally thrashed. Sunday night, forty-eight hours after the accident, he moved his eyes for the first time.
Since then sensibility has been gradually returning and Dr. Stuart, who has attended him, say he thinks he will pull through. If he does, and we hope he will and fully recover his activity, the fact is again illustrated that a sound, healthy boy is about as tenacious of life as anything created.
In the obituary for Charley Aasland’s father, Tenny Aasland in 1926, survivors include Charles Aasland and a Mrs. Ed Gilge (remember he is the one who cut the rope from Charley with his teeth).
Martinius and Margretha (Vehle) Agrey
Martinus Agrey was born June 8, 1857 at Ygre, Voss. Norway. His family moved to Big Canoe, lowa and later moved to Goodhue county, Minnesota with his parents,
Erick Larson Brathole and Britta Monsdatter Ygre. Martinus, later known as Martin Agrey, was married to Margretha Vehle, daughter of John Larson Vehle from Voss. Norway, and they then moved to a farm in Flom township four miles north of Flom in the year 1880. At this time no more homesteads were available so they bought this quarter of land.
Their first thoughts were of establishing a church. This was done on the south west corner of the farm and the church was called Bethlehem. Today a small grave yard remains there. Much volunteer labor, Iove and prayer went into the construction and maintenance of this church by the Agrey family.
Seven children were born to this family, namely Edward, Joseph, Anna, Luella. Alfred, Willie and George. This family resided in Flom township for 26 years, and although they were not homesteaders, as they did not prove a claim. they were never-the-less early pioneers who shared the joys, sorrows and concerns of their neighbors.
They left Norman County in 1906 to homestead near Parkside, Saskatchewan. Canada, where each of the five boys settled on individual homesteads. Luella remained in the town of Flom and married Theo Tollefson. and her descendants are in the Detroit Lakes. Minnesota, area. Anna was married in 1910 to Emil Nilson and made her home on the Nils Nilson farm. All the Agrey children have died, but they leave many descendants both in Canada and throughout the United States.
Bert and Esther (Flom) Albertson
Bertinus (Bert) Albertson was born on August 25, 1898 to Nils and Anna (Kvidt) Albertson in Home Lake Township of Norman County on the farm known as the Schultz farm. He had eleven brothers and sisters. He was baptized in the Wild Rice Lutheran church, Twin Valley and confirmed at St. Petri Lutheran Church, Gary, Mn., in 1913. He spent his youth in Home Lakes twp., and Gary, Mn where he attended area elementary school. Bert’s father Nils came from the Bjornefjorden area near Bergen, Norway, his parents were Engebregt and Christi Engebregtsen. His mother Anna, came from the Aurland, Sogn area of Norway, her parents were see: Johannes and Margita (Urdahl) Kvidt.
Esther Palma C. Flom was born on February 13, 1896 in Flom Twp., on the farm now owned by Mark Seeger, She was the daughter of Randi and Simon Flom. Esther had seven brothers and sisters. She was baptized in the Lutheran faith and confirmed on March 28, 1911, by Rev. Vaaler. She grew up in the Flom area and attended rural elementary school. After which she attended Bethesda Nurses Training at Crookston, Mn where she graduated with a degree in nursing in 1917. After which she worked in the hospital until her marriage to Bert.
Bert and Esther were married on March 21, 1925. After their marriage they lived on a farm near Gary, Mn for 15 years before moving to Flom in 1940. Here they settle in section 33 of Flom Twp, their son Sanford lived there later, then Eugene and his family moved there from Flom and it is still occupied and in the family name, by Mary Albertson. Bert and Esther were the parents of two sons, Sanford: See Sanford and DonnaMae Albertson and Eugene; See Eugene and Mary Albertson.
Bert was a trustee of the Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn for many years. Esther worked as a private duty nurse and also worked at the Lutheran Memorial Home. She was very active in church work, the ladies aid and taught Sunday school.
Bert died on July 6, 1962 and Esther on May 1, 1963. They are both buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery, Flom, Mn.
Eugene and Mary (Pederson) Albertson
Eugene Albertson was born on September 9, 1930 to Bert and Esther (Flom) Albertson at Crookston, Mn. He was baptized on September 9, 1930 and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, Mn. He graduated from High School in 1948. After completing his education he went into the military, then came back to this area and farmed. He also drove truck for awhile, but loved milking cows and running his dairy operation.
Mary was born on November 19, 1929 to Johnny and Elizabeth Pederson in Kimbrae, Mn. She was baptized in the Presbyterian Church at Fulda, Mn, Murray Co. in the summer of 1936, and confirmed in 1944 in the Presbyterian church. On April 6, 1952 she was confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn. Mary graduated from High School in 1948 and then went on to attend a Junior College in Worthington, Mn for one year. Mary worked at the Worthington Globe Newspaper after graduation from College, then went to the Worthington Creamery as a switchboard Telephone operator until she married Eugene Albertson.
Eugene entered the military serving in the US Marine Corps. While he was stationed in the service they lived in California. After he completed his military service they returned to this area, first living by Ulen, later moving into Flom and living on the farm known to many as the Brenden Farm. They later moved to the home place in section 33, where Mary still resides. They sold the building site in Flom to Orlando and Norma Lunde who built a new home there.
Eugene died on January 5, 1990 at his home near Flom. Funeral services were held at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn with interment at the church cemetery. At the time of his death Eugene was enjoying retirement and was active in his church and community. He was serving as a Sunday School teacher at Aspelund, of which he was thoroughly enjoying.
Eugene and Mary were the parents of two children; Deborah and Jerald. Deborah "Debbie" was born on November 21, 1955 at the Mahnomen Hospital. She was confirmed at Aspelund in 1970 and graduated from Twin Valley High School. After graduation she attended college at Moorhead Tech and has worked as a secretary and waitress. Debbie married Floyd Burnside of Hawley, Mn and they were the parents to two sons; Toby and Lucas (deceased). Toby is a Diesel Mechanic and Carpenter. Lucas was tragically killed in a accident when a tree fell on him. Lucas died on April 23, 1988 and is buried in Clay County, Hawley, Mn. Floyd and Deborah live in Hawley, Mn.
Jerald was born on October 3, 1956 at Detroit Lakes, Mn. , hospital. He was baptized in November 1956 and confirmed at Aspelund in 1972. He attended school at Twin Valley, Mn and after he completed his education he worked as a truck driver and carpenter. He resides in Moorhead, Mn.
Lester D. and Mazel (Thompson) Albertson
Lester D. Albertson was born in Flom on May 19, 1919, to the Clarence Albertson’s. He was baptized at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom and confirmed at Syre Lutheran Church, Syre, Mn. He grew up in the Twin Valley area. He entered the United States Army on June 28, 1941. Lester served as a Platoon Sergeant in the 772 Tank Battalion of the 7th Army in the Rhineland and central European Campaigns in the Second World War, and was honorably discharges from active duty on October 15, 1945.
Lester married Mazel Thompson on September 1, 1944 at Columbia, South Carolina, and the family moved from Minnesota to Burbank, California in 1953. Lester was a machinist, and in recent years owned and operated a specialty machine shop in Burbank.
Lester passed away on December 24, 1981 in Burbank California. Funeral services were held at the North Church of Forest Lawn Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, Ca, with Military grave side services.
Lester and Mazel were the parents of six children; Nancy (Steve Webber), Bonnie (Thomas D’errico), Bruce, Robert, Mark and Kraig.
Sanford and DonnaMae (Dorseth) Albertson
Sanford Newman Flom Albertson was born on December 11, 1925 in Crookston, Mn. He attended school at Waubun and graduated from Waubun High School. He then went to Concordia College, Mhd., Mn where he studied until he enter the armed services. He served in the Army during WW II, having served in the occupation of Japan.
DonnaMae Dorseth was born on August 17, 1930 to Henry and Viola (Christensen) Dorseth. She grew up in section 29 of Flom Twp. Here she attended country schools; Woodland Nook, Flom School and then went to Waubun, Mn. She was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn.
Sanford and DonnaMae were married on June 1, 1947 at Aspelund Lutheran Church, where they remained members until 1978. They made their home in Flom and Twin Valley until 1978, and during that time Sanford was employed by the state of Minnesota as a Dairy Herd Improvement Supervisor, and also at the Lutheran Memorial Homes in Twin Valley. DonnaMae operated the Flom Cafe for a number of years, and also worked at the Lutheran Memorial Homes.
In 1978, Sanford and DonnaMae left the area moving to Moorhead, Mn where were both employed by St Luke’s Hospital/MeritCare Hospital of Fargo, ND. Sanford worked as supervisor of Environmental Services and DonnaMae worked in the OB department. DonnaMae was present at the birth of her great niece Kayla Klemetson on September 13,1982. Sanford retired in 1990 due to ill health and passed away on September 16, 1995 at the age of 69. He is buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery, Flom. DonnaMae continued to live in Moorhead after his death and worked at MeritCare, she retired in 2001 and continues to be very active in her church, Pontoppidan Lutheran Church, Fargo, ND.
Sanford and DonnaMae are the parents of two children; Susan DonnaMae and Steven: See Steven and Doreen (Cameron) Albertson.
Susan spent most of her childhood in Flom, with completing her first grade year at the Flom School, which was the last year before the school closed in 1954. She then went to Twin Valley where she graduated from High School in 1965. She then went to Moorhead, Mn.
Susan married Richard T. Johnson of Moorhead, Mn in 1965. They lived in Moorhead for many years before moving to Sioux Falls, SD where they reside now. They have two children; Stephanie DonnaMae Doscher who lives in Sioux Falls with her three children, Kendra, Seth and Jordan. Richard (Rick) T. Jr. lives in Chandler. Az. He is married to the former Heather Evans of Sioux Falls, SD.
Steve and Doreen (Cameron) Albertson
Steve Albertson, son of Sanford and DonnaMae (Dorseth) Albertson, was born on August 10,1950 in Fargo, ND. He attended school in Hendrum and Twin Valley, and graduated from Twin Valley High School in 1968. He entered the United States Marine Corps, October 1, 1968 and served three years, one of which was spent in Viet Nam. After his discharge, he attended Moorhead State University.
On October 13, 1972, Steve married Doreen Cameron, the daughter of Don and Irene Cameron of Fargo, They lived in Twin Valley where Steve worked under the University of Minnesota as a DHIA Supervisor, and Doreen worked for Lutheran Memorial Homes. In 1975 they moved to Fargo where Steve worked for NDSU and Doreen worked at Fargo National Bank.
In 1970 they purchased a dairy farm near Detroit Lakes, MN. Steve Doreen were named Honored Dairymen for Becker County for the year 1988. Steve and Doreen were members of the Minnesota Holstein Association and also the Holstein Association of America. Steve served on the Audubon Elevator Board of Directors, the Becker County American Dairy Association Board of Directors, the Cass Clay Creamery Board of Directors, the 21st Century Genetics Board, and was a founding Director of Cooperative Resources International. Steve was also a Director for the Minnesota Association of Cooperatives He was a member of the VFW in Audubon. They were members of ST. Peter’s Lutheran Church, Audubon. In 1994, Steve had a heart transplant and was unable to continue dairy farming.
In 1995, they moved to Flom, where Steve is employed as Adjuster for Flom Region Mutual Insurance Company, and Doreen is the Chaplain at Lutheran Memorial Homes in Twin Valley. Steve is a member of Flom/Twin Valley VFW Post 3818, and Doreen is a member of the Auxiliary. They are member of Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom.
Cynthia Mae Allrich
Cynthia "Cindy" Allrich was born on June 26, 1974 in Ada, Mn the daughter of Dennis and Mae (Stende) Allrich. She was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn. She attended school at Twin Valley, Mn where she graduated in 1992. She was active in her school and church. While in school she was active in Music and was a cheerleader. She was always willing to sing for special music or the programs at Aspelund. Cindy was active in her church’s youth group.
She worked at the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home in Twin Valley for a number of years and was currently a student at Josef’s School of Hair Design in Fargo, where she would have graduated in June of 1994.
Cindy was tragically taken from this world on Tuesday , February 8, 1994 near Alexandria, Mn when the van she was riding in collided with a snow plow.
Cindy is buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery, Flom, Mn.
Anders and Johanne (Olsdatter) Amlien
To help some of us in the Flom area better understand our roots we are putting the names of the Amlien families members.
Anders Hansen was born in 1809, his wife Johanne Olsdatter was born in 1808. They lived in Vestre Toten, Norway. They were the parents of two daughters and the grandparents of one grandson who came to the Flom area. Helene Amlien Dorseth wife of Andreas Hanson Dorseth.
Ole Andersen born in 1839 father of Olaf Grefsrud. Ole took the Grefsrud name when he married because they lived on the Grefsrud farm.
Berthe Amlien Kirkeby born in 1848 wife of Martin Kirkeby.
Other siblings were Johannes born in 1842, Andrine born in 1845, Johanne born in 1851, Hans born in 1854 and Augusta born in 1857.
Mary Grefsrud and Clara Kirkeby were sisters, both born to Per and Gunnhild (Gronlie) Rue.
Andrew and Hilda (Dorseth) Anker
Andrew E. "Andy" Anker was born in 1898 to Charles Louis and Cecila Marie (Opdahl) Anker in Iowa. He came to this area as a young boy of 13 years with his father and siblings. His mother had passed away in Iowa in 1905.
Hilda Dorseth was born on January 10, 1907, at Flom to John and Lovise "Lizzie" (Carlson) Dorseth. It was here that she grew up and attended school, she was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn. He father John ran the Hardware Store in Flom.
Andrew and Hilda were married on April 4, 1931 at Twin Valley, Mn. After their marriage they remained in Flom living in the house known to many as the Creamery House, located next to the Creamery on the west side of town. Today that home is owned and occupied by Jeri Rush.
Andrew worked for the Flom Creamery until it's closing and Hilda raised their family of three children; Jerome, LaVonne (Daniel Zinda) and Joan (Klomstad) they also had one son who was born and died on October 22, 1939. In 1971 Andy and Hilda left Flom and moved to Detroit Lakes, Mn where they enjoyed their retirement years. Andy passed away in 1982 and in 1984 Hilda moved into the Lutheran Memorial Homes in Twin Valley, Mn where she resided until her death on August 16, 1986. They are both buried at Aspelund along with their infant son.
Charles and Mary Cecilia (Oppdal) Anker
Charles Lewis Anker was born on December 19, 1873 in Kossuth county, Iowa. Charles moved to Becker County, Mn in 1911 where he farmed until 1929 when he moved to Flom Township and purchased the home just north of Aspelund Lutheran Church (former Lenny and Hazel Seykora home). In his later years Charles moved in with his daughter Mrs. Oscar Thorson, where he made his home until his death on July 27, 1935. His son Elmer moved into the house by Aspelund when Charles moved in with his daughter. Funeral services were held at Walworth Baptist Church, rural Flom, Mn.
Marlowe Anker
Marlowe was born to the Elmer Anker's. He grew up just Northwest of the Aspelund Lutheran church in section 33 of Flom township. He was killed in a car-motorcylce accident in 1974, near Isabella, Mn. Funeral services were held at Babbitt, Mn. He was only 38 years old at the time of his death.
Bernt L. and Petrina (Olson Eggebrattern) Ask
Bernt L. Ask was born in Norway on July 21, 1851 in the Village of Hadalen. He immigrated to the United States as a young man and settled at Decorah, lowa. Staying with relatives and working on farms, he soon met Petrina Olson Eggebraaten who was working at the Luther College in Decorah.
They were married during the spring of 1881. Shortly after this, Bernt struck out for Norman County, Minnesota, with a team of horses to homestead in Wild Rice Township, leaving Petrina in Decorah. He built a small barn on his homestead for shelter for the horses. It was during this time, while getting~ the homestead ready m anticipation of going back to Decorah, and bringing his family to their new home in Minnesota, that he encountered his first hardship. One night the barn caught fire and burned with the team of horses in it. Bernt went to lowa anyway and arrived back with his family and encountered another hardship. Someone had 'jumped’ his homestead. Bernt then looked around and purchased a small farm in Flom Township. It was on this land that Bernt built a log cabin and settled his family. During the ensuing years of their marriage, Petrina and Bernt had eight children; two boys, Carl and Oscar, and six girls, Clara, Amanda, Laura, Louise, Olga and Mabel.
In order to improve his land it was necessary to cut down and grub out the roots of the trees by hand. Horses and oxen were used to break up and plow the land in order to have some growing crops. As the children arrived, Bernt added onto the log cabin. Hardship was a common thing for these early settlers, and Bernt recalled, on the move from Decorah to Norman County, they moved by team and wagon with two milk cows tied to the back of the wagon. At Breckenridge on the way, one of the horses died. It was necessary then to get another horse.
A one room country school, a mile from the log cabin, was affordable for the education of the children. The closest place for supplies was Flom. The Wild Rice Lutheran Church became the family church, and it was here that Bernt sang in the choir with Reinart Grutle. The children were baptized and
Bernt Ask age 18 Petrina Ask age 18
confirmed, and the adjoining cemetery later became the resting place of Bernt and Petrina.
There was a flour mill at Faith along the Wild Rice River. It was a day long trip to drive to Faith with a wagon load of wheat to have ground into flour and then return home. The closest town and railroad was at Twin Valley. Trips to Twin Valley were limited on account of the distance. The closest place for doctors and medical service was at Crookston or Fargo. Home remedies and make do were very common for these pioneers. When a tooth had to be removed, it was nothing for a neighbor to take a pliers and make the abstraction.
In 1892, Bernt became ill, and passed away at the age of forty-one. Today his illness would be appendicitis, but as no professional help was available at that time, he died at home. Petrina was left with the eight children, the youngest being thirteen months.
Of these eight, two stayed on in Norman County, Carl farmed and ran the dairy in Twin Valley. Laura worked at the Wild Rice Children's Home and later at the Lutheran Memorial Retirement Center, Twin Valley. When the children grew up and moved away, Petrina returned to lowa and lived with her sister. In 1910 she married Andrew Eggebraaten who passed away in 1936, and Petrina lived until 1941. She was ninety-one years old at the time of her death.
Carl M. and Jonetta (Solum) Ask
Carl was born on August 17, 1880 to Bernt and Petrina Ask in Decorah, Iowa. He was baptize and confirmed in the Lutheran faith. He came to the Twin Valley area as a small child.
Carl and Jonetta were married on August 6, 1909 at Rollag, Mn. They first settled on a farm near Flom, Mn where they lived until 1919. They moved near Twin Valley, Mn at that time and he owned and operated a dairy farm. In 1942 they retired and moved into Twin Valley, Mn where they have resided since.
Jonetta passed away in October 1964. After her death he moved into the Lutheran Memorial Home in Twin Valley, where he resided until his death on September 11, 1970, he was 90 years old.
Carl was active in both his church and community. He served as both deacon and trustee in the Zion Lutheran church and also was an active member in the Brotherhood.
He was secretary-treasurer of the Flom Fire Insurance Company for many years, also serving on the Wild Rice Orphanage board. He had worked for some time for Tobin Seed company as yard foreman.
Carl was a civic-minded citizen. He was most concerned with the good of his town. Many years he helped cut trees to trim the streets for Christmas. He was also an avid sports enthusiast, baseball being his favorite sport.
Carl and Jonetta were the parents of two children; Clifford, and Alice (Ray Setterholm)
He is buried at Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Twin Valley, Mn.
Louis and Alma (Dorseth) Ask
Louis Bernard Ask was born on September 2, 1894, at Flom, Mn to John and Juliana (Olson Urness) Ask. He grew up in the Flom area. In 1908 he moved to Fargo and worked as a painter and decorator. Louis married Alma Elena Dorseth October 16, 1918 at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn. Alma was the daughter of Andrew and Mathilda Korsgaden Dorseth of Flom. She grew up in the Flom area where she was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church. Louis passed away on July 25, 1964 and Alma died on November 28, 1935, they are both buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery.
Louis and Alma were members of First Lutheran Church in Fargo, ND after they were married. They were the parents of two daughters; Hazel Jean and Ann.
Hazel Jean Maxine Ask was born on May 22, 1919 to Louis and Alma (Dorseth) Ask in Fargo, ND. She graduated from Fargo Central High school and Concordia College. She taught High School in Hitterdal and Parker’s Prairie, Mn and was Principal in Kenyon, Mn. She married Corliss Jahr of Hitterdal, Mn on June 30, 1946. Corliss was born on August 6, 1915 to Olaf and Severina "Susie" (Quam) Jahr on the Jahr farm near Hitterdal, Mn. Hazel Jean and Corliss were the parents of four daughters; Jean Ann Hephzibah (deceased) Jean was married to Max McMillan (divorced) and they had one daughter Christina. Ruth married Mark Gunn and they are the parents of two children; Daniel and Heather, they reside in San Antonio, Texas. Carol married Mark Kiemele they are the parents of two children and reside in Colorado; Kyle and Lauren and Janice is married to Joel Broschat of Fessenden, ND. They are the parents of two children; Kelsey and David. Hazel Jean died on December 26, 1986 and Corlis on January 12, 1991 both are buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery, Flom, Mn.
Ann Ask lived in the apartment owned by her sister Hazel Jean and family in North Fargo. After Hazel Jean and Corliss’ deaths the house was sold and Ann moved into the high rise in South Fargo, where she died. She never married.
Daniel and Emily (Rasmussen) Askegaard
Daniel Martin Askegaard was born at Comstock, Mn on December 12, 1882 to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Askegaard, early Clay county settlers. After growing to manhood, he met and married Emily Rasmussen. They farmed near Comstock until 1940 when they moved to Flom , Mn. Around 1954 they retired from farming and began spending their winters in California and summers in Minnesota. They were the parents of three children; Harold, Philip, and Delpha (Edward Klosinski). Harold stayed around the Flom area and lived in section 28 of Flom township. In his later years he moved into the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home in Twin Valley, Mn, where he still resides.
Philip lives in the Ontario, California area and Delpha married Edward Klosinski and they resided in Santa Barbara.
Dan and Emily Askegaard
Daniel Askegaard passed away on December 24, 1964 in Santa Barbara, California, where he was spending the winter. He was a member of Aspelund Lutheran Church of Flom. Funeral services were held at Wright Chapel in Moorhead,
Harold Askegaard
Mn with Rev. Ronald C. Seedorf officiating. Burial was made in Hoff cemetery near Rustad, Minnesota.
Keith and Linda (Dorseth) Axvig
Ann Marie Linda Dorseth was born on May 16, 1940 at Ada, Mn to Henry and Viola (Christensen) Dorseth. She was baptized at home by Pastor A.H. Amundson and confirmed on June 12, 1955 at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom by Rev. E.N. Torgerson. She attended country school at Woodland Nook from 1st - 6th grade, going the to Twin Valley where she graduated in 1958 from High School.
Linda has worked at the Hendrum State Bank, in Hendrum, Mn., Industrial Loan Co. of Moorhead, Mn, the City of Moorhead, Mahnomen Hospital and Mahnomen County Highway Dept in Mahnomen, Mn and the First Federal S & L of Red Lake Falls, Mn. He hobbies include Folk Art Painting, Rosemaling, oil and acrylic painting and water color. She also enjoys doing wood crafts, flower craft, crocheting and sewing.
Ann Marie Linda married Milan H. Syverson on October 21, 1960 at Hendrum, Mn. Milan was born on February 15, 1937 at Twin Valley, Mn. They were the parents of three children; Mitchell, Darin and Kelli. Linda and Milan were divorce in May 1969.
Mitchell Lee Syverson was born on January 21, 1962 at Fort Lewis, Mn to Linda and Milan Syverson. Mitch married Ellen Tesmer of Walhalla, ND on October 15, 1983 at Walhalla. Ellen was born on May 24, 1962 at Walhalla. They are the parents of two sons; Joshua Lee was born on September 18,1986 at the home of his Grandparents Keith and Linda Axvig, with grandma attending to the birth and acting as a midwife. After he was born medical help arrived and Ellen and Josh were taken to a area hospital. This was a very memorable day for Linda and Ellen. Adam Christopher was born on December 1, 1987 at Crookston, Mn. Mitch is employed at Motor Coach Industries in Pembina, ND. Ellen is self employed in Walhalla as a cosmetologist.
Darin Milan was born on March 10, 1963 at Moorhead, Mn., to Linda and Milan Syverson. He married Darlena Kay Cox on August 8, 1987 at Muncie Indiana. Darlena was born on October 17, 1964 at Muncie. Darin and Darlena are the parents of three children; Michelle Jo was born on September 13, 1986 at Muncie, LaNette Marie was born on March 21, 1989, at Muncie and Darin Wayne was born on September 18, 1992, at Muncie. Darin and Darlena were divorced on February 14, 1996.Darin is self employed as a drywall/painting contractor.
Keith and Linda Axvig Family
Kelli Ann was born to Linda and Milan Syverson on September 12, 1966 at Moorhead, Mn. She married Robert Lawrence Hicks on August 31, 1985 at Muncie, Indiana. Robert was born on October 13, 1966 at Muncie. They are the parents of three children; Sean Bradley was born on July 10, 1985 in Muncie, Krystal Nicole was born on March 1, 1988 and died on March 3, 1988 at Indianapolis, Indiana, and Krystyna Marie was born on November 3, 1989 at Muncie. Kelli and Rob were divorced on September 21, 1991. Kelli is employed as a dispatcher for Rodney Ulrich Trucking Firm, also manager of the Spot, in Red Lake Falls, Mn.
On November 21, 1970 Ann Marie Linda married Orvis D. Dullum at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, MN. Orvis was born on October 30, 1933 at Twin Valley, Mn. He attended school in the area and later worked for Wild Rice Electric of Mahnomen, until his retirement. Linda and Orvis were the parents of one child; Kirsten Alane Dullum, was born on September 17, 1975 at Mahnomen, Mn. Linda and Orvis were divorced in 1976. Ann Marie Linda married Keith Odin Axvig on July 12, 1980 at Red Lake Falls, Mn. Keith was born on October 23, 1942 at Grafton, ND. He had two daughters Coral Louise and Constance Louise from his first marriage.
Coral Louise (twin) was born on July 2, 1967 at Cresco, Iowa. Corrie is married to Larry Barnabo and they live in Lino Lakes, Mn. Larry is a self employed contractor and owner of Cor-Bar Sod Co. They have one child; Halle Mae who was born on June 17, 1996.
Constance Louise (twin) was born on July 2, 1967 at Cresco, Iowa. She is employed in Rochester, Mn as a cosmetologist. She has two children; Malcom born on February 21, 1994 and MacKenzie born on September
19, 1995.
In June of 1981 Keith adopted Linda’s daughter Kirsten Alane. Kirsten married Dustin James Demarais on June 14, 1998 at Gentily, MN. Dustin was born on May 9, 1975. They are the parents of two children; Wyatt Keith born on September 14, 1998 and Whitney Marie born on January 10, 2000. Kirsten is employed as a dental assistant for Nord Orthodontists in Grand Forks, ND., and Dusty is employed for the city of East Grand Forks as a lineman.
Keith owned and sold a number of newspapers in Minnesota, including the Twin Valley Times. He planned to retire in 2001, but the call of the newspaper was not out of his veins. He is currently employed at the Morrison County Record, out of Little Falls, Mn. He accepted the job of managing Editor of the news department there. Keith and Linda now reside at Brainerd, Mn. Where they are also kept very busy with church and community activities.
Harry and Debbie (Myers) Bain
Harry was born on August 31, 1956 to Clayton and Rita Bain in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. He attended school in Halifax, Nova Scotia and graduated from High School in Burin, Newfoundland.
He was baptized in Ontario and confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church, Twin Valley, Mn. He worked as a apple grower in which he raised apples in his families orchard in Nova Scotia until 1980. Harry then went to Texas where he did carpenter work before his marriage to Debbie in 1981.
Debbie Myers was born on April 29, 1954 to Floyd and DeLane Myers in Ada, Minnesota. She was baptized at St. John’s Church, rural Ada, Mn. And confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church, Twin Valley, Mn. She graduated from Twin Valley High School and received an Associate Degree from University of Minnesota Crookston in Beef Production-Animal Science. After graduation she worked as a cow-calf producer, raising Angus Cattle until 1988, when she became a full time mother.
Harry and Debbie were married on French Man’s Bluff on July 3, 1981. The Bluff is located in section 18 of Flom township. After their marriage Debbie became a full time mother and did daycare out of her home for children in the Twin Valley and Flom areas. They did live in Twin Valley, before moving to the farm north of Flom in section 10 of Flom township, formally the Francis Boreen Farm. Harry is employed by Norman County East School District as a maintenance Engineer, a position which he has held since August 1990. Debbie provided daycare from 1991-1999, at which time she started to work for Flom Region Mutual Insurance Company, in Flom, Mn. Beside being a full time mother, and working at the insurance office Debbie also does maintenance work.
Harry and Debbie are the parents of five children; Hannah, Cyril, Althea, Clara and Olivia.
Hannah was born on December 16, 1984, Cyril was born on June 19, 1986, Althea was born on August 18, 1988, Clara was born on October 29, 1990 and Olivia was born on April 5, 1992. All of their children were baptized at Trinity Lutheran Church, Twin Valley, Mn. Hannah, Cyril and Althea have been confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church. They all attend school at Norman County East.
The Bain’s family are active members of Woodland 4-H Club, in Norman County. Hannah and Althea are County Ambassadors in 4-H. Hannah, Cyril and Althea belong to the Young People’s Organization at Trinity Lutheran Church.
Andrew E. and Britta (Larsdatter Ramsøy) Bakke
Andrew E. Bakke was born January 24 1849 in Aurland Sogn Og Fjordane. Andrew came to Amhurst Township, Fillmore County MN in 1866. Andrew's parents, Andrew Eriksen and Britha Andersdatter Ramsøy came to America in April 8, 1867 to Winneshiek Iowa. Living in Iowa until 1869, the family later moved to Fillmore County Minnesota and finally arrived in Norman County in 1883.
Andrew's father, Andrew Eriksen was born April 7, 1814 in Sogn og Fjordane. He came from the farm Nornes in Sogndal. Andrew and Britha were married in 1840. Britha was born in 1818 in Aurland Sogn og Fjordane. She died before Andrew moved to Norman County. Andrew died on January 13, 1894. He is buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Church cemetery.
Andrew Eriksen and Britha Andersdatter had the following children, including Andrew Bakke.
Anders who was born 1843 and died 1845.
Olina who was born in 1840, married in 1863 to Ole Andersen Nasen of Voss. Olina died in Norway.
Brita who was born 1845, she came to the US in 1870 and died in Fillmore County.
Kari was born in 1851, she came to the US in 1867 and married Hans W. Erickson of Home Lake Township.
Peder was born in 1854 and he came to the US in 1867.
Gjertrud or Gertie was born 1858.
Ole E. was born in 1861.
Andrew Bakke married Britta (Betsey) Larsdatter Ramsøy on June 2, 1871 in Decorah, Winneshiek County, IA. Britta
Andrew E. Bakke Family
(Betsey) Larsdatter was born July 13, 1851 in Wisconsin to Lars Anderssen Ramsey and Ingeborg Torsteinsdatter Ramsey. In 1880, they moved to Norman County, to Section 10 in Home Lake Township. In 1895 they sold the farm and moved into Twin Valley, where he became a butcher.
Andrew and Britta's Children:
Louis Bakke was born January 1,1872, he married Ingeborg Bilden who died in 1898, then in 1899, he was married to Helen Johnson, he died February 7, 1926.
Anna Caroline Bakke Klemetsrud was born June 11, 1872, she married O.H. Klemetsrud, she died November 11, 1955.
Edward Julius Bakke was born December 25, 1875, he married Berdie Forseth, he died on March 20, 1925.
Isebel Bakke was born October 14, 1874 and died on September 11, 1878.
Bertise (Bert) Bakke was born June 27, 1879, he married Anna Anderson, he died on June 3, 1949.
Peter Bakke was born October 6, 1881, he married Henrietta Wernland, he died on November 1, 1939.
Igar (Edgar) Bakke was born on November 3, 1884 and died on October 26, 1956.
Bella (Isabelle) Bakke Bonn was born on September 21, 1886, she married Frank R. Bonn and she died on February 16, 1938.
Amanda Bakke Robertson was born on February 19, 1889, she married James P. Robertson.
Raymond Bakke was born on June 3, 1893, married Lena Larson and died on April 15, 1950.
Mable Bakke Lee was born on September 5, 1898, married Lyle Lee and died on September 23, 1972.
Andrew died November 14, 1917. His funeral was held at Synod Church (now Zion Lutheran Church) of Twin Valley. Britta (Betsey) died May 24, 1924 in Mahnomen, MN. Her funeral was held at the O.H. Klemetsrud home and Zion Lutheran Church in Twin Valley, MN.
Leonard and Lorraine (Skansgaard) Bakke
Leonard Raymond Bakke was born at Winger, Minnesota on December 9, 1917. His father was Johan Olsen Bakke who was born to Ole Olsen Bakke and Gjertrud (Julia) Jonsdatter Skulborstad on October 10, 1881 at Kenyon in Goodhue County of Minnesota. Ole Olsen Bakke came to America in 1851 with his parent’s on the Bark Emmanuel ship which left Bergen, Norway and arrived in New York City on June 18, 1851. The captain of the ship was Captain Sørensen. Ole was born in Hemsedal, Buskerud, Norway to Ole Knudsen Bakke and Sigrid Evensdatter Grondale. His brothers and sisters who also came to America were:
Knud Olsen Bakke born January 27, 1839 at the Bakke Farm in Hemsedal, Buskerud, Norway.
Guri Olsdatter Bakke was born January 16, 1843 at the Bakke Farm in Hemsedal, Buskerud, Norway.
Sigrid Olsdatter Bakke was born August 1, 1844 at the Bakke Farm in Hemsedal, Buskerud, Norway.
Even Olsen Bakke was born January 9, 1848 at the Bakke Farm in Hemsedal, Buskerud, Norway.
Christine Olsdatter Bakke was born in the USA, more than likely in Rock County, Wisconsin. That is where the family is found in the 1860 census of Norwegian’s in America.
Leonard’s grandmother, Gjertrud (Julia) Jonsdatter Skulborstad was born at Stjørdal, Nord Trondelag, Norway to John Johnsen Skulborstad and Lisbet Davidsdatter Kleiven on April 27, 1853. She came to America by herself at the age of 18 in 1871. She married Ole Olsen Bakke in 1872 in Kenyon, Goodhue County of Minnesota. They had the following children:
Elise Gurina Bakke born September 11, 1873 in Goodhue County.
Sophie Kristine Bakke born November 16, 1875 in Goodhue County.
Ole Olsen Bakke born July 22, 1877 in Goodhue County.
Johan Olsen Bakke born October 10, 1881 in Goodhue County.
Emma Marie Bakke born October 24, 1882 in Goodhue County.
Carl Olsen Bakke born October 4, 1884 in Goodhue County.
Julius Olsen Bakke born April 3, 1886 in Goodhue County.
Emelia Bakke born October 22, 1888 at Minot, North Dakota. She was one of a set of Triplets.
Oscar Olsen Bakke born October 22, 1888 at Minot, North Dakota. He was one of a set of Triplets.
Julia Bakke born October 22, 1888 at Minot, North Dakota. She was one of a set of Triplets.
Oscar Julius Bakke was born February 11, 1891 at Fertile, Minnesota.
Gilbert Olsen Bakke was born March 30, 1893 at Fertile, Minnesota.
Selmer Olsen Bakke was born November 20, 1895 at Fertile, Minnesota.
Martin Olsen Bakke was born February 28, 1899 at Fertile, Minnesota.
Leonard’s mother, Edel Marie Krogstad, was born at Perley, Minnesota to Brynild Gunerius Krogstad and Martha (Marta) Jensdatter Rømo on June 20, 1890. She had the following siblings:
Clarence Henry Krogstad
Johnny Krogstad
Jens Krogstad born at Perley, Minnesota
Gilbert Krogstad born August 28, 1893 at Perley, Minnesota.
Sophie Berene Krogstad born June 22, 1897 at Perley, Minnesota.
Edel Marie’s father, Brynild Gunerius Krogstad, was born in Aremark, Østfold, Norway on May 14, 1862 to Brynild Jensen Krosby and Thora Sofie Goethesdatter. His father died about 5 months before he was born and he came to America with his mother. He married Martha (Marta) Jensdatter Rømo in Fargo, North Dakota on November 27, 1889. Martha was born to Jens Jensen Rømo and Matelie Edle Olsdatter Alstad at Hovin, Østfold, Norway on March 4, 1869. Jens Jensen Rømo was born to Jens Kristoffersen Rømo and Eli Rollaugsdatter Gresset on January 2, 1843 at Hegra, Nord Trondelag, Norway. He was married three times:
Marit Nilsdatter was his first wife.
Inga Albertine Arntsdatter was his second wife.
Matelie, the mother to Marta was his third wife, they married on April 16, 1867. Marta’s parents were Ole Person Alstad and Marta Haakonsdatter Fiskvik. She was born January 6, 1842 at Skatval, Nord Trondelag, Norway.
Leonard was raised on the family farm at Winger, Minnesota. He was baptized and confirmed at Winger Lutheran Church. He also attended Wooded Park Country School and the Agriculture College at Crookston, Minnesota.
He has the following brothers and sisters:
Olga Gertrude Bakke was born on January 6, 1916 and married Conrad Julius Osmondson.
Melvin Bernhard Bakke was born on October 27, 1919 and was not married.
Walter Edward Bakke was born March 1, 1922 and was married three times. First to Alvira Evelyn Raaen, who is the mother of Wayne Alan Bakke. Second to Ruth Seitz Manthey, and last to Joyce Stengl Anderson.
Orton Clifford Bakke was born on March 10, 1926 and was married to Hallis Arnitha Nansen.
Joyce Margaret Bakke was born November 8, 1929 and was married twice. First to Ordean Christianson and then to Norman Sannes. She was a twin.
Grace Jeanette Bakke was born November 8, 1929 and was married to Willard Elvin Peterson.
Leonard was inducted into the Army on May 20, 1942 at Fort Snelling, Minnesota. On June 26, 1943, he embarked for the Aleutian Islands and spent 22 months on several of the islands during WW II. He was discharged on October 27, 1945.
On March 17, 1946 he married Lorraine Skansgaard at the Wild Rice Parsonage in Flom Township. Lorraine was born to Oscar and Ruth (Stolen Engebretson) Skansgaard on February 3, 1925 in Flom Township. Her father, Oscar Paul Skansgaard was born to Iver Erlandsen and Anne (Pedersdatter Aspehaug) Skansgaard on the family farm in Flom Township, Section 28. (See Iver Erlandsen and Anne (Pedersdatter Aspehaug) Skansgaard). Lorraine was baptized and confirmed at the Wild Rice Church where she also is a life time member. Lorraine’s mother, Ruth, was born on July 20, 1898 to Annie Teoline Olsdatter Fidjestol and Erick Stolen in Flom Township. (See Oscar and Ruth (Stolen Engebretson) Skansgaard) When Leonard and Lorraine were first married, they lived at Fosston, Minnesota where Leonard was employed by Armstrong Electric. That fall, they moved back to the farm in Section 16 of Flom Township. In the late 1940’s, Leonard formed his own Construction Company, known as Bakke Construction. He has built many homes and buildings in the surrounding area. Lorraine began a painting and woodwork finishing business in 1961 and was joined a short time later by Olga Stundahl. They have continued to work together for over 40 years.
Leonard and Lorraine have two sons and a foster son they have raised.
Larry, was born March 16, 1949 at Ada, Minnesota. He was baptized and confirmed in the Wild Rice Church. He attended school in Twin Valley and graduated in 1967. He moved to Phoenix, Arizona in 1972. He presently lives there with his wife, Susan (Hellum) and their two children, Brian and Heather. Larry has his own Construction Business.
Lyle was born June 8, 1950. He was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Church. He attended school in Twin Valley and graduated in 1968. He is married to Margit (Nysetvold) and they have 3 children.
Sonja, who is married to Matthew Roy. They live in Fargo, ND and have two daughters: Claudia and Meredith.
Erik, who is married to Mindy (Braseth), they live in rural Flom and have one daughter, Anikka Claone.
Sarah, who is attending Concordia College in Moorhead, MN.
Wayne, who was born November 20, 1953 to Walter and Evelyn (Raaen) Bakke. His mother died when he was a baby, and he was raised by Leonard and Lorraine. He lives in Fertile, MN and works for the railroad. He is not married.
Kaare and Selma (Sally) (Dorseth) Bakken
Kaare Bakken was born in Norway on July 29, 1903. He came to this country with his parents as an infant settling in Iowa and the family later moved to Audubon, Mn. He married Lucille Burk at Audubon on November 17, 1962.
Kaare managed creameries and was a butter maker at the Minnesota communities of; Flom, Twin Valley and Lengby. In 1961 he moved to Audubon where he and his brothers operated a bait business. He retired in 1978.
Kaare died of an apparent heart attack after checking his deer stand in Clearwater county near Bagley. Sheriffs officers said, Kaare Bakken 77, was stricken Friday afternoon and was found around 9 pm Friday night (1980). Funeral services were held in the First Lutheran Church of Audubon, Mn.
Kaare was married first to Selma “Sally” Dorseth, the daughter of John and Lovise (Carlson) Dorseth
Kaare and Selma were the parents of; Dale, Janet (Paul), and Kay (Leslie Leppich). A stepson Fred Burk and stepdaughter Ellen (Gerald Blees).
Alvin and Frieda (Flom) Baukol
Alvin and Mildred (VanScoik/Englesten) Baukol
Alvin was born in Flom township on May 12, 1897 to Peder and Tumine Baukol. He spent all his life in this community except for the eighteen months in the service of his country during World War I. He entered the service on February 1918, at Camp Dodge, and was wounded on October 10, 1918. He was in the Argonne Meuse and the Army of Occupations. He mustered out on May 24, 1919.
Frieda Otilla Flom was born on February 22, 1901 to Simon and Randi (Skiem) Flom, in Flom township.
Alvin was united in marriage to Frieda Flom on April 28, 1926. Two children were born to this union, they were; Duane and Roy.
Frieda passed away on July 4, 1933, in Almena, Wisconsin where she had gone to seek medical help. At the time of her death her sons were very young Duane only 6 years and Roy only 20 months. After her death Alvin married Mildred VanScoik/Englesten at Ada, Mn on October 4, 1939. Mildred had one daughter Deloris.
Alvin passed away on March 20, 1946 after suffering from a ruptured appendix. Alvin and Frieda are both buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery, rural Twin Valley, Mn.
Arnt and Gustine (Meyer) Baukol
Arnt was born in Flom township to Peder and Tumine Baukol. He
Gustine Meyer was born on January 17, 1911 at Cresco, Iowa, the daughter of George and Maude Meyer. She was baptized and confirmed in the Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn. She grew up on the farm and attended country schools and Waubun High School. She was one of ten children born to George and Maude; others included Alton, Emmet, Francis, Raymond, Vernie, Orville (see Orville and Muriel Meyer), Orpha (Arvid Lundgren) Eva and Leora (Skarie),
Arnt and Gustine were united in married on December 21, 1937 at Ogema, here they made their home and farmed for a short time. They then moved to a farm in Flom township, where they were active in farming until 1970.
When they retired they moved off the farm and their son Gene took over the farming operations, Arnt and Gustine moved to Detroit Lakes, Mn at this time.
In addition to her role as a farm housewife and mother, she was active in the Aspelund Lutheran Church, the ALCW and it's Circles, and also taught Sunday School.
Arnt passed away on May 11, 1975 and Gustine passed away on April 29, 1979, at the age of 68 years. They are both buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery, Flom, Mn.
Arnt and Gustine were the parents of; Archie, Gene (Lucille Unke) and Fern (Christ Blue).
Gene and Lucille (Unke) Baukol
Gene and Lucille Baukols’s farm is located in Section 24 of Flom Township. This is a third generation farm. Peder P. Baukol came to the area in 1883. He attended Luther College in Decorah, Iowa. He also taught school at Hillsboro, ND, West Wild Rice and Aspelund. This farm went to Arnt Baukol in 1944 and then Gene R. Baukol in 1978. The farm stead was located by the Cheerful Nook School and the water supply for the school was obtained from this farm. Archie, Gene and Fern were able to go home for dinner. This school closed in 1948 and then they went to school in Waubun, MN with Gene graduating in 1955.
Gene married Lucille Unke in 1970 at rural St. Thomas, ND. Farming includes wheat, beans, corn and feeding beef. A son, Michael G. Baukol was born on January 6, 1972 and lives on this farm and works at Wild Rice Electric in Mahnomen. A second son, Paul R. Baukol was born January 21, 1974, he lives and works in Twin Valley at Centrol.
Joseph and Cora (Landsverk) Baukol
Joseph Baukol was born to Peder and Tumina Baukol on September 12, 1901, in Flom township, Norman County, Mn. As a young boy he grew up in the Flom area where he attended school at Cheerful Nook. He was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom , Mn.
Cora Landsverk was born to Carl and Anne Landsverk in Kenyon, Mn. Cora had two brothers; Kenneth and Edwin and a sister Alice (Barrett)
Joseph and Cora were married on February 22, 1925 at the Wild Rice Parsonage. During their lives they were active in farming, they purchased a farm in Popple Grove township of Mahnomen, County. Here they raised their two sons; Robert Earl born on February 12, 1926 (see Bob and Betty Baukol) and David Nyle who was born on April 6, 1941. David attended school and graduated from Ulen High School, he then went to Moorhead State University receiving a degree in teaching. He taught school at Starbuck, Mn. Here he met and married Joyce Johnshay of Starbuck. They had three daughters. David is now retired and they still reside in Starbuck. Joseph died on November 13, 1947 and Cora died on May 19, 1984. They are both buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery, Flom, Mn.
Peder and Tomine Dortea (Olsdatter Fidjestodl) Baukol
Peder P. Baukol was born to Peder Olson and Kari (Tarud) Baukol on June 20th, 1853 in Norway. He has two brothers, Hans and Paul, and three sisters; Marit, Kari and Karen. Peder came to the United States in 1861 with his parents.
Tomine Dortea was born to Ole and Gunvor (Tollisdatter Fidjestol) Hansen Royseland in Kvas, Lyngdal, Vest Agder, Norway on the Fidjestodl Farm, on February 14, 1863. Tomine was baptized and confirmed in her home church in Norway. At the age of 21 she left Norway for America. She emigrated from Norway at Kristiansand, Vest Agder Harbor on June 13, 1884 by herself. She was the first of her family to leave Norway. She had these siblings; Hans Olson b.1869 and married to Amanda Tollefson. He emigrated from Norway on March 19, 1886 from Kristiansand, Vest Agder Harbor
Tobias b.
Annie Teoline (Vinger) b.April 8, 1865, she emigrated from Kristiansand, Vest Agder Harbor on March 31, 1888
Amalia b.1872, she never married.
Dorthea b.March 14, 1875, she came to America and married Olaf Fredrik Martinsson here in America. She had met him when they both served in Fjære by Grimstad in Norway. They had 7 children, two born in America. They returned to Norway and in 1915 bought the Fidjestol Farm.
Lisbet, b.June 3, 1867, who stayed in Norway.
Tumine came to Norman county, Minnesota where friends of hers had come before her and settled.
Peder moved from Vernon county, Wisconsin to Flom township in 1883.
On May 12, 1887 Peder and Tumine were married at the old Wild Rice Lutheran Parsonage and they resided on the home place. They farmed the land and Tumine took up the daily activities of being a farmers wife and raising their family. They were early members of the Wild Rice congregation and joined Aspelund in the later nineties, where they have taken an active part in their work since. The couple were honored with a beautiful celebration in honor of the Golden Wedding Anniversary.
Peder and Tumine were the parents of eight children; Alvin, Arnt (see Arnt and Gustine Baukol), Ludvig, Joseph (see Joseph and Cora Baukol), Clara (Arneson), Gunda (Solberg), Eva (Voeltz) and Agnes.
Ludvig was born in 1903 and died at a very young age on June 26, 1905. He is buried at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn.
Agnes was born on September 30, 1891 and died at a young age in 1900. She is also buried at Aspelund.
Clara Henrietta was born on April 5, 1887. She married Thomas Arneson, and they were the parents of two children; Erling and Evelyn. Thomas Arneson was a Medical Doctor and he was born in 1869. He died in Almena, Wisconsin in Barron county on June 29, 1948. Clara died on May 30, 1978. They are both buried at Aspelund.
Gunda was born on July 4, 1889. She married Peder Solberg on December 11, 1910, they had two daughters; Ethel (Derouch) and Polly (Stroud). Gunda died on June 4, 1979 and Peder died on August 30, 1957. Both are buried at Aspelund.
Eva was born on January 21, 1894. She married Otto Voeltz, they had one daughter Deloris (Lopez). Eva died on May 3, 1930 and is buried at Aspelund.
Peder Baukol died on July 26, 1942 and Tumine died on May 18, 1937. They are both buried at Aspelund Lutheran Church Cemetery, Flom, Mn.
Robert (Bob) and Betty (Hamernik) Baukol
Bob Baukol was born on February 12, 1926 to Joseph and Cora (Lansverk) Baukol. As a young boy he grew up on the family farm in Popple Grove township, Mahnomen County Mn. He was confirmed at Waubun, Mn and attended school at Waubun. In 1944 Bob graduated from Waubun High School.
Betty Hamernik was born on May 30, 1928 to Frank and Aloise Hamernik in Walworth township, section 9 on the family farm. She attended District 54 country school in Walworth township and graduated from Ulen High School in 1947.
Bob and Betty were married on September 18, 1949 at Walworth Baptist Church, rural Flom. For the first years of their married life they lived by Waubun where Bob farmed for six years. In 1958 they moved to Dilworth, Mn and then in 1977 they moved to their present home in Moorhead, Mn. Bob has worked for Knerr Dairy in Fargo, ND and also at St. Ansgar’s Hospital in Moorhead, Mn.
Betty worked also worked at St. Ansgar’s Hospital in Moorhead, Mn.
Bob and Betty are retired now and reside in Moorhead. They are the parents of five children; Joan, John, Jim, Joyce and Jeff.
Joan was born on July 13, 1950. Joan was married to Wesley Hall and they are the parents of one son Joshua, who was born on August 11, 1974. Joan is married to Dennis Ness and they reside in Moorhead.
John was born on November 8, 1951. John married Terry Lindgren (sister to Karen Lindgren Baukol) on June 27, 1976. They are the parents of four children; Nathan born on August 3, 1977, Jeremy born on March 7, 1980, Nicole born on August 12, 1985 and Desiree was born on July 31, 1989.
Jim was born on August 12, 1955. Jim married Myrtle "Myrt" Svaleson, on March 17, 1979. They are the parents of two sons; Thomas born on April 8, 1982 and Benjamin was born on August 21, 1985.
Joyce was born on November 8, 1;956. Joyce married Randy Sayler of Lake Park, on April 17, 1982. They are the parents of three children; Joseph was born on September 28, 1982, Christina was born on June 25, 1987 and Allison was born on September 5, 1992.
Jeff was born on October 30, 1959. Jeff married Karen Lindgren of Moorhead, Mn (a sister to Terry Lindgren Baukol). They were married on May 17, 1980. Jeff and Karen are the parents of three children;
Amanda was born on November 9, 1981, Mike was born on October 3, 1984 and Matthew was born on June 19, 1992.
Roger and Denise (Bement) Bentley
Roger D. Bentley was born on April 29, 1855 to Eldo and Marlys (Lien) Bentley in Shirley, Mass. He was baptized at Shirley, Mass and confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church, Twin Valley, Mn. Roger attended school at Twin Valley and graduated from High School there.
Denise A. Bement was born on October 19, 1954 to Ben Jr. and Sandy Bement in Mahnomen, MN. She was baptized and confirmed at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Waubun, Mn. She attended school and graduated from Waubun High School. After graduation she went on to Moorhead State, Mhd. Mn., where she went one year. Denise went to NWTC and graduated with a degree in nursing.
Roger and Denise were married on September 10, 1976 at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Waubun, MN. They first lived one mile northeast of Twin Valley, in Wild Rice Township, Norman County, they later moved five miles north of Twin Valley, still staying in Wild Rice Twp. It was in December of 1990 they came to Flom Township. They purchase the Marvin Svobodny farm in section 1 of Flom Township and have resided here since.
Roger and Denise had three sons; Jacob, Craig and Andrew. Jacob Odin was born on June 5, 1979 at Dakota Hospital in Fargo, ND. He was baptized at St. William’s Catholic Church in Twin Valley, Mn. He was attending school at Norman County East when he died on August 3, 1993. He is buried at St. William’s Catholic Cemetery, Twin Valley, Mn.
Craig Roger was born on March 18, 1981 at Dakota Hospital, Fargo ND. He was baptized and confirmed at St. William’s Catholic Church, Twin Valley, Mn. He attended school at Norman County East and graduated from there. He furthered his education at NWTC for one year. He is employed by O’Kelly’s in Fargo, ND and he resides in Moorhead, Mn.
Andrew William was born on September 17, 1982 at Dakota Hospital, Fargo, ND. He was baptized and confirmed at St. William’s Catholic Church, Twin Valley, Mn. He attended school at Norman County East and graduated from there. He currently works construction in Fargo, ND and lives in Moorhead, Mn.
Roger farmed until 1997 and then became self-employed, working as a sheet rock finisher. He is active in his church and community having served on the church council, Norman County Fair Board. He enjoys hunting and fishing in his spare time.
Denise works at the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home in Twin Valley as a LPN/Geriatrics. She is active in her church and community having served on the church council, Religious Ed Teacher/Coordinator, Rosary Altar. In her spare time she enjoys quilting.
Helge and Sigrid (Gudbrandsdatter Hovseie) Olson Bergetangen
Helge Olson Bergetangen was born March 28, 1832 in Sigdal, Norway to parents Ola Knutsen Eidal and Gunhild Helgesdatter Mjosengeie. Helge came to the US in 1852, having settled in an area known as "Little Iowa" in Ossian Iowa which is 18 miles south of Decorah, IA. On March 18, 1857, Helge was married to Sigrid Gudbrandsdatter Hovseie by Minister Vilhelm Koren at Washington Prairie Lutheran Church, IA. Sigrid Gudbrandsdatter Hovseie, who was born July 31, 1830 in Hovseie, Sigdal, Norway. They left this area and moved to Freeborn County near the town of Albert Lea, MN.
On December 23, 1861, Helge enlisted in the 15th Wisconsin Regiment, Company K as a Private in the Civil War. He was a member of Clausen's Guard, who was an all Scandinavian regiment named in honor of the 15th first Chaplain. Mons Grinager was the captain of this regiment. In April of 1862, while on a steam boat near St. Louis Missouri, Helge contacted Lung fever and diarrhea from exposure to the very cold weather. Shortly there after, he contacted rheumatism and was treated at General Hospital near Cincinnati, Ohio beginning on July 28, 1862. He was mustered out (Discharged) on September 9, 1862 due to disability of rheumatism and deafness.
Helge and Sigrid continued to live near Albert Lea until 1866, when they purchased farm land near Mantorville, MN in Dodge County in August of 1866. This property was foreclosed on and sold at public auction in February 1870. In 1882, the entire family moved to Flom Township, Norman County, where they purchased land in Section 17. Paying $800 for 160 acres. They continued to farm until their deaths.
They had the following children:
Gubrand Olson was born 1851, Sigrid's son prior to emigration to the US (father unknown).
Ole Olson (Helgeson) was born January 9, 1858 in Little Iowa, Iowa, he married Sophie Johnson in February of 1884, Sophie died October 1885, Ole's second wife was Lena (Golena)Olson and Ole died on February 17, 1905 in Flom, MN. Ole is buried at Aspelund Lutheran Church in Flom, MN.
Julia Olson was born 1859 in Little Iowa, Iowa and she died in 1935 in Seattle, Washington.
Gunhild Olson was born November 4, 1861 in Freeborn County, MN, she married Christian Nikolai Larson, and she died on January 13, 1944 in Crow Wing county, near Brainerd, MN. She is buried at the Wild Rice Lutheran Church Cemetery.
Knute Olson (Helgeson) was born September 19, 1865 in Dodge County, MN, he married Emma Pauline Fjild, and Knute died on October 28, 1941 in Seattle, Washington.
Christ H. Olson was born about 1869 in Dodge County, MN and he died in 1920.
Elsie Helene Olson was born November 30, 1874 in Dodge County, MN , she married Helford Hoien, Elsie died in November of 1973 in Seattle, Washington. She is buried at Pacific Lutheran Cemetery in Seattle, Washington.
Helge died on January 29, 1905 in Flom Township and is buried at the Wild Rice Lutheran Church Cemetery.
Sigrid died on December 24, 1914 in Flom Township and is buried at the Wild Rice Lutheran Church Cemetery.
Elvin and Mathilda ( Sether) Blomseth
Elvin Blomseth was born in 1912 to Rudolph and Julia (Johnson) Blomseth at Halstad, Mn. As a child he moved with his parents to Pequot Lakes, Mn and returned to the Halstad area in 1927. He married Mathilda Sether of Fargo, ND in 1935. Elvin worked on area farms and on a bridge building crew.
In 1949 he and Mathilda moved to a farm east of Twin Valley, Mn in Fossum Township from Halstad, Mn. They purchased the farm from Fred Sitko, it was originally the Orris Bentley farm.
Elvin was active in his community and church having serving on the Wild Rice Church Board and Cemetery Board, as well as a Norman County Commissioner.
Elvin and Mathilda had three children; Ronald, Clayton and Wallace (Linda Seykora).
Elvin died on May 25, 1996 he was proceeded in death by one daughter. He is buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery, rural Twin Valley, Mn.
Wallace and Linda (Seykora) Blomseth
Wallace bought the farm in 1975 from his parents, when they retired and moved to Twin Valley, Mn. He married Linda Seykora daughter of Leonard and Hazel Seykora of Flom. Linda was raised on the Seykora family farm in section 3 of Walworth Township, Becker County, Mn. She graduated from Ulen High School.
Wallace and Linda were married in 1967 and have farmed since. Linda is currently employed at the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home in Twin Valley and also works one day a week at the Flom Cafe, which is owned by her sister Carol. They are the parents of two sons: Kevin and David. Kevin, who has two children; Brady and Olivia. David and his wife Lorie have two sons Wyatt and Dylan.
Gus and Ida (Howard) Boman
Gus Olaf Boman was born June 7, 1872 at Galet, Sweden. In 1887 he immigrated to America at age 15 with his brother, Carl. They worked their way to southern Minnesota doing odd jobs as they came along. Gus started working for a carpenter and enjoyed building things. While working around Owatonna, Minn. he met Ida Howard, a country school teacher. At age 38, he married Ida (31) at Owatonna. They lived in Aberdeen, S.D. for four years, doing carpentry work. They moved to Flom Twp; in May 1914 settling in a small log house in section 19 with their two year old son, Harry, to try farming.
On January 1, 1915 in a bad snow storm, Roy was born. Gus had walked about a quarter mile to the nearest phone to call the Dr. who said he would come when the weather got better. Lewis Kirkeby's mother accompanied Gus home to assist. The Dr. came out the next day and checked things out.
The log house had 3 rooms, kitchen, living room and a small bed room downstairs. The stairway to go upstairs was outdoors on the north side of the house so the upstairs wasn't used much in the winter.
In the fall of 1915 Ida started teaching school at Woodland Nook, a country school about 1/4 mile south. There were about 14 neighborhood children that attended. She taught there for three years. In the fall of 1918 she started teaching at the Home Lake school which involved walking 2 1/2 miles to and from school. In the winter Gus would take her with a horse and sled.
Roy and Harry went to school at Woodland Nook. Roy started when he was 5 and graduated from 8th grade at age 12. There was a high school in Twin Valley but no bus service. The girls who lived in the country would get a room with someone who lived in town. They would come home week ends to wash their clothes and get food for the next week. The best opportunity for the boys was the Northwest School of Agriculture in Crookston so several of the neighbor boys including Roy, went there. They had a working arrangement to pay their way. That is the students would work after school hours in the poultry barns or dairy barns. They would ride the train to Syre to come home for xmas.
Since Roy was 12 when he started, he graduated in 1931 at age 16. The school year ran from Oct. through March. Roy spent the summers grubbing and breaking up more land with ''horse power They had 27 tillable acres when he graduated from NWSA.
With continued hard work through the years, Roy acquired more land. He bought the first tractor, a John Deere ''B'' that Sig Anderson sold in his Twin Valley dealership.
Through the years they added a barn and a few other buildings. Gus liked to build rather than field work. In 1942 they had plans to build a house but World War II was going on and it was impossible to get materials. It was then that Harry decided to join the army and he became a cook in army camp in California. There he met and Married Neva but they had no children.After a couple of years he received a medical discharge due to a heart murmur, and he was very over-weight. He chose to stay on in California and became a cook in Veterans Hospitals. Roy continued to farm and since Gus was no longer able to help, Roy hired younger men to help with the field work.
When the War ended in August of 1945, Roy’s dream of a new house finally became true. Ole Nysetvold was the builder and Henry Lacina of Mahnomen did the plastering and inside work. Henry and Roy formed a lifetime friendship, going hunting together each deer season.
Roy, Gus and Ida were able to move into the house in late Oct. With the addition of more land in 1946, another tractor and other machinery were added including a combine. Roy was still unmarried at age 35 and people were concerned there would be no Bomans to carry on.
On Dec 2, 1950 Roy married Sylvia Buschette of Mahnomen. Son Steve was born Oct. 18, 1951. Kathy was born in April of 1954. Ida passed away on May 15, 1955. Gus continued to live with Roy and family till he died on March 22,1965 at the age of 92. Meanwhile the Boman family kept growing with David, born in March of l957, Diane in April of 1959, Eric in April of 1961, Beth in July 1964 and last but not least, Ruth in Dec. 1965. There are now 22 grandchildren! So much for the concern of the end of the Bomans! There are 8 grandsons with Boman as their last name.
Steve and Sandy have three, Scott, Seth and Sawyer and live 1/4 mile north of the farm. David has Mike, who is in the U.S.Navy in California, and Matt who works for Waubun Steel. He lives 1/2 mile west of the farm, near the lake. Eric and Joyce live just south of the farm and have 3 sons and one daughter, Kasey. Chris is in college Brad, is a senior, Andy is 7th grade and Kasey in 4th in NCE school. Kathy and her family live on Maple Lake. Kathy has worked at Riverview Hospital in Crookston for nearly 30 years.
Diane Mattsen and her family live in Ramsey, Minn. Beth and Brad Strum live in Twin Valley. She works for Prairie Dental and Brad in bookkeeper-manager of Ada-Beltrami CO-OP. Ruth Duchene lives in Moorhead, Minn. and works for Dr. Kline and Paul works for Magnum Electric.
In May 01, 1980 Roy suffered a severe stroke. After 6 months of hospitalization and Rehab he was able to come home. In January of 1982 he suffered several more strokes and after three months he entered the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home. He passed away on Feb. 14, 1985. Seventeen years later, Sylvia is still living on the farm, helping with the management. David and Seth do the farming.
Arthur and Helen (Lund) Boreen
On December 18, 1919, Arthur William Boreen and his wife Helen, loaded all their earthly possessions into a boxcar at Spicer, Minnesota and started out on the journey by train to Waubun, Minnesota. It was a cold, windy day but Art and Helen didn't have much time to think about comfort with nine year old Cora five year old Evander, four-year old Harry, and two-and-a-half year old Marion to care for and an assortment of livestock to tend to. They had brought along a team of horses and sled, three cows' two pigs and some chickens, all the farm machinery they owned and their household goods. It kept them busy keeping things some what organized and seeing that the children were warm as they rumbled northward across the frozen country-side to a place they had never seen.
Arthur had bought a quarter of land in Section 10 of Flom township from Frank Dicksheimer, a well known farm auctioneer in those days.
The train arrived in Waubun in the midst of a snowstorm but immediately the team of horses and sled were unloaded and the family set out on the eleven mile drive to the farm. They stopped at the George Sussner farm one mile south of their destination and spent the night there.
Helen Lund and her twin sister, Anna, were born June 17, 1889 near Earhard Minnesota to Einar and Sophia Lund who homesteaded there in the 1860's. They had come up from the Paynesville, Minnesota area by wagon and their families originally had come from Trondheim, Norway.
Arthur William Boreen was born in 1885 at Spicer, Minnesota to Nels and Christina Boreen. Nels was born in Sweden, and his wife was also Swedish. Art and his brother George, had staked homesteads out near Ross, North Dakota, in the early 1900's Helen Lund was keeping house for her brother, Martin, who had also staked a claim out there, when she met Arthur. They married in 1909 at Ross. and their first child, Cora was born there in 1910. The country was pretty bleak compared to the hills and lakes at Spicer; the crops were poor and the winters almost intolerable so by 1913 the brothers decided to go back home to Minnesota. Evander, Harry, and Marion were born in the six years Art and Helen farmed near Spicer before moving to Flom Township. Three more boys were born after they settled here; Byron in 1921, Francis in 1923, and Raymond in 1925.
Times were hard and it was a struggle to keep seven children fed and clothed, Arthur who had been plagued with a kidney ailment most of his life, was not in good health and Helen and the older children had to do most of the farm work. Helen sewed all the clothes for her large family and the days must have been long when everything had to be done by hand and homemade. Water was carried from a flowing well half way downhill from the house to the creek which meant the pails were empty when you walked down and full when you carried them up to the house. Byron and Francis were responsible for keeping the wood box full and that was a year around job as wood was the fuel used for both heating and cooking. In the coldest part of the winter, the big kitchen was closed off and the family confined themselves to the living room and downstairs bedroom plus two small bedrooms directly above the living room. The wood burning heater was located in the living room and vents in the ceiling carried heat to these bedrooms above. Cooking was done on a little kerosene stove put up in the living room during this time and it must have been pretty hectic with all those energetic children in that one room with their parents a good share of the day. Evander and Harry would spend weeks during the winter hauling firewood.
The Boreen children walked three-fourths of a mile to attend the Plentywood School. The Bethlehem church and graveyard were located across the road from the schoolhouse. The school marm and children carried water from the well at the Stundahl farm. There were as many as thirty-six children attending the Plentywood school during the winter months when the older boys were not needed at home. School was held from November first to April first. Mrs. Edwin (Valborg) Larson taught at Plentywood for four years and Mrs. Connie Fossen taught there during the years when the younger Boreen children were in school.
Mail was delivered by horse and carriage. John Pederson was the early mail carrier. Twice a week, cream and milk were hauled to the creamery at Flom and the family did their banking and picked up supplies on these trips as well as having feed ground at the mill in Flom.
At harvest time, the neighbors would have "threshing bees", where as many as sixteen men would work together. The women on the farm having the "bee'' would really have to slave over the hot stove during the threshing; cooking and baking for all those extra hungry men and with no conveniences like running water, refrigerators, or freezers. The biggest problem was keeping meat fresh in that weather.
Arthur Boreen died in 1936. By that time. Cora, Harry and Marion were out working and Evander, Byron, Francis. and Raymond were living at home and working out as much as they could.
Cora married Louis Hirsch in 1934 and they lived in Chula Vista, California. They had no children.
Evander married Elaine Gunderson of Gary and farmed north of Flom. They had a son, Allan and two daughters, Myrna and Darlene.
Harry, who was single sold his interest after farming with his brother, Francis on the home place since 1945. They bought the farm from their mother, at that time but she continued to live with them there until 1972 when Harry and Helen moved to a house near Flom.
Marion lives in Ada, Minnesota. She was married to Richard Welter.
Raymond lived in Burnsville. Illinois with his wife Rose.
Byron who died in 1970, lived in Lindenhurst, Illinois and his wife, the former Irene Lerud of Twin Valley and their four children. Bruce, Carol. Joan, and Barbara still reside there.
Francis lives in Twin Valley with his wife the former Mrs. Kathleen Olson of Comstock. Minnesota. He acquired two step-sons and two step-daughters at the time he was married in February 1971.
During the second World War. Harry and Byron served in the Air Force in England. Francis served with the Paratroopers on Corregidor, New Cuinea and Mindanao after the Japanese invasion of those islands and Raymond was a member of the Signal Corps serving in Germany.
Helen Boreen, cooked and kept house for her son, Harry, and loved to knit and crochet and grow a few flowers. For over twenty-five years she was active in the Sunshine Homemakers Club.
Those of the family still in this area have belonged to the Wild Rice American Lutheran Church all their lives and the younger children were baptized there and all of them were confirmed there. Arthur and Byron are buried in the Wild Rice Cemetery. The Boreen family roots are planted deep in eastern Norman County!
Byron and Irene (Lerud) Boreen
Byron B. Boreen was born in 1921 to Arthur and Helen (Lund) Boreen. He served in the U.S. Air Force during WW II from 1942 until 1945. He worked as an auto mechanic and body fender repair man. Byron's siblings were; Evander, Harry, Francis, Raymond, Cora (Louis Hirsch) and Marion (Richard Welter).
Irene J. Lerud was born in 1923 to Julius and Ida Lerud. She attended school in Twin Valley, Mn where she graduated. After graduation she worked in a defense plant in Illinois in 1942. Irene's siblings were; Clifford, Ansin, Maurice and Lillian.
Irene met and married Byron B. Boreen in 1945. Following their marriage, they lived in Chicago, Ill for six years, returning to the Flom area where they farmed for six years in section 10 of Flom township. In 1957, they moved to Lindenkust, Ill, where Irene lived until Byron's death in 1970. After that she lived in New Mexico for two years, and then back to Illinois where she lived in Antioch. She was employed as a machine operator for several years.
Byron and Irene were the parents of: Bruce, Carol, Joan, Barbara.
Evander and Elaine (Gunderson) Boreen
Evander Boreen was born on July 1, 1915 at Spicer, Mn to Arthur and Helen (Lund) Boreen. He grew up in the Flom area and attended Sunny Hill country school He was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, where he remained a member his entire life.
Evander married Elaine Gunderson on March 12, 1944 at Zion Lutheran Church, Twin Valley, Mn. They farmed in Flom township in section 22 until their retirement in the early 1980’s. Their son Allan then took over the farming operation and continues to live on the family farm. In 1989 the moved into Twin Valley, Mn.
Evander passed away on April 11, 1993 at the Lutheran Memorial Homes in Twin Valley. After his death Elaine continues to live in the home in Twin Valley. Evander is buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery.
Evander and Elaine were the parents of ; Allan, Myrna (Frank Kenny) and Darlene (Greg Crawford).
George and Christine (Nelson) Boreen
Christine A. Nelson was born on May 5, 1896 at Reynolds, North Dakota and grew up in the Elizabeth and Rothsay area. She married George Boreen on February 5, 1908 at Ross, North Dakota. The couple lived at Ross and Spicer before moving to the Twin Valley, Mn area in 1920. The couple farmed. George passed away in 1941 and Christine died in 1977.
They were the parents of three sons and three daughters; Newman, Clifford, Grant, Clarice, Dorothy (Gilford Rogers) and Doris (Lawrence Gigler)
Harry Boreen
Arthur Harry Boreen was born on July 31, 1916 to Arthur and Helen (Lund) Boreen at Spicer, Minnesota.
In 1918 he moved with his family to a farm near Flom where he grew up and attended country schools here. Harry worked on farms in the Flom area and also in North Dakota before entering the Army Air Corps in 1941. He was an aircraft mechanic stationed in England until his discharge in 1945. After his discharge he returned to the Flom area and farmed with his brother Francis until 1974 when he went to work part-time for the John Deere dealer in Mahnomen, Mn.
Harry was confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church where he remained a member for his life-time. He was an active member of the Flom-Twin Valley VFW Post 3818, Flom League of Men, and the Flom Area Lion's Club.
He loved to fish and spent many hours enjoying his favorite sport both in the summer and winter months. Harry was always there to lend a helping hand for his many friends and he will be sadly missed by all who lives he touched. He always enjoyed a cup of coffee at the Flom cafe and to this day many refer to his chair, his spot as Harry's.
Harry passed away on January 12, 1988 at his home in Flom, located on the North Side of town, it is currently owned by John and Sandy Baker. He is buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery, rural Twin Valley, Mn.
Newman and Malva (Gunderson) Boreen
Newman E. Boreen was born on January 9, 1913 near Willmar, Mn to George and Christine Boreen. At a young age he moved to the Flom area with his family. Here he was confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church and attended schools in this area.
On November 27, 1943 he was united in marriage to Malva Gunderson at Twin Valley, Mn. They settled on a farm near Flom where they not only here but also by Ada, for 16 years. After selling the farm Newman began working in the construction field. He worked in Greenland for three years, and near Aneta, ND for six years. In the early 1960’s he worked at the Beulah Coal Gasification Plant at Beulah, ND.
After his retirement they resided in Dilworth, Mn.
Newman passed away on December 26, 1985 and is buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery.
Newman and Malva were the parents of: Dennis, Darrell, Dean, and Diane.
Charles "Charlie" Braaten
Charlie was born on May 24th, 1942 to Rudolph and Beata (Vange ) Braaten.
He grew up on the home place in section 22 of Flom Township where he is still living today. As a young boy he attended school in Flom until the 6th grade when he went on to Twin Valley graduating in May of 1960.
Charlie took over the family farm after his father's retirement and has been active in farming. In the 1990's Charlie also started driving semi of which he was owner/operator of his own truck. Hauling gravel during the summer months for construction companies.
Charlie is active in his church Aspelund Lutheran Church of Flom, where he has served on the church council.
Charlie has never married, but hasn't quit looking.
Gerald "Jerry" and Peg (Flottemesch) Braaten
Jerry was born to Rudolph and Beata (Vange) Braaten on March 22nd, 1945.
As a young boy he attended country school at the Flom school until the 3rd grade. He then went to Twin Valley where he completed his education and graduated from Twin Valley High School in May of 1963.
Jerry married Margaret (Peg) Flottemesch the daughter of Herman and Marie Flottemesch of Callaway on November 16th, 1974. When they were first married they lived in Walworth Township on the Leonard Seykora farm.
Jerry works for Flom-Ulen Co-op as a bulk truck driver, delivering fuel and propane to area homes and businesses which he has done since 1977. Peg did some substitute teaching when they were first married. In 1975 she began working in Mahnomen County, for the University of Minnesota Extension Service. She continues to work there as Regional Educator and is located in the Mahnomen Extension Office.
Jerry and Peg have one daughter Laura Marie who was born in Detroit Lakes on July 23rd, 1976. Laura attended school at Waubun and graduated from Waubun High School in May of 1995. Laura has one son Christopher Jerald who was born on April 3, 2000 in Detroit Lakes.
Jerry is active in his community as a member of the Flom Area Lion's Club and is also active in his church Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom where he has served on the Church Council.
Gilman A. Braaten
Gilman A. Braaten was born on December 22, 1900 to Gulbrand and Anna Braaten of Flom township. He was baptized and confirmed at Aspleund Lutheran Church, Flom. He attended elementary school in the Flom area and after completing his education he started farming, which he did throughout his life. He never married
Gilman died suddenly on Friday January 30, 1970 at his home in Flom. Funeral services were conducted at Aspelund Lutheran Church with interment at the church cemetery.
Gulbrand and Anna (Botolfson Berkvam) Braaten
Gulbrand and Anna were both born in Norway. Gulbrand was from the Ringericke area and Anna from Flam-Aurland area. They were married in Spring Grove, Minnesota in the early 1880's. Gulbrand was born on July 22, ?? and Anna was born on October 26th, 1865. They moved to the Flom Township in section 22 in 1885 where they lived most of their lives, except for 8-10 years span of farming near the Greenbush-Badger, Minnesota area. Anna had two sisters living in that vicinity. A hundred and seventeen years later the home farm remains in the Braaten family with Charles still living on the home farm.
Gulbrand and Anna had a family of three girls and six boys. Inga (John Skofstad and Otto Larson) lived in the Fertile area, Ella (Matt Ostenvik) lived in the Gary area, Ricka lived in Flom See Ricka Bratten, Rudolph
(Beata Vange) lived on the home place in Section 22 See Rudolph and Beata Braaten, Melvin (Clara Houglum) lived in the Flom, Waubun and Twin Valley area, Gilman lived by Flom, Art lived in Montana, Anton lived in the Montana and Fertile, MN areas, and Olaf (Muriel) lived in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area.
Gulbrand and Anna had five grandchildren. Alvina Ostenvik had one sone Edward Euken of Tucson, Arizona. Melvin had one son Merrill (Norene) who lives in West Fargo, ND. Rudolph had three children. Carol (John Huhner) lives in Fargo, ND, Charles lived on the home place. See Charles Braaten,and Gerald "Jerry" ( Margaret "Peg" Flottemesch) live in Section 25 of Flom Township. Jerry and Peg have one daughter Laura and a grandson Christopher. See Jerry and Peg Braaten.
Melvin and Clara (Houglum) Braaten
Edward Melvin Braaten was born on April 29, 1898 to Gulbrand and Anna (Berkvam) Braaten. He was educated at Flom and Roseau, Mn.
Clara Lois Houglum was born on October 15, 1891, near Flom, Mn. Her parents were Lars and Carrie Houglum. She married Edward Melvin Braaten on April 19, 1932 at Twin Valley, Mn. After their marriage they homesteaded near Sidney, Mt. They came back to the Flom area and farmed until 1946 then moved and farmed west of Waubun, Mn. In 1968 they retired and moved into Twin Valley.
Clara passed away in 1980, funeral services were held at Aspelund with interment in the church cemetery. Edward Melvin passed away on January 16, 1982 and is buried at Aspelund. They were the parents of one son; Merrill
Ricka Braaten
The Area's First Lefse Factory
Ricka, daughter of Gulbrand and Anna Braaten lived most of her life in the village of Flom. She lived in the small house directly across the street from the school house. Her home was demolished several years ago. Ricka was well known for all the good lefsa and flatbread she baked for the Holidays. As Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter drew near, Ricka would be up long before dawn beginning her long days of baking lefsa and flatbread. Many of these days, Ricka would not be putting her rolling pin away until after dark. We have many fond memories or Ricka, with her hair tied back and her back stiff from the many hours of rolling out lefsa and then baking them on her wood range. The warm samples were delicious! Even Ricka was glad to see the Holdiays arrive so orders for her baking would lessen. Some years if Magda Skansgaard was staying in her home in Flom, she would help Ricka bake through the busiest times. In the later years, Alice Sandal assisted Ricka with the baking.
In the earlier years, Ricka had worked on several farms in the area baking and keeping house. Ricka also cooked at the Flom school for a time preparing dinners for the kids.
Ricka was born on July 3rd, 1892. She never married. She had two sisters Inga (Larson) and Ella (Ostenvik) and six brothers, Rudolph, Olaf, Arthur, Anton, Gilman and Melvin. Ricka was a member of Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom and is buried there. Ricka died on May 31st, 1971.
Rudoph and Beata (Vange) Braaten
Rudoph Bernhard Braaten was born to Gulbrand and Anna (Berkvam) on January 12th, 1894. He was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn. Rudolph attended school in Flom, Mn. Beata Vange was born to Andrew and Caroline (Green) Vange. As children Rudolph grew up on the farm in Section 22 of Flom Township and Beata grew up on the family farm in section 25 of Flom Township. Rudolph had three sisters, Inga, Ella and Ricka and five brothers Melvin, Gilman, Art, Anton and Olaf. Beata had four brothers, Knute, Edward, Arnold and Clarence and three sisters Edith (Meyer), Ovivia (Martinson) and Clara (Hendrickson).
He enlisted in the armed service of our country February 24, 1918, from Ada, Mn and served in the Casual Detailment, D.B. Fast Assault Supply Company 34 of the 9th Infantry, Army Expeditionary Forces in France, and saw action and served in the support troop at Ypers BEl, the Hindenberg Line, at the Advance Troops from Mountblocka to Auborganon. He was honorably discharge from Damp Dodge, Iowa April 10, 1919.
He married Beata Vange on May 18th, 1941 in Flom, Township. During their married life they farmed and settled on the home place in Section 22 of Flom Township. Rudolph was active in his community serving on the School Board and also was on various church boards and a trustee. Rudolph also sang in the church choir for many years. he was a member of Flom-Twin Valley VFW Post 3818 and Nesseth Lien Post #431 of the American Legion. Beata is very active in her church and community. Serving with the Ladies Aid at Aspelund Lutheran Church. She worked at Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home in Twin Valley. And is currently on the Grandparent program at Norman County East where she helps the elementary children at the Gary Site. Beata to this day will still help out with the Sunday school at Aspelund substituting as a teacher for the Sunday school.
Rudolph and Beata have three children.
Carol married John Huhner and they live in Fargo where Carol works for Meritcare Hospital.
Charles "Charlie" see Charles Braaten.
Gerald "Jerry" see Jerry and Peg Braaten.
Rudolph died on February 17th, 1976 and is buried at Aspelund Lutheran Church Cemetery, Flom.
August and Lena Brenden
Lena was born on January 10, 1872 at Sogn, Norway. She came to Twin Valley, Mn at the age of 13, and completed her schooling there. Later she worked as a dressmaker at Moorhead, Mn.
August and Lena were married at the Wild Rice Church, in Flom township on May 26, 1897/ They farmed for several years near Flom. In 1917 they left the Flom area and moved to Montana where they farmed four miles southwest of Flaxville. They retired from farming and moved into Scobey, Montana in 1940.
August passed away in 1942, after his death Lena remained in the home until 1946 when she became a resident at the Daniels Memorial Home. Lena was a pioneer member of the Zion Lutheran Church at Flaxville.
They were the parents of two sons Thomas and Loyal and two daughters Aanada (Milton Hoff) and Alice (Lloyd Schaefer).
Funeral services were held at the Flaxville Lutheran Church and burial was at the Orville Cemetery.
Christopher and Hattie (Flom) Brevik
Christopher "Christ" Brevik was born in Norway in 1886. He was a farmer and trucker. He died as a result of a car accident in 1943.
Hattie Flom was born on May 26, 1889 on a farm near Flom. Mn., to Erick and Anna Flom. She was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, Mn. She attended rural schools and grew up on the family farm. As a young girl she was employed as a cook at the Sanatorium at Crookston, Mn and at the Teachers Training School at Portland, ND for several years.
Christ and Hattie were married on November 19, 1919 at Moorhead, Mn. After their marriage they moved to Twin Valley and rural Twin Valley, Mn., where they farmed for several years. She remained on the farm for three years after Christ’s death before moving into Twin Valley, Mn in 1946.
Hattie served her life in her role as a farm housewife and mother, and was a member of the Wild Rice Lutheran Church for many years. She was also very active in the church ALCW of which she was a life member.
Hattie passed away on June 9, 1971 at the age of 82 years. Christ passed away on April 12, 1943. They are both buried at Wild Rice Cemetery. Christ and Hattie were the parents of Clifton, Howard, and Ardis (Elmer Horge).
Howard and Orvilla (Slininger) Brevik
Orvilla "Villie" Slininger was born on February 5, 1927 near Ada, Mn to Charles and Fanny (Hornby) Slininger. She attended country school near her home, and then worked in Ada prior to her marriage to Howard Brevik on February 18, 1945 at Moorhead, Mn.
They lived in Ada, for the first four years and then moved to Twin Valley, where they remained since. The resided in section 12 of Home Lake township until about 1990 when they moved into Twin Valley and their son Todd purchased the home place. Villie began working for the Lutheran Memorial Retirement Center in the late 1970’s and continued there until early in 1992, because of failing health. Villie was a very active person, who loved and enjoyed spending time with her grandchildren. She taught Sunday School for a number of years and was also a member of the American Legion Auxiliary. Howard and Villie were the parents of four children; Geraldine "Gerry" (Roger Theis), Jeff, Karla (Frank Pederson) and Todd. Villie passed away on August 17, 1992 at her home in Twin Valley, Mn. She is buried at Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Twin Valley, Mn. Howard also is buried in Zion Lutheran Cemetery.
Jeffrey and Jolene (Dorseth) Brevik
Jeffrey Howard Brevik was born on May 10, 1960 at Ada, Mn to Howard and Orvilla "Villie" (Slininger) Brevik. Howard’s parents were; Christopher Brevik and Hattie (Flom), they resided in Flom township.
He was baptized and confirmed (1975) at Zion Lutheran Church, Twin Valley, Mn. He attended school at Twin Valley, Mn and graduated with the class of 1978. He then went to Thief River Falls Tech School where he furthered his education in Auto Body Work.
After graduating from TRF Tech he worked for Larry’s Auto Body in Ada, Mn and purchased that business in 1996, it is now called Jeff’s Auto Body. Jeff enjoys spending his spare time hunting and loves to cook, at which he does an excellent job.
Jolene Annette Dorseth was born on April 21, 1962 at Detroit Lakes, Mn to Vernon and LaVonne (Hammer) Dorseth. She was baptized (1962 and Confirmed (1977) at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn. She attended school at Waubun Ogema and White Earth Community Schools at Waubun until the 9th grade at which time she went to Twin Valley Public School, where she graduated with the class of 1980.
After graduation Jolene went to Moorhead Tech where she pursued a degree in Legal Secretary. She started working for the Farmer’s State Bank in Waubun after finishing Tech school, here she worked as a teller. In August of 1987 Jolene went to work for Wild Rice Electric in Mahnomen, where she is still employed today. Jolene enjoys spending her spare time reading and listening to music.
Jeff and Jolene were married on June 23, 1984, at Zion Lutheran Church, Twin Valley, Mn. The settled on a farm on the north side of home lake in Home Lake Township. Here they have remained and are busy raising their family of three boys. Adam Howard (twin) was born on March 4, 1987 at St. Luke’s, Hospital in Fargo, ND. He was baptized at Aspelund on April 19, 1987 and will be confirmed in the fall of 2002. He attends Norman County East where he is active in Football and Baseball. He enjoys hunting with his father.
Aaron Jeffrey Brevik was born on March 4, 1987 at St. Luke’s, Hospital in Fargo, ND. He was baptized on April 19, 1987 along with his twin brother Adam and will be confirmed in the fall of 2002. Aaron attends Norman County East where he is active in Football and Baseball. Aaron likes to hunt and looks forward to Deer Camp each fall with the anticipation of getting the "Big Buck".
Kristian Shane Brevik was born on April 28, 1995 at Merit Care Hospital in Fargo, ND. He was baptized at Aspelund in June of 1995. He attends school at Norman County East, Gary Site where he is an active little boy. Krisitan loves to play and socialize. In his spare time he enjoys spending his time with Jackie and Ernie Saeland.
Jens and Clara (Jensveen) Brodsho
Jens Johannes Brodsho was born on the Holte farm, in Drangedal parish, Telemark, Norway on November S, 1858. He was the 5th of 6 total children born to Johannes Aslakson and Kari Jensdatter. His childhood must have been harsh being a child of a "day laborer" and having his mother committed to the Guastad Mental Hospital in 1865 - eventually dying there in 1870.
In June of 1882, Jens migrated to America probably on the ship Thingvalla and came thru Castle Garden. Jens has a sister named Siri Christina (Eliassen) who was married and lived in Griggs County North Dakota so I suspect he was heading that direction when he stopped in Norman County.
Jens met Clara Jensveen and eventually married her in the Wild Rice Lutheran Church on August 4, 1888. Twelve or thirteen children were born to this couple and Jens settled in section 33 of Wild Rice. Apparently Jens was not the owner of this parcel of land and he agreed to "sell" his rights to it and moved to 40 acres in Fossum township in 1901 next to his father-in-law Ole Jensveen. Raising 13 children on a hilly 40 acres as a "day laborer" could not have been pleasant.
In 1908-1912 time era, Jens tried to establish a homestead in Grant County, North Dakota but was again thwarted by the legal system and lost his right to the land.
Jens began to feel like his was persecuted and that others were out to "get him". Conditions got so bad that in 1917, Jens was declared insane and admitted to the Fergus Falls Regional Medical Hospital. He was discharged from parole in 1919 and returned to his home in Fossum township.
In 1923, his grandson was orphaned and Clara Brodsho brought the 1 year old home to live with them. Living conditions and Jens' attitude never improved, so Clara left Jens with her 4 young children and went to the Homestead Montana area where Clara's brothers lived. The "story" was told that Jens was going to accompany them but at the last minute Jens refused so Clara left Jens with only his mattress and left him.
Jens became even more of a hermit and died in his shack on his 40 acres on January 26, 1937. Even in death, his grave site was unmarked and of little interest until a recent headstone appeared in the Wild Rice Cemetery in 2001.
By Richard Line
Elmer and Mabel (Smith) Brogren
Elmer and Mabel Brogren first made their home at Willmar, Mn. Mabel was the daughter of Henry and Emma Smith they came to Walworth around 1920 from Cottonwood, Mn. They had two children; Otis and Mabel. Otis became a teacher and taught in California for a number of years and he and his family lived in Glendale.
Mabel and Elmer were the parents of Vernon, Kenneth, Virginia, Virgil, Phyllis. After Kenneth graduated from School in 1936, the family came to Walworth to join her parents. Elmer passed away in 1934. They moved onto the farm in section 17 of Walworth township, today John Rikhus resides there.
Later they moved to section 34 onto the Somdahl place. They stayed here until Kenneth and Bernice were married at which time Henry and Emma, along with their daughter Mabel and grand daughter Phyllis moved to Detroit Lakes, Mn. Ken and Bernice took over the farming operation. They still reside on the farm. Mabel last years she resided with her grand daughter Phyllis and family in Detroit Lakes.
Vernon married Elzada Fagerlie and they farmed in Walworth for some years and then moved to Detroit Lakes, Mn. They are the parents of four children; James, Vernette (Darrell Olson), Vernon Jr. and Jerry.
Kenneth; see Kenneth and Bernice Brogren
Virginia married Raymond Fagerlie. They are the parents of ten children; Sharon ( Jim Miller), Sandra, David, Beverly (Dean Chadourne), Dale, Douglas, Debra (Bob Buth), Bonnie (Peter Lage), Dana and Brenda.
Virgil married Margaret Bromander. They are the parents of seven children; Marlys ( Toby Burda/ Darwin Leeds), Corrine (Baier), Darrell, Dean, Curtis, and Randy.
Phyllis married Julius Schmidt. They are the parents of seven children; Cheryl ( Joe Knopf), Karen, Linda, Donald, Lori, Lois and Brian.
Ken and D. Bernice (Fagerlie) Brogren
Ken and Bernice have lived all 58 years of their married life on the same farm, 6 miles south of Flom, know as the Somdahl farm. They raised cattle, sheep and chickens, also small grain, corn and soy beans. Ken also worked for ASC for 28 years, retiring in 1989.
They have one son and five daughters;
Ken Jr. married Carolyn Sandland and they have four sons. He has worked for Roseburg Lumber Co. for many years and lives in Myrtle Creek, Oregon.
Janice married Ross Hardesty and they live in Brainerd, Mn. Both of them work for Mills Motors. They have two sons and one daughter.
Barbara married Steve Kent. They both worked for the West Fargo, ND schools. They have two sons. Steve now works for Moorhead State Bank. Barb passed away in October 2000.
Lynette (Hellum) works for an investment company and an appraisal co. She lives by Anoka Mn. She has two daughters and one son.
Valerie married Randall Alland, they reside in Hawley, Mn. Randy works at the State Bank in Hawley and Valerie works for the Hawley School system. They have three daughters.
Carol is married to John Rikhus and they live in Hawley. John works for the Northway Carriers and Carol works for the V.A. Hospital in Fargo. They have two daughters.
The Brogrens also have 2 step grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren.
Ken enjoyed fishing both summer and winter for many years, also made a lot of things from wood, most of which was given to family members.
Bernice does a lot of hand work; embroidery, hardanger, counted cross stitch and quilting. When the girls were younger she sewed most of their clothes.
They were members of Atlanta Lutheran Church, rural Ulen until last August when they last sermon was heard by several hundred people, many were former members. They now belong to Salem Lutheran Church in Hitterdal. Both Ken and Bernice held different offices at Atlanta over the years. Ken has also been on the Ulen school board, Flom Creamery board, Walworth twp board, Ulen Lions, Masonic Lodge and he helped organize the Becker County Soil and Water Conservation District. Bernice belongs to the Walworth Homemaker’s and Viking Manor Guild.
Jon Hugo and Clara (Solid) Bromander
Jon Hugo Vlademar Bromander was born on April, 23,1887 at Rinna, Ostergotland, Sweden.
Clara Matilda Solid was born on May 12, 1894 at Sloan, Iowa.
Both Hugo and Clara grew up on farms in northern Iowa. They were married on June 15, 1916. Their first years of married life was at Savage, Minnesota where Hugo was the Railroad Station Agent and Telegraphist. They came to this area and settled on a farm in Walworth Township, Becker County, Minnesota in the spring of 1920. Here they farmed and raised their family. The farm is located four miles south of Flom on Becker County Highway 7. After they retired from farming they moved into Flom and purchased the home just north of the VFW, which is currently owned by Arlen Lunde.
Hugo and Clara were the parents of five children. Gayle Charles was born in 1918, Margaret Helen (Brogren) was born in 1920, Kenneth Carl was born in 1922, Eilen died at birth in 1930 and Robert Clayton was born in 1932.
For many years they brought all their cream and eggs to Flom to be sold or exchanged for groceries. That was when they lived on the farm south of Flom.
Hugo thought it was an honor to have served on the first board of directors of Wild Rice Electric Cooperative at Mahnomen, Mn., along with Lewis Kirkeby of Flom and six other men and one woman. Hugo filled the vacancy on the board when Peter Ingebretson became project superintendent. They all were interested in getting electrical power to the rural families.
Hugo died on May 19, 1972. After Hugo died Clara moved into an apartment in Ulen and sold their house to Arlen Lunde. Clara died on April 24, 1977. They are both buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery, Flom, Mn.
Beatrice (Syverson) Bromander
Beatrice Syverson was born on July 23, 1930 at Ulen, Mn to Olaf and Cora Syverson. After graduating from Ulen High School she attended Moorhead State College, receiving a teaching degree. She taught school for some years and then returned to MSC and received a degree of bachelor of science in 1958.
She taught school at Averill and Twin Valley and five years at Crookston, Mn.
Beatrice married Robert Bromander, son of Hugo and Clara Bromander on June 27, 1959. Beatrice and Robert were the parents of one son Jon, who was nine months old at the time of her death in 1961. She is buried at the West Cemetery in Ulen, Mn.
Benny and Gyda (Wermager) Buchholz
In the spring of 1942, the Benny Buchholz family moved to the Henry Haroldson home from Pinehurst Resort at Naytahwaush. Benny worked for Art Thorstenson who operated a grocery store and later worked for Pete Larson at the grocery store across the street from Arts. Benny loved hunting and fishing. Benny was born on March 20th, 1898 to Henry and Ellen (Stephenson) Buchholz. He died on September 19th, 1968 and is buried at Aspelund.
Gyda was born to Ole and Tilla (Gulbranson Dalen) Wermager. Gyda’s mother was born in Sondre Land, Norway and immigrated to America in 1884 with her mother and sister to join her father who had come a year earlier.
Benny and Gyda were married on Oct 3, 1923. Gyda did housework and babysitting for many different families. She loved to garden, canning, cooking, baking and embroidering. Benny and Gyda attended Aspelund, Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn.
It was four years after Benny's death that Gyda left their home in Section 33 of Flom Township, the home is currently owned by Judy Eisenhower. Gyda moved to Twin Valley where she has resided for 20 years at Valley Pines and now resides at the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home also in Twin Valley. Gyda is 97 years old.
Ben and Gyda had seven children. Two infant baby girls are deceased. The oldest offspring in Imogene (Jacobson). She attended grade school at Naytahwaush and High School at Mahnomen and Waubun. She furthered her education for two years and received a degree in teaching. She taught school at five different country schools around Flom. She married Kenneth Jacobson in 1950. They had no children. Ken and Jean moved to Eveleth, Mn in 1952. Ken worked in the mines and also for the City of Eveleth. Ken was a avid hunter and fisherman. He died on April 26, 1980 and is buried at Aspelund. Jeanie worked in a diet kitchen at the Eveleth Fitsgerald Hospital for 31 years, retired and moved back to Twin Valley. Now she has been a part of the foster-grandparent program at the Norman County East Elementary School, Gary Site for 10 years.
Dona attended Naytahwaush and Flom grade schools, graduated from Waubun High School. She attended Aakers Business College at Grand Forks, and also met and married Boyd Erickson an Air Force officer.After six months of marriage Boyd was killed. Dona attended Lutheran Bible Institute of St. Paul and Emmanuel Nursing Home in Omaha, NE becoming a Registered Nurse. She married Perry Loten. Perry worked for Hormel Meat Company for 35 years and retired. They reside in Fremont NE.
Bernard attended grade school in Flom and graduated from Twin Valley High School. He served in the army 34 years, was stationed in Germany. He attended school under the GI Bill. He married Sharon LaFrineer and had two children. Tami and Perry. Perry was 16 when he was tragically killed in a car accident. They lived in Thief River. Bernard did engineering jobs, and owned "Auto Mart: He had a Auto Mart in Tonhawa OK., also. Bernard retired, now lives in Ponca City and has a part time job in a "Dollar Tree" store. He has four grandchildren and two step grandchildren.
Boyd attended grade school at Flom and graduated from Twin Valley High School. He joined the Air Force at the age of 18. He served in many bases throughout the US. He served 20 years in the Air Force, 16 of which were served overseas in Korea, Thailand, and Viet Nam. He retired at 38 years of age. He worked and lived in Grand Forks for five years, also worked in Texas and Ms. He married Shirlee William, they have three children and five grandchildren. They reside in Mineral Wells, Tx.
Linda attended grade school at Flom and graduated from High School in Twin Valley. She had various jobs in Fargo and married Ronald Olson. They have two children, Kristi and Tyler. They lived in Arizona, Fargo, Moorhead, Fort Collins, Minneapolis, Texas and now live in Smithville, Mo. They have one grandchild. Ronald sells, auto body computer software and Linda does interior decorating.
Kearney and Delores (Underdahl) Buckle
Kearney Gerald Buckle was born on June 10, 1920 on the family farm in Flom township, to William and Elisa Buckle. He was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, Mn. He attended country schools in the area and graduated from Twin Valley High School. He grew up on the farm and spent much of his life on the family farm.
Kearney Buckle was inducted into the armed service of his country on February 4, 1942 from Ft. Snelling, Minnesota. He attained the rank of Staff Sergeant as a Chief Radio Operator in the Signal Battalion of the Army, and was honorably discharged from Camp San Luis Obispo, California on February 17, 1944.
On June 22, 1946, he was united in marriage to Delores Underdahl at Wild Rice Lutheran Church. They lived in Detroit Lakes, Mn for one year, moving to a farm in Flom Township where they farmed for 11 years. In 1958 they moved into Twin Valley where he has lived ever since. He served as rural mail carrier for 20 years. He was quite active in church and Boy Scouts, having served on the Board of Deacons and presently on the Board of Trustees, and served as chairman of the Boy Scout committee for several years. He was a past commander of the American Legion Post here and was a regular member of the rifle squad for many years. He loved sports and played on the city baseball team as a young man, bowled on several teams and played a good game of horseshoe.
Kearney and Delores were the parents of: Danny, Michael, Kevyn and Kerry, Rebecca (William Sharff) and Roxanne.
Kearney passed away on January 6, 1977 at the age of 56 years. He is buried at Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Twin Valley, Mn.
After his death Delores continued to live in Twin Valley, Mn for while and then moved to Moorhead.
William and Elisa (Thompson) Buckle
William Buckle was born on September 19, 1888, in Canada. He moved to the Flom, Mn area. Here he met and married Elisa Thompson on July 9, 1916. They lived in other areas including Hastings, ND, before moving to Valley City, Nd in 1944. In Valley City he was employed at the local mill company and also worked on farms in the area.
William died at the age of 90 in 1978, Elisa died in 1965. Funeral services for William were held at Grace Free Lutheran Church at Valley City, ND.
William and Elisa were the parents of six daughters; Velma (Scott Smith), Mabel (Clifford Glawe), Elvira (Leonard Krier), Marvel (Julian Landsem) and LaVerne (Victor Johnson) who all lived in Moorhead at the time of Williams death. One daughter Coral (Lowell Laufenberg), resided in Alice, ND.
Ira Merton and Lillie Jane (Smith) Cary
Ira Merton Cary was born November 29, 1871 at Saratoga, Winona County, Minnesota. He was the son of George Thomas and Ellen Jane (Abbott) Cary. Ira had two siblings, Ida May and William Wells Cary. When he was very young, he moved with his parents to St. Charles, Minnesota which is also in Winona County. Here he received his education. He taught school for several years in rural districts in that area. In 1902, he came to Hawley and purchased 240 acres in Section 31 of Cromwell Township in Clay County. Here he built a home and stable. On March 17, 1904 he married Lillie Jane Smith of St. Charles and they settled on their farm. There they raised small grain to feed their livestock and some potatoes, but their main crop was prairie hay. Ira rented land besides what they owned and cut, stacked and later baled the hay. It was loaded on railroad cars at Muskoda, just east of Moorhead, Minnesota. Everything was done with horses and there were no conveniences except a telephone. This was most likely a cooperative owned by the area farmers.
Their family of seven sons were all born here except Donald who was born after they moved to the Ulen, Minnesota area. The boys in order of their birth were Leslie, Cecil, Lowell, Kermit, Russell, Harold and Donald. The four older boys attended school in District #50 which was a mile and a quarter northeast of their home. They attended the Methodist church which was about two miles northwest of their home. I.M., as Mr. Cary was known, served on the school board and was assessor of Cromwell Township for a time.
In 1920, they sold their farm in Clay County and bought 200 acres in Walworth township in Becker County east of Ulen, Minnesota. They moved to their new home in the spring of 1921. Everything had to be moved by team and wagon. The cattle were driven the 27 miles. In 1924 they rented the adjoining half section of land from Sandstrom and moved onto that. While here the boys went to school in District #35 and the family attended Walworth Baptist Church. I.M. Cary served on the school board here and was Clerk of the Walworth township board for many years.
I.M. and Lillie retired from the farm in 1946 and moved to Twin Valley where they lived the rest of their lives. Mother Cary passed away on April 15, 1948 at the age of 66 years and I.M. passed away on August 22, 1954 at the age of 82.
Their children are as follows:
Leslie Merrille, born February 12, 1905, the oldest son married Irene Jore of Hawley and they had one son, Robert Lee, who died in a tractor accident on September 7, 1970. They farmed in Walworth township until retiring in 1969. Leslie died on April 22, 1973 at the age of 68. Irene lives in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota.
Cecil Duran, born March 6, 1907, who married Eleanor Beckman of rural Flom and lived in Flom. He was a trucker and a farmer. They had three daughters: Gloria, Jacqualine and Laenea. Cecil died on July 25, 1970 at the age of 63. Eleanor lives in Mahnomen.
Lowell Merton, born March 24, 1909, was also a trucker and farmer. He quit farming in 1959, but trucked until retiring in 1970. He was married to Nellie Westgaard from Detroit Lakes area. They had one son Raymond. They lived in Twin Valley from 1938 to 1948 when they moved to Ulen, Minnesota. Lowell died on September 7, 1997 at age 88. Nellie moved to Detroit Lakes and later to Middletown, Ohio near her son, Raymond, where she resides at the present time.
Kermit Emery, born July 21, 1914, was married to Eldora Marguerite Swenson, who was born March 16, 1918, of Ulen, Minnesota. They had three sons and one daughter. Their children are Bruce, Clark, Reeves and Nancy. Kermit was the Standard Oil bulk dealer in Twin Valley for over 30 years. Eldora died on July 12, 1991 at age 73. Kermit continued to live at Twin Valley, Minnesota until ill health forced him to enter the nursing home in Blue Earth, Minnesota where his son, Clark, is a Lutheran minister. Kermit died on December 21, 2000.
Russell served in the Air Force during WW 2. After his military discharge he worked for a sheeting dealer in Fargo until 1947, when he moved to Valley City, North Dakota and started his own heating and air conditioning business with a partner. He later was a city mail carrier and real estate salesman in Valley City. He married Frances Hanson of Ulen, Minnesota in January of 1948. They had two sons and a daughter, David, Wayne and Lorna. They are now retired and living in Valley City, North Dakota.
Harold served in the Navy during WW 2. After his discharge from the Navy he married Eileen Syverson of rural Ulen, Minnesota. They had five children, Ardean, Pamela, Keith, Neil and Bonnie. He farmed for many years and was a dispatcher for the Minnesota Highway Patrol at Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. He retired in 1987.
Donald Orval Cary, born July 10, 1922, served in the Navy during WW 2. He married Eunice Fevig of Ulen, Minnesota. They had one son, Dale. He farmed for awhile after his military discharge, was a long time auctioneer and owned a resort at Tulaby Lake in Minnesota. Donald died on October 4, 2000. Eunice lives in Moorhead, Minnesota.
John H. and Ellen (Christensen) Cavanaugh
Ellen was born on January 25, 1911 in section 30 of Walworth township to Pete and Mary Christensen. She attended rural schools in Ulen and Flom areas. She graduated from Twin Valley High School in 1930. In 1935 she married Jack Western, he died in 1936. No children. In 1946 she met and married John "Jack" H. Cavanaugh. They lived in Chicago, Illinois and Palo Alto, California. Here Jack worked for Boeing Aircraft and Ellen worked in a Department Store. Jack loved to work with wood and his specialty was making violins, which he focused more on in his retirement. Jack was a member of the Masonic Lodge and a Veteran having served in the Marine Corp.
Jack died on April 7, 1977 on his 78th birthday. Ellen continued to live in Palo Alto, until her death on September 17, 1983. They are both buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery.
Clive S. and Myrtle (Berg) Chamberlin
Clive was born on a farm in Grand Park Township, Becker County, to Wells E. and Ida (Sauth) Chamberlin in 1896. He was the ninth of ten children born to them. Clive was inducted into the U.S. Army in 1918 from Detroit Lakes, Mn. He was ready to embark for overseas duty when WW I ended.
He was discharged at Sparta, Wi. Clive worked for logging camps during the winter and was a farmer all his life.
Myrtle Berg was born on February 24, 1909 in Thief River Falls, Mn. To Andrew and Maria Berg. She moved with her family to the Twin Valley area where she grew up. She graduated from Twin Valley High School in 1928. After graduation she went on to further her education at Moorhead State University receiving a teaching degree. Myrtle taught school in Norman County for five years. Before she attended Lutheran Bible Institute in Minneapolis. She was teaching school in Becker County where she met Clive, he was on the school board.
Clive and Myrtle were married on June 2, 1936 at Detroit Lakes, Mn. They first resided at Height of Land Lakes in Becker County before moving to a farm in Fossum Township in 1938. They farmed near Twin Valley. In the 1950’s she returned to MSU and then taught school in Twin Valley until retiring in 1972.
Myrtle was a active member of Wild Rice Lutheran Church, have served on the Ladies Aid, Church circles and also as a Sunday School teacher.
In 1969 they moved into Twin Valley, Mn., where they resided until their deaths. Clive passed away in 1980 and Myrtle on April 21, 1995. They are both buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery, rural Twin Valley, Mn.
Clive and Myrtle were the parents of; Clinton, Byron, Idabelle (James Buskirk), Bernice (Wayne Stiyer/Frank Stevenson), Grace (Elmer Machler), Rosella (Lyle Manthe), Ruth (Mark Becker), Linda (Douglas Maresh) and Carolyn Anderson (John Brewster).
Amos Christensen
Amos moved to Flom from Staples, Mn after he retired from the railroad. He made his home with his brother John. Amos did some farm work the first few years he was here. He also helped his brother with some of the painting. While painting the church at Syre the scaffolding broke and they fell down. John broke his ankle in the fall. Amos then set up a shoe and harness shop in the southwest corner of John Dorseth’s hardware store. He also worked at the Co-op in Flom part-time. He later acquired space between the Jacobson Cafe and the Narum Store.
Here he built a small shoe and harness repair shop. He left Flom after the second world war and went to the west coast. He lived with his daughter and son-in-law, Verna and Earl Ellingson. He returned to Minnesota in the early 1960’s and lived with a daughter and son-in-law Zola and John Pierce at Mora, Mn. He then returned to Oregon and lived out his remaining years with his daughter. He is buried in Oregon. He had five children: Kenneth, Wayne, Zola, Rena and Verna (Earl Ellingson)
Edvar and Austine (Stundahl) Christensen
Edvar J. Christensen was born in 1895 at West Branch, Iowa to Julius and Kerstin (Sorensen) Christensen. As a young man, he moved with his parents to Faith, Mn. Here he was raised on the family farm. Edvar’s siblings were William, John, Otto, Neil, Fred and Lena/Caroline.
Austine was born in 1895 to Torris and Olena (Prestegord) Stundahl. Austine’s siblings were; Lewis, Selmer, Olaf, George, Tilford, Marvin, Clara (Carl Aamoth/Andrew Syverson), Laura (Theodore Lerud), Selma (Henry Smith), Mabel (Ole Stavetieg) and Elvina (Guy Thompson).
After Edvar and Austine were married they rented a farm in Flom township, section 22 until 1942 when they purchased a farm near Ulen, Mn. They stayed here and farmed for nearly forty years.
Edvar and Austine were the parents of Thoris Julius and Kathryn (Lloyd Hegg). Beside their own two children they also helped raise a niece, Violet Rose Stundahl (Johnson Williams). She was the daughter of Lewis and Hulda Stundahl, when illness made it impossible for her parents to care for her. Edvar and Austine were a caring couple, who always enjoyed the fellowship of neighbors, friends and relatives. They hold many fond memories for those they left behind. Edvar died suddenly from a heart attack in his home on December 1, 1956. Austine passed away on May 22, 1970. They are both buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery, rural Twin Valley, Mn.
George and Luella (Eyre) Christensen
George E. Christensen was born in 1892, not much is know about him or where he originally came from.
Luella Christensen was born in Missouri on September 26, 1888.
George and Luella were married on June 19, 1926 at Kenosha, Wisconsin. They came to Flom in 1937 and made their home here since. They were members of Immanuel Lutheran Church, rural Flom, Mn. They had no children. George died in 1962 and Luella died in 1960, both are buried at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery.
Henry Christensen
Henry Christensen was born to Jens and Anna Marie Christensen. He served his country during World War One, giving his life for her. Henry was a Corporal, Co. C., 16th Reg., lst Div. Son of Marie and Jens Christensen of Flom township. He Volunteered his service on April 27, 1917, and was sent to Camp Ft. Logan, Col. Henry was wounded twice and died on September 25, 1918. He also served on the Mexican border before his death. He was wounded in June, 1918. After recovering from his wounds, he joined his company and again went into action. He was severely wounded and died from wounds on September 25, 1918. He is buried near Lorraine France.
James Lee Christensen
James Lee was born on February 3, 1919 to Pete and Mary (Olsen) Christensen in Flom. He grew up and attended school at Sunny Hill country school. After finishing his education Jim entered the military to serve his country. He served in North Africa and in Sicily Italy. While he was serving in Italy, Jim was wounded in the Italy campaign and received the Purple Heart. He was a Veteran of WW II. Jim was a member of the Veteran’s of Foreign Wars and the American Legion.
After his discharge he returned home to section 7 of Flom township. He farmed here until he retired from farming and started to work for Habedank Construction of Twin Valley, Mn. In his later years he moved to Section 29 of Flom township, where he lived on the old farm site of Henry and Viola Dorseth’s (Jim sister).
Jim enjoyed fishing, hunting and playing cards. It was always a treat to have "Uncle Jim" come and stay, along with his true companion was his dog, Eli the Purp Christensen" he was a brindle colored dog who when you got near the car let you know you were stretching your limits with him. Jim loved animals and that could be seen by his animal friends he shared his life with; Petrina, Tekla, Eli to name a few.
Jim passed away on April 6, 1984 at the Veteran’s Hospital in Fargo, ND. His funeral services were held at Walworth Baptist Church, Flom with internment at the church cemetery.
Jens and Anna Marie Christensen
Jens and Anna Marie came to this area from Mason City, Iowa. They lived on a farm five miles east of Ulen, Mn. They were the parents of five sons and one daughter; Carl, John Soren; see John Soren Christensen, Nils Peter; see Pete and Mary Christensen, Amos, Henry; see Henry Christensen, and Mary (Williams)
Carl moved from Iowa to Chicago, he was married and had two sons, Charles and Raymond. Mary their only daughter was married to John Williams. They lived on a ranch in South Dakota, (by Rapid City) where they mainly raised sheep, some cattle and horses. They had two sons; John and William.
John Soren Christensen
John Soren was born to Jens and Anna Marie Christensen in Mason City, Iowa. His family came to this area and settled east of Ulen, Mn. John went to photograph school at Staples, Mn. He returned to Flom and set up a studio in the house which is now owned by Elinor Swenson. His photo business usually kept him very busy on week ends, with wedding pictures, confirmation pictures, families and graduations. John was known through out the Flom, Ulen and Waubun area for his excellent work and reasonable prices. John was also a painter, this he did during the week, with doing wall papering besides. He was the handy man around Flom. Most of the buildings in the Flom area were painted by him. John never owned a car so he usually had to hire transportation.
He lived by himself most of the time, although John Haroldson rented a down stairs room from him for many years. He lived in Flom until his health began to fail from cancer. He then moved out to his niece’s home (Henry and Viola Dorseth’s). Here he stayed with family until his death on May 23, 1949. John Soren Christensen is buried at Aspelund Lutheran Church Cemetery. The Aspelund church had been painted both inside and outside by John over the years several times. He never married
John P. and Martha (Nelson) Christensen
John P. Christensen was born on a farm in West Branch, lowa, on September 27' 1890. His parents Julius and Kjersten Christensen had originally immigrated from Denmark.
Mr. Christensen was the eldest of seven children, six boys and one girl. He received a common-school education, and later with his family moved to Clements, Minnesota. where his family farmed.
In 1913 John, along with his brother Bill, dug wells in eastern Norman County and in Mahnomen County for about two years.
In 1914 John started farming in Flom Township. That summer he returned to Clements to get his bride, Martha Nelson. Her parents, Peter and Inga Nelson, had also immigrated from Denmark.
Four sons and two daughters were born to John and Martha. They were Kenneth, born February 7. 1916: Merrill, born June 10, 1918; Donald, born March 4, 1922; Robert, born December 6, 1926, Doris, born January 8 1931; and Ina, born November 1, 1932.
Their oldest son, Kenneth, lived at Detroit Lakes where he owned and operated Lakes Electric. He has three children, JoAnn. Ronald. and Allan.
Merrill lives at Cynthiana. Indiana. where he was a road construction engineer. He is married to Vivian Christensen and they have two daughters, Karen and Bonnie.
Donald lived near Twin Valley in Fossum Township, where he was engaged in farming. He raised registered Angus cattle, farrows and finishes about 800 head of swine and raises small grains along with his two sons Bruce and Micheal. Donald was married to Bernice Peterson and they have five children, Donna, Bruce, Donald Jr., Janice and Michael. Donald and Bernice are both deceased and buried at St. Olaf Cemetery at Faith, Minnesota.
Robert lives at Forrest Lake, Minnesota, where he is a building contractor. Robert was married to Elna Jane Dullum; They have five children; Cheryl, Renee, Steven, Kevin and Todd.
Doris was married to Arlin Wiger. They operate the home farm. Doris taught fourth grade at the Twin Valley Public School. They have three boys and a girl; Rollin, Dean, Pamela and Timothy.
Ina Mae was married to Duane Johnson. They lived at Gilbert, Minnesota. They have six boys Douglas, Dwight, Peter, Rodney, Neil, and Earl.
In 1916 John and Martha with baby Kenneth moved to Faith, where they farmed and lived until September of 1954. At that time they moved to Twin Valley. John passed away in 1956, and Martha at present is a resident of the Lutheran Retirement Center in Twin Valley.
In the 1930's times were tough, crops were short, but they got along with what they had. In 1932 a hail storm wiped out their entire crop. They bought oats for seven cents a bushel to feed the cattle and horses. During the winter months they would haul their cattle and pigs to Twin Valley where they were shipped by train to the market at South St. Paul. The cattle were hauled on sleds pulled by horses, leaving early in the morning and returning late at night. They had a road to town through the woods, across creeks and the river. Many times the road was rough and the weather so cold that they would walk behind to keep warm. During the winter they also cut cord wood, which was hauled to Mahnomen, Flom and Twin Valley.
John served on the school board of District 46, Faith, Minnesota. He was on the Fossum Township Board and was President of the St. Olaf Lutheran Church from 1941 until 1952. Martha was active in church. she sang in the church choir and held offices in the St. Olaf Ladies Aid. During the years her children were in 4-H, Martha was a club leader. She was also a member of the Homemakers Club, and was a seamstress for several families in the neighborhood.
Pete and Mary (Olsen) Christensen
Nels Peter Christensen was born on July 15, 1877 to Jens and Anna Marie Christensen, near Mason City, Iowa. He grew up in that area and attended school there. He had two brothers and one sister. Amos and John, Henry and Mary (Williams).
Mary Martha Olsen was born on September 23, 1884, in Mansfield Ohio, the daughter of James and Hannah Olsen. She grew up in Ohio and later moved to Iowa with her parents. Mary had on brother and a half sister, names unknown.
Peter and Mary were married on January 6, 1902 at Story City, Iowa. When they lived in Chicago, after they were first married Peter worked for a cabinet company, besides building cabinets they also made fire place mantels. Pete’s job was to deliver and install these mantel pieces in business places and homes. Two children were born to them while in Chicago; William ( died and is buried there) and Viola. They left Chicago in 1908 with their daughter Viola to come to Mn to farm. They lived on several farms in the Walworth township and Flom townships.
Lady luck did not smile on him here. He lost some cattle and buildings when he lived east of Ulen, when a tornado struck. He would tell that they saw the storm coming and ran from the house, laying down in a ditch until the storm was over. Mary, his wife, never lost her fear of storms after that. They moved to from Flom to west of Syre, not understanding alkaline which was prevalent in the soil and this transferred to the feed and grass, his livestock did poorly. They then packed up their belongings and moved to section 7 of Flom township. Here he lost the barn in an early morning fire. Besides losing the barn he lost his car, three horses, a sow and little pigs and some calves. He also lost his harnesses and many of his tools. One horse was able to break free and made it out of the barn. They never really were sure as to what started the firs, at first they thought it was started in the car, but later it was deemed to have probably started from damp hay. Then the 1930’s came and with that came the dust storms and depression. During this time it didn’t matter what you had to sell, it wasn’t worth anything.
Pete loved to work with mechanical things, especially motors, this was kind of a hobby for him. He was interested in bee keeping and had several hives of bee’s. He kept his family well supplied with honey. Mary not only took on the role of a housewife and mother but also took her talents to those in her community, doing practical nursing for friends, family and neighbors. She also did midwifery of which Glen Larson, son of Valborg and Edwin Larson was one of her deliveries. In her spare time she enjoyed crocheting and also her grandchildren say she could make the best Lemon Pie’s in the world. Mary was also a member of the VFW Auxiliary.
Pete and Mary were members of Walworth Baptist Church, Flom, Mn. Pete died on September 24, 1966, after which Mary continued living on the farm with her son Jim. She entered the Lutheran Memorial Home in 1969 where she resided until her death on March 1, 1975. They are both buried at Walworth Baptist Church Cemetery.
Pete and Mary were the parents of six children. William their first born was born and died while they lived in Chicago and is buried there. Viola was born in 1906, See: Henry and Viola Dorseth, Amos George was born in Walworth township on January 6, 1909 and died on February 2, 1909. There is a discrepancy with his name. To clarify this it is stated on both the birth and death records for Walworth Township that his name is Amos George. On his cemetery stone his name is George E. He is buried at Walworth. Ellen was born on January 25, 1911, See John and Ellen Cavanaugh, Ruby was born on July 19, 1916, See Ruby and Melvin Vik and James was born on February 3, 1919. See James Christensen.
Ronald C. and Mabel (Gregorson) Christensen
Ronald Charles Christensen was born on December 1, 1920 to William and Selma (Flom) Christensen. He was baptized and confirmed in the Wild Rice Lutheran Church. He grew up on the family farm and attended elementary school and high school at Waubun.
On October 6, 1943, he was united in marriage to Mabel Gregorson at her parent's home near Ulen, Mn, by Rev. Amundson. They resided in Norman and Clay county for a few years, then moved to Babbitt , Mn in 1956.
During his life he farmed for a short time, was employed at the Ulen Creamery and later at Cass Clay Creamery for several years. He was last employed by the Reserve Mining Company as a shovel operator for almost 18 years at Babbitt.
Ronald and Mabel were the parents of one daughter; Marilyn (Craig Carlson), at the time of Ronald's death they were residing in Bloomington, Mn.
William and Selma (Flom) Christensen
William (Bill) Christensen was born August 31, 1893 at Brookings, SD to Julius and Kjerstin (Sorenson) Christensen. Bill’s father Julius Christensen was born on September 29, 1858 and his mother Hjersyen Marie Sornsen was born in June 1858, both in Tolne, Horns, Hjorring, Denmark. In 1913 he came to Mahnomen, Mn with his brother John and they started a well drilling business. He met and married Selma Flom daughter of Simon and Randi Flom in 1916. William operated a hardware store in Madock, Montana, from 1916 until 1920, when they returned to Flom township and started farming. Selma was a seamstress and worked for awhile in cook cars in the Cheyenne, ND areas during her life. In 1954, William and Selma retired from farming and moved to Twin Valley, Mn. Their daughter Ione and her husband Joe took over the farming operations.
The farm is located one mile south of Flom in section 22. They stayed here and raised their family, James, Ronald and daughter Ione (Joe Tobin), they had one infant daughter Irene, twin to Ione who died at birth.
Ruth Christine Churness
Ruth Christine Churness was born on October 16, 1898 at Fosston, Mn to Willie Churness and Anna Urdahl. She lived with her mother and step father until 1913 at Berthold, ND. At that time she became a resident at Grafton State Hospital until 1919, when she was placed at San Haven State Hospital, where she resided until her death. Ruth passed away on December 21, 1977.
At the time of her death there was no immediate family members, although she did have cousins in the Twin Valley area. Rev. Paul Mathre conducted the graveside services for her in the spring of 1978, where she was laid to rest beside her father, in the Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, rural Flom, Mn.
William and Anna (Urdahl) Churness
William Churness was born in Crawford county, Wisconsin, moving to the Flom area with his parents. He also had five sisters and three brothers. He married Anna Urdahl in 1896, also of Flom. After their marriage they moved to Berthold, where they lived and were active in farming.
William Churness died unrepentantly of heart failure in 1911 at his home near Berthold, ND. He is survived by his wife and a daughter who deeply mourn over the loss of a most kind and loving husband and father.
Services were held over his remains in the United church at Berthold on Tuesday following his death, after which he was shipped to his former home in Flom for interment, which occurred Monday at the Immanuel Lutheran Church, rural Flom, Mn. Here a very large crowd was gathered to pay respect to the one departed. Rev Nelson officiated.
A.O. and Marie (Huseby) Dahl
Ananias O. Dahl was born at Zombrota, Mn on June 19,1879. He came to the Syre area with his parents at the age of 3 years. He grew up here and was raised to manhood. He married Julia Tylden on June 26, 1909 and she died in 1924.
Marie Huseby was born at Syre, Mn on November 18, 1885, she was baptized and confirmed in the Wild Rice Lutheran Church. Here she grew to womanhood. She married Gustave Sagen in June of 1908 and they resided in Grand Forks, ND. He was killed in a train accident in 1913, and in September 1927 Marie married A. O. Dahl. They had resided there since.
Marie was a charter member of the Syre Lutheran Church and a life member of it's ALCW. Marie and Gustave were the parents of; Judien, Selmer and Gerhard Sagen. Marie and A.O. were the parents of; Raymond and Lillian. Marie also had two other daughters of which we don't know their maiden names; Ruth (Rossing) and Gladys (Peterson).
Marie passed away in 1964, and Ananias passed way at the age of 85 in Crookston, Mn in August 1967, funeral services were held at the Syre Lutheran Church, Syre, Mn.
Dorseth Family Farm History
The Dorseth farm was originally owned by the Northern Pacific Railroad. It was deeded to Lucy Holms in 1878 for the sum of $500.00. She was a rural school teacher in this area. She in turn sold the land to Andrew Skiem in 1880. Mr Skiem owned this farm for a few years and in the year 1882 sold the land to Andreas Dorseth. It has been in the Dorseth family ever since.
Andreas Hanson Dotset was born in Eina, Vestre Toten, Norway on August 14, 1836, to Madison A.H.Dotset and his wife. He married a young girl by the name of Helene (Amlien) while he lived in Norway. In April of 1870 Andreas and Helene left their native land with high hopes of making a better life for themselves and their children in the new world. A world that held the hopes and promises they so wanted. They packed up their belongings, along with their two sons; Andrew (a twin brother died at birth and is buried in Norway)see Andrew and Mathilda Dorseth) and Hans (See Hans and Ronnag Dorseth).
They boarded a ship and left, coming to America. They stopped in Wisconsin, where they lived with an aunt for a short time before moving on to Decorah, Iowa.Here they also had relatives and work was available on a farm. They arrived here in early July and spent the next seven years in Iowa. It was during this time their son John (See John and Lizzie Dorseth) was born, shortly after their arrival. A daughter Augusta (see Ole and Augusta Thorson) followed behind.
When they arrived in America a typo (all we can figure) changed their name from Dotset to Dorseth.
In the spring of 1877 they left Iowa for Minnesota, traveling first by rail and then by covered wagon to Becker County. Here they homesteaded in section 2. They built a sod house and lived on this land until they proved their homestead.
In May of 1882 they purchased 160 acres of land from Andrew Skiem in Section 29 of Flom township in Norman County, and moved his family here. This land had an abundance of good timber suitable for fuel and lumber. It also had a nice sandy loam soil which made farming easier. It was here that they built a log house, barn and granary.
Andreas and Helene (Eline) were charter members of Aspelund Lutheran Church. Andreas also helped plan and build the first church in 1885. Andreas died on August 27, 1924 and Helene (Eline) died on July 20, 1908, they are both buried at Aspelund Lutheran Church.
Andreas sold his farm to his son, Andrew and his wife Mathilda (Korsgaden) in 1897. See Andrew and Mathilda Dorseth. They had five children; Helmer, Henry(6/10/1895-9/20/1895), Henry, Alma (see Lewis and Alma Ask) and Mabel (see Edgar and Mabel Skansgaard).
In 1938, Andrew sold the farm to his son, Henry and his wife, Viola (see Henry and Viola Dorseth). They had five children; Vernon, DonnaMae, Gloria, Alden and Linda. After Henry's retirement from farming in 1965, the farm was rented to Vernon and his wife LaVonne. In 1974 they purchased the farm.
Vernon and LaVonne still own the farm, but no longer farm the land. They retired from farming in 1995 and rent the land to Lyle and Erik Bakke.
Adolph Dorseth
Adolph was born on November 24, 1904 to John and Lizzie (Lovise Carlson) Dorseth at Flom. He grew up in the town of Flom and farmed in this area. He entered the military service, serving his country during WW II. At the time of his death he was employed on the Boman farm near Flom, Mn. He had been operating a tractor when it tipped over on an incline, not far from the Boman building site. He managed to free himself and reach the farmyard, when he collapsed. He was taken to the Ada hospital where he later died from internal injuries on May 22, 1952.
Adolph never married, he had two brothers; Lawrence and Anton (Tony) and three sisters; Hilda
(Andrew Anker), Sally (Selma Bakken) and Jonette (Albert Thorson).
Albert and Agnes (Huseby) Dorseth
Albert Dorseth was born to Hans and Ronnag (Fossen) Dorseth on October 21, 1892 in Flom township.
He grew up on the family farm in section 28 of Flom township. Albert was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn., and attended elementary school in the Flom area. He later farmed for a number of years in the Flom area.
Albert married Agnes Huseby on April 17, 1927, at Flom, daughter to Ove Huseby's. They resided on the home farm for two years, then farmed in Mahnomen county eleven years before moving to Moorhead, Mn in 1954.
They were the parents of two daughters; Ardyce (Charles Donner) and Phyllis (David Bullert).
Albert died on April 4, 1965 and Agnes died on August 11, 1994, they are both buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery.
Alden and Shirley (Wheeler) Dorseth
Alden Palmer Dorseth was born on February 21, 1936 in Flom township, Norman County, Minnesota to Henry and Viola (Christensen) Dorseth, on the family farm. He grew up on the family farm in section 29 of Flom township, attending school at Woodland Nook from 1941-1949, he then went to Twin Valley High School from 1949-1951. He attended two years of school at Northwest School of Agriculture at Crookston, MN from 1951-1953.
Alden entered the U.S. Army in 1954 and went to Fort Eustus, VA. He was discharged from the armed services in 1957 and came back to the Flom area. He attended Dakota Business College in Fargo, ND from 1959-1960. Mn ARNG from 1969-1994.
Alden married Shirley Wheeler of Clay county, Ulen, Mn on May 2, 1959. She was born on September 17, 1939 and raised just south of Ulen in Clay county. They lived in Wadena, Little Falls and for a short time they also lived in Ada, Mn. Alden worked at the Merickle Lumber Mills, in Wadena from 1961-1963, then he went to Fleet District Supply in Little Falls, Mn where he worked from 1963-1974, was employed by Camp Ripley at Little Falls, Mn from 1974-1994. Retired: Federal Civil Service 1994.
Alden and Shirley are the parents of four children; Deanna, Michael, Mark and Denise
Deanna Mary was born on August 28, 1961. Deanna and her husband Scott Fritz reside in Fergus Falls, Mn with their two daughters; Megan 8 yrs and Christina 5 yrs.
Michael was born on November 16, 1963. Mike and his wife Sandy reside in Princeton, Mn with their two sons; Erik 12 yrs and Alex 10 yrs.
Mark was born on April 17, 1966. Mark and his wife Cheryl live in Albany, Mn with their two sons; Mason, 6 yrs and Clayton 4 yrs.
Denise Leona was born on January 31, 1972. Denise and her husband Loren Klaphake live by Freeport, Mn with their two daughters; Aiyanna, 3yrs and Sophia 1yrs. Sophia was born on Great Uncle Vernon Dorseth’s 71st birthday.
Andrew and Mathilda (Korsgaden) Dorseth
Andreas (Andrew) was born to Andreas and Helene (Amlien) Dorseth in Vestre Toten, Norway on July 17, 1866. He immigrated in 1870 with his parents to Wisconsin and then on to Decorah, Iowa where they stayed until the spring of 1877. They were members of Glenwood Lutheran Church while there. In 1877 they left Iowa for Minnesota, they settled first in Becker county then the family came to Norman County where they remained since. In 1884 Andrew was confirmed in the old log church at Wild Rice by Rev. Sagen. He was a charter member of Aspelund Lutheran Church.
Mathilda Korsgaden was born in 1874 to Hans and Mary Hanson Korsgaden in Wisconsin. They came to Flom township when she was a child and settled in section 1. Mathilda died at a young age at Fergus Falls, Mn in 1915. She left behind her husband and four children. Both Andrew and Mathilda are buried at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, MN.
Andrew and Mathilda were the parents of five children.
Henry A. was born on June 10, 1895 and died on September 20, 1895, he is buried at Aspelund. their second child a son was named Helmer (see Helmer Dorseth), then a third child was born in 1898, Alma (see Lewis and Alma Ask) a third son was born in 1900, they named him Henry Adolph (see Henry and Viola Dorseth), their last child a daughter Mabel was born in 1902 (see Edgar and Mabel Skansgaard).
Anton “Tony” Dorseth
Anton "Tony" Dorseth was born on October 15, 1908 to John and Lovise "Lizzy" (Carlson) Dorseth. He grew up in Flom and attended school here. After his father’s death Tony remained living in the living quarters in the rear of John Dorseth Hardware Store. He later purchased a trailer home and put that just to the west of the Hardware Store, he remained here throughout his life. As a young man he operated the family farm and continued farming until his retirement in the early 1970’s. Besides farming, Tony also worked for Edgar Skansgaard during the winter months.
Tony was a lifelong member of Aspelund Lutheran Church. Throughout his life, Anton was an avid hunter, trapper, and very interested in world affairs and had a special knack for remembering dates.
Tony died on December 22, 1992 at the Americana Health care Center in Fargo. He is buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery.
Gregory Lee Dorseth
My name is Greg Dorsey… I was born on May 1, 1955 at the Mahnomen hospital, the first born and only son of Vernon and LaVonne (Hammer) Dorseth. A few days after I came into the world, my parents took me to my home in section 25 of Flom township. The first year of my life was a struggle as there were many trips to visit the Doctors in Minneapolis. This was done by Mom, Dad and I boarding the train in Waubun and riding to Minneapolis where my mother’s aunt would pick us up and take us to our destination, the University of Minnesota Hospital. I had various tests done until they finally diagnosed me with Down’s Syndrome.
The first of many battles in my life had just began. My parents had been told by the Dr. in Ada that I would not live to see my 7th birthday, that I should be placed in an institution and left there, forget you ever gave birth to this child. Those are hard words for parents to hear, or anyone for that matter.
My parents took me home and gave me the love and nurturing that all children deserve, whether handicapped or not. I was guided by them and I was able to excel beyond what the Drs predications were. I was probably one of the first, if not the first child born in Flom Township with Downs. My family and my community didn’t shun me, they accepted me and helped me to grow.
When I was three years old I became a big brother, a little sister Teryl Jo was born in March of 1958. I was excited about the baby and truly adored her. It was shortly before my second sister Jennifer Lynne was born in 1960, that I went to live in Cambridge, Mn. In 1962 another sister, Jolene Annette, joined our family, I now had 3 sisters to love me.
This was not an easy decision for my parents to make. They discussed it at lengths and it was decided to better my life and help me to achieve more that I should go to a facility where they would specialize in helping and raising a handicapped child. It as a devastating day for me and my family. I didn’t understand exactly what was happening. I couldn’t comprehend that this was my new home and that when Mom and Dad left, I wasn’t going with them. It took sometime for me to adjust to this new life, but once again I overcame another obstacle in my life.
One day, my dad was talking to Olaf Haugo, and Olaf told him about the new facility in Brainerd MN, where there daughter Marie was living. So dad checked into having me move there. He was told there was about a two year waiting list. Then one day, my dad met Burnett Bergeson, our State Representative, in Flom having coffee, he told Burnett about having to wait to have me moved closer to home. He said, "Go home and put everything on paper that you told me, and send it to my office in St Paul". Within 30 days, I moved to the brand new facility at Brainerd, after living in Cambridge for one year.This was closer for my family, they would have half the drive to come and see me. With my Dad being a Dairy Farmer, it was not always easy to have someone to do the chores, so they could make the trip to Brainerd. I lived here for about 7 years. While living in Brainerd I enjoyed picnics at Lum Park with my family and the special visits to Paul Bunyan Land where I enjoyed the rides.
Once again I moved, each time getting a little closer to "Home". I moved to Fergus Falls State Hospital which was only a hour and a half drive from my home. Here I adjusted once again to a new home. I was able to work in the wood shop which I really enjoyed. We made various items for people to purchase for their homes. I remained here until 1982, when I made my final move.
Polk County opened what were called Group Homes, with two of those being in Ada, Mn. This was a new trend to housing for the handicapped, and
once again I was paving the road for others. When they brought up the possibility of my moving here, my parents were all for it. I would only be 20 miles away. I would be out of the Institution Life Style and be in a real home. I moved into Ada into the group home that was next to the High School (before the flood of 97). Here I shared a room with another boy. There were about 8 people who lived here with me. We had group home parents who worked shifts so we were never alone. We called them "Our Mother’s" We had our own living room, kitchen, dining room, this was great. We had our own job responsibilities to do each day.
In my room I could hang pictures of my family, have my own television and keep my possessions with me. I love it here, the freedom was a totally new experience for me. Group Homes were a new idea which I feel has been a great move for anyone with a disability. Here we all carry on the daily activities of a regular family.
I go to the DAC each day during the week. Here we would do wood crafts and other various items that we would put up for sale. I also had a job where I worked at a store in Ada, sweeping the floors a couple days a week. I liked this because now I would have a little spending money of my own. I later
worked at Garberg Foods in Twin Valley. I would go there once a week and help to stock shelves, I looked forward to this day each week, Bruce and Teresa Garberg were very good to me.
My life has been good. I have gone beyond their expectations for me, I celebrated my 47th birthday on May 1st 2002, that was a milestone in it’s self. My life has been plagued with different illnesses and each time that a curve ball was thrown at me I overcame the affliction and went on. But now I am faced with a new obstacle, I have been diagnosed with pre-leukemia, this obstacle I will not be able to over come. I have enjoyed going home in the summers to the farm and riding on the tractor with dad, and on the bale wagons with my sisters. I liked to feed the baby calves and do other chores. Holiday's are special for my family and me, when we all get together at Mom & Dad's, then I get to visit with sister's and their families.
Dale Evans Rogers wrote a book "Angel Unaware". It was about her daughter who was also born with Down’s. She didn’t live to be very old, but she spoke about her being placed on this earth to fulfill a mission for God. When her mission was completed there would be a mansion waiting for her to return to, "come home to". In My Father's House there are many rooms, a room for everyone.
I feel that was what I was sent here to do. As I see my life drawing to a close I feel that I have completed my mission. I believe I was sent here to open the eyes and hearts of my family and community to paved the road for other Handicapped Children. It is because of their love that I have succeeded.
Kids born today with the same health problems as I have had are better educated. They are main streamed into the world around them, no longer hidden from sight.
I didn’t achieve my goals, my mission by myself. Sure, I was teased by others, and this hurt my feelings the same as anyone else would have felt. I was stared at because I was different, not the same as other people. But I was not hid in a closet, or left in an institution and forgotten about. I was loved, guided, and nurtured through life.
Yes I feel I have opened the eyes of those in my family and my community. And I can proudly say that "I have fulfilled my mission, I have succeeded."
Hans and Ronnag (Fossen) Dorseth
Hans Dotset was born on January 30, 1865 in Vestre Toten, Norway, near the town of Eina. In 1870 he along with his parents Andreas and Helene (Amlien) Dotset and his brother Andrew immigrated to America.
Ronnag Fossen was born on September 27, 1870, in Gulbrandsdalen, Norway to Anotin and Sigurd Fossen. In 1882 she together with her family immigrated to America, making their home in Flom township with a sister. She had one brother Ole and two sisters; Gurie (Braget) and Anna ( Jacobson).
Hans and Ronnag were married on January 14, 1892 and they settled in section 28 of Flom township. Here they farmed the land and were active in their community and church. And it was here that they raised their family. Their children were; Thea (see Alfred and Thea Rue), Florence (Leslie Miller), Lillian (George H. Johnson), Mabel R. (see Bennett Ommodt), Ella see (Harry B.and Ella Gunderson), Walter, Rudy, and Albert.
Walter and his wife Katherine lived here for a few years after they were married. He then took a job in Iowa where they lived until their deaths. They have one son Dale Dorseth who still resides there and they were proceeded in death by an infant daughter, Linda who was born and died on September 26, 1941 and is buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery.
Helmer Dorseth
Helmer M. Dorseth was born on August 20, 1896 to Andrew and Mathilda (Korsgaden) Dorseth in Flom township. He grew up in the Flom area where he was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom Mn. He attended rural schools here. He worked on his father's farm and later moved in with his sister Mabel Skansgaard and her husband Edgar in section 33 of Flom township. He lived with Mabel and Edgar for 33 years. He was a farm laborer and worked his later years for his brother in-law Edgar.
At the age of 9 Helmer started to go blind and by the age of 13 was totally blind. They believed that his blindness was caused by Whooping cough, he was able to finish his education before going totally blind. It was always fun to try and sneak into Mabel's house, but Helmer was quick to state it must be the Dorseth girls coming for a visit. Maybe it was the giggling of Terri, Jennifer and Jolene as we walked through the door trying to fool him.
Henry and Viola (Christensen) Dorseth
Henry Adolph was born on November 30, 1900 to Andrew and Mathilda Korsgaden Dorseth, in section 29 of Flom township. He was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church. He grew up and attended school at Woodland Nook, Dist 42. After completing his education he farmed with his father, Andrew, in section 29. Viola Leona Christensen was born on November 4, 1906 to Pete and Mary (Olsen) Christensen in Chicago, Ill. She came to the Ulen area when she was almost two years old. She attended school at Flom and Plentywood and attended church at Walworth Baptist Church. She received her GED in 1968. Henry and Viola were married on June 27, 1928 at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom. It was a double wedding, along with Henry’s sister Mabel and her husband Edgar Skansgaard. They honeymooned at Itasca State Park.
They came back to Flom and farmed in section 29. Henry farmed until his retirement, at which time his son Vernon took over the farming operation. Henry and Viola left the farm in 1963 and moved into Flom. Here Henry operated the Long Branch Bar (Morck’s Cafe) and they lived above the business. They later purchased a home on the west side of town in section 33, the former Marvin Thompson home (at one time the Woodland Nook School house). Henry loved to Hunt, Fish, Play cards and horse shoes. Many a summer evening were spent with family and friends gathering for a horse shoe tournament while they lived at the farm. Viola worked at the cafe in Flom for many years and loved to garden. She sold flowers and plants out of the old John Dorseth Store in Flom in the spring of the year for her daughter Gloria of Francis Greenhouse of Mahnomen. Her flower beds and the VFW flower beds were meticulously cared for by Viola every summer. Viola was also active in her community. She was a member of the VFW Post 3818 Auxiliary, Aspelund Ladies Aid, Flom Homemaker’s Club, Flom Senior Citizen’s Club, and was a past 4-H leader, Sunday school teacher and youth leader.
Henry operated the Long Branch until his death on October 12, 1970, at the age of 69 years. After his death Viola continued living in Flom and their son and daughter in-law; Vernon and LaVonne Dorseth took over the Long Branch. In 1994 Viola moved from her home in Flom to the Lutheran Memorial Retirement Center in Twin Valley, Mn. In 1996 she moved to the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home in Twin Valley, Mn, where she resided until her death on July 7, 1998.
Henry and Viola are buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery, Flom, Mn.
Henry and Viola were the parents of five children; Vernon Henry: see Vernon and LaVonne Dorseth,
DonnaMae: See Sanford and DonnaMae Albertson,
Gloria: See Roland and Gloria Francis,
Alden: See Alden and Shirley Dorseth
Linda: See Keith and Linda Axvig.
John A. and Lovise (Carlson) Dorseth
John A. Dorseth, who is engaged in the hardware, furniture and undertaking business at the village of Flom, in Norman county, was born in Winneshiek county, Iowa, February 25, 1871, son of Andrew H. and Helen (Amlien) Dorseth, natives of Norway, the former born at Eina Vestre Toten, who came to this country in 1870, when they came up into this part of Minnesota, where the former is still living, one of the best-known pioneers of Norman County.
Upon coming up here into the Red River country in 1879, Andrew Dorseth homesteaded a quarter of a section of land on the northern edge of Becker county, adjoining Norman county, and there established his home, remaining there until 1886, in which year he moved over into Flom township, Norman county, and settled on a farm in section 29 of that township, where his wife died in July, 1910, and where he is still living. He is a member of the Lutheran (Synod) church, as was his wife, and their children were reared in that faith. There were four of these children, the subject of this sketch, the third in order of birth, having two brothers, Hans and Andrew, and a sister, Augusta.
John A. Dorseth was but eight years of age when his parents came up here into the Red River country and he grew to manhood on the home farm, thoroughly familiar with pioneer conditions in this section and received his schooling in the schools of Flom township. As a young man he became engaged in well-drilling and farming and after his marriage established his home on the old homestead quarter section at the edge of Becker county, which he still owns and where he made his home for seven years, or until in May 1903, when he left the farm and moved to the village of Flom, where he became engaged in the general hardware, furniture and undertaking business and has ever since been thus engaged, his establishment being one of the best-known places of business in that thriving village. Mr. Dorseth also has given considerable attention to the general business affairs of the village and has served as a member of the board of directors of the Farmers State Bank of Flom, for two terms as treasurer of the Flom Creamery Company and for three years as secretary of the same. He served for about six years as justice of the peace and is the present constable of Flom township.
Mr. and Mrs. Dorseth, the latter of whom, before her marriage, was Lovise "Lizzie" Carlson, have six children, Adolph, Hilda, Anton, Lawrence, Jonnette and Selma "Sally". The family are members of the Lutheran (Synod) church and take an interested part in church work.
John A. Dorseth was the first of the Dorseth children to be born in the United States, he was the first to be American born. Lovise "Lizzy" Carlson was born on June 10, 1885 to Aud and Sarah (Williams) Carlson, she also had a sister who lived in this area; Mrs. August Benson. Lizzy passed away on September 24, 1919. At this time it was left up to John to raise his family. They lived in the apartment behind the Hardware Store in Flom. John passed away on November 17, 1963. It was at his funeral that many people from the area learned of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. John and Lizzie are both buried at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn.
Lawrence “Doc” Dorseth
Lawrence Dorseth was born on September 10, 1910 to John and Lovise “Lizzy” Dorseth at Flom, Mn. He grew up in the Flom area and attended school here. He answered the call to serve his country during World War II. After completing his military service he returned to the Flom area and later moved later to Scobey, Montana where he worked for area farmers. Doc was a patient at the Veteran’s Hospital in Wyoming for many years.
Lawrence married Edna Bjarko in Montana on April 2, 1949. Edna was born on January 23, 1922. They were the parents of five children; Larry, Linda, Kay, John and Jeannie.
Doc lived in Scobey Montana for a some years, before returning to the Flom area in the late 1960’s. When he returned he lived with his brother Anton in the living quarters of his father’s Hardware Store. Lawrence later returned to Scobey Montana where he resided until his death on March 12, 1997. Edna passed away on January 23, 1985.
Rudolph Dorseth
Rudy was born on March 23, 1903 on the family farm in Flom township. Here he grew up and attended country school. After his father's death he remained on the family farm, took over the farming operations.
He was active in the farming operation until 1977 when he retired and moved into the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home in Twin Valley, Mn. He never married. He died on June 19, 1987 and is buried at Aspelund. After Rudy left the farm it was sold to Joe and Ione Tobin, it now belongs to Charles Henderson’s
Vernon and LaVonne (Hammer) Dorseth
I grew up on the Dorseth family farm in section 29 of Flom Township. I attended school at Flom and Woodland Nook. I was baptized at the Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom by Rev. Norby. I attended Sunday School, and was a member of the Luther League at Aspelund. I was confirmed by Rev. A.H. Amundson on November 14, 1943. I was also a member of the Boy Scout Troop at Flom of which Rev. Amundson was the Scout Master.
In 1939, I joined the Flom 4-H Club, Mrs. Martinus Flaten was our leader. The Flom 4-H Club had the honor of being the largest Club in Norman County at that time. While a member of the club, I won several trips to the Minnesota State Fair. I had the privilege of being on the Norman County Championship Dairy Judging team. I was also awarded the Holstein silver medal for being top individual of the show. Other members of the team were, Willis Eken and Dennis Forsell. We were coached by Oswald Dahlenbeck, the Norman County Agent. The team then went to the Minnesota State Fair, where we placed in the top ten teams in the state.
I graduated from Waubun High School in 1948. After graduation I stayed on the farm and helped my dad with the farming. He had a dairy herd so our farming centered mostly around cattle, hogs, chickens and some sheep. Much of the farming during the years that I grew up was done with horses. We kept 8 or 9 horses for field work. I shall never forget my experience learning to do field work with a two or four horse hitch. There were some experiences that I’ll never forget. One time when I was seeding grain along what is now Highway 113, a truck came by with a tarp loose and flapping in the wind. This scared the horses and they started to run away. I was able to get them stopped but by then, one horse had gotten his head under the neck yoke strap of the other horse and started backing up. I hung up the lines and ran around to the front and tried to unhook the strap. I couldn’t budge it, and by this time, he had torn his bridle off. Then a car stopped and a man came running to help me. It was Charles Thorson, and I was never so glad to see someone come to help. He had a good sharp pocket knife and was able to cut the strap freeing the horse. I had other harrowing experiences with horses, but that one was the worst one.
In February 1952, I got my greetings from Uncle Sam. It said you are here by ordered to report for active duty to the recruitment center in Fargo, ND for an assignment for basic training. Others who left Flom at the same time were; Gordon Olson who went with to Fort Riley and Arlo Thompson and Eugene Albertson, they were assigned to the Marine Corps. The rest of us, Virgil Miller, Junior Albertson, Gordon Olson and myself went to Fort Sheridan, Il, where we received our uniforms and medical shots with the so-called "square needle". From there to Fort Riley, Ks for 16 weeks of Basic Training, then on to Camp Kilmore, NJ, where Junior and I were shipped out by boat for Germany. Gordon Olson went to Fort Benning Ga-Airbourne. It was here that Junior and I were separated, I went to the 373rd Armored Infantry and Junior to the 4th Div. I don’t remember if Virgil went overseas or not. I spent 18 months in Germany, and in that time I was able to visit Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Luxemburg. On February 15, 1954, I returned to the good old USA. I received my discharge at Fort Sheridan and boarded a train to Minneapolis, then a bus to Fargo, and by car home.
LaVonne Lue Hammer was born on November 21, 1935 to Edwin and Lucille (Fabre) Hammer. She was born at Twin Valley, Mn where her parents resided. LaVonne was baptized at the United Church of Christ church in Waubun, Mn in 1936 by Rev. C.L. Fields and confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church, Twin Valley, Mn by Rev. A.C. Odden. LaVonne was a member of the Luther League and church choir at Zion. She attended school in Twin Valley, Mn up until her sophomore year when her family moved to Crookston, Mn. After her father Edwin’s death the family returned to Twin Valley where she graduated from High School in 1953.
On June 20, 1954 Vernon and LaVonne were married at Zion Lutheran Church, Twin Valley, Mn. They lived in Moorhead for the first year of their marriage at which time Vernon was employed by Cass Clay Creamery and then at Dutch Maid Dairy. LaVonne worked for Bell Telephone Company.
In the spring of 1955 we moved back to Flom, renting a farm in section 25 of Flom township. Two years later, we purchased the farm from Henry and Helmer Dorseth. Our son Gregory, was born on May 1st, that year. In 1958, Teryl Jo (see Dale and Terri Thornton) joined our family. In 1960, our second girl, Jennifer Lynne was born ( see Mike and Jennifer Klemetson) and in 1962, our last daughter, Jolene Annette was born (see Jeff and Jolene Brevik).
I farmed with my dad until he retired from farming in 1965. He then took over the operation of the Long Branch Bar in Flom. He died on October 12, 1970. We then operated the Bar along with farming, until it was destroyed by fire on Palm Sunday, April 15, 1973. From 1980 to 1986, LaVonne managed the Flom Cafe and also did some catering service, besides helping on the farm. We were in the dairy farming business so there was ample work for all, even the girls learned to do field work and lots of chores between going to school, Sunday School, Church and 4-H. Dairying was good to us, we were able to build all the buildings on this farm. When we came here, there was just a small shed for a barn a and a very cold house. The highlight of our life was when we were able to build a new house in 1973. We contracted Swenson Bros. Of Flom for the job. They built us a nice cozy, warm house.
In 1963, Roy Boman, Dean Workman and I were given the highest award at the Crookston Winter Shows, as the Champion Adult Dairy Judging Team. IN 1968, LaVonne and I received the Norman County’s Honor as the Dairyman’s Award at the Crookston Winter Shows. In 1982, the Dorseth Farm was recognized as a Century Farm at the Minnesota State Fair by The Farmer magazine. We, along with other Century Farm families were recognized as Century Farm owners. The farm has now been in the family for 120 years.
Over the years I have had the privilege of serving 10 years on the Flom Creamery Board, and was President of the Board at the time of it’s merger with Cass Clay Creamery of Fargo, ND. I also served 9 years on the Cass Clay Creamery Board, and eighteen years on the Flom Township board. I have been a life long member of the Aspelund Lutheran Church, where my great grandfather, Andreas, was a charter member and helped plan and build the first Church. I have served on the Church Council several times and I also had the privilege of being a Sunday School Teacher. LaVonne was also a Sunday School Teacher and has held offices in the Aspelund Ladies Aid and for several years has been active in the Evening Group Bible Study where she has been the Bible Study leader for several years.
In 1980, LaVonne and Jennifer accompanied Mabel and Edgar Skansgaard to Norway, where they visited at the Mathias Dotsetsveen home and met several other cousins. The highlight of Mabel’s trip was to visit the home where her father, Andrew had been born. In 1983, LaVonne and I traveled to Norway and were guests of the Dotsetsveen home and visited the Dotset (Dorseth) farm in Eina, Vestre Toten. In 1998, we traveled again to Norway with Bob and Dorothy (Nysetvold) Hammer and again visited the Dotsetsveen’s and the Dorseth farm. We also traveled to Haltdalen, and visited the Nysetvold farm and several other points of interest. We joined a bus tour for the first 10 days and then rented a car driving from Trondheim to Oslo, visiting family and friends in-between.
James and Hilma (Hoseth) Dullum
James Dullum was born on August 26, 1897 in Flom township, Norman County, Mn to John and Helene Dullum. He was baptized and confirmed at Immanuel Lutheran Church, rural Flom, Mn. He grew up in the Flom area and later became active in farming in the Faith area. He also worked for the Faith Mill.
Hilma S. Hoseth was born to the S.A. Hoseth's in Faith. James and Hilma were married on November 6, 1924 at the home of her parent's in Faith. In 1927 the Dullum's went back into the farming operation with Hilma's brother Sander. James and Hilma purchased their own farm in 1939 south of Faith, here they remained active in farming until their retirement in 1975 when they moved into Twin Valley.
James and Hilma were active members of St.Olaf Lutheran Church, active in the Luther League, choir, treasurer of the church and league, member of the school board and township supervisor. They had no children.
James passed away on April 28, 1986 at the age of 88 years, he had spent his last few years at the Lutheran Memorial Homes in Twin Valley, Mn. He is buried at St. Olaf Lutheran Cemetery.
Martin and Mary (Morck) Dullum
Martin Dullum was born on September 9, 1891 to John and Helen (Mathiason) Dullum in Home Lakes township of Norman County, Mn.
Mary Morck was born on August 3, 1888 to Paul and Karen (Bakken) Morck at Hillsboro, North Dakota. Her family later moved to the Flom area where she attended school.
Martin and Mary were married on March 25, 1916. After their marriage the settled on a farm near Flom where they remained until 1928 when they moved to Home Lake township, where they purchased another farm. They retired in 1962 when they moved into Twin Valley, Mn.
Martin and Mary were the parents of six children; Paul, Roy, Richard, Milo, Bernice (Glawe) and Helen (Rude).
Martin passed away in 1964/1969. After his death Mary remained in their home until 1976 when she moved into the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home in Twin Valley. Here she resided until her death on November 24, 1982 at the age of 92 years. They are both buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery, Flom, Mn.
Olaf and Thelma (Ovaldson) Dullum
Thelma Mildred Ovaldson was born on September 20, 1909 to Martin and Emma (Fossen) Ovaldson, east of Twin Valley, Mn. Here she was raised and attended country schools. She was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, Mn.
Olaf was born February 20, 1908.
Olaf and Thelma were married on November 8, 1928 at Wild Rice. They lived on a farm until 1954 when they moved into town to make their home. Olaf then worked for the Norman County Minnesota Highway Department. Thelma was employed by the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home for 31 years of her life, only retiring three years before her death.
They were active members of Zion Lutheran Church, in Twin Valley. Here Thelma was active in the ALCW. She enjoyed spending time with people especially caring when working and visiting with the elderly, realizing how much they have to offer. Thelma was also a camera buff who took pictures of everything because she felt that every place and every moment was worth remembering.
Thelma passed away on June 29, 1988 at the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home in Twin Valley, Mn.
Olaf died April 23, 1989.
Olaf and Thelma were the parents of; Marlin, Orvis and Ellna Jane (Howard Knapp). They are both buried at Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Twin Valley, Mn.
Paul and Deloris (Telehy) Dullum
Paul Johan Dullum was born to Martin and Maria Dullum on October 2, 1916 near Flom, Mn. He grew up and attended school in this area. He entered the United States Army on April 16, 1941. He was stationed in Europe and discharged on September 20, 1945.
Paul married Deloris Telehy in 1947 and they made their home in North Dakota, where Paul worked for Northwestern Bell. He moved to the
Minneapolis area where they lived for a few years before returning to Twin Valley, Mn. He made his home here until his death on November 17, 1990 at the Veteran’s Hospital in Fargo, ND. Paul is buried at the Twin Valley, Memorial Gardens Cemetery.
Paul and Deloris were the parents of; Ann (Del Corley), Barbara (Kenneth Fried), Carmen (James Nitschke), and Darlene (Jerry Baggett).
Watson and Della (Hudson) Dunham
Watson N. Dunham was born on December 5, 1865 to Jesse and Francis Dunham in Hebron township, Nicollet county, Minnesota. After his father’s death he continued to arm and stayed in Nicollet county until 1903 when he together with Merrill Purrier purchased land in Clay county. In 1904 he married Della Hudson at Minneapolis, Mn and they came to the Ulen area to make their home.
In 1907 they joined the Walworth community when they moved to the Foster farm and in 1927 they moved to their present home.
In 1942 Watson went on a trip to the west coast, while on his way home he suffered a stroke in Burbank California. Watson passed away on December 22, 1942. Funeral services were held at Walworth Baptist Church, with interment at the church cemetery.
Watson and Della were the parents of; John, Harry, Donald, Mrs. Harold Baker, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Odin Jahr, Mrs. Jimmy Frank and Mrs. Palmer Tungesvick.
Erick M. Dyrdahl
Erick M. Dyrdahl, one of the pioneer residents of this section, passed away at the Anfin Vangen home in the township of Home Lake on January 16, 1916, at the age of nearly 80 years old.
He was born in Norway on June 22, 1836 and came to America in 1868 making his home first in Iowa. In 1883 he moved to Norman County and settled on a farm in Home Lake twp., where he had resided up until three years ago. Since then he has lived with Mr and Mrs Anfin Vangen of Home Lake twp. Besides his many friends he leaves to mourn him his two sons: John Erickson of Flom, and Martin Erickson of Fisher.
Funeral services were held at Immanuel Lutheran church, Flom and he is buried there.
Henry Olai Dyrdahl
Henry Olai Dyrdal, 57, Syre Mn, father of 10 children died early Friday in a Fargo, hospital from complications following gangrene which began in his leg from freezing his toe December 23, while working with a CWA highway construction crew near Syre, Mn. He was admitted to a Fargo Hospital January 22.
He was born in Goodhue county, Mn on November 5, 1876. He was active in farming here up to the time of his death.
He is survived by his wife and children being; Eleanor, Lillian, Donald, Henry, Irvin, Clifford, Josephine (Albertson), Arthur and Hazel. He had two brothers who survived him; Morris and Obert, sisters were; Laura (Bartholmue) and Elvina (Urdahl). He funeral was held at Syre Lutheran church with burial in the church cemetery.
John O. and Olena (Hogenson) Dyrdahl
Olena Hogenson was born in Grue Soler, Norway on March 13, 1837. When she was ten years old she came to the United States and first settled in Goodhue County, Mn. She married John O. Dyrdahl of Goodhue County, Mn in 1873. They stayed there until 1878 when they packed up their belongings and head for Norman county, taking up a homestead in what at that time was Wild Rice Township. The county was later divided differently so that the farm in now located in Flom twp.
John O. Dyrdahl passed away in Aug. 1913. He was one of Norman County’s pioneer settlers and was well known to almost every resident of this section of the county. He was engaged in the cattle buying business for a number of years. He had been ailing for about a year and was 63 years old at the time of his death. After his death Olen sold the farm and moved her family into Twin Valley, Mn. She lived here until her death in 1917.
They were the parents of twelve children of which eight were still living at the time of Olena’s death. They were: Mrs. John Erickson of Flom, H. O. Dyrdahl of ND, Mrs. H. Kragero, Elmer , Morris, Obert, Mrs. Selmer Urdahl and Miss Laura Dyrdahl all of Twin Valley. A son John proceeded them in death in 1909, see John Dyrdahl, Laura Christina and Almar are all buried along with Olena and John O. at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Flom, Mn. They may have lost a child while living in Goodhue county before coming here.
John (Johan) Adolph Dyrdahl, son of John O. and Olena (Hogenson) Dyrdahl, who live four miles east of Syre in Flom township, died Thursday (1909) last of heart troubles. The deceased had been ill some two or three weeks previous to his death and physicians had informed his parents that he could not possibly survive for any considerable length of time, hence the end was not unexpected. At his death the deceased was 29 years of age. Funeral services were held at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn., where he was laid to rest.
Elmer Oscar Dyrdahl was born in Flom township on May 6, 1883 to John O and Olena (Hogenson) Dyrdahl. He grew up in this area, later moving into the Twin Valley where he resided until his death on august 23, 1922 at the age of 39 years. Funeral services were held at Immanuel Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn where he was laid to rest in the church cemetery.
Maurice and Alma (Ramsey) Dyrdahl
Severt Maurice Dyrdahl was born in Flom on May 14, 1888. He was baptized on July 8, 1888 into the Christian faith. He was confirmed in the Lutheran church in 1903, by Rev. Dahle.
Maurice married Alma Caroline Ramsey in Zion Lutheran Church, Twin Valley, Mn on June 19, 1918.
He spent his whole life working in the Twin Valley area as a carpenter. They were members of Zion Lutheran Church, Twin Valley, Mn and Maurice had served as a honorary member of the Volunteer Firemen’s Benefit Association.
Maurice and Alma were the parents of; Julian, Genevieve (Carriveau), Mary Ann (McDougall), Olive (Albertson), Robert and Ruth (Hoien).
Andrew B. and Anna (Hagen) Eken
Our father's paternal grandparents, Martha and Peter (last name unknown) lived in Bergen Stift Sogn, Norway. They rented small farms in the area. Martha died at the age of 97 and Peter was 70 years old at the time of his death. They had two sons, Hans and Bottolf Bottolfson Eken, our grandfather.
Our father's maternal grandparents were Mr. and Mrs. Engebret Nelson. They lived with their family on a small farm which they rented in Bergen Stift Sogn, Norway. They had eight children, one being Agatha Engebretson, who was our grandmother.
Agatha Engebretson and Bottolf Bottolfson Eken were married in Norway and lived there until 1861 when they moved with their family to America. The family left Norway in a small sailship and arrived in America some seven or eight weeks later. There were five children. The family first settled in Wisconsin. Their home was surrounded by a tribe of Indians but they did them no harm.
In 1864 the family arrived in Goodhue County, Minnesota. This trip took about three weeks by oxen.
Our dad, Andrew B. Eken, was born December 29, 1857 and died October 21, 1933. He often told about how as a young lad he hauled threshed wheat by wagon to Red Wing, Minnesota, to the elevator or mill and the dangers of being robbed on the return journey.
About 1884 or 1885 Mr. and Mrs. Bottolf Bottolfson Eken and their four sons. Albert, Andrew, Ole and Peter, moved to Twin Valley, Minnesota where they bought land.
Our mother, Anna Hagen, was born in Telemark, Norway, on March 12, 1867 and came to America with her parents, Anders and Bergit Hagen, in 1886. They settled on a farm in Grant County, Minnesota. On November 1, 1888, Anna went to Twin Valley to stay with her oldest brother, Torstein Hagen, who was teaching parochial school there. She went to work for Bottolf Bottoltson Eken, where she met our father and they were married on September 21, 1889. They bought some land m Flom Township and built a home, and farmed until moving into Twin Valley in April, 1909.
There were ten children born to Andrew and Anna Eken: Bernard Alfred Eken, born September 1890 and died September 1891.
Anna Eken, born April 13, 1892 who died April 13, 1892. Alfred Eken born June 15, 1894, who was killed in a train accident in Hammond, Indiana, on January 20, 1923. He married Anne Van Pelt, and they had two children, Leonard Andrew, born March 21, 1920, who died December 19, 1940, and Alfred Ray, Jr., born May 5, 1921.
Bernard Eken, born December 30, 1895 and died February 19, 1960. He married Hazel Hoekstra on February 28, 1927, and they had four children—Willis Ray who is presently (1975) serving his second term as State Representative, Marjorie (Mrs. Ray Dahl) and two sons who died in infancy.
Alma Eken, born December 4, 1898 and died December 11, 1898. She was the first person buried in the old Bethlehem (East Wild Rice) Cemetery.
Bertha Eken, born November 9, 1900 and died April 13, 1921.
Minnie Sophie Rinerson, born February 21, 1902. She married Herbert Rinerson in 1927. He died on January 23, 1937. They had five children—Betty (Mrs. Robert Paulson), LaVonne (Mrs. Otto Olsgaard), Heloise (Mrs. Bernard Evenson), Donna (Mrs. Archie Olson) and Lochiel. Minnie Rinerson is now a resident of Bethany Nursing Home in Fargo, North Dakota.
Leonard Arthur Eken, born March 19, 1904 and died March 19, 1973. He never married.
Hannah Josephine Morgan, born February 6, 1906. She married Willard Morgan on November 27, 1935, Rev. Torstein Hagen, uncle of the bride performing the ceremony. They had one son Jerry. Hannah lives in Portland, Oregon. Constance Bertine Ferch, born May 17 1907. She married Ira Ferch on September 21 1934 which would have been her parents' 45th anniversary. They had two daughters, JoAnn (Mrs. Ron Dimmer) and Jean (Mrs. Art Flemmer). Connie lives in Fargo, North Dakota.
Minnie Eken Rinerson tells of one frightening experience when she was about 5 or 6 years old. Her father had gone to town, some 7 miles away, this particular Sunday afternoon. There was a knock at the back door. It was a man, begging for food. Her mother prepared a sandwich and handed it to the man standing on the porch and proceeded to hook the screen door. The man became a bit irate at not being allowed to come into the house to eat his lunch. Mrs. Eken and her children left the house by way of the front door and started down the road to the neighbors. They had not gone far when she realized that Connie, the baby, was sleeping in the bedroom. One of the older boys went back and rescued her.
Lars Kopstad, though not a blood relative, was considered one of the Eken family. He was born in Norway on March 6, 1885 and died at the Ada Hospital on March 17, 1960. He came to America at the age of twenty-one years and worked on farms in the Flom-Fossum area. He later worked at a harness shop in Twin Valley, and then opened his own shoe repair and harness shop. Many residents in and around the Twin Valley area will no doubt remember getting their shoes sewed up for a nickel or a dime by Lars.
By Mrs. Minnie Rlnerson and Mrs. Hannah Morgan
Leonard Eken
Leonard Arthur Eken was born on March 19, 1904 on a farm in Flom township, to Andrew and Anna Eken. He was baptized in the old Bethlehem Lutheran Church, and confirmed in the United Lutheran Church in Twin Valley, MN. He attended elementary schools here and two years at a Seminary in Red Wing, Mn. He never married.
He spent several years in Chicago, Illinois, where he was employed at a Children’s Home, and the later years he lived in North Dakota and California. He worked with youth in different churches and was also a baker by trade.
Leonard was busy making preparations for his birthday at Atascadero, Calif, when he suddenly died of an apparent heart attack at the age of 69 on March 19, 1973. Interment was at Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Twin Valley, Mn.
Christian and Mathea (Vangen) Engebretson
Christian Engebretson was born in 1860. Mathea Ericksdatter Vangen was born in 1858 and baptized June 13, 1858 in Oier, Gudbrandsdalen, Norway to Erik Andersen b.1804 and Maren Kristiansdatter b.1823. In the 1865 census of Norway they lived on the Hujordsstuen Farm in Oier. He came to America in 1883 and lived in Wisconsin for 1 year before coming to the Flom area. They were married on April 3, 1885 in Ada, Minnesota.
They lived and farmed in Section 16 of Flom Township. They had no children of their own, but did take in a foster daughter that they raised, Ruth (Stolen), Mrs. Oscar Skansgaard.
They were members of Immanuel Church for a few years and then were received into membership at Bethlehem Church in 1885. In 1923, their membership was transferred to Wild Rice Lutheran Church. At the time of Christian’s death, a sum of money was left for the church, when it was rebuilt in 1932, his wife used that money to buy the beautiful altar that adorns the church today. He was a very kind, considerate and generous man. Christian died in 1930 and Mathea died in 1940.
Iver K. and Ada L. (Peterson) Engebretson
Iver Kenneth Ingebretson was born on June 26, 1890 in Nicollet County, Mn the son of Knute and Oline Engebretson. He was baptized in the Lutheran faith and confirmed at Atlanta Lutheran Church, rural Ulen, Mn., on November 26, 1904. He grew up on the family farm and attended rural schools in the area.
Ada Peterson was born on August 27, 1896 to Peter and Helene Peterson, at Forest Lake Iowa. They came to the Atlanta township area where they resided just south of the Atlanta Lutheran Church. Here she grew to womanhood and attended rural schools.
Iver and Ada were married on June 22, 1916 in the Atlanta Lutheran Church. After their marriage they farmed in Lake Park and also in Flom township in section 34 and in the Ulen area for 49 years. In 1965 they retired from farming they moved to Twin Valley, Mn., in 1968.
In 1966 they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at Aspelund Lutheran Church. They were the parents of one son Kenneth.
Iver passed away on March 10, 1971 and Ada passed away on June 19, 1978. They are both buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery, Flom, Mn.
The Edward E. Engen Family
Edward Engen came to the United States from Norway in the early 1860's. Shortly after he arrived in America, he had the good fortune to hear Abraham Lincoln give a street speech in Chicago during one of his political campaigns. He stated that he scarcely understood a word but that he enjoyed it anyway.
Later Mr. Engen came to Minnesota and after driving a team on the construction work for the first railway in the state (this was the Rollingstone Valley Railroad, from Winona to Rollingstone Valley in 1862) he found his way north to the Twin Valley area where he settled with his wife and household goods.
They settled in the valley east of Twin Valley. They were the first settlers. There were several squatters on land in the area but none had actually taken up residence. Several parties returned the following fall and winter and became neighbors of the Engen family,-among them being Martin Johnson, Soren Bergeson, Gilbert Haakenson, and Andrew Johnson.
There was also a small French settlement near the Engen homestead which consisted of three huts. One hut contained a number of tools and there was quite a tract of potatoes planted. Later some Frenchmen visited Mr. Engen and tried to sell him their property.
At first all of the Engen's neighbors were Indians. They developed the habit of coming to his house about three o'clock in the afternoon and staying all night. He finally broke them of that too friendly a habit.
In the fall Per Waller, John Homelvig, and Peter Helle arrived and became Mr. Engen's neighbors in what is now Flom Township. Joe Swenson, John Nysetvold and Einar Larson moved in shortly and the country begun to be settled.
1871 and 1872 were very dry years. No water ran in the Wild Rice River and everything suffered. 1873 was just the opposite. Everything was flooded. A Rev. Bjorge, pastor at Glyndon. Minnesota. told Mr. Engen that he and two companions traveled from Glyndon overland to Fisher's Landing through Crookston in a skiff without benefit of portage. The Indians said the Red River was fifty miles wide in places.
From that time on the country developed fast and wonderfully. Mr. Engen went to Saskatchewan, Canada, for the period of twenty five years to farm but came back about 1917 to purchase a home in which to retire.
(The above account was condensed from an article appearing in the Clay and Norman County History of 1918 by Turner and Semling Vol. 1) By Mrs. Gerald F. Olson
Alvin S. and Evelyn (Tobin) Erickson
Alvin was born on August 8, 1905 to John and Johanne Erickson in Home Lake township. He grew up on the family farm. He was baptized and confirmed in the Immanuel Lutheran church and attended rural school. He was apprenticed with a shoemaker at Shelly, Mn for six months.
Evelyn Tobin was born to Joseph Patrick Sr and Minnie (Ramsey) Tobin.
Alvin and Evelyn were married on February 26, 1938 at the Immanuel parsonage and they resided at Flom for five years. They spent 8 years in Twin Valley and 3 and one half years in Macintosh, Mn. They moved to Cloquet Mn, where they resided for 3 years, at which time the moved into Duluth, Mn, where they stayed for 3 more years. They moved to Fergus Falls, Mn where they resided for 7 years.
While they were in Flom, Alvin hauled mail on the Star Route for 5 years, farmed for several years and was a shoe repairman for 18 years. He was a member of the Immanuel Lutheran church all his life.
Alvin and Evelyn were the parents of six children; Alvin Jens, Thomas Joel, Marcia (George) Wendling, Arleen (Donald ) Fenske, Mary Ellen (Jerry) Johnson and Jacalyn Sue Erickson.
Alvin passed away on January 5, 1970, with services held at Immanuel Lutheran Church, rural Flom. Interment at the church cemetery. After his death, Evelyn married Carl Gunderman and they reside in Fergus Falls, Mn.
Clarence and Alma (Hanson) Erickson
“Every member bring four logs six inches thick.” Thus was the beginning of the first church building of the Wild Rice Congregation.'The congregation had been organized July 20. 1873 in the three room log home of Andrew and Oline Hanson. Services were held in the Hanson home much of the time until the church was finished. Pastor K. K. Bjorge had come from Lake Park. Minnesota, to preach in the morning. At the organizational meeting in the afternoon Pastor Bjorge was called to be the first pastor and nineteen families signed as the first members. He often walked from Lake Park and would stay for several days with the Hansons and other families while he performed his pastoral duties.
Andrew J. Hanson was among the very earliest pioneers who in 1872, settled in what is now Fossum township. He was born in Modom, Norway, and emigrated in 1869 with his parents, Hans and Lena Hanson, two brothers and one sister, Nels, Gulick and Johanna Hanson Arthur.
Andrew Hanson married Oline Marie Aamoth. She was born in Prestegjeld, Norway, and emigrated with her parents, Hans and Karen Aamoth, one sister and five brothers,
Agnes (Mrs. John Lein), Peter. Hans, Ingvold. Lars and Nels. The other members of the family were Alma (Mrs. Clarence Erickson), Annie (Mrs. Oscar Peterson), Ida (Mrs. Julius Lerud), Karen, George, Henry and Hans.
Andrew J. Hanson at first farmed, then moved to Flom where he was the first postmaster and mail driver, being appointed March 13, 1874, serving until March 21, 1877. He brought mail from Lake Park along with goods for the local store. For several years, until his health failed, he operated "A. J. Hanson and Co." in Faith. The following is a copy of an advertisement printed in the Twin Valley Times in 1897
A. J. HANSON AND CO. FAITH, MINNESOTA MANUFACTURERS OF THE BEST FLOUR IN NORMAN COUNTY AND CHEAPEST LUMBER MARKET
WE SELL CHEAP BECAUSE WE MANUFACTURE OUR OWN LUMBER ALSO DEALERS IN GENERAL MERCHANDISE WE DELIVER OUR FLOUR IN TWIN VALLEY ON SHORT NOTICE
Indians would come to the store bringing deer, and skunk skins, handmade articles as bags and beads which they exchanged for groceries, tobacco, etc. Often they would pitch their tents near by. At this time the United States Post Office was located in the Faith Store and Andrew Hanson was postmaster.
Andrew Hanson and his father-in-law, Hans P. Aamoth, had the first horse team in the area. Andrew Hanson, Pete Aamoth and Knute Larson owned and operated the first horse-power driven threshing machine in the area. The second steam threshing machine in Fossum was owned by Andrew Hanson.
After Hanson's death his wife. Oline, remained on the farm for a number of years.
She moved to Twin Valley where she made her home with her daughter, Alma, until her death in 1924.
Edward and Mary Louise (Elstad) Erickson were among the early pioneers in the Western part of Home Lake Township.
Edward Erickson was born in Ulsaker County, Norway, emigrating with his parents, Simon and Christina Erickson, and brothers and sisters Carl, Anne, Regina Anton, and Karen. Edward Erickson married Mary Louise Elstad who emigrated from Norway to Norman County with her parents, Lars and Karen Rees Elstad, and brothers and sisters, Hilda (Mrs. James Johnson), Thea Hanson, Mrs. Lena Gaines, Mrs. Maggie Bjerke, Ole Michael and Christian. Edward Erickson was a carpenter, cabinet maker, and farmer. The first frame school house in Home Lake Township was built by him for sixty dollars. This building was later moved along Highway 32 and is still in use as a home. When the Twin Valley Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation was organized, Edward Erickson was elected "kirkesanger."
The family of Edward and Louise Erickson are: Sister Edwardine Erickson, Benjamin Weem, Clarence, Edwin, Selmer, Anna, Inga and Mina (Mrs. Fred Eads).
Clarence Erickson resided in Twin Valley and the vicinity all of his life as has his wife Alma. Their children are Lottie (Mrs. Irving Jahr); Jane (Mrs. Richard Coleman), Lyle Merriam, Edna (Mrs. R. Earl McDougall), and Alice (Mrs. Olaf Johnson).
Clarence Erickson was an industrious man of many talents always giving his best effort. He was a licensed engineer at the Durling Roller Mills, Assistant to Henry Vehle in the elevator, owner and operator of a steam threshing machine, house painter, owner of a dray line for several years and licensed engineer for Ottertail Power Co. Alma Erickson is giving of her talents, working with crafts at the Home. During her many years as a dedicated wife, mother and homemaker she diligently sewed for her family, raised and canned bushels of vegetables and fruits which she shared with relatives and friends. In her spare moments she crocheted and embroidered. She is a life member of Zion Lutheran Ladies Aid of which for many years she gave generously of her time and talents. She is also a member of the V.F.W. Auxiliary.
Christopher and Tammy (Syverson) Erickson
Christopher Duane was born on February 16, 1968 to Duane and Ruth (Jacobson) Erickson in Detroit Lakes,Mn. He grew up on the family farm in section 8 of Walworth Twp, Becker County, Mn. He was baptized and confirmed at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Ulen, Mn He attended school and graduated from Ulen-Hitterdal in 1986. He then went to NDSU in 1997 where he attended classes. Chris came home and farmed with his father, later going on his own. Chris enjoys farming, fishing, coon hunting, deer hunting and ice fishing.
Tammy Lynn Syverson was born on October 15, 1966 at Moorhead, Mn to Arvin and Diane (Klevgaard) Syverson of rural Ulen, Mn. She is one of four daughters born to the Syverson’s. Tammy was baptized at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Ulen, Mn. She attended school in Ulen-Hitterdal, Moorhead and graduated from Jamestown High School in 1985. Tammy attended Northwest Practical Nursing Program where she earned her LPN degree in 1994.
Chris and Tammy lived in rural Ulen 3 miles east and a half mile north before moving into Flom in 1989. They
purchase the home on the east side of town, known as the Liz Pederson home in. They stayed here until 1993 when
they moved into Ulen, living in Ruth Erickson’s home on the northwest side of town. In 1995 Chris and Tammy
purchased the homeplace from Chris’ father Duane.
Chris and Tammy are the parents of three children; Cody, CieGie and Carlie.
Cody was born on September 22, 1988, in Fargo, ND. He was baptized at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn. He attends school in Ulen-Hitterdal, were he is active in baseball, basketball, football, choir and class president, beside helping his father on the farm.
CieGie was born on January 27, 1992 in Fargo, ND. She was baptized at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, MN. She attends school at Ulen-Hitterdal Elementary in Hitterdal. CieGie has been active in just for Kix dance in Hawley for five years, softball, swimming, basketball and volleyball.
Carlie Ann was born on December 21,1994 in Fargo, ND. She was baptized at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Ulen, Mn. Carlie attends Ulen-Hitterdal Elementary in Hitterdal, Mn. Carlie has been active in Just for Kix Dance and Tee Ball at the Ulen Hitterdal Elementary in Hitterdal, Mn.
Harland and Anna (Hamernik) Erickson
Harland Erickson was born on July 7, 1921 to Cora Hanson (1883-1971) and Albert Leslie Erickson (1884-1950’s), eighteen miles north of Detroit Lakes, Mn. Harland was the youngest of four children born to Albert and Cora; Leslie Alice Erickson born Sept 9, 1914, Helen Isabell (Pfarr) August 4, 1916, Laura Ida (Rumberg) born Feb 21, 1924 and
Harland.
Anna Hamernik daughter of Frank and Aloise (Dvorak) Hamernik was born on February 8, 1922, on the family farm in section 9 of Walworth Twp., Becker County, Mn. Here she grew up and attended school. Anna was a life long member of Walworth Baptist Church, rural Flom, Mn.
Harland and Anna were married on June 4, 1944 at the Walworth Baptist Church. This was the First Public Wedding performed at Walworth Baptist church. Harland had purchased a farm in 1943 in Section 8 of Walworth twp and it is here that Harland and Anna lived when they were first married for some 30 years.
They were the parents of one son; Duane born on January 27, 1946.
In 1974 Harland and Anna retired from farming, turning the farm over to their son Duane. They then moved to Florida were they continued to work through their retirement. In 1986 they came back to Minnesota and made their home on Cotton Lake near Rochert, Mn.
Harland and Anna were married 50 years, when Anna passed away on December 3, 1994, she is buried at the Walworth Baptist Cemetery, rural Flom, Mn.
Harland remarried on May 27, 1995 to Helen (Stende) Oschner, and they reside in Detroit Lakes, Mn.
Duane Leslie Erickson was born to Harland and Anna (Hamernik) Erickson on January 27, 1946. He was the only child of the Erickson’s. He grew up on the family farm in Section 8 of Walworth Twp. Becker County, Mn. Here he attended school in Ulen and Crookston, Mn. On February 4, 1967 Duane married Ruth Jacobson of rural Lake Park, Mn. Ruth was born on July 27, 1947, the oldest daughter of Wallace and Lorraine Jacobson.
Duane and Ruth had four sons, Christopher Duane: See Christopher and Tammy (Syverson) Erickson, Darin Wade, Chad Monroe and Eric Karl.
Darin Wade was born on November 11, 1969 at Detroit Lakes, Mn. He was baptized and confirmed at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Ulen, Mn. He attended school at Ulen-Hitterdal graduating in 1988. Darin married Jennifer (Dybsetter) Merit on March 11, 1995. Jennifer was born on January 28, 1969. They have two children; Jacob Merit (from Jennifer’s lst marriage) was born on March 2, 1993 and Ella born on August 21, 1996. Darin farms and attends night school and Jennifer is a LPN in Moorhead.
Chad Monroe was born on April 12, 1971 at Detroit Lakes, Mn. He was baptized at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Ulen, Mn and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, MN. He attended Ulen-Hitterdal school and graduated from there in 1989. Chad has one daughter Chelsie Marie Kollman born on June 4, 1990. Chad owns a Truck Line in Fargo, ND.
Eric Karl was born and died on February 7, 1980. Eric is buried at the Bethlehem North Cemetery, Ulen, MN
Duane and Ruth divorced in 1985. Duane continued living on the farm until 1995 when he sold it to his eldest son Chris. Duane married Barbara (Myhre) Christianson, on July 13, 1985. Duane and Barb continued living on the farm until he sold it to Chris, they then moved to the Fargo-Moorhead area where they lived until 2001 when they purchased the Livdahl home in Ulen where they reside now. Ruth Erickson married Kuldip Lumb of India on June 1, 1991.
Karl and Johanna (Dyrdahl) Erickson
Karl John Erickson was born at Washington Prairie, Iowa on September 19, 1869. He was baptized on October 15, 1869. His parents moved to Norman county and were members of Wild Rice Lutheran Church, until Immanuel Lutheran Church, rural Flom was organized. Karl was confirmed at Wild Rice in 1884.
Johanna Dyrdahl was born to John and Oline Dyrdahl. (See John and Oline Dyrdahl)
Karl and Johanna were married on March 9, 1893. They lived in the Flom area and the last residence they lived at was 1/4 mile west of Flom. Mary Albertson lives there now. Lyle Sandals mother Lillie (Erickson) Sandal told of how she helped with the laths for back plastering the walls.
Karl and Johanna’s children were; Jens (James) Melvin Erickson. He was killed in action in World War I, in the Gesner France on October 1918.
Lillie Erickson Sandal (See Sivert and Lillie Sandal),
Lenora Erickson Thompson was born on August 30, 1899 and died on December 23, 1975. She is buried at Immanuel Cemetery.
Dell Erickson was born on April 28, 1897 and died on October 28, 1987, he is buried at Immanuel Cemetery.
Janette (Nettie) Erickson Thompson was born on January 5, 1902 and died on October 28, 1976, she is buried at Immanuel Cemetery.
Alvin Erickson was born on June 8, 1905 and died on January 5, 1970. He is buried at Immanuel Cemetery.
Josephine Erickson Thiel was born on July 7, 1910 and died on July 29, 1976, she is buried at the Ada, Cemetery.
Johnnie Erickson was born on April 29, 1912 and died on March 23, 1976. He is buried at Immanuel Cemetery.
Milton F. and Grace (Dahlgren) Erickson
Milton was born on September 1, 1909 in Duluth, Mn. He was orphaned as a child and moved to the Wild Rice Children’s Home in Flom township. Here he grew up and graduated from High School.
He then went to Concordia College in Moorhead, Mn where he graduated in 1933, with a bachelor’s degree.
Milton married Grace H. Dahlgren on March 27, 1935 in Fargo, ND. They lived in Fargo until moving in 1939 to Moorhead. He operated a Standard Oil service station in Fargo until 1958. He was the manager of the Concordia College Bookstore from 1963 until retiring in 1975.
Grace died in 1977 and after her death he became a resident at Bethany Homes in April of 1991. Milton died age the age of 82 (1991). Milton and Grace were the parents of ; D. Bruce and Jeanne (Paul Hoseth).
Rueben and Myrtle ( Thorson) Erickson
Rueben Erickson was born on August 22, 1909 at Twin Valley, Mn to Edwin and Hannah (Olson) Erickson. He attended Banner School near Flom.
Myrtle Thorson was born on February 23, 1905 in Flom, Mn to Thorvold and Johanne Thorson. Her mother died when she was quite young and her father raised all four daughters; Myrtle, Bennette, Valborg and Mildred. Myrtle grew up in Flom and it was here that she attended school and church. As a young girl she worked at Narum’s Store in Flom and later clerked at Hovden’s store in Twin Valley, Mn and then at Black’s store in Fargo, ND.
Rueben and Myrtle were married on October 12, 1940 at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom. They farmed southwest of Twin Valley until 1972 .
They purchased his parents' farm in 1943. They had no children.
Rueben had served on many local boards and also worked for the Agriculture Department on the county School board, and the Zion Church Board for many years. The last 10 years of his farming he worked for the Norman County Agricultural Department as an inspector. He retired in 1975, sold the farm and moved into Twin Valley. He served as sexton for Zion Lutheran Church, Cemetery, and worked restoring neglected cemeteries in Norman County for several years.
Myrtle was a member of Zion Lutheran Church Twin Valley, she was active in church activities and also in the ALCW.
Myrtle died on May 29, 1990 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Fargo, ND. Interment was at Zion Lutheran Church Cemetery.
Ingebrigt Fredrikson and Ann (Olson Holum) Erie
Ingebrigt was born in Lærdels, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway on April 25, 1863 to Fredrik Ingebrigtsen b.1817 and Britha Thorsdatter b.1825. He was baptized on May 25, 1863. In the 1865 census of Norway, he was living on the Hunderi farm in Lærdals with his parents and these siblings. Britha Fredriksdatter b.1855, Kari Fredriksdatter b.1859, Martha Fredriksdatter b.1861 and Thorine Fredriksdatter b.1865. Another sister Anne Fredriksdatter was born in 1867. He left from Bergen, Norway for America when he was 27 years old on May 16, 1890. In 1890, he married Anna Olson Holum. They first lived in Spring Grove and then in South Dakota before coming to Norman County. They lived in Section 16 of Flom Township. They had no children. Ingebrigt died on July 29, 1936 and is buried in Wild Rice Lutheran Church Cemetery. Mrs. Erie died
Elvina (Ostenvik) Eukin
Elvina married a Mr. Eukin and they had a son born in early 1941. His name was probably Edward, Ella called him Eddie. Elvina became very ill with what they call "sleeping sickness" and died in October 1941 at the age of 25 years, leaving behind her 9 month old baby, her husband and her parents. She was so well thought of in the town where they lived that all the business closed because of her funeral that day.
This loss of so young and vibrant a daughter was a devastating blow to Ella and Matt and a shock to the rest of the family as well. She is buried in a cemetery in this area, but not at Aspelund.
William and Yvonne (Narum) Fischer
She was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn. She graduated from High School and then went to Concordia College in Moorhead, Mn for one year. She married William Fischer, on March 24, 1951 and they were the parents of one son; Wayne Ernest born on November 19, 1953. William passed away on May 19, 1994 and is buried in South Dakota. Yvonne works at a bank in Brookings South Dakota as a bank teller.
Christoffer and Margaret (Nilsdatter Oydegaard) Nelson Flaten
Christoffer N. Flaten was born Kristoffer Nilson on September 5, 1842, in Vang in Valdres, Norway, the son of Nils Kristofferson Berge and Beret Torsteinsdotter Kvam. The 1865 Norwegian Census shows him as a "tjenestedraeng" or servant on the Soijne Farm at Vang.
Kristoffer came to America in 1871 and settled in Goodhue County, Minnesota. He remained there until coming to Lake Park, Minnesota, in 1878. We can only guess that Christoffer (and his brother Tosten) took the Flaten name from the Flatene (Fladene) farm they were working on at the time they left Norway. Tosten spent several years in Ada, Minnesota, with his family but later moved to the Minneapolis area where most of his descendants now live. Christoffer and Tosten had five other siblings who, to the best of our knowledge, remained in Norway.
On June 4, 1878, Christoffer purchased 160 acres of Northern Pacific Railroad property in Section 29 of Flom Township in what was then Polk County for the sum of $700.
This is the portion of the Flaten/Olson farm which lay on the east side of the road. On July 30, 1978, Christoffer purchased an additional 80 acres of Northern Pacific Railroad property in Section 29 for the sum of $320. This would later become the Peter and Clara Flaten Johnson farm. Eleven years later, Christoffer homesteaded 160 acres in Section 30 of Flom Township.
This is the portion of the Flaten/Olson farm which lay on the west side of the road. The original deed for the homestead was obtained from the land office in Crookston, Minnesota, and was signed by President Benjamin Harrison on June 12, 1889. Those were the days when presidents had time to sign each and every land acquisition in the west, when cattle ran free on the plains; and the Indians from the east paid regular visits to farmers and trading posts.
Margaret Nelson was born Margrethe Nilsdotter Oydegaard on January 14, 1854, in Vang in Valdres, Norway, the daughter of Nils Olson Oydegaard and Margrete (Marit) Nilsdotter Dahl.
Margaret came to America with her parents and siblings in 1860 when she was six years old. They settled in Washington Prairie, Iowa. Following the death of Nils, Margaret and her four brothers came with their mother to Flom Township. Marit died on January 1, 1896, and is buried in the Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery. Margaret's brothers included Ole E. Nelson, who had served in the Civil War for three years while living in Iowa, and came to Flom Township in 1878 where he purchased land in Section 28. He married Carrie E (Kari) Skeim in Iowa. In later years, Ole and Carrie lived in Moorhead, Minnesota, but still owned the farm. They eventually retired to Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Their only child was Julia E. Nelson who later married Edward Riedasch; and they resided in Kent, Washington. Ole and Carrie are buried in the Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery
A second brother of Margaret's was Nils E. Nelson who married Anna Kallerud Skofstad in Iowa. Nils and Annie Nelson came in 1875 to Flom Township and homesteaded the northwest quarter of Section 28 of Flom Township (later known as the Askegaard place). To the Nelson homestead, people came for their mail and groceries as there was a post office there. This was before the village of Flom existed. Anna (Annie) taught in country schools and walked for miles back and forth to school over very poor roads.. They had no children; however, Annie's niece, Josephine E. Skofstad, came to live with them in 1874 at the age of three. She would later marry Sam (Sven) J. Swenson. In 1886, Nils Styve came to live with Nils and Anna; it is not known whether he was related to them or just an orphan they adopted. Nils died in 1901, and Annie continued to operate the farm with the help of a hired man. She died in 1928. Annie was remembered as a kind lady who was always willing to help anyone in need. Nils and Annie were members of the Immanuel Lutheran Church and are buried there, as is Nils Styve.
A third brother of Margaret Nelson Flaten's was Christian (Christ) Edgar Nelson who married Lillie Tovna. They lived for a time in Park River, North Dakota, where he was in business, before moving to Seattle, Washington, where many of their descendants now live. Their children were Mildred who married Ray Clough, Lillian Nelson and Dayton Nelson. They all lived in the Seattle area.
Margaret Nelson Flaten's other siblings included Helge who we assume died in Iowa prior to the family's move to Flom Township, Margrete and Ingebor, twins who died in Norway as infants, Ed (Evan) who died in 1886 and is buried in the Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery, and a baby girl who died as an infant in Norway.
Christoffer Flaten and Margaret Nelson were married in 1880 and settled in a log house in Section 29 of Flom Township where their four children were born. Nils Martinus Flaten, born in 1881, married Nora Christine Qualley and continued to operate the Flaten farm after Christoffer's death.
Emma Bertine Flaten, born in 1884, died in a diphtheria epidemic that swept the country in 1891; many families lost several children at the time. Emma is buried in the Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery. Clara Maria Flaten, born in 1886, married Peter Lundgren Johnson; and they farmed in Section 29 of Flom Township. Inga Amelia Flaten was born in 1891 and married Nels J. Skauge of Fargo, North Dakota, where they lived until the time of their deaths. They are buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Fargo.
Submitted by Kathleen Olson Solseth
Martinus and Nora (Qualley) Flaten
Nils Martinus Flaten (known as Martinus) was born to Christoffer and Margaret Flaten on August 30, 1881, at his parents' log home in Section 29 of Flom Township. He and his sisters, Clara and Inga, were some of the first students at the Woodland Nook School, which was organized in 1883 and located across the road from the Flaten farm. Martinus was confirmed by Rev. J. R. Vaaler at the Wild Rice Lutheran Church, and he attended Park Region Lutheran College at Fergus Falls, Minnesota, and the North Dakota Agricultural College in Fargo. He later took over the family farm where he was a dairy and grain farmer and raised certified seed grain and potatoes. He was especially interested in certified grain. He was a member of the Crop Improvement Association and was named one of the Pioneer Seed Growers of Minnesota. Martinus was very active in civic affairs and was a long-time chairman of the Norman County ASC Committee and had served as chairman of the township board. Martinus passed away on January 23, 1958, after a short illness and is buried in the Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery.
Norah Christine Qualley (known as Nora) was born in a log home on her parents' farm near Hendrum, Minnesota. She was the oldest of the twelve children of Even and Emma Ingberg Qualley. She attended a country school, finished the eighth grade in Hendrum, and was confirmed at the Concordia Lutheran Church near Hendrum. She attended Moorhead Normal School in Moorhead, Minnesota and started teaching when she was 18, teaching three months in the fall and three months in the spring for $45 per month. She taught in several different schools, including McIntosh, Minnesota, her home school near Hendrum, and the Flom School where she came in the fall of 1913. Teaching was a difficult task in those days and included things like carrying water, starting fires in the wood stove, and fixing the kindling in the evening, which would usually be out by morning. Sometimes tramps would come during the night and burn up
the kindling. She worked for her board the first year she taught, getting up at 3:00 a.m. to make breakfast for the hired men. She would mix bread in the evening and then knead it in the morning so it was ready for the lady of the house to put in pans and bake. Sometimes there were as many as 40 students in grades one through eight in a single-room schoolhouse with just one teacher. Nora and her sister, Martha Qualley (later Martha Rude), taught together in Flom; one had grades one through four and the other grades five through eight. She had attended summer school and gone back to Moorhead Normal School for her second year, graduating in 1911. It was also while teaching in Flom that a handsome young farmer from west of town came to call.
One of her former students recalls that the kids liked to stay after school to spy on the evenings when Martinus came to call on the teacher. Nora taught in Flom for three years and then stayed at home one year before marrying Martinus Flaten in 1917.
Nora was a member of the Wild Rice Lutheran Church for over 70 years where she was active in the Ladies Aid, taught Sunday School for 40 years until the age of 85, and was also Sunday School superintendent for many years. She remembered walking to Ladies Aid and home again many times, a distance of 3 miles. They had church suppers in the early days when each one brought their chicken, lefse, buns and pies. She also remembered donating an eight-gallon can of peeled potatoes one year. Nora was also a member for many years of the Flom Happy Homemakers Club. Over the years, Nora made over 100 quilts and lap robes which were given to friends, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, as well as many that went to Lutheran World Relief.
Nora helped to organize the Flom Flyers 4-H Club in 1928 at the Woodland Nook School. The Club met in homes, toured farms, and was very active in showing projects at the county fair, state fair, and also at the Crookston Farm Crop Show with livestock, home economics, music and talent plays. The Club used much of their money in the community by buying large stage curtains and also chairs for the Flom Community Hall. The cost of the curtains was $100 and the chairs $50. It was at a 4-H meeting that the discussion to build a community hall came about. Norman County Agent Landsverk was very active in getting people interested in this project. Nora was a 4-H leader for 35 years, and many remember her helping them with their 4-H records and getting projects ready at fair time.
Nora outlived all of her eleven brothers and sisters, her husband, her only child, and many friends her age and younger; but she continued to have a full life even into her last years. At the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home in Twin Valley where she moved in 1984, she kept busy in the Activity Room helping to make quilts, etc., for several years. Even in her last years, as a resident of the nursing home, visitors always received a smile and a clasp of the hand, even when her hearing and eyesight were failing and conversation was sometimes difficult. On days when her hearing was better and conversation easier, even in her 100th year, her family was amazed at her clear mind which could still enjoy a funny story and remember details of the many, many people who had touched her life. On November 24, 1988, two months past her 100th birthday, the Lord took her
Home on Thanksgiving Day. Nora is buried in the Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery.
Martinus and Nora were married at Hendrum, Minnesota, on June 20, 1917, and made their home west of Flom on the farm where Martinus had been born and raised. They were honored as the Norman County Farmer and Homemaker of the Year at the Crookston Winter Shows in 1942.
Martinus and Nora had only one child, Irene Margaret; however, the Flatens opened their home to several foster children as well. In January 1944, Shirley Ann and Darlene Beverly Austad came to make their home with the Flatens and stayed until graduation from Twin Valley High School. Shirley later married Vernon Eklund of Twin Valley, and they made their home in the Minneapolis area. Currently, they are retired and live near Aitkin, Minnesota.. They have three children, Devon, Kimberly, and Jeffrey (now deceased). Darlene married Ernest Visto of Oakes, North Dakota; and they made their home in Christine, North Dakota, where Darlene still resides. They have two children, Darla and Connie.
Submitted by Kathleen Olson Solseth
Lars Kristoffersen and Inge Marie (Olsdatter) Larson Flesvik
Lars Kristoffersen Flesvik was born June 16, 1816. His parents were Kristoffer Tostensen Bjørnstadt and Margrethe Sorensdatter Aarnes. Inge Marie Olsdatter Bjørtomte was born November 3, 1823. Her parents were Ole Eriksen Bjørtomte and Ragnild Andersdatter Torset.
They were both born in Feiring, Akershus; Lars on the Bjørnstadt farm.
Lars and Marie were married November 18, 1847 in the Feiring Parish and came to the US on the ship Bark Olaf, on April 12, 1868. All of the children, except Olava, came with them. Olava immigrated to the US in 1872.
Children of Lars and Inge Marie:
Anne Magrethe Larson was born March 18, 1848, Feiring, Akershus. She married Hans Gunilius Nelson on February 20, 1873 in Winneshiek, IA. Anne died on April 3, 1915 in Twin Valley, MN.
Olava Larson was born January 27, 1851, Feiring, Akershus. She married Ole Melaas on June 26, 1874 at the Washington Prairie Church, Winneshiek, IA. Olava died on September 24, 1940 in Ulen, Becker Co, MN.
Karen Evina Larson was born June 19, 1854, Feiring, Akershus. She married Enoch Tobias Berkland on November 13, 1871, Washington Prairie Church, Winneshiek, IA. Karen died on April 4, 1940 in Norman County.
Ragnild Marie Larson was born January 7, 1857, Feiring, Akershus and died Jan 27, 1862, Feiring, Akershus.
Ida Jørgine Larson was born July 25, 1859, Feiring, Akershus and died on March 26, 1935 in Crookston, MN.
Christian Nikolai Larson was born October 13, 1862, Feiring, Akershus. He married Gunhild Olson Bergetangen on December 6, 1887 at Wild Rice Lutheran Church. Christian died on March 14, 1940 in Great Falls, MT and is buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Church
Cemetery (see separate article on Christian Nikolai Larson and Gunhild Olson Bergetangen).
Ole Ragnvald Larson was born August 10, 1867, Feiring, Akershus and died before 1870 in Winneshiek County, IA.
Regina Marie Larson was born June 16, 1870, Winneshiek Co. IA and died September 22, 1893 in Norman Co.
Lars died December 29, 1893 and Inge Marie died March 9, 1907. Both Lars and Inge Marie died in Norman County and are buried at the Wild Rice Lutheran Church Cemetery.
Mathias and Ronnag (Ulland) Flifleth
Mathias was born 1842 in Faaberg, Oppland, Norway.
Ronnag Ulland was born on Nov. 6th, 1844 to Peter and Bertha Ulland in Faaberg, Gulbrandsdalen, Norway. She immigrated to America in 1872, coming to Zumbrota, Goodhue county where she was united in marriage to Mathias on January, 1876.
They came to Norman County in 1878, making their home at the Andrew Hanson place, now a part of the farm that was owned by the Wild Rice Children’s Home. They later moved to their farm in Flom Township, one mile east of Fossum.
To this union six children were born;
George and Peter were a set of twins born near Zumbrota, Mn in 1877. They came with their parents to the Flom area when they were one year old. They took over the family farm where they lived until their deaths. George died in 1960 and Peter died on April 28th, 1946. Neither of them ever married. They are buried at Wild Rice, rural Twin Valley. Bernhard was born in 1879 and died 1888. He is buried at Wild Rice, rural Twin Valley, Mn.
The Flifleth's had one infant who was born in 1881, who died after birth. No name is recorded, the child is said to be buried at Wild Rice Cemetery.
Anton was born in 1883 in Flom Township he died in 1947 at Fergus Falls, Mn where he had resided for a number of years. He never married and is buried at Wild Rice, rural Twin Valley, Mn.
Bertha married Noldus Nelson and they lived in the Grygla, Mn., area.
Josephine Flifleth was born in 1886 in Flom Township on a farm near Fossum, Mn. She lived her life on the family farm where she cared for her elderly parents and helped her brothers Peter and George with the farm work. She was also the organist at the Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, Mn for many years. Josie never married. She died in 1973 and is buried at Wild Rice.
Mathias died on Oct. 23, 1925 and Ronnog died on Oct. 23, 1931, they are both buried at Wild Rice Cemetery.
Anthony Flom
Anthony Flom was born in Flom township on September 7, 1890 to Elling and Oliana (Olson) Flom. He was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, Mn. He attended the rural schools in the area. He lived all of his life with the exception of two or three years when he went to Hingham, Mt and homesteaded. He returned to Flom and live his life here. He served his country during WW I He was first examined in February , 1918 but failed to pass at that time. He entered the service on October 14, 1918, at Vancouver Barracks. He was discharged on December 20, 1918,and is a Veteran of that War. He never married.
Anthony was a past chairman and active member of the town board for 30 years, an active member of the American Legion for 42 years and a member of Nesseth-Lien Post since it was organized, township chairman, a member of the ASC committee for many years, and a member of the board of trustees of the Wild Rice church for many years.
He died in 1960
Burton Flom
Burton Flom was born on November 25, 1899 to Elling and Oliane (Ellingstuen) Flom, on the family farm in Flom township. Here he was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church and attended school in the area. He grew to manhood in the Flom community taking an active part in community affairs and was the principal member of the family in caring for his invalid mother for so many years.
Following his mother's death he attended Dunwoody Institute in Minneapolis, Mn, training as a automobile body repair man, which became his life work.
In 1941 he left for Portland Oregon, where he resided for seven years and was employed in the auto body repair business, as a specialist. He returned to Minnesota in 1948 at which time he became associated with Larry's Auto Body and Repair Shop of Fargo, ND, and later of Moorhead, Mn. He worked there until due to ill health he was unable to work any longer.
Burton was a kindly and considerate person, a devoted son to his parents, a loving brother, concerned with the welfare of all with whom he came in contact, and regular in church membership and attendance. He passed away at St. Luke's Hospital in Fargo, ND on July 5, 1957. His funeral was held at Wild Rice Lutheran Church. No records indicated his burial.
Clarence Flom
Clarence was born on December 8, 1897 near Flom to Erick and Anna (Nelson) Flom. He was born and lived in the Flom area all his life. He was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, Mn., and was a life member of that congregation. Here he attended school and later engaged in farming.
He was active in farming along with his sister Ella (Adolph Ruud). In the mid 1950’s Clarence and his sister moved off the farm and into Twin Valley, Mn where he resided at the Lutheran Memorial Retirement Center until the early 1980’s when he became a resident of the Nursing Home. Here he lived until his death on October 28, 1987 at the age of 89. Funeral services were held at Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, Mn with interment in the church cemetery. (he is in a unmarked grave).
Edwin and Rose (Olson) Flom
Edwin Flom was born in 1893 to Elling and Oliana (Olson) Flom. He grew up in Flom twp, he entered the military in 1918. He first went to Camp Dodge, Camp Mills, he served as a Pvt. Supply Company 337 F.A. 88th Division. He left the United States on August 18, 1918 to served his country and arrived back in January, 1919. His military service ended in February , 1919 when he was discharged.
Rose E. Olson was born on May 13, 1894 at Tracy, Mn to Gust and Amanda Olson. She was baptized, confirmed and attended elementary schools there. They came to the Flom area in 1917. Here they settled on a farm in section 21 of Flom township, directly north of the Flom farm. It was here that she met and married Edwin Flom in 1932 at the Wild Rice Lutheran Church. They lived in section 21 of Flom Township, along Hwy 113. The home still stands but hasn't been occupied for years. It is now owned by Kenneth Holum.
Rose was a member of the Wild Rice church for many years, she was also active in the ALCW there. She was a member to the American Legion Auxiliary, and past treasurer of the Flom School Board, a position she held for several years.
They were the parents of one son: Phillip
Edwin passed away on February 25, 1938 and Rose passed away on May 22, 1971, both are buried at Wild Rice Cemetery.
Elling H. and Oliane (Ellingstuen) Flom
Elling H. Flom was born in Winnesheik county, Iowa on September 15, 1858. Together with his parents he moved to Norman county in 1874. He had two brothers; Simon and Erick and one sister: Martha (John Homelvig). He was a pioneer of Norman county and was one of the organizers of Flom township, where he served as supervisor for a number of years, and in 1880 was elected treasurer of Flom twp., which office he held for 30 years in succession. He also served as a member of the school board for many years and other offices of public trust. He was a active member of Wild Rice Lutheran Church, practically all the time since that congregation was formed.
Oliana was born in 1863 in Norde, Fron, Gulbrandsdalen, Norway. She immigrated to American when she was 18 years old with her parents. She was a active member at her church Wild Rice, having served on the ladies aid for 54 years.
Elling married Oliane Ellingstuen on December 19, 1882 and they moved onto the farm, staying here until their deaths. To this union nine children were born, Olga, Alma (Marie Alma), Gunda (see Andrew and Gunda Uvaas), Mildred, Hans, Anthony, Edwin, Burton and Kenneth.
Elling was a highly respected member of the community, a kind and loving husband and father. He passed away at his home in Flom township on March 26, 1923, after suffering a heart trouble and bronchitis for a number of years. He is buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery.
Eric H. and Anna (Nelson) Flom
One of the progressive and enterprising farmer of Norman County is Eric H. Flom, the owner of a fine farm of one hundred and sixty acres in Flom township, where he carries on general farming and dairying and who was one of the organizers of Norman County, was born in this county, June 4, 1860, a son of Hans and Margarita (Regsland) Flom both natives of Norway, from which they came to America after their marriage. Soon after they arrived on American soil, the father and mother came on out to Minnesota, and took a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres in section 14, Flom township, about a mile and a half from the farm on which the subject of this sketch now lives. Both spent their lives of the home farm, which was sold after their deaths occurred. They were the parents of four children, namely: Martha, now residing in Dakota; Elling, living in section 20, Flom township; Eric H., the subject of this sketch; and Seamen, deceased.
Eric H. Flom received his early education in the schools of Norman County, although the educational advantages of his school days were nothing to compare with those that the children of the present enjoy, because the country was then new. Living under pioneer conditions on his father's farm, here he gained the hardihood, thrift and industry which were invaluable when he started to himself a short distance from the home place. For the first twelve years of his farming operations, he used oxen, and now he uses horses and draught animals. He has now one hundred and sixty acres of excellent land, all well improved with a good farm plant and under a high state of cultivation. The plant consists of excellent buildings, including a large barn and silo, which are absolutely indispensable to the progressive and enterprising farmer. His comfortable farm house is beautifully situated in a fine grove. here on his farm he carries on mixed farming and has some stock.
Mr. Flom was untied in marriage to Anna Nelson, who was born in Norway, and this marriage has resulted in the birth of the following children:
Hattie, Nora, Henry, Clarence and Ella. Mr. and Mrs. Flom are consistent and conscientious members of the Norwegian Lutheran Church. The former helping to erect the church edifice which has since burned down. He has a share in the creamery at Flom, which enterprise is of great importance to him in the marketing of his dairy products.
Mr. Flom has always taken a deep interest in the social, civic, and moral progress of the community in which he has always lived. He helped to organize Norman County, and whenever any movement is stated locally for the community's betterment, it is assured of Mr. Flom's unstinted support and loyal-cooperation.
from the 1917 History of Clay and Norman Counties Minnesota
Gerhard Flom
Gerhard was born in 1907 to Gulak and Kari Flom in Flom Township. He was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church. He attended school at Sunny Hill country school. After he finished school Gerhard worked for Burnett Bergeson and later he became a custodian at the Minnesota State Capitol during the legislative sessions.
In his later years he worked for Phil Roger and Sherman Hoseth on their farms as a hired man. Gerhard enjoyed his retirement by traveling, he made three trips back to the "old country" Norway and one trip to the Holy Land. Gerhard died on March 13, 1993 and is buried at Aspelund. He never married.
Gulak (Gullick) and Kari Flom
Gulak was born in 1847 in Norway. Kari Flom was born in 1874 in the Flom Valley, in Norway. Her maiden name was also Flom. In Norway you take the name of the farm on which you live, having the same name doesn’t mean you are related, just from the same area.
Kari Flom was born in the Flom Valley in Norway, December 16, 1874. She was baptized and confirmed in the Flom Lutheran Church there and attended parochial schools there also.
Gulak and Kari were married in 1897 in Norway and shortly thereafter they ventured out on a new life together, in a new country. They first came to Syre, Mn where they settled for three years, after which they move to a farm one mile south of the Wild Rice church, this being where the parsonage used to be. They remained here and raised a family. Gerhard, Anna married William Erickson, Mabel married Virgil Lamberg, Agnes (see Elmer and Agnes Sandal), Ruth and Tina
Gulak passed away on February 12, 1930. After his death Kari moved to Red Wing, Mn where she lived wit her daughter. Kari died on October 8, 1973. They are both buried at Wild Rice.
Hans and Ida (Fjeld) Flom
Hans Flom was born in Norman county on February 10, 1890 to Randi and Simon Flom. He grew up on the family farm and later went to Montana where he and his brother-in-law were partners in a hardware and implement business. From there he entered the army and served during World War I. He was wounded in France and returned to his parents' farm in Flom township. Later he managed the shipping association in Syre and Gary, Mn. He also traveled for the Independent Silo Company.
On November 27, 1930 he was united in marriage to Ida Fjeld at Gary, Mn. They moved to the Bagley community in 1934 where he was connected with a shipping association. In 1937 they moved to a farm northwest of Bagley where they lived for eleven years, they moved into the town of Bagley in 1948 where they made their home since.
Hans died on February 19, 1958 from a coronary heart attack, his funeral was held at the First Lutheran church and internment was in the Bagley cemetery.
Hans M. and Anna (Gunderson) Flom
Hans M Flom was born at Flom on June 19,1883 to the Elling and Oliana Flom. He was baptized and confirmed (1899) at the Wild Rice Lutheran Church. He attended country school in the Flom area later going to college at Grand Forks, ND, from which he graduated. After graduation he taught district school for some time. He later went to South Dakota, where he homesteaded, which land he continued to own until his death. His brothers were; Anthony, Berton, Kenneth and Edwin. His sisters were; Alma, Mildred, Olga all who proceeded him in death and only surviving sister is Gunda (Andrew Uvaas).
Anne Helene Gunderson was born on August 15, 1883, in Strand township, the first daughter of Ole H. and Olivia Gunderson. She spent her childhood years on the farm near Gary, and attended elementary and parochial schools there. She was confirmed in the Gary Lutheran Church on January 1, 1899. She continued her education at Fertile, Crookston College , Moorhead Normal School and the University of North Dakota.
Hans and Anna Gunderson were married on July 23, 1935; they had no children. Just five years after they were married Hans was killed while working at the Cargilll Grain Company, where he was employed. After his death she stayed in Gary until 1942 when she moved back to live with her brother Henry who lived on the family farm.
Much of Anna's life was devoted to service within the church. She was a leader and member of the Luther League, a choir member for 15 years, taught Sunday School for 15 years, and parochial school for several terms. She was an active member of the Ladies Aid of which she served as president and librarian. She was the recipient of an award for her services rendered to Christian Education.
She was a public school teacher in North Dakota for 25 years, she also was active in the communities where she taught. She served as a leader for both boys and girls for 4-H clubs for many years. She received a citation from President Franklin D. Roosevelt for patriotic services rendered during World War II. Although she lived and served in many communities during her life, except for short terms of residence in Fargo, ND and Faith, SD most of her life has been spent in and around Gary.
He later commenced to buy grain and was engaged in that line of work for over twenty years, and came back to this area settling in the village of Gary, Mn. where he continued to be engaged in this line of work until just before his death.
On account of his honesty and efficiency he was entrusted with many duties in the way of public offices and trusts. He held public offices too numerous to mention, and was always ready and willing to do his part.
Anna passed away on December 31 at the age of 88 years, at the Lutheran Memorial Retirement Center in Twin Valley, Mn. Funeral services were held at Gary Lutheran Church, Gary, Mn.
Henry B. and Mabel (Knutson) Flom
Henry B. Flom was born at Flom, Mn on June 15, 1895 to Erick and Hannah Flom. He grew up in the area where he attended school and grew into manhood. He married Mabel Knutson on May 4, 1929, at Ada, Mn and soon afterwards they moved to Clover Township, Clearwater county, Mn, where they were engaged in farming. They had no children. Henry died on October 28, 1962 at Bagley, Mn.
Kenneth V.R. Flom
Kenneth was born on August 24, 1906 to Elling and Oliana (Olson)Flom. He grew up in Flom township, he later entered the U.S. Navy during WW II. He married Grace Warne in St. Paul on July 19, 1941 and they resided in Detroit Lakes, Mn. He maintained a insurance office at Gary, Mn. He was active in the American Legion, having been a past 9th District Commander of the American Legion. He was also active in the Veteran's of Foreign Wars Post 40, and the Masonic Lodge and Order of the Eastern Star.
Kenneth died on March 15, 1961. He was the last survivor of his immediate family. He is buried at Wild Rice Cemetery, rural Twin Valley, Mn.
Lisa I. Flom
Lisa Isabelle Flom was born on November 24, 1891 to Simon and Randi (Skeim) Flom on the family farm in Flom township. She was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, Mn. She grew up on the family farm in section 12 of Flom township, here she attended rural schools. After completing her education she went to Moorhead State College. After which she taught in rural schools in Norman County and North Dakota. Lisa then went to Dakota Business College in Fargo. After completing her education there she moved to Los Angeles, California, where she was employed as a legal secretary for various law firms for over 40 years. She never married.
Lisa traveled extensively all over the world, and could translate four different languages. She did a lot of traveling as a hobby and served as a guide and director for excursions and group traveling. In her later years she came back to the area and entered the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home, in Twin Valley, Mn where she lived until her death on February 7, 1975. Lisa was the last surviving member of the Simon Flom family, she is buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery.
Marie Alma Flom
Marie Alma was born on December 4, 1884 , to Elling and Oiana (Olson) Flom. She was the oldest of the Flom children, and grew up in the Flom area where she attended school. She spent most of her life on the family farm. In 1930 Marie became stricken with rheumatism, and although she sought medical aid at several places, she was unable to get any permanent help and death finally came as the only relief for her.
Marie Alma aka Alma Marie died on February 4, 1923 at the home of her parents. Her funeral was held at the Wild Rice Lutheran Church, where she was laid to rest.
Marie was a loving daughter and sister. She bore the sufferings of her long illness with patience. That she was loved by all who knew her was shown by the many tokens of love and affection that were shown her during her illness. She leaves a place in the hearts of relatives and friends which can never be filled. She remained on the family farm most of her life except for the few years that she lived in Amidon,ND , where she proved up a homestead.
Mildred T. Flom
Mildred Therese was born on March 16, 1903 to Elling and Oliana (Olson) Flom. She attended rural schools in the area and lived on the family farm most of her life, except for the months spent with her sister in Amidon, ND. On August 10, 1924 she passed away at the home of her sister after just a few months of illness. Mildred was a very kind and loving daughter and sister, she will leave a place in the hearts of relatives and friends which can never be filled. She is buried at Wild Rice Cemetery.
Olga B. Flom
Olga Bertine Flom was born to Elling and Oliana (Olson) Flom on October 11, 1896 and lived on the home farm all her life with the exception of a few years while attending school and teaching school. Olga was a loving daughter and sister, she bore the suffering of her long illness with tuberculosis with patience and that she was loved by all who knew her was shown by the many tokens of love and affection that were sent to her during her illness. She passed away on November 13, 19922 at the home of her parents. She leaves a place in the heart of relatives and friends which never can be filled.
Funeral services were held at Wild Rice Lutheran church, rural Twin Valley, Mn where she was also laid to rest.
Simon and Randi (Skeim) Flom
Simon Flom was born to Hans E. and Margrett (Wigesland) Flom in Decorah, Ia. He came to the Flom area as a young man and settled in Flom township, where he lived for about forty years. He was among the first settler's of Norman County.
Randi Skeim was born in Aurland, Sogn, Norway on March 24, 1861 and came to America in 1884, settling in Norman County, Mn.
Simon and Randi were married on April 25, 1888, after their marriage they stayed in Flom township where they were occupied in the normal daily routines of farming. The settled in section 12 of Flom township, the land is currently owned by Mark Seeger.
Simon and Randi were the parents of eight children; Hans (baby), Hans (see Hans Flom), Lisa, Esther; see Bert and Esther Albertson, Mabel (Peter Kjilen), Freida (Alvin Baukol) , and Selma; (see William and Selma Christensen) and Ina.
Ina B.L. Flom was born in 1900 to Simon and Randi (Skeim) Flom at Flom, Mn. She never married and died on October 19, 1921,at the early age of 21 from polio. She is buried at Wild Rice Cemetery.
Baby Hans Flom was born in 1889 and died in 1889, he is buried at Wild Rice Cemetery.
Francis and Constance (Huseby) Fossen
Francis Fossen was born in 1904 to Ole and Marit (Lien) Fossen. He was baptized and confirmed in Bethlehem Lutheran Church. He attended rural school at Plentywood.
Constance Huseby was born to Ove and Charlotte (Nelson) Huseby in 1907. She attended rural school and graduated from Twin Valley High School. After high school, she attended Moorhead Normal School for one year and received her teaching certificate. She taught school before her marriage to Francis in 1930.
After their marriage Francis and Connie focused on their farming operation and raising their family. In the early 1940’s Connie went back to teaching in the Twin Valley area until her retirement in 1972. They first resided on his parents’ farm in Flom township, which they did for one year, then they moved to another farm in section 15 of Flom township. They resided here for seven years. They moved from Flom township to Home Lake township, where they resided for one year, before moving to Rockwell township in 1939, they remained here until Francis’ death in 1970. After Francis’ death Connie moved into Twin Valley and lived there until she moved to Grand Rapids, Mn, where she lived the last eight and one-half years of her life as a resident at a Nursing Home there. Francis served on the rural school board and township boards. He was a very talented violinist and a hunting and trapping enthusiast. Connie was a avid seamstress and also enjoyed crocheting and making quilts.
Francis died in 1970 and Constance died on September 12, 1995, they are both buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery, rural Twin Valley, Mn.
Francis and Connie were the parents of Harlem (Glenyce) , Alden "Buddy" (Mary) and LaVance (Boedigheimer).
Ole E. and Marit (Lien) Fossen
Ole was born in Nordre Fron, Oppland, Norway and left for America at the age of 17. He married Marit Lien who was the daughter of Ole P. and Embjar Lien in 1887. Marit was born in 1867 in Norway. She came to America when she was three years old. She was a midwife and delivered many babies in the neighborhood. They lived in Section 9 of Flom Township. The following children were born to them: Francis and Otto, Milla (Otto) Rogers and Emma (Martin) Ovaldson.
Marit died in 1946 and Ole died in 1944, both are buried in Wild Rice Lutheran Church Cemetery.
Roland and Gloria (Dorseth) Francis
Gloria Charlene Dorseth was born to Henry and Viola (Christensen) Dorseth on August 4, 1934 at Ada, Mn, Norman County. She grew up in Flom township in section 29. She was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom. She attended school at Woodland Nook until the 8th grade. Gloria then attended school, grades 9-12 at Twin Valley High School, where she graduated.
Roland Francis was born on October 2, 1930 to Harlow and Rose Francis at Gibbon, Mn. He was baptized at Gibbon, Mn and confirmed at Mahnomen, Mn. He received his education at Mahnomen, where he graduated from High School. After graduation he started farming.
Gloria and Roland were married on September 21, 1953 at St. Ann’s Catholic Church in Waubun, Mn. They settled down on their farm Northeast of Mahnomen, in section 31 of Chief township, in Mahnomen county where they still reside. They are member’s of St. Michael’s Catholic Church in Mahnomen. Gloria is active in Catholic daughters of America and Roland is a member of the Knights of Columbus. Roland also enjoyed playing drums for the Athman’s Band.
Gloria and Roland are the parents to thirteen children; Keith, David, Loren, Scott, Roger, Linda, Kevin, Nancy, Todd, Anisa, Angie, Eric and Andy.
Keith Roland was baptized and confirmed at St. Michael’s Catholic Church, in Mahnomen. He graduated from Mahnomen High School and then continued his education at Detroit Lakes Vo-Tech, Keith is a carpenter. Keith married Judy Guenther on April 12, 1975. They are the parents of six children. Jason, Tessi, Cory, Kyle, Brian and Adam. Jason and Anna Fish are the parents of one daughter; Charisma, they will be married on July 6, 2002. Keith and Judy live Northeast of Mahnomen, near the family farm.
David Wayne was baptized and confirmed at St. Michael’s, and graduated from Mahnomen HS. After graduating he attended Detroit Lakes Vo-Tech and is a carpenter. He married Elinor Anderson of Lengby, Mn on July 23, 1976. They are the parents of three children; Nicholas, Daniel and Anna. David and Ellie live in Detroit Lakes, Mn.
Loren James was baptized and confirmed at St. Michael’s and he graduated from Mahnomen HS. He went to Brainerd, Mn where he received an education in Horticulture. Loren has two children from his first marriage; Christina who has four children and Jason who has one child. Loren married Dianne Gustofson on June 26, 1996, they live in Bagley, Mn., where Loren is self employed as a florist.
Scott Henry was baptized and confirmed at St. Michael’s, he graduated from Mahnomen HS. Scott married Mary Hoeschen of Waubun, Mn on July 15, 1978. They are the parents of two children; Sonja who is married to David Hansen (6-23-2001) and Sarah. Scott and Mary live in Detroit Lakes, Mn where Scott is employed as a carpenter.
Roger Allen was baptized and confirmed at St. Michael’s and graduated from Mahnomen HS. He married Peggy Winter of Waubun on October 11, 1980. Roger and Peggy are the parents of three children; Jeffrey, Tammy and Tyler. Roger and Peggy live in Mahnomen Mn where Roger is employed as a carpenter.
Linda Charlene was born on January 4, 1960. She was baptized and confirmed at St.Michael’s and graduated in 1978 from Mahnomen HS. Linda married Tim Benson on June 13, 1985 and they have two children; Jake and Josie. Linda works as a Florist and keeps busy taking care of her family. Linda and Steve live in Chicago, Il.
Kevin Dean was baptized and confirmed at St. Michael’s and graduated from Mahnomen HS. After graduation he attended Moorhead Vo-Tech where he received an education in Heating and Refrigeration. He married Jeri Jo Hegg on October 11, 1985. They have three children; Kevin James, Nichole and Kristi. Kevin and Jeri live in Bemidji, Mn.
Nancy Lynn was baptized and confirmed at St. Michael’s and graduated from Mahnomen HS. After graduation Nancy received a degree as a florist. She has a Sr. Degree FTD as Florist and works in the FM area as a florist. She married Luke Dewey of Mahnomen, Mn and they are the parents of three children; Chad, Alexa and Markus. Nancy and Luke live in Moorhead, Mn.
Todd Michael was baptized and confirmed at St. Michael’s, he graduated from Mahnomen HS. After
graduation he started working as a carpenter and landscaper. He married Sue Strand on March 11, 1989 and they are the parents of four children; Derrek, Ashley, Danielle and Nathan. Todd and Sue live in Detroit Lakes, Mn.
Anisa Marie was baptized and confirmed at St. Michael’s and graduated from Mahnomen HS. After graduation she married Russell Jasken of Ogema, Mn., on October 3, 1987. They are the parents of four children; Brian, Eric, Ariel and Erin. Anisa and Russ live south of Ogema where Russ is active in farming. Anisa keeps busy as a housewife and mother, besides being a Pre-School Teacher.
Angie Kaye was baptized and confirmed at St. Michael’s, she graduated from Mahnomen HS. After graduation she entered the Army National Guard of which she is still active in. She married Steve Larson on July 10, 1992. Steve and his brother were tragically killed while they were working in a trench on the building site of Steve and Angie’s new home. The trench caved in on them and both perished. Steve is buried at Hendrum, Mn. Angie keeps busy raising her children; Cody, Taylor, Tony and Sylas, they live at Hendrum, Mn.
Eric John was baptized and confirmed at St. Michael’s and graduated from Mahnomen HS. He married Janis Starkey on March 28, 1992, they are the parents of two children; John and Kurtis. Eric is employed as a carpenter and landscaper. He and Janis live Northeast of Detroit Lakes, Mn.
Andrew Thomas was baptized and confirmed at St. Michael’s and graduated from Mahnomen HS. He married Christy Hemberger on December 18, 1999. Andy and Christy live southeast of Detroit Lakes,where he is employed as a carpenter and landscaper and Christy is a teacher.
David and Sharon (Sethney) Gerjets
David Gerjets was born to George and Mabel/Maybelle (Blomseth) Gerjets. George and Mabel lived in Ada, Mn. Where George operated the Ada Dray Line and Hotel, in Ada, which he did until 1972. George and Mabel were married on March 16, 1931 in Ada, Mn.
David was one of seven children born to George and Mabel. Those being; Victoria, Allen, Earlin, Rudolph, David, Doris (Virgil Busch), and Alva.
Sharon Lou Sethney was born to Lester and Marjoirie (Mesker) Sethney. Sharon grew up in Twin Valley, Minnesota. She attended school here and graduated from Twin Valley High School in 1956. She was baptized and confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church, Twin Valley. She had one brother Gerald Sethney and one sister Sonja (Arne Martinson). She married Mr. Evenson (divorced) and to this union four children were born; Nona, Kevin, Anita and Jeff.
David marrired Sharon (Sethney) Evenson on May 11, 1968. They lived the first five years of their marriage in Twin Valley, then they purchased the former Benny Buchholz farm site just southwest of the Aspelund Church, in Section 33 of Flom township. Here they raised Sharon’s children. All four were confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom.
David worked for Abbott Arne and Schwindt Construction. Sharon kept busy with being a housewife and mother. She loved to work in her yard and it showed her talents as the yard was always neat and orderly. Sharon loved to hunt, David and Sharon enjoyed coon hunting with their dogs, and they enjoyed fishing.
Sharon was active in her church, teaching Vacation Bible School, Sunday school, and was a active member of Aspelund Bible Study and ALCW. Sharon had a love for life, she was taken from this world early, but she put up a brave and courageous battle with the cancer that spread within her. On October 6, 1992, she lost her battle. She is buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery, Flom, Mn.
Hilbert A. and Alma (Johnson) Gravely
Hilbert Arnold Gravely was born to Lars and Helen (Haadtvedt) Gravely.
Alma Elizabeth Johnson was born on June 9, 1891 at Colfax, ND to John and Amanda (Ruud) Johnson. It was at Colfax that she grew up and was an active member of Richland Lutheran Church Young Ladies Aid.
Hilbert and Alma were married on February 5, 1924 at Detroit Lakes, Mn. They resided at Detroit Lakes and then moved to Leonard ND prior to their moving to Flom, Mn. Here they operated their business and made their home. The Johnson and Gravely business was located where to Co-op is today.
They were active in Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn. Where he was active on the church board and she was active in the Ladies Aid, and they were active members of the Luther League.
Hilbert passed away on April 27, 1994 and Alma on March 4, 1947. They are both buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery. They had no children.
Olaf O. and Marie (Rue) Grefsrud
Olaf O. Grefsrud was born on December 23, 1993 to Mr and Mrs. Ole Grefsrud in Norway. He spent his youth in Norway and came to America as a young man. He first settled in North Dakota in the early 1900's. He then came to Norman County and here he purchased the one room school in Flom and started a Meat Market.
Marie Rue was born on April 8, 1887 to Per and Gunnhild (Gronlie) Rue in Iowa.
Olaf and Marie were married on December 7th, 1916 at Lake Park, Minnesota.
They were the parents of two sons. Palmer was born in 1917. Gordon J. was born on July 22nd, 1921 and died on July 30th, 1921. He is buried at Aspelund.
In 1920 they moved to a farm in Walworth Township where they farm.
On April 22, 1922 Marie passed away. Palmer was only four years old at the time. Olaf and Palmer then moved to Flom, Township.
Olaf returned to Norway in the fall of 1947 then came back within a years.
He died on September 15, 1961. Both Marie and Olaf are buried at Aspelund Lutheran Church Cemetery, Flom.
Palmer and Mildred (Jacobson) Grefsrud
Palmer was born September 30, 1917 to Olaf and Marie (Rue) Grefsrud in Flom Township. He grew up in the Flom area with his father on a farm and attended area schools. He married Mildred Jacobson on April 18, 1941 at the Wild Rice Parsonage, the settled on the home farm in Section 30 of Flom Township where they lived for 60 years. He was active in farming until his later years. Mildred was born to Nels and Clara (Kvidt) Jacobson of the Flom area.
Palmer and Mildred had three sons born to them. Sherwood lives by Davenport, ND,
Ronnie in West Fargo, ND
Myron lives in Moorhead.
Palmer passed away on September 18, 2001 and is buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery, Flom. Mildred moved to Twin Valley and currently lives there.
Oscar and Minnie (Underdahl) Groslie
Minnie Underdahl was born on June 26, 1894, near Flom, Mn to Andrew and Dina Underdahl. She was raised and attended school in this community. She was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, Mn.
Oscar and Minnie were married on July 17, 1925 in the Wild Rice Parsonage. They made their home in Virginia, Mn for the first two years and then returned to Twin Valley, Mn, where they remained until 1958 when they moved into Ulen. After Oscar’s death on September 30, 1960 Minnie made her home with her two daughters until her death on January 3, 1986.
Minnie was a past member of the Flom-Twin Valley VFW Auxiliary, Post 3818.
They were the parents of two daughters; Charmaine (Orlean Jensen) and Fern (Leo Ashmore).
Funeral services for Minnie were held at Calvary Lutheran Church, Ulen, with interment at Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Twin Valley.
Irene (Lien) Gudding
Growing up in the Flom Community holds many special memories of life on the farm, attending grade school in Flom, studying for state board exams at the end of 8th grade. Then High school after that. Cleaning and raking the school yard on the last day of school was fun. This was all followed by bonfires, marshmallows and wiener roasts.
The days before television were fun. The whole family would help with the evening chores so we could get done on time to gather in the living room to listen to some of the radio program’s, such as Fibber McGee and Mollie, Jack Benny, Truth or Consequences, This IS Your Life and so on. Mom would pass out apples or oranges or popcorn balls which she sometimes made. Especially during the Holidays. Being together was really special!
I remember saving nickels which I kept in a little coin purse. This was money for ice cream cones! Mork’s Cafe had the "best tasting" old fashioned ice cream cones in the world! I remember the free movies at the Flom Outdoor Theater. We, kids sat on the ground on blankets with cousins, sisters and brothers. We enjoyed seeing movies about; Roy Rogers and his horse, Trigger, or Gene Autry Westerns and the East Side Kids and others. If we got chilly or the mosquito’s got too mean, we’d go to the car where the folks were and watched from there.
Sometimes after the movies there was a dance at the Flom Hall. I guess that’s where a lot of us kids learned to dance.
I remember Sunday School and Catechism and being part of the wonderful Christmas programs at Aspelund Lutheran Church. The one Christmas program that stands out most in my memory is when there was so much snow that all the country roads were blocked the night of the program. Dad hooked up the horses, Daisy and Dolly to grandpa’s sleigh and the folks tucked us all in the sleigh and covered us with blankets. There was jingle bells on the sleigh and a lantern for light. Then after the program, everyone was given Christmas treats which were brown bags filled with apples, peanuts and Christmas candy.
I was baptized in November 1934 at Wild Rice Lutheran Church by Rev. Amundson, and confirmed on June 27, 1948 at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, MN. By Rev Einar Torgerson.
When I got married, I moved away from the Flom community and over the years since, have lived in St. Paul, MN; Mounds View, MN; Fargo ND; Clinton, IA; Olympia Wa; Lacey, WA; San Dimas, CA; Brooklyn Park, Mn and Moorhead, Mn where I live at the present time.
I have five girls and one son; Cheryl (Dave) Braton lives in Bismarck, ND. Their sons are Matthew (Shelley),
Michael (lives in Germany), and Sarah their daughter resides in Minneapolis, MN.
Theresa (John) Hoffman lives in Olympia, WA and has three children; Seth, Nathan and Bethany.
Jean (Stan) Walker lives in Moorhead, MN and has three children; James (Brookings SD), Steven and Jenny.
Denise (Steve) Warner lives in Rochester, WA and has three children; Bronze (has a baby due in early June of 2002), Hope and Olivia.
Mark and Mairead Gudding live in Oxford, Mi and will soon be relocating to Providence, RI for the fall school term of 2002. They have two daughters; Marina and Clio.
Kristen Syverson is the youngest and lives in Moorhead, Mn she is looking forward to buying a new home in 2002 in Fargo, ND.
I have lived in several different areas, but there’s no place that ca n take the place of growing up in the country and the Flom Community for special memories and I feel enriched in having been a part of it during my growing up years.
Adelia Belinda Gunderson
Adelia was born in 1895 to Henry and Beata Gunderson. She grew up in Flom township section 35, living her entire life on the family farm. After her parents died she and her brother Clarence continued living there. Adelia died on October 5, 1981 and is buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery.
Benhart and Sophia (Larson) Gunderson
Benhart was born July 6, 1891 to Henry and Bertha (Embretson) Gunderson of Flom. He had seven brothers: Edwin, Burton, Clarence, Perry, Herbert & Floyd and four sisters: Mrs. Henry Olmen, Adelia, Mabel (Rue) & Geneva (Jacobson)
Sophia Larson was born December 25, 1889 to Christian and Gunhild (Olson Bergetangen) Larson. She had four sisters: Mrs. John Saxvold, Ella (Nelson), Mrs. Raymond Bakke & Minnie (Campbell) and two brothers: Lawrence & Charles
Benhart married Sophia on August 5, 1915 at Ada, Minnesota.
They had a house built in Flom, which was purchased from Sears, Roebuck and Company.
Benhart was a Star Route Mail carrier for a few years, delivering mail from Syre, Minnesota to Flom.
Sophia was a professional seamstress, sewed her wedding gown and also for many others!
They farmed until they retired. They bought a house in Detroit Lakes and lived there for several years.
Three children were born to Sophia and Benhart, namely:
La Vern who was married to Ihlor Bjerke in 1939. They have two children, Darwin and Kathy. They also have three grandchildren, Pat, Ameria and Andy and two great-grandchildren named Arro and Cameron.
Vivei married Warren Strang in 1948.
Junior B. married Rose in 1971.
La Vern and Vivei wore their mother’s wedding gown at their own weddings.
Vivei and Junior served in World War II and Junior also served in the Korean War.
Benhart died July 28, 1974.
Sophia died October 30, 1975.
They are both buried at Aspelund Cemetery, rural Flom.
Blessed be their memories!
Charles and Mary Lou (Korzendorfer) Gunderson
Charles was born on February 11, 1928. He attended school at Waubun, Mn. He later moved to Virginia, Mn,
where he worked for the Iron Range, he is now retired. He married Mary Lou Korzendorfer on April 2, 1953.
They had two children; Timothy born on June 29, 1951 and Maxine born on October 28, 1953.
Clarence Gunderson
Clarence (Clancy) was born in 1899 to Henry and Beata (Embretson) Gunderson in Flom township. He grew up on the family farm where he resided his entire life. After his parents death, Clarence and his sister Adelia continued to live on the family farm. Clarence died on March 11, 1983 and is buried at Aspleund.
The farm is now owned by Gerald Lien.
Clifford and Laura (Menk) Gunderson
Clifford Gunderson as born on February 13, 1911 at Flom, Mn. He attended school in the Flom area and graduated from Waubun High School. He married Laura Menk on December 30, 1936, at Waubun, Mn. After their marriage they lived in Waubun, where he worked at the Post Office and was Post Master from 1945 until 1950. In 1950 the family moved to Hillsboro, North Dakota where he was co-owner of the Coast to Coast Hardware Store. In 1957 he sold his share of the Hardware store and opened Gundy’s TV and Radio Repair Shop, which he operated until his retirement in 1980.
Clifford and Laura were the parents of Robert and Allen.
Clifford passed away in 1982, funeral services were held at Our Saviors Lutheran Church, with burial at Detroit Lakes, Mn.
Edmond and Mary Ann (Knudson) Gunderson
Edmond Oliver was born on December 14, 1937. He attended school at Ulen, Mn and graduated in 1958. He went on to further his education at Interstate Business College, Fargo, ND and at NDSU in Fargo. He worked for First Bank of ND as Vice President of the Trust Department. Edmond married Mary Ann Knudson of Portland, ND on December 17, 1966. She attended school at Portland, ND and furthered her education at Concordia College. She works for Oak Grove Lutheran HS, in Fargo, ND. Edmond is now retired. Edmond and Mary Ann are the parents of two children. Heidi Coranda who was born on July 26, 1972. She graduated from Fargo North and went on to Pepperdine Univ. graduating on May 16, 1998. She is living in Malibu, California. Scott Edmond was born on September 22, 1974. He graduated from Fargo North. He went on to further his education at Concordia College and is now living in Kansas City, Kansas and is attending Medical School there. He married Nicole Trites on July 27, 2001.
Edsel and Lorraine (Haugen) Gunderson
Edsel Edmond was born on September 18, 1939. He attended school at Ulen, Mn and went on to Moorhead State University, in Moorhead, where he graduated with a degree in Accounting and Marketing. He worked as a manger of Branch Operations at Dakota Clinic, Fargo, ND. He married Lorraine Haugen of Moorhead, on July 1, 1961 at Moorhead, Mn. Lorraine worked for Merchants National Bank, Fargo, ND. They are now retired.
Edsel and Lorraine have two children; Larry Dean born on December 31, 1963. He attended school at Detroit Lakes, Mn and graduated from Moorhead State University. He is Director of Finance for a Medical Clinic in Minneapolis, Mn. He married Ann Margaret Stackpool on June 31, 1995. They have one daughter Amy who was born on December 21, 1996 and one son Nathan born on August 4, 2000.
Kimberly Dawn was born on March 27, 1967. She attended school at Detroit Lakes, Mn and went on to the U of M in Minneapolis, where she received a degree in Interior Design. She married Jeffrey Arsenault of Fridley,
Mn on June 1, 1992 in Detroit Lakes, Mn. Jeff was also a graduate of the U of M in Minneapolis. They have three children; Andrew Jeffrey born on May 8, 1994, Allison Nicole born on January 15, 1998 and Rachel Elizabeth born on December 5, 1999.
Emmett and Adeline (Solberg) Gunderson
Emmett was born on November 17, 1917. He attended school at Waubun, Mn and later moved to Detroit Lakes, Mn where he was employed as a carpenter. He is now retired and resides in Twin Valley, Mn. Emmett married Adeline Solberg. Adeline was born on March 13, 1922. They were married on February 7, 1942. They were the parents of Roger (November 12, 1943), Russell (June 27, 1947) and Harlan (February 24, 1956).
Harold and Ramona (Solberg) Gunderson
Harold Noel was born on July 14, 1926. He attended school at Waubun, Mn. He later moved to rural Glyndon, Mn and then to Detroit Lakes, Mn. He was employed as a carpenter. Harold "Noel" married Ramona Solberg on April 21, 1951. Ramona was born on April 1, 1930. They were the parents of Neal Andrew Miller who was born on February 21, 1962.
Harry Burton and Ella (Dorseth) Gunderson
Harry Burton Gunderson was born on July 1, 1887 to Henry and Beata (Embretson) Gunderson in Flom township, section 35.
Ella Dorseth was born on June 12, 1895 to Hans and Ronnaug (Fossen) Dorseth, near Flom in section 28 of Flom Township.
H. B. and Ella were married in Lake Park, Mn on April 29, 1915. They owned and operated a grocery store in Waubun, Mn for 68 years. They had one son Belford.
Henry E. and Bertha (Embretson) Gunderson
Henry E. Gunderson, one of Norman county’s most substantial and progressive farmers and the owner of a fine place in Flom township, where he and his family are very comfortably situated, was born on a pioneer farm in Clayton county, Iowa, September 14, 1859, and there grew to manhood, but has been a resident of the Red River country since 1882. He is a son of : Embrets and Isabel (Bjern) Lair, natives of the kingdom of Norway, who became pioneers in Clayton county, Iowa, and there spent their last days, the former dying at the age of sixty-eight when the subject of this sketch was but five years of age. Embrets Lair was a landowner in Iowa.and left a good piece of property to his family when he died. His widow survived him about thirteen years, she being sixty-six years of age at the time of her death. They were the parents of five children, of whom the subject of this sketch was the fourth in order of birth, the others being Ole and Jergen, who are married and still living on the old home place in Iowa; Gunhild, deceased, and Embret, who is married and is still living in Iowa.
Reared on the home farm in Clayton county, Iowa, Henry E. Gunderson received his schooling in the local school of that neighborhood and remained at home until after his marriage at the age of twenty-three, when he and his bride, in 1882, came up into the valley of the Red River of the North and two years later bought a tract of three hundred and twenty acres, a half section, in section 35 of Flom township, Norman county, where they established their home and where they ever since have resided, useful and influential pioneers of that part of the county. As he prospered in his farming operations Mr. Gunderson bought an additional quarter section in section 35 of Flom township and forty-five in section 15 of Fossum township, being now the owner of five hundred and twenty-acres of excellent land, two hundred and forty acres is under cultivation. There are natural groves of poplar on his place and his buildings are substantial and up-to-date. In addition to the central farm house there is a well-built bungalow on the place and the general farm plant is looked upon as one of the best equipped in that part of the county. All of the buildings are lighted by electric light and the appointments of the place are in other respects equally up-to-date. Mr. Gunderson gives considerable attention to the raising of live stock and at the time of this writing in 1917 had on his place sixty-five head of cattle, eight head of horses and fifteen hogs. For four or five years after beginning his farming operations here Mr. Gunderson farmed with oxen and he has witnessed a remarkable revolution in farming methods since those days.
On August I 7, I 882, in Clayton county, Iowa, Henry E. Gunderson was united in marriage to Bertha Embretson, who was born in Iowa on July 9, 1865, and to this union eleven children have been born, namely:
Jesse, who is married and is living at Faith, Norman county;
Burton, who is married and who lives at Waubun, Mahnomen county, Minnesota; Edwin, also married. who is living at Waubun;
Perry and Herbert, twins, the former of whom is living in North Dakota and the latter on the home place;
Bernard, who is married and living at Flom, and Adelia, Mabel, Clarence, Geneva and Floyd, at home.
Mr. Gunderson served for about eighteen years as treasurer of the local school board. He is a stockholder in the Co-operative Creamery Company and in the Farmers State Bank of Flom and was one of the organizers of the first-named concern.
Oliver and Elpha (Miller) Gunderson
Elpha was born on February 22, 1915. She attended school at Waubun, Mn. She later moved to Walworth township after her marriage to Oliver Gunderson on March 21, 1936 at the Ulen parsonage. The day that Elpha and Oliver were to be married there was so much snow that they had to take the sleigh to Ulen for their wedding. Oliver was the son of Lisa Klemetsdatter and Carl Gunderson. Both Lisa and Carl were from the Guldbrandsdal area in Norway and had immigrated here to Atlanta township.
Elpha grew up on the Miller farm in section 33 of Flom township. All but the first year of Elpha and Oliver’s married lives were spent on their farm in section 34 of Walworth township. Oliver worked one year at Dale, Mn and at the stockyards in Fargo, ND as a carpenter. Oliver and Elpha purchased the home farm in 1950. He retired from farming in 1975, when his sons; Wayne and Wallace took over the family farming operation.
Oliver passed away on December 28, 1985 of heart failure. Elpha passed away on February 16, 2000. They are both buried at Atlanta Lutheran Church Cemetery, rural Ulen, Mn.
Elpha and Oliver were the parents of seven children; Orwin Elton, Edmond Oliver, Edsel Ordean, Wayne Curtis, Wallace Duane, Brenda Noreen,
Orwin Elton was born on September 11, 1936 and died on September 14, 1936. He is buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery, Flom, Mn.
Perry E. Gunderson
Perry Gunderson was born on April 4, 1889 to Henry and Beata (Embretson) Gunderson in Flom Township. He grew up in the area and attended school here. On October 8, 1933 Perry died at the Deacon Hospital in Grand Forks, ND. He is buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery.
Virgil and Betty (Voolley) Gunderson
Virgil was born on June 2, 1930. He attended school at Waubun, Mn and later moved to Moorhead, Mn then to Great Falls and Billings Montana. Where he is employed by Blue Cross and Blue Shield. He married Betty Voolley on September 29, 1951. Betty was born on May 2, 1931. Virgil and Betty are the parents of three children; Jeanne born on November 15, 1957, Lori born on August 16, 1959 and Kathy born November 8, 1964.
Wallace Duane Gunderson
Wallace Duane Gunderson was born on March 31, 1944 to Oliver and Elpha (Miller) Gunderson. He helped his father farm and later took over the farming operations with his brother Wayne after his fathers retirement in
1975. He was employed by American Crystal Sugar in Moorhead, Mn. Wallace passed away on February 16, 2000, at his home. He is buried at Atlanta Lutheran Cemetery, rural Ulen, Mn.
Wayne Curtis Gunderson
Wayne Curtis Gunderson was born on March 31, 1944 to Elpha (Miller) and Oliver Gunderson. He grew up on the family farm, helping his father with the farming operations. In 1975 when his father retired from farming
Wayne and his brother, Wallace took over the farming operation. He remained on the family farm and was active in his church; Atlanta Lutheran Church, rural Ulen, Mn, here he served on the Church council, until Atlanta‘s closing in August of 2001. Wayne is employed by American Crystal Sugar of Moorhead, Mn. He continues to live on the family farm in section 34 of Walworth township.
Ole and Anna Haagenson
Ole Haagenson was born on November 2, 1830, and Anna Haagenson was born on March 25, 1843. Not much is known about them, other than they were the parents of two children; Haaken and Anna Marie.
Anna Marie was born on April 14, 1880 in Dooray township in Murray County of Minnesota. In some places you will see she is referred to as Marie and others Anna Marie. She came to this area with her parents. Here she met and married Bernt "Ben" Haroldson. Ben was the son of the Gjermund Haroldson’s. He had two brother’s; Harold and Knute and one sister Birgitte.
Anna and Ben were the parents of Marvin, George, John, Henry, Stanley, Stanley Kermit, Kermit, Ole, Gladys, and Alma.
See the " Ben and Marie Haroldson Tragedy Story"
John G. Hadeland
John G Hadeland was born on August 11, 1894 in Norway. He came to this country in 1910 and settled in Van Hook, North Dakota. He married Mabel Johnson on October 24, 1923 at Stanley, ND. She died on June 25, 1973. His brothers were Ole Haddeland of Flom, Lars of New Town, ND.
John was a veteran of WW I and a member of the Gary American Legion. The moved to Gary in 1950 where he farmed until retiring in 1960. John passed away on August 22, 1979 at a Mahnomen Nursing Home, interment at the St Petri Cemetery, rural Gary, Mn.
They were the parents of; Celia (Norman Nystad), Dianna Moon.
Ole and Alice ( Tomtengen) Hadeland
Ole Hadeland was born on September 12, 1892 to Gunlef and Anna Haddeland in Norway. He was baptized, confirmed and attended school to the 8th grade all in Norway. Ole had two
sister Netta and Aasa and one brother Tonnes who stayed in Norway, He had three brothers who also came to America; Lars, John (see John Haddeland) and Karl. In 1910 Ole left Norway and came to the United States, settling first at Ruby, ND. He later left there and went to Glasgow, Montana here he worked on the Fort Peck Damn when is was built. Ole was in the armed services for two years at which time he served in France. He came to the Flom area, settling in section 23 of Flom Township in 1938.
Alice E. Tomtengen was born on November 5, 1895 to Hans and Anne Tomtengen in Flom Township. She had one sister Elenora (Filipi). Alice was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund. She attended school in the area up to the 8th grade. As a young lade Alice moved to Montana, there she married George Ulmer. When he died she married Ole Hadeland on May 5, 1934 at Fort Peck, Montana.
Ole worked construction and farmed during his life and Alice was a homemaker. Taking care of her husband and their one daughter; LaDonna (Thompson). They adopted LaDonna; who was born on May 5, 1937. See Jerome and LaDonna Thompson
Ole and Alice lived their lives on the farm in section 28. Ole and Alice lived in one house on the farm and their daughter LaDonna and her family lived on the same farm in a second house on the building site. They stayed on the farm until their retirement in 1969 when they moved to Twin Valley, Mn.
Ole served in WWI as a Pvt. in Co F 305 infantry, he was a Veteran. Ole died on August 29, 1972 and Alice died on June 4, 1978. Both are buried at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, MN.
Carl and Lena (Thompson) Hagen
Carl Hagen was born at Newfolden, Mn to Erick and Eli Hagen. He grew up in that area and was inducted into the US Army in June 1918. He lost his leg as a result of those injuries. He saw action in Argonne Forest in France with the army Expeditionary Forces. He was honorably discharge in July 1919.
Lena Thompson was born in 1899 to Knute and Ann (Otterness) Thompson in Flom township. She was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund and became a active member of Wild Rice and it's organizations. She grew up in Flom township on the family farm and attended country schools here.
Carl and Lena were married in 1919 at her parent's home by Rev. B.J. Larson. They lived in Twin Valley for two years, then moved to Flom township, where they farmed for 35 years, retiring in 1956. The continued to live on the farm until 1966, when the moved into Twin Valley.
Carl and Lena were the parents of: Gerald (Ruth), Lowell (Clarice), and Allen.
Carl passed away in 1975 and Lena in 1988, they are both buried at Wild Rice Cemetery, rural Twin Valley, Mn.
John and Fannie (Fajmon) Halva
John Halva was born on December 5, 1884 in Czechoslovakia and came to the United States with his mother and sister in 1898. One brother Joe of Hutchinson and a sister Mrs. Theresa Jelinck, of St. Paul, Mn are listed as survivors in his obituary.
Fannie Fajmon was born on October 1884, near Silver Lake/Hutchinson, Minnesota to the Joseph Fajmon’s. She has one sister Anna Fajmon of Washington, D.C. listed as a survivor in her obituary. John and Fannie were married on March 18,1913, at silver Lake, Mn by the Rev. Joseph Krench. The resided in Atlanta township, Becker County, Mn where they were active in farming. For thirty years they stayed here and in 1943 they packed up their belonging and moved to Flom township, Norman County, Minnesota where they purchased a different farm and resided there for twenty three years. John passed away on October 27, 1966. Fannie passed away on January 22, 1968 at the Lutheran Memorial Homes in Twin Valley, Mn.
John and Fannie are both buried at Walworth Baptist Church, rural Flom, Mn.
Louis and Alice (Doroff) Halva
Louis "Louie" Halva was born to John and Fannie (Fajmon) Halva in Becker, County, Mn. He grew up here and attended schools. He purchased a farm in Norman county Flom township section and it is here he has resided since.
Alice Alta Doroff was born on March 23, 1909 at Max, North Dakota. She grew up in North Dakota and as a young girl worked in restaurants in Fargo. She also did housework for some time.
Louie and Alice were married in South Dakota on March 17, 1954. Since that time they have lived in section 9 of Flom township, where they have made their home.
Alice passed away on December 29, 1976 at the age of 66 years. Funeral services were held at Walworth Baptist Church, rural Flom with interment at the church cemetery.
After her death Louie continued to live on the farm until 2002 when due to a fall he was hospitalized at Meritcare Hospital in Fargo, after his discharge he moved into the Lutheran Memorial Homes in Twin Valley. Louie had sold the farm to Todd Manthe a few years ago, he continued to reside there.
Frank and Aloisie “Louise” (Dvorak) Hamernik
Frank John Hamernik, an immigrant from Strizov, Czechoslovakia, came to the Flom area in 1913. He was born on December 31, 1888 to John and Anna Hamernik. His father had a woodworking shop in Strizov. In Czechoslovakia, the name Hamernik means carpenter or woodworker. Frank had a older brother and sister, also named John and Anna.
Frank came to the United States on August 29, 1909. Along with his came his brother John and a friend of theirs. They first lived in Chicago and later moved to Omaha where they worked in a meat packing plant. His brother John and their friend left the United States and returned to their homeland, but Frank remained behind, choosing to stay in America. He moved to Minnesota along with a friend John Kroplak and his family. John Kroplak has been injured in a accident at the meat packing plant in which he lost a hand. They came to Minnesota and took up the occupation of farming. At this time Frank moved onto a farm located two and a quarter miles south of Flom and the Kroplak family lived on a neighboring farm. The farm Frank moved onto is still in the Hamernik name and is where his son Stanley lives today.
Aloise "Louise" Dvorak was born in Czechoslovakia, she came to the Flom area in 1918. Louise was born on May 9, 1899 to Matthew and Anna Dvorak on a farm in Cejov, Czecoslovakia. She had two brothers; John and Jim. Their mother Anna died when they children were quite young. Their father married a woman by the name of Katie. Matthew and Katie were the parents of one daughter Georgie. Louise came to America only to help the next door neighbor, Mrs. Fafloc, also of Cejov. She was coming to America with her three children to be reunited with her husband and their father. Louise came with to help her with the children on their journey which was by boat across the ocean and then by rail to Omaha. Louise came with full intentions of returning home after the voyage was completed and the family reunited and settled in America. However, prior to her return to Czechoslovakia she planned a trip to the Flom area where she would visit with a relative of her step-mother Katie. This person just happened to be Mrs. John Kroplak. She came here for a visit and met Frank Hamernik,
Frank and Louise were married on June 20th, 1918 in Minnesota. They farmed in section 9 of Walworth Township, Becker County, Minnesota. It is here they raise their family of 9 children. Frank and Louise retired from farming in 1959 and moved into Ulen, Mn. Their son Stanley took over the family farm where he lived today.
Frank and Louise were active members in the ZCBJ Lodge for over 60 years and were members of Walworth Baptist Church, rural Ulen.
They were the parents of 10 children;
Rose who was born on February 22, 1920 and died on March 28th, 1920 is buried at Walworth Baptist Church Cemetery. (Name on her tombstone is Ruzena)
Anna was born on February 8th, 1922. See Harland and Anna Erickson
Frank Jr. was born on October 4th, 1924, he married Marlys Williams of White Earth, Mn. Frank worked for the Ford Motor Co. in Minneapolis until he retired. They now live in Eagen, Mn. They are the parents of three children; Denise (Tony) Zinger, who live in Coon Rapids, Mn and have three daughters; Rachel, Amanda and Alicia. Doug married Dawn Hobby of Minneapolis. The live in Houston Texas with their three children; Amy, Christopher and Rebecca. Diane lives in Minneapolis, Mn.
Georgia "Georgie" was born on May 11, 1926, she married Carl Fuchs of Felton. They have made their home in Lake Park, Mn where they raised their family of five children. Wallace and Sandy live in Horace ND and they have two children; Jeff and Jennifer. Virginia "Ginny" and Dave Strem live in Fertile, Mn. They have four children; Daniel, Debbie, Kelly and Ryan. Nancy and Bob Anderson live in Willow City, ND. Ione and Bob Bloom live in Montana. They had three boys; Brian, Benjamin and Brent (who died in 1994). Lyle and Diane live in rural Fertile, Mn, and they have three children; Travis, Kristi and Timmy.
Betty was born on May 30th, 1928. See Bob and Betty Baukol.
Stanley was born on March 20th, 1930. See Stanley and Jean Hamernik
Jerry was born on December 21st, 1931. See Jerry and Colleen Hamernik
Helen was born on April 19th, 1933, she married Marvin Slette of Mahnomen. They are the parents of five children. Renae, Jerome, Loren, LaVonne and Bruce.
Irene was born on July 6th, 1935. See Marlin and Irene Klemetson
Edward was born on October 17th, 1937, he married Arlene Hedahl of Twin Valley. They made their home in Fridley, Mn where they raised their two children. Craig and Laurie live in Wisconsin with their children Lucas and Megan. Marcia and Dan Oltrogge live in Colorado with their two children, Alaina and Stephen.
Jerry and Colleen (Holt) Hamernik
Jerry Louis Hamernik was born on December 21st, 1931 to Frank and Louise (Dvorak) Hamernik in Detroit Lake’s Mn. He was baptized at Walworth, Baptist Church. As a young boy he grew up on the home farm in Section 9 of Walworth Township, Becker County, Mn.
He attended country school at Dist 54 and then went to Ulen where he graduated from High School in May of 1950. After he graduated Jerry entered the Army and was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, he completed his military service in 1954. He was a Veteran of the Korean War.
After he returned home from the service Jerry became active in farming and purchase a farm in section 4 of Walworth Township in 1957 from Fred McCormick.
Colleen Holt was born on January 29th, 1939 to Jessie and Alex Holt of Calvin North Dakota. She was baptized at the Calvin Presbyterian Church. She grew up there and attended school in Calvin where she graduated from High School in 1957. After graduation Colleen attended air line school in Minneapolis, Mn and secretary school in Fargo, ND. She worked at Archer Daniels Midland Co in Minneapolis and also at the REA in Langdon, ND. She gave up sitting at a desk on a chair to the life of a farmer’s wife; milking cows.
Jerry and Colleen were married on November 19th, 1960 at Calvin, ND. They returned to Walworth and made their home on the farm Jerry had purchased in section 4. It was here they raised their two sons;
Roger was born on July 3rd, 1964. (See Roger and Kris Hamernik.)
Rodney Allen was born on May 16, 1966. Rodney was baptized at Atlanta Lutheran Church, rural Ulen and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom. He attended school at Ulen-Hitterdal, graduating in 1984. After graduation he went to NDSCS in Wahpeton, ND where he received a degree in Ag in 1987. Rodney is active in his church and community having served on the church council at Aspelund, a member of the Flom League of Men, coached basketball at Ulen-Hitterdal for 10 years. He is also noted as the person to put up the Christmas Decoration for the town of Flom. In his spare time during the winter Rodney has taken up the hobby of ice fishing, something his father truly loved.
Jerry and Colleen were active in their church and community. They were first members of Atlanta Lutheran Church and in 1974 they transferred their membership to Aspelund Lutheran Church.
Jerry passed away on January 9th, 1982 while ice fishing on Leach Lake by Walker, Minnesota. He died doing what he really enjoyed.
After his death Colleen and her sons Roger and Rodney continued farming which they still do to this day. Colleen began working for the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home in Twin Valley, Mn in 1988, where she works as a dietary aide. In her spare time she enjoys visiting with family and friends, playing cards and won’t turn down a invitation to BINGO.
Roger and Kris (Nasset) Hamernik
Roger Lynn Hamernik was born on July 6th, 1964 to Jerry and Colleen (Holt) Hamernik in Detroit Lakes, Mn. He was baptized at Atlanta Lutheran Church, rural Ulen and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn. He attended school at Ulen-Hitterdal and graduated in May of 1982. He went on to further his education at NDSCS in Wahpeton, ND receiving a Associate in Science Degree for Ag-Business in May of 1984.
After graduation Roger returned home where he is active in farming with his brother Rodney. They continue to farm the family farm in Section 4 of Walworth Township, Becker County, Mn.
Roger was active in Chi-Rho at Aspelund, Walworth Willing Worker’s 4-H Club, FFA and Band in school. He has been active in Flom League of Men, has served on the church council at Aspelund and is currently serving on the Board of Directors for Twin Valley-Flom Credit Union.
Kris Nasset was born on February 16th, 1967 to Kelly and Donna (Thompson) Nasset at Dakota Hospital in Fargo, ND. She grew up in Moorhead, Mn. She attended Moorhead Public Schools and graduated from Moorhead High School in May of 1985. After graduation Kris worked at Merit Care in Fargo in the medical records for eleven years. She then was employed by Muscatel Auto in Moorhead as Office Manager for four years at which point she went to KRJB radio station in Ada and worked as their office manager for 8 months. Kris is currently operating a Licensed Daycare out of their home in Moorhead.
Roger and Kris were married on July 1st, 2000 at Aspelund, Lutheran Church, Flom, MN. They have two children; Matthew David (by Kris’s first marriage) was born on February 9th, 1996 at Merit Care Hospital in Fargo, ND. He was baptized at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Moorhead. Matthew is currently in Kindergarten at George Washington Elementary School in Moorhead. Aubrey Lynn Hamernik was born on July 30th, 2001 at Merit Care in Fargo. She was baptized at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom Mn.
Roger and Kris are currently living in Moorhead, Mn, their future plans are to move to the Flom area in the summer of 2002. They have purchased the former Milton and Esther Kirkeby building site in section 20 of Flom Township.
Stanley and Jean (Matson) Hamernik
Stanley Joseph Hamernik was born on March 20, 1930, to Frank and Aloise (Dvorak) Hamernik in Walworth Township, on the family farm. He was baptized at Detroit Lakes, Mn and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn. As a young boy he grew up on the family farm in section 9 of Walworth Township. He attended country school at District 54 and graduated in 1949 from Ulen High School in Ulen, Mn.
Stanley entered the armed forces in 1951, serving in the Air Force. Stanley was honorably discharged in 1955. He is a Korean War Veteran.
Upon his completion of his military service he farmed with his father for three years until his marriage and then he took over the family farm where he was born and raised on in section 9 of Walworth Township.
Jean Loraine Matson was born on January 4, 1934 to Rudolph and Inga Matson on the family farm in Hagen Township. Jean was baptized and confirmed at Jevnaker Lutheran Church. She attended school at Felton, Mn and graduated in 1952. After her graduation she worked at the Felton school for two years and at the Telephone Company in Fargo, ND for four years.
Stanley and Jean were married on Oct 11, 1958 at Jevnaker Lutheran Church, Felton, Mn. They lived on the family farm where they milked cows, raised livestock and small grains. Stanley has served on the Walworth Town Board as clerk for 32 years, a charter member of the Flom Area Lions Club, where he now serves as treasurer, he has also served on the church council and is an active member of the Flom-Twin Valley VFW Post 3818. Jean has served as a 4-H leader, is also a member of the Flom-Twin Valley VFW Auxiliary Post 3818, taught Sunday school, a member of the Aspelund Ladies Aid and a long time member of the Walworth Country Homemakers.
They retired from farming in 1997 and now rent out the farm, and still reside on the home place. Stanley now works part time for a neighboring farmer. Here they raised their family of six children. Kevin, Julie, Patty, Daniel, Stephanie and Jason.
Kevin Jerome was born on July 30, 1959 in Moorhead, Mn. He was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn. He graduated from Ulen-Hitterdal High School in May of 1977. He married Connie Anderson daughter of Roger and Carol Anderson of Faith, on January 17, 1984 at St. Olaf Lutheran Church, Faith, Mn (divorced). They are the parents of three children; Kristen was born on May 8th, 1984 and is currently a senior at Norman County East. Jai Anthony was born on June 27, 1987 and is a 8th grader at Norman East. Kathryn Lynne was born on June 15, 1991 and is a 4th grader at Norman County East. Kevin farmed with his father for the first years that he and Connie were married, he then worked in Waubun for Burkel Turkey Farm at the elevator. He is now working at the Audubon Elevator in Audubon, Mn where he currently resides. All three of Kevin’s children were baptized and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, MN.
Julie Kay was born on July 10, 1961 in Moorhead, Mn. She was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom. She graduated in 1979 from Ulen-Hitterdal High School. After graduation she went on to further her education at Agassiz Valley School of Practical Nursing, where she received a degree as a LPN. She then began working at the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home in Twin Valley, Mn where she is still employed. Julie married Garrett Thornton son of Duane and Myrna Thornton of Twin Valley, Mn on November 20, 1982 at Aspelund. Garrett works for his father
Duane Thornton doing construction work for DB Thornton Construction. Julie and Garrett have four children; Kraig Michael was born on March 29, 1983, Kelsey Marie was born on October 25, 1989, Kurt Allan was born on May 23, 1993 and Kaitlyn Jean was born on Oct 27, 1994. Kelsey, Kurt and Kaitlyn all attend Norman County East, Kraig is a graduate of Norman County East. All four children were baptized at Aspelund and Kraig was also confirmed there.
Patty Jean was born on April 20, 1964. She was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund. She graduated from Ulen-Hitterdal in May of 1982. She went on to further her education at Moorhead Tech. She married Alan Boreen on June 24, 1989 at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom. They have two sons Evan Allen was born on September 17, 1992 and attend school at Norman County East- Gary Site. Alex Michael was born on March 17, 1997. Patty worked for the Flom -Twin Valley VFW and than began working for the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home in Twin Valley, Mn in 1991 as a Dietary Aide, where she is currently employed.
Daniel Scott was born on May 24, 1966. He was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund. He attended school at Ulen-Hitterdal graduating in May 1984. He went on to school at Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Mn. He began working for Hardee’s in 1987 where he is still employed as Manager of the Easten Hardee’s in Moorhead. He married Shelli Stach of Kragnes, Mn on December 5, 1992 they reside in Glyndon, Mn. They are the parents of two children; Ryan Joseph was born on April 2, 1994 and Kylie Mae was born on June 2 1996. They both attended school at DGF (Dilworth-Glyndon-Felton).
Stephanie Jo was born on November 21, 1977. She was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn. She graduated from Ulen-Hitterdal High School in 1996. She has one daughter Ciera Rose who was born on March 22, 1997. Ciera was baptized at Aspelund. Stephanie is married to Ryan Olson. They were married on April 17, 2000 in South Dakota and had their vows blessed in December 2000 in Aspelund Lutheran Church Flom. Stephanie is employed by REM North Star Inc. They live in Ulen, Mn.
Jason Erik was born on May 20, 1980 in Fargo, ND. He was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund. On May 22, 1998 he graduated from Ulen-Hitterdal. He is currently employed by Circle E Farms of Ulen, Mn and also at the Easten Hardee’s in Moorhead, Mn. Jason lives at home on the family farm with his folks.
Carl Orvis Hamre Jr.
Carl Hamre "Junior" was born on February 15, 1930 in section 1 of Atlanta township. He grew up and attended school at Dist 127 (across from Gullard’s) and District 29, where the Atlanta Town Hall is now located after completing his education at the are country schools he then went to Lake Park High School. Carl is a graduate from Lake Park High School.
Carl was baptized and confirmed at Atlanta Lutheran Church, rural Ulen, Mn.
He lived on the home place, taking over the family farm in section 10 of Atlanta Township. He farmed here until 1980 when he moved into Flom living in the former Selma Malmskog house on the SW side of town in section 33 of Flom township. Carl turned the farm over to his nephew Mark Hamre at this time. Mark and his wife Cathy and children still reside on the family farm. Carl still went out to the farm to help Mark with the farming operations, he did this up until his death in about 1995.
Carl worked at the Flom VFW in the late 70’s early 80’s. One instance that is sort of comical about the times he worked at the VFW happened one night. Carl was still living on the farm, after completing a night of work and cleaning up the VFW he decided to spend the night, it may have been due to weather that he decided this or just intuition. While sleeping he heard a noise, only to discover that someone was attempting to break in through the back windows. Carl immediately ask "What are you doing" at which point the would be robbers left the scene. It is not known who was trying to break in, but I’m sure they may have had to clean something out of their shorts, afterwards.
Carl passed away in around 1995, funeral services were held at Atlanta Lutheran Church, rural Ulen with interment at the church cemetery.
Clarence and Thilda (Prestegord) Hanson
Clarence Melvin Hanson was born on April 25, 1911 in Bear Park Township, north of Gary, Mn. He was the son of Hans and Karen Hanson. He was baptized and confirmed in the Sundal Lutheran Church and attended schools in that area. His brothers were; Louis, Alfred Horn, Sander, Helmer, Geff and sisters were; Genora (Lee), Gladys (Bennett Jacobson), Sylvia (Joseph Johnson), Helma, and Lillian.
Clarence enjoyed gardening and doing woodwork in his later years.
Thilda Prestegord was born in 1914 to Louis and Kari (Myrvold) Prestegord. Her siblings were: Leroy, Selmer, Sidney, Kenneth, Ervin, Leslie, Myrtle (Arnold Pieper), Louise (Miller), Verna (Bill Grieg) and Jean (Peter Bartlette). She was a life long member of Wild Rice Lutheran Church.
Clarence and Thilda were married on March 22, 1941 at the Wild Rice Lutheran Church. After their marriage Clarence worked at the Wild Rice Children’s Home for several years before he began farming east of Twin Valley, Mn. They farmed for over 30 years and retired in 1971. They remained on the home farm until 1981, at which time they moved into Twin Valley where they lived until their deaths.
Clarence and Thilda were the parents of; Alan, Dennis, Eileen (Robert Boomgaarden), Joan (Alex Cartierof) and Clarene (Tim Gunnerson).
They were members of Wild Rice Lutheran Church where they are both buried. Clarence passed away on November 17, 1984 and Thilda passed away on June 28, 1990.
Louis and Esther (Prestegord) Hanson
Louis was born in 1908 at Gary, Minnesota to Hans and Karen Hanson. He married Esther Prestegord in 1941 at the Wild Rice Lutheran Church. Esther was born in 1910 to Elling and Helga Prestegord. They first farmed in Bear Park Township and later moved to her parent’s farm in Fossum Township on Section 34. Louis did carpenter work. Esther was an active member of Wild Rice Church where she was baptized. She attended Plentywood School. They loved children, but had none of their own.
Louis died on July 7, 1987 and Ester died on January 7, 1985. Both are buried in Wild Rice Cemetery.
Ben and Marie (Haagenson) Haroldson Tragedies
Marvin Haroldson was born to Ben and Maria of Flom, Mn. The following is his obituary from 1922: It is our sad duty this week to chronicle the tragic death of little Marvin Haroldson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Haroldson of Flom, twp.
Last Thursday evening, August 15, at 8:30PM little Marvin as usual was leading a gentle horse to water. This particular time was his last time in doing so as the horse became frightened and little Marvin was kicked fatally and he was found shortly afterwards with a crushed skull. Nobody was near enough to see how it happened. A physician was called and everything was done to prolong his stay on earth. He was under the competent care of his nurse, Miss Rogen for thirteen hours and he died the next day at 9:30 a.m.
Little Marvin was born February 15, 1914 and at the time of his death he was 8 years, six months and one day old.
He was a very bright and active little lad, and was well liked by everybody who knew him. He was well advanced in his school work and he always did his best. His sudden departure was a severe blow to his parents, sisters and brother.
He is survived by his parents, Maria and Ben Haroldson and his sisters, Alma and Gladys, and brothers, John, George, Henry, Ole and Kermit.
This tragedy occurred in the Haroldson family on August 15, 1922...on September 18th, 1922 the following tragedy happened in Moorhead, Mn.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Haroldson and two of their children, Gladys aged 11 and Kermit age 6, were killed and their daughter Alma was seriously injured shortly before 5:00 Monday afternoon when the Ford car in which they were riding was crushed under the wheels of a freight car on the Tenth street crossing of the Great Northern in Moorhead, Mn. Mr. Haroldson and the two younger children met instant death and Mrs. Haroldson died about two hours later at the St. Ansgar hospital in Moorhead. Alma Haroldson suffered a broken hip, had both knees dislocated and was otherwise severely bruised but will recover.
The party left Flom at about ten o’clock in the forenoon on Monday to take Alma to the State Teacher’s College at Moorhead, where she expected to attend the fall term. Upon arriving at the College they were informed that the dormitory was filled and that it would be necessary for her to secure a place to board and room before she could register. The family then drove to the Ernest Moore home in Moorhead, where they had lunch, and were on their way back to the College when then accident occurred.
Mr. Haroldson, at the wheel, drove onto the railroad crossing when the shouts of a brakeman nearby attracted his attention. Instead of attempting to continue to cross the track, he then turned his machine on the crossing, directly in the path of a string of box cars that were being shunted across the street. A street car was parked near the crossing in such a manner as to block his view of the railroad track in the direction from which the shunted cars were moving. The freight train was said to have been moving very slowly and a brake man stood on top of the car which hit the Haroldson automobile and yelled and screamed at the approaching cars throwing his hat into the air and doing everything possible to attract the attention of the occupants, but they saw him too late.
An eye witness said that the car skidded for a few feet, then overturned and was crushed under the wheels of the boxcar, as the members of the ill-fated family screamed with fright.
Miss Alma Haroldson was conscious nearly all of the time that she was pinned underneath the wreckage, while rescuers worked to release her and other members of the family. Mrs. Haroldson, although fatally injured was also conscious most of the time up to her death.
The remaining member of the family, George and John (twins) aged 19; Henry, 18; and Ole 16; were immediately notified of the accident and were taken to Moorhead by Ernest Narum that same evening. Rev. and Mrs. B. L. Opdahl, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Rogen and M.E .Dahl autoed to Moorhead yesterday morning to be of any assistance possible and to help make arrangements for the funeral.
It will be remembered that another member of the family, Marvin, eight years old, was killed less than a month ago as a result of having been kicked by a horse he was leading to water. Mr. and Mrs. Haroldson were both born in Murray county, Mn, the former on May 16, 1873 , and the latter on April 13, 1880. They were married in Marshall county in 1899 and moved to Flom township, where they have since resided. They have been prominent residents of this section of the county and their loss will be distinctly felt. At the time of their death, Mr. Haroldson was a trustee of the Aspelund church at Flom and treasurer of the school district and his wife had been president of the Aspelund ladies aid during the past three years. The accident was perhaps the saddest that has ever occurred in this community and the sincere sympathy of our people goes out to the bereaved relatives.
Funeral services were conducted at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn and the family was laid to rest in the church cemetery there.
Gladys Marie: was born on March 16, 1911 and died in the car/train accident on September 18, 1922
Stanley Kermit was born on February 15, 1914 and died on February 28, 1914. (they had two Stanley Kermit’s the latter went by Kermit)
Stanley Kermit was born on March 23, 1916 and died in the car/train accident on September 18, 1922.
Alma was born on April 4, 1901 she was injured in the car/train accident on 9/18/22. She died on April 20, 1925.
John Haroldson was born to Ben and Anna (Haagensen). He lived in Flom where he owned and operated John’s recreation. Many individuals enjoyed playing pool here. John also sold insurance and the pool hall was later run basically as an insurance office with John’s living quarters also there. John never married. He served his country and is a veteran. John passed away on May 1, 1992 and is buried at Aspleund.
George B. and Florence (Olson) Haraldson
George B Haraldson was born on October 1, 1902 (twin brother to John) in Dovray, Mn., to Bernt and Anna Marie Haraldson. He moved with his family in 1911 to a arm one mile north of Flom in section 21 of Flom township. Here the family was raised. George was very active in playing baseball in the Twin Valley/ Flom area.
George married Florence Olson on October 31, 1925. They lived in Moorhead where George worked for the Jewel Tea Co. They moved back to the Flom area for three years where he farmed with his brother, Henry. George served on the Flom School board. In 1936 they left the Flom area and moved to Underwood, Mn where they bought and operated a restaurant for five years. During this time George also served as Justice of the Peace.
From 1942-1945 he worked in a shipyard in Richmond, California, building liberty ships for the war effort and later at a shipyard in Duluth, Mn. In 1946, after helping Walter Olson and Anton Flom with the harvest George and his family packed up and moved to Seattle Washington. Here he worked in the lumber industry and operated lumber drying kilns until his retirement in 1978. He truly enjoyed their frequent visits with his brothers and friends in Flom. An ardent reader of the Twin Valley Times, he kept well informed of the news from "back home".
George died on November 5, 1996 in Seattle Washington, following surgery on a fractured hip, sustained in a fall. He enjoyed excellent health right up to the time of his surgery.
George and Florence were the parents of; Dolores and Delwyn.
Henry and Thea (Oien) Haroldson
Henry Haroldson was born on May 19, 1904 to Ben and Anna (Haaagensen) Haroldson. He grew up in the Flom area and married Thea Enanda Oien, on September 17, 1946. She was the daughter of Hans and Sina (Johnson) Oien of Walworth Twp, Becker county, Mn. Thea was born on January 2, 1910 and grew up in Walworth township in section 10. Henry and Thea have one son: Lyle, who is married to Debbie Urdahl. They have three children.
Both Henry and Thea are buried at Aspelund Lutheran Church Cemetery. Thea died on June 8, 1983 and Henry died on July 9, 1991.
John Haraldson
John Haraldson was born on October 1, 1902 at Dovray, Mn to Bernt and Anna Marie (Haagensen) Haraldson. He grew up near Flom, and attended area schools. On August 18, 1942 he entered the Untied States Army and served until his discharge on April 16, 1943.
After his discharge he returned to Flom and was employed at the General Store. He later owned and operated the Pool Hall in Flom. He also worked at Flom Mutual Insurance Company as an insurance agent for many years. He lived in the Flom area until the late 1980’s when he became a resident of the Lutheran Memorial Homes in Twin Valley, Mn.
He was active in the American Legion Nesseth- Lien Post 431 and Flom-Twin Valley VFW Post 3818. He was a lifelong member of Aspelund Lutheran Church in Flom and had served on the church council.
John died on May 1, 1992 at the VA Hospital in Fargo, ND. He is buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery, Flom.
For information on Johns family see Haraldson Tragedy.
Ingebrigt and Barbro (Engen) Haugen
Ingebrigt was born at Lesja, Oppland in Gulbrandsdalen, Norway in 1850. He emigrated from Norway at the age of 30 years. He first came to Minneapolis where he lived for several years. He married Barbro Engen in 1882 in Minneapolis. She was born to Iver and Barbro Engen in 1852. They moved to Norman County after a year of marriage and lived with the Jacob Sannan family for several years. In 1887, they took up a homestead in Rockwell Township. Seven years later, they moved to Home Lake Township. The following children were born to them: Bennie, Simon, John and Ingvald; Anna, Barbro (Bella), Two children died in infancy.
Ingebrigt died September 6, 1939 and Barbro died July 12, 1936. They are both buried in Wild Rice Cemetery.
John I. and Thea (Veum) Haugen
John I. Haugen was born on February 12, 1888 in Rockwell township to Ingebrit and Barbro (Engen) Haugen. He married Thea Veum here in November of 1909. They moved to Flom township a year after they were married. John was active in his community have served on Flom township board, rural school board and a trustee of Immanuel Lutheran Church, rural Flom, Mn. John passed away in 1964 and Thea on July 27, 1946. They are both buried at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery in Flom Township.
They were the parents of four sons; Wildord, Armin, Harold and Clayton, and two daughters; Pearl (Dell Erickson) and Lucille (Harold Holtman).
Allan Haugo
Allan was born in Popple Grove township, the third child of Olaf and Haze (Syverson) Haugo on July 18,1936.
He was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church. He attended school at Waubun where he graduated with the class of 1954. He then went to Moorhead State University for two years, before entering the service.
Allan entered the Naval Aviation Cadet Program at Pensacola, Fl and completed Advanced training at Beeville, Tx. He was commissioned 2nd Lt. in the USMC and was stationed at Cherry Point Marine Cops Air Station, NC for one year.
Allan went overseas in July 1959, and was stationed with the U.S. Marine Attack Squadron 332 1st Marine Aircraft Wing at Iwakuni, Japan. Allan was killed on June 8, 1960, when his left main landing gear collapsed as he landed at a base in Osan, Korea, after returning from a night training flight.
Allan is buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery.
Anne Haugo
Anne was born at Forest City, IA to T.T. and Anne (Skjelbreid) Haugo on December 23, 1906. She came with her parents to Mahnomen County in 1914. Anne was confirmed in 1920 at Wild Rice Lutheran Church. She attended Waubun High School for two years and graduated from Mahnomen High School in 1926. At the time of her death, she had just received work that she could enter nurses training at St. Olaf Hospital in Austin, Mn. Anne was operated on for a brain tumor in Rochester, Mn on April 2, 1929, but died on April 3, 1929, after regaining consciousness for a short time. She is buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery.
David and Jean (Skaarer) Haugo
David was born on July 17, 1934 to Olaf and Hazel (Syverson) Haugo in Mahnomen, Minnesota. He was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church. He attended school at Popple Grove School, Waubun Public School and he graduated from Northwest School of Agriculture in Crookston, Minnesota.
On April 7, 1961 he married Jean Skaarer at the Wild Rice Parsonage at rural Twin Valley, Minnesota. Jean was born on March 23, 1937 to Henry and Bertha Skaarer in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. Jean graduated from Fargo Central High School. She also graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. She was a teacher in Waubun for many years.
David and Jean live in Popple Grove Township and farm.
They have the following children:
Ann, married to Troy Oanes. They live in Moorhead, Minnesota and have 3 daughters, Kari, Amanda and Grete.
Allan, married to Vicki. They live at Waubun, Minnesota and have 4 children, Jessica, Aaron, Ben and Jacob.
John, married to Jackie. They live at Mahnomen, Minnesota and have 2 children, Trevor and Justine.
Paul, married to Kim. They live at Maple Grove, Minnesota and have 2 children, Clara and Emma.
Gary, married to Amie. They live at Fargo, North Dakota.
Dean, married to Jen. They live at Breckenridge, Minnesota.
Jacob Haugo
Jacob Haugo was born on March 15, 1905 to Tarjie and Anne Haugo at Forest City, Iowa. He came with his parents to the Flom area in 1914. He attended rural schools in Iowa and in Popple Grove Township of Mahnomen County, Mn.
Jacob was a farmer and laborer and served in the United States Army during World War II, serving from 1942 until 1944.
He enjoyed spending is free time hunting, which was a life passion with him. He retired in 1965 and spent most of his time at the retirement homes in Middle River, Bemidji, Battle Lake and Twin Valley.
Jacob died on November 4, 1988 at the Fargo VA Hospital, funeral services were held at Wild Rice Lutheran Church with interment in the church cemetery.
Marie Haugo
Marie was born at the Mahnomen Hospital on December 26, 1937, the fourth child of Olaf and Hazel (Syverson) Haugo. She was baptized at Wild Rice Lutheran Church. Marie was afflicted with disabilities from the time of her birth, which caused her to be an invalid. She was lovingly cared for by her parents and family until she was sixteen years old. Marie then went to the State Hospital in Fairbault, Mn where she became a resident until her move to Brainard State Hospital in Brainerd, Mn. Marie died at the Brainerd State Hospital on August 11, 1963, she is buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Church.
Olaf and Hazel (Syverson) Haugo
Olaf Haugo was born to Tarjei and Anne (Skjelbreid) Haugo in Lake Mills, Iowa on January 11, 1912.
He moved with his family to Mahnomen County in 1914. He attended Popple Grove School. After completing his education Olaf started farming in Popple Grove Township.
Olaf married Hazel Syverson at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Ulen, Mn, on December 24, 1933. Hazel was born on January 19, 1907 to Ole and Barbro (Hogenson) Syverson from east of Ulen, Minnesota. Hazel was baptized and confirmed at Atlanta Lutheran Church, rural Ulen. She graduated from Ulen High School and Moorhead State Teachers College. She was a teacher as well as a farm wife and mother. They resided on the farm in Popple Grove township where they remained active in the church and community events. Olaf was an active member of Wild Rice, having served on various boards. In 1972 Olaf and Hazel relieved the Valley Farmer and Homemaker Award at the Crookston Winter Shows. He served on the Board of Directors of Harvest States Cooperative, St. Paul, Mn., for eighteen years.
Olaf passed away on February 10, 1999, after his death Hazel remains on the farm in Popple Grove township.
They were the parents of nine children; David, John, Allan, Marie, Olaf, Donald, George, Carole (Roger Olson) and Patricia (Blair).
Richard Haugo
Richard was born on September 21, 1898 at Forest City, Iowa to T. T. and Anne (Skjelbreid) Haugo. He moved with his parents to Mahnomen County in 1914. He farmed in Popple Grove township until his retirement. Richard was active in the Wild Rice church, serving on the Board of Trustees. In 1959 he married Helen Solberg in Los Angeles, Ca. Following their marriage, they moved to Scobey, Mt. Helen died in 1979 and Richard moved to the Retirement Home in Twin Valley, Mn. He died on April 23, 1984.
Richard is buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery. They had no children.
Tarjei and Anne ( Skjelbreid) Haugo
Tarjei, known as T. T. was born on July 12, 1870 in Mo, Telemarken, Norway. He was the oldest of four children born to Torjus and Anne (Medbo) Haugo. He immigrated with his family to the United States in 1888. He returned to Norway and Married Anne Skjelbreid on February 23, 1895. Anne was born in Laardal, Telemarken, Norway on May 2, 1874. She was the oldest of seven daughters born to Aslak and Anne Skjeldbreid.
Tarjei, brought his new wife back to the United States and they first farmed near Forest City, Iowa, in the spring of 1895. They left Iowa and came to Minnesota, settling in Mahnomen County in 1917.
T.T. was known as a highly competent horse doctor in the area. He resided on the family farm until he entered the Lutheran Memorial Retirement Center in 1957.
Anne was active in the Lutheran Church and Ladies Aid. In 1950 she relieved her life membership ring from WMF. She loved the outdoors and often took her grandchildren on tours of her flower garden.
T.T. died on December 7, 1961 and Anne died on February 5, 1951, they are both buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery, rural Twin Valley, Mn.
Anne and Tarjei were the parents of eleven children; Torjus, Aslak, Richard, Andrea, Sverre, Jacob, Anne, Einar, Olaf, Esther, and Sigvold.
Knut and Aase Helgeson
Mrs. Knut Helgeson a former resident of Ulen township, having lived in the northeast part since 1882 passed away in December of 1937. She had lived the last few years in Twin Valley, Mn with her son. She was born on March 22, 1851, in Wisconsin, and given the Aase. Knut was born on October 12, 1843 and passed away on September 27, 1925. They are both buried at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, rural Flom, Mn. Her obituary states she is survived by several sons and daughters, but no names were given.
Jearly Hellikson
Jearly was born on April 29, 1914 in Walworth township. He attended school at District #35 in Walworth. After completing his education he entered the U.S. Army in 1944. He served his country in the armed forces by serving in Germany. After completing his military duration he returned and lived in Ogema, Mn. In 1946 he moved to section 1 of Walworth township, where he took up farming. Jearly raised mostly small grains, cattle and sheep.
He farmed until 1969 at which time he retired from farming and was employed in the Detroit Lakes area at various jobs, and also at the Flom Co-op, from 1973 or 1974 until he retired in in 1979. When he retired he moved off the farm and purchased a home in Ulen, Mn. Here he remained until his death on August 29, 1981.
We got to know Jearly when we moved to a farm across the road from him in 1966. He was a great neighbor and friend. Our children, as well as their friends, when they came for a day of play, were always looking for an excuse to go see Jearly. They enjoyed bringing him a loaf of homemade bread or some cookies or whatever excuse they could think of to go for a visit. Many time he would bring them home again in a wagon or sleigh pulled by his beloved dog, Tuffy.
Barth and Kelly remember him spitting snooze on the shears (his way of lubricating the shears) when he was shearing sheep, they also remember being very careful where they stepped.
They also remember Jearly "inventing" many contraptions with old washing machine parts etc. And they remember his friendship with Eddie Ronning. He visited with us many a night until the wee hours of the morning! He was a very special person in our family’s lives and left us with many good memories.
I remember how he very faithfully visited his mother until her death. He was a very hard and loyal worker at the Flom Co-op and loved sharing stories with anyone willing to listen.
By Mary Lou Syverson
Manley and Evangelyn (Narum) Hillstad
Evangelyn "Vangie" was baptized at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn and confirmed at Gary Lutheran Church, Gary, Mn. She graduated from Gary High School. After graduation Vanie attended one and one-half years of business school. Vangie married Manley Hillstad on September 3, 1955 at Gary, Mn. Vangie and Manley live at Mahnomen, Mn where Manley was employed by Wild Rice Electric until his retirement. They are the parents of : Diane Lynn (Spaeth) born on August 2, 1956. Duane Manley was born on December 31, 1958. Todd Alvin was born on November 13, 1960. Jay Howard was born on November 25, 1962 and Carrie Maureen was born on June 28, 1966.
Erick Hjellum (Jellum)
Erick Jellum was born in 1864. He never married. He died in 1915. Not much is known about him other than he had a sister in Mayville, ND and a brother in Ft Berthold, ND. His funeral was held at Wild Rice where he was laid to rest.
Erick Jellum, of the town of Flom, was killed Tuesday. He was hauling bundles to a threshing machine, and was about to quit for dinner. He climbed onto the wagon pole to get a hold of the reins just as the whistle blew. The team started, throwing him to the ground, the wheels of the loaded wagon passing over his body and instantly killing him. Mr. Jellum was about 50 years old. The funeral was held Wednesday at Flom and was largely attended, there being over thirty teams in the procession. Mr. and Mrs. Jorgen Nelson, old friends of the deceased, were sent for as soon as the accident happened and remained until after the funeral-Mahnomen Pioneer
Dennis and Renae (Johnson) Hoekstra
Renae Alice was born on March 31, 1947 to Mervin and Clarice (Brateng) Johnson. Dennis was born on November 16, 1944. Renae and Dennis were married on June 17, 1966. They are the parents of three daughters; Shantel, Kristen and Marti.
Shantel "Shelly" was born on March 9, 1969. She married Todd Brevik on April 20, 1991. Todd the son of Howard and Villie Brevik was born on September 16,1963. They are the parents of three daughters; Hailey , Kelsey and Skylar.
Kristen was born on November 5, 1973. Kristen and her husband have one son; Cole.
Marti Lynn was born on May 11, 1989. She is currently a 7th grader at Norman County East.
Gilbert and Ragnild (Christiansdatter) Hogensen
Introduction
This is the story of the Gilbert and Ragnild Hogensen family who in 1871 became one of the early settlers of Wild Rice. According to the book “Nogle Optegnelser om Settling m.m. indenfor de fire Towns Fossum, Wild Rice, Home Lake, og Flom i Norman County, Minn.” written in 1896, 10 children were born to this couple. 8 birth records were found leading to the assumption that the other 2 children were Alfred and Hilda Carlson who were listed as boarders in the 1900 census.
Ragnild was the sister of Christian Ellingson and the aunt to the Aaby brothers. The Aaby’s probably would not have come to Norman County had it not been for this ancestor blazing the trail for them and the others which followed.
Gilbert was born in Hetterdal Norway on 7/12/1828 under the name of Gulbrand Hagenson. Immigrating in 1858, he settled in Iowa and on October 7, 1862, Gilbert enlisted in Company D, 6th Regiment, Iowa Calvary as a blacksmith. According to his Civil War pension, he was listed as 5' 4" with light hair and blue eyes. Gilbert was discharged in Sioux City, lowa on 10/17/1865. Returning to Winnesheik County, Gilbert met the Christian Ellingson family and married Ragnild Christiansdatter on 11/30/1966.
After becoming a citizen of the United States on 1/13/1868, the lure of available land induced Gilbert and family to move to Freeborn County. They probably stayed the Ragnild's uncle Halvor Tveitstulen who moved to Manchester township in 1864. Harvest must have been good because in 1869, Ragnild's brother Christian came with his parents to be neighbor's of Gilbert and Ragnild. No land ownership was found for either the Ellingsen or Hogensen family in Freeborn County. As available land was become nonexisting in Freeborn County, the quest for land Gilbert could own became a passion.
In 1871, Gilbert and a group of men ventured north to the yet open territory in Polk County. Finding suitable land near the Wild Rice River, Gilbert applied for a homestead of 160 acres on 6/3/1871 in township 144N, range 44w, section 26,35. Twin Valley history books claim Gilbert and the other men were among the first settlers in what became Wild Rice Township. Returning to his wife and family, Gilbert must have left his pregnant wife (Anne born 9/25/1872 in Freeborn) while he returned to his homestead and built a 14' by 15' house with sod roof, 2 windows and 1 door.
Grasshoppers ruled the valley from 1872-part of 1876 causing much hardships on the family. No children were born and 1 child named Karen died and was buried on the homestead due to no cemetery available yet in Wild Rice. Probably what became their main source of income was collecting buffalo bones. In 1870, 15 million buffalo roamed
the west but by 1878, the buffalo became virtually extinct and collecting the bones at $8-$10 per ton kept many families alive during the grasshopper invasion as well as the
economic depression from 1873-1878.
Ragnild was pregnant and gave birth to Hilda on 7/8/1876. It may be a coincidence but in 1876 the Tveststulen family moved from Freeborn to Section 34 in Wild Rice Township.
Joy and sorrow followed Gilbert and Ragnild in 1878. On 4/18/1878 twins were born and on 5/15/1878, Gilbert finally paid the $14 to officially claim his homestead. However, on 9/1 first Helena died and on 9/17 Julia died. Two more children were to be born to Gilbert and Ragnild. Sadly again tragedy struck when Hans was born, stillborn in 1880 and Tilda,who was born in 1882 was not alive in the 1885 census.
In 1881, Gilbert filed for a civil war pension for the condition of deafness and loss of vision in his left eye due to exposure. He was granted $20 per month. When Gilbert died in 1893, Ragnild has to resubmit and prove herself as the sole wife of Gilbert to continue receiving the pension.
In 1889 Ragnild's brother Christian came from Minihaha Co and stayed on the homestead. Harvest and financial times must have been good to Gilbert at that time because on 10/31/1890, Gilbert loaned Christian $121 to get his land in Home Lake Township.
Health concerns caused Gilbert to sell his property to His son-in-law Syvert Hov on 6/24/1892 for $400. The story of the selling is found on page l73 of the History of the People of Norman County written in 1976.
Gilbert died of cancer on 4/1841893 leaving at that time a wife and 3 children.
Karoline-26
Anne-21
Hilda-17
Ragnild continued to live with Karoline and Syvert Hov as she is listed on the 1900 census with them.
However another question loomed following the 1900 census. Syvert homesteaded 160 acres in Rockwell township in 1889. In 1901, Syvert sold his property in Rockwell and sold the property in Wild Rice never to be heard of again. Records show a quit deed on 1/6/1901 where “Caroline” Hogenson reacquired the W 1/2 NE 1/4. Ragnild died in Norman County on 2/20/1903 of heart disease and is buried in an unmarked grave in Wild Rice Cemetery probably with Gilbert and 4 of her children.
Locating the 3 children not buried was difficult.
1-Karoline, the wife of Syvert was never found. No record of her death was found.
2-Anne also seemed to just disappear from the records as no marriage/death was found.
3-Hilda was found married to Anton Krogstad on 6/20/1896 and was found in Knox, Benson County, North Dakota where she raised 6 children and died 5/16/1936.
Conclusion
Today we plan our lives almost as if we were going to live forever. It was different to our immigrant ancestors. Childbirth, hard work, unfriendly weather, lack of medical care, and economic hardship separated many mothers and fathers from their children. This is just one family story of the heartbreaks of the heartbreaks of determined people trying to make a better place for their children-yet they had to bury some of them before the rewards could be developed. Sadly, only unmarked graves exist for this family in Norman County. No one would have known they were one of the pioneers of this great county had not a family historian dug into the background of them-so please write your family history so the past is not forgotten.
By Richard Line
From 1899
Bolt Brings Death to a Farmer in the Town of Fossum
Last Friday afternoon a death came suddenly and without a moments warning to Valentine Hlubek, who lives in the eastern part of this county (Norman), two and a half miles from Faith. While stacking grain in the field a bolt of lightning suddenly flashed forth from the heavens above striking Mr. Hlubek in the head and instantly killing him. And his two horses. His hat was ton from his head, his shirt was torn to shreds and one of his shoes was pulled from his foot, but no mark or scar was made by the lightning’s terrific bolt.
Mr. Hlubek was a resident of this county for a number of years. He was about 50 years of age and leaves a wife and six children, the youngest of whom is 12, years of age.
A queer feature of the accident was that there was no storm to speak of in that locality and the bolt of lightning which caused such horrible results came from a n almost clear sky. A few clouds 2 which indicated rain passed over that locality, but no rain fell.
N.C. (Nels Constant) and Marie Bennette (Thorson) Holm
Bennett Thorson was born on Jan. 31, 1902 at Flom, Minnesota to Johanne and Thorvald Thorson. She was baptized, confirmed and grew to womanhood in the Flom area. Her mother died on August 30, 1911 leaving Thorvald with four small children to raise. At this time Bennette took on not only the roll of sister but also as mother to her young siblings.
On June 26, 1923 , she was united in marriage to Nels Constant Holm. After their marriage they lived in the Flom area and had just moved to Grand Forks, North Dakota in May of 1931 where they had made their home since. H.C. was employed at Ryder, ND at the Federal Intermediate Credit bank. To this union one daughter was born. Janet Marie was born on August 5, 1931 at Mercy Hospital in Devils Lake, ND. She passed away on Aug. 8, 1931 at the age of only three days. Funeral services were conducted at Immanuel, Lutheran Church, rural Flom where she is buried.
Bennette Holm passed away on August 12, 1931 only four days after her infant daughter’s passing. She died from paralysis of the heart, her sister Valborg was with her at the time of her death. Services for Bennette were held at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn where she had been an active member in all church activities before and after they had become members. Mr and Mrs. Holm had become members of Aspelund church in 1923.
Bennette was laid to rest at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, rural Flom, Mn where she is laid to rest beside her mother and infant daughter.
Clarence and Elma (Lien) Holum
Elma Lien was born in Flom, Mn to Emile and Gustave Lien. She grew up in Flom and married Clarence Holum there in 1915. After their marriage they farmed near Madoc, Montana until Clarences death in 1962.
Elma enjoyed needlework and baking. In 1980 Elma moved into the Daniels Memorial Nursing Home where she lived until her death in 1986. Funeral services were held at Scobey Lutheran Church, Scobey, Montana with interment at the Orville Cemetery.
Erick Amundson and Randi (Otterness) Holum
Erick A. Holum came from Aurland Prestegjeld, Sogn, Norway, in 1856 with his father and mother, Amund and Anna Holum, and two brothers, Thor and Ole. They settled in Blackhammer, Houston County, Minnesota. In 1882 he came to Norman County and homesteaded in Section sixteen.
Erick married Randi Otterness in Houston County on February 22, 1871. To this union fourteen children were born. Several died in early childhood because of the Diphtheria Epidemics.
Those who lived on were:
Martha (1875-1960) Berthold, ND
Erick Olie (1877-1966) Joplin, Montana
Anna Julia (1882-1966) Twin Valley, MN
Armund (1885-1963) Scobey, Montana
Jens (1887- ) Scobey, Montana
Edith (1889-1965) Joplin, Montana
Clarence (1891-1962) Scobey, Montana
Arthur (1891- ) Great Falls, Montana
Garfield (1894-1968) California
Tilforde (1892-1893) buried at Wild Rice Cemetery
Anna Julia, the only one who remained in Norman County, married Henry O. Lien and they lived in Flom Township.
By Recelia Lien/Stene
Kenneth and Edna (Schroeder) Holum
Kenneth "Kenny" was born on November 1, 1924 to Knute and Minnie Holum at Voss, Minnesota. He was baptized at Atlanta Lutheran Church, rural Ulen, and baptized at Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, MN. He attended school at Flom, Mn.
Edna was born on September 24, 1927 to Henry and Helen Schroeder in Mahnomen County, Mn. She was baptized and confirmed at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Mahnomen, Mn. Attended school at Popple Grove Township, Waubun High School, after graduation she attended Moorhead State Teachers College, Moorhead, Mn. After receiving her degree she taught elementary school at Hitterdal, Mn from 1947-1949.
Kenneth and Edna were married on June 19,1949 at Wild Rice Lutheran, rural Twin Valley, Mn. They settled down to the life of a farmer and housewife, residing in Section 16 of Flom Township, Norman County, Mn. Here they raised their five children; Wayne, Gail, Curtis, Joan and Douglas.
Wayne K. Holum was born on January 2, 1951 at Ada, Mn. He was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church. He attended school at Twin Valley, Mn and after graduation he entered the Air Force Academy, in Colorado. He was a Air Force pilot from 1973-1999. And is a pilot for Southwest Airlines now. During his military life he lived on many different military bases and Phoenix, Arizona area. He has three children; Stephanie, Jennifer and Christopher.
Gail L. (Tensfeldt) was born on February 12, 1953. She was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church and attended school at Twin Valley, Mn. After her high school graduation she went to Moorhead State University, Moorhead, Mn where she received a teaching degree. She taught in San Antonio, TX, Twin Valley, Mn, Tacoma Wa and Home schooling. She is married to Jon R. Tensfeldt and they have one son Matthew.
Curtis J. was born on June 4, 1954 at Ada, Mn. He was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church. He attended school at Twin Valley and after his High School graduation he joined his father in the family farming operation. He lives in rural Twin Valley. Curt has two children; Brock and Emily.
Joan M. was born on December 30, 1955 at Ada, Mn. She was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church. She attended school at Twin Valley and after graduation she went to Concordia College in Moorhead, Mn. Joan is married to Col. James Lampkin and they have lived at many different Army Bases and are now near Fort Leavenworth, Ks. Joan is a artist.
Douglas M Holum MD was born on October 15, 1958 at Ada, Mn. He was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church. He attended school at Twin Valley and after graduating he went to Concordia College in Moorhead, UM Duluth, UM at Minneapolis receiving a degree in Medicine. He started his practice at Spicer and Willmar, Mn, later moving to his present practice at Mitchell SD. Doug and his wife Barbara have two children; Erik and Paige.
Kenneth and Edna continue to live on the farm north of Flom. They are both active in their church and community. Kenneth has served on the school board for 18 years, church council, PTA, Church choir and quartets and also solos. He was on the Flom Co-op board for 23 years and is a member of the Flom Area Lions since 1983. Edna is a lifetime member of the Wild Rice Ladies Group, which she has also served as a officer.
Knut and Minnie (Storbeck) Holum
Knut B Holum was born on March 23,1886 to Thor and Karen (Lee) Holum in Flom township. He was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, Mn. He attended rural elementary schools in this area also.
Knut married Minnie Storbeck of Ulen on December 12, 1917 at Atlanta Lutheran Church, rural Ulen, Mn. Minnie was born in 1894 near Ulen, to the Amund Storbecks of Ulen, Mn. They resided in the village of Voss, located in Atlanta Township, Becker county Minnesota. Here they operated a store until they moved to Flom Township in 1928 and farmed. They retired from farming in 1949 and moved to Flom.
They were the parents of two children; A son Kenneth: (See Kenneth and Edna Holum) and a daughter Clara Michels.
Knut Holum died on June 23, 1965 at the Ada Hospital, Ada, Mn. Minnie Holum died on February 5, 1972 at a Fargo Hospital. They are both buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Church.
Thor E. and Karen (Lee) Holum
Thor E. Holum was born in 1848 in Norway. He and his brother Ole immigrated to the United States.
Thor lived at Spring Grove, Mn where he met and married his first wife. They had one child, Marie, with his first wife, who died shortly after Marie was born. He later married Karen Lee in Spring Grove, Mn.
They came to Flom Township, here they raised their family of seven children;
Edward:
Knut: see Knut and Minnie Holum,
George: was born in 1892. He was killed by a runaway in 1896 and is buried at Wild Rice,
Clarence: was born in 1890 he died in 1892 from diphtheria and is buried at Wild Rice,
Thea:
Engeboor: was born in 1883 and died in 1892 and is buried at Wild Rice.
Barbara: was born in 1881 and died in 1892 she is buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Church.
Thor and Karen both passed away in 1926 and are buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Church Cemetery, rural Twin Valley, Mn.
Alfred and Mabel (Stene) Horn
Alfred horn was born in 1904 to Hans and Karen (Olson Tangen) Hanson Horn. Alfred was one of eleven children born to Hans and Karen, the others were; Sander, Clarence Hanson, Helmer, Louis Hanson, Geff Hanson Horn, Genora (Lee), Gladys (Bennett Jacobson), Sylvia (Joe Johnson), Hilma Hanson and Lillian Hanson.
Mabel Louise Stene was born on June 9, 1909 to Mons and Suzanne Stene. She was raised on the family farm east of Twin Valley, Mn. Here she attended country schools. She was baptized and confirmed in Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, Mn.
Alfred and Mabel were married on October 2, 1940 at the Wild Rice parsonage in Flom township. They first made their home northeast of Gary and farmed there. In 1946, they moved to a farm east of Twin Valley, Mn.
Here they remained for over 20 years. In 1967 they moved to Grandin, ND where they resided for six years and they returned to Twin Valley in 1973 where they remained until their deaths.
Mabel was a member of the Wild Rice Church and it’s Ladies Aid there and she enjoyed crocheting and needlework.
Alfred and Mabel were the parents of; Milan, Kermit, Aldon, Arlene (Alfred Sauk), Fern (Leo Bauer), and Linda ( Gerald Nelson).
Mabel passed away on November 2, 1984 and Alfred passed away on June 12, 1995, they are both buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery.
Geff and Florence (Hagen) Hanson Horn
Geff was born on November 29, 1916 to Hans Hanson and Karen Tangen Horn. He was baptized and confirmed at Sundal Church. He married Florence Hagen in 1957. They were the parents of Harvey, Anna Marie (Taroldson) and Gloria Fay (Sirjord).
Geff passed away in 1984 and is buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, Mn.
Hoseth Family
To follow the family tree, be sure to watch for the second name. That will tell you the father’s name, ex; Hakonson is son of Hakon, Hansdtr is daughter of Hans.
The Hoseth family geneology starts with Lars Hoset, we don’t know his date of birth, but he died in 1665. He had one daughter Marit, who was born in 1641.
Marit Larsdtr was born in 1641 and died in 1724, she married Anders Hakonson Hoset who was born in 1646 and died in 1723. They were the parents of two sons; Hakon and Hans.
Hakon Anderson Hoset was born in 1666 and died in 1744. He married Mali Hansdtr Bremset who was born in 1665 and died in 1729. They were the parents of one daughter Mali Hakonsdtr who was born in 1715.
Hans Andersen Hoset married Marit Olsdtr who was born in 1686 and died in 1739. They had one son, Ola.
Mali Hakonsdtr Bremset was born in 1715, she married Peder Ivarson Borsttroem, who was born in 1717 and died in 1761. They were married in 1740. There are no children listed for them.
Ola Hansen Hoset was born in 1723 and died in 1778. He married in 1752 to Mali Osdatr Skjelstad, who was born in 1732 and died in 1759. They had one daughter, Marit.
Marit Olsdatr Hoset was born in 1756 and died in 1823. She married in 1779 to Anders Pedersen (Borsettroen) Hoset, who was born in 1750. They were the parents of ; Peder Andersen Hoset.
Peder Andersen Hoset was born in 1780 and died in 1859. He married Sigrid Johnsdtr Hegre in 1806. Sigrid was born in 1784 and died in 1860. They were the parents of Marit (1808) and Anders Pedersen Hoset (1811)
Anders Pedersen Hoset was born in 1811 and died in 1880. He married Kari Pedersdtr Kyllo in 1839. Kari was born in 1793 and died in 1863. Kari was the widow of Hans G. Traelstad, she had one son Gunnar (1821-1876) who took the Hoset name after her marriage to Anders. Kari died in 1863, after her death
Anders married Marit Petersdtr Kindseth on February 25, 1864. Anders and Marit (Kindseth) left Norway and immigrated to America shortly after they were married. They were the parents of eight children; Karen Anna, Peter, Severin, Andrias, Martine, Martin, Martin, and Anders. Marit was widowed at 40 years of age. Twelve years after Anders death she married Kristopher Romo in 1892. Kristopher was born in 1827 and died shortly after their marriage in 1892.
Kristopher had one child from his first marriage to Gundhild Gederas; Elizabeth Vangsness.
Karen Anna was born in 1864 in Norway, she died in 1887. Peter Magnus was born in 1867 and died in 1887. They both died from scarlet fever.
Peter Severine was born in 1870 and died in 1944. He came to Norman County, Mn and homesteaded in the Twin Valley area. Peter went by his second name Severin. (see Peter and Helene Hoseth)
Andrias was raised by the Peter Blakstad family and took their last name. He lived at Hadar. He had six children; Alvin, Peter, Alma, Palma, Julia and Edna.
Martine was born in 1874 and died at the age of four months.
Martin was born in 1875 and died at the age of three months.
Martin was born in 1876 and died in 1960. He homesteaded in Ellingson, South Dakota, with his cousin Martin Kindseth in 1908. Martin’s son George was born in SD. Later Martin and his family returned to Zumbrota and he worked there as the janitor of Lands Church for 25 years. Martin had four children; George, Dena, Victor and Mabel.
Anders was born in 1879 and died in 1958. He married twice. We don’t know the names of his wives, although we do know they were sisters. He was able to celebrate his 25th wedding anniversary with his first wife. After her death he married her sister and they also celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. Anders farmed in Cherry Grove. Anders had eight children; Alfred, Lillian, Clara, Rachel, Helen, Stella, Edna and Lloyd.
Arnold M. and Harriet (Korsgaden-Veum) Hoseth
Arnold M. Hoseth was born on June 5, 1899 to Severin and Helena (Ovaldson) Hoseth in Fossum Twp, Norman County, Mn. He was baptized and confirmed at St. Olaf’s Lutheran Church, Faith, Mn., and attended school at Faith and Mahnomen, Mn.
Harriet Lorraine Korsgaden-Veum was born on October 4, 1904 to Hans and Anna Marie Korsgaden in section 12 of Flom Township, Norman County, Mn. She was baptized and confirmed at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 5 miles north of Flom. She attend school at the Banner Country School up to the 8th grade. In 1907 Hans Korsgaden passed away and is buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, Mn. Her mother remarried Severt Veum around 1911.
Arnold and Harriet were married on November 28, 1924 at Bethlehem Lutheran Church. After their marriage Arnold and Harriet took over the family farm in Section 12 of Flom Township. Here Arnold was busy in the daily routines of a farmer and Harriet took on the responsibilities of a farmers wife and a mother to their two sons :Arnold Ray and Sherman. Today, their grandson Corey Hoseth, his wife Cass and their family reside on the home place. Arnold served on the Banner School Board for at least 20 years.
Arnold Ray Hoseth was born on January 10, 1927 in Section 12 of Flom Township, Norman County, Mn. Here he attended school and later married Erma Nelson from Bagley, Mn. They had no children.
Sherman was born on February 26, 1931: See Sherman and Jean Hoseth Arnold passed away on December 13, 1989 at Mahnomen, Mn and Harriet passed away on August 18, 1980 at Dakota Hospital, Fargo, ND. They are both buried at the Twin Valley Cemetery.
Severin A. and Helene (Ovaldson) Hoseth
Severin A. Hoseth was born on February 21, 1870 to Andrew and Marit (Kindseth) Hoseth in Goodhue County, Minnesota. He married Helene Ovaldson on November 6, 1898 by Rev. L.M. Boem in Goodhue County. Helene was born in Goodhue County on February 21, 1872. Her father was among the first settlers in Goodhue county. She grew to girlhood on the home farm, where she lived
In the spring of 1899 they came to Norman County where they purchased a farm and built their home one mile north of Faith. They resided there until the spring of 1927 when they retired from active farming and moved to their farm one and one half miles south of Faith. Mrs. Hoseth died December 22, 1938 and Severin died January 17, 1944. They are both buried in St. Olaf Cemetery at Faith.
The following children were born to them.
Arnold; see Arnold and Harriett Hoseth
Hilma was born on June 11, 1902, she married James Henry Dullum on November 6, 1924. James was born on August 26, 1897. Hilma died in June 1992 and Jim on April 28, 1986. They had no children.
Sander Hilford Hoseth was born on July 2, 1905 and died on April 28, 1980. He lived in the Faith area, where he was active in farming.
Myrtle Edna Hoseth was born on April 16, 1907 and died on April 10, 1920 just six days short of her thirteenth birthday.
Sherman and Jeannine (Hinkley) Hoseth
Sherman was born on February 16, 1931 to Arnold and Harriet Hoseth in rural Mahnomen, Mn. He attended school here and graduated from Twin Valley, HS. He attended the University of Mn. Moorhead and received a BA & MA.
Jeannine was born on May 23, 1934 to Orville and Caroline Hinkley. She attended school in St. Paul, Mn where she graduated from Washington High School. She then went to nursing school for one year.
Sherman and Jean were married on June 5, 1954 at St. Paul, Mn. They have made their home since in section 13 of Flom Township, Norman County, Mn.
Sherman farmed and was a school teacher, he taught for several years at NDSCS at Wahpeton, ND, after retiring from teaching he focused on his farming and job as an Insurance Agent. Jean has kept herself busy with being a homemaker and working at the Flom Cafe for a few years in the 80’s.
Sherman and Jean are the parents of six children; Renee, Sheila, Vicki, Blair, Corey and Melanie.
Renee went to school in Waubun and married David Sogge from there. They live by Glyndon, Mn where she keeps busy as a housewife and secretary for Sogge Tax Service. They have three children; Chad, Crystal and Cameron.
Sheila went to school in Waubun and graduated in 1974. She is married to Jari Boettcher and they live at Hermiston, Ore where they keep busy running their Nursery and Landscaping Business. They have three children; Shannon, Kari and Aaron.
Vicki went to school in Waubun and graduated in 1975. She lived in Lakewood Col., where she is a manicurist. She has two son Tyson and Tucker.
Blair went to school in Waubun and graduated in 1980. He went on to NDSU where he received a BA. He and his wife Debbie live on the former Korsgaden farm where Blair is active in farming and Debbie went to Bemidji, Mn where she received a degree in nursing. She works as a RN in Mahnomen. Blair also keeps busy with his Seed Sales. They are the parents of three children; Ashley, Shauna and Marty.
Corey graduated from Waubun and went to MSU Mhd where he received a BS degree. He is active in farming. He married Cassandra O’Connell and they are the parents of three children; Gabel, Laurel and Tate. Corey and Cass are the owner’s of Flom Insurance Agency, in Flom, where they both work. Cass taught Spanish for a few years at Norman County East. They make their home on Corey’s grandparents farm (Arnold and Harriet’s) in section 12 of Flom Township.
Melanie graduated from Waubun, furthering her education at Bemidji where she received a RN degree in nursing. Melanie and Kevin Quick live by Borup, Mn where he farms and does custom chopping. She works at Ada as a RN. They are the parents of two children, Danika and Tyrell.
Daniel "Dan" Houglum
Dan was born on August 24, 1910 to Martin and Sena Houglum near Audubon, Mn. He grew up In the Audubon, Cormorant areas. In the 1930’s he served in the CCCs. He bought a farm near Flom (the Jacobson Farm) and farmed there until his retirement. In the late 1970’s he moved to Hawley, Mn Dan enjoyed spending time at this Cabin on Long Lost Lake near Bagley, Mn. Where he loved to hunt and fish.Dan died on June 23, 1999 and is buried at the First Lutheran Church Cemetery at Audubon, Mn.
Edward C. and Alma (Jesness) Houglum
Edward Carl Houglum was born on March 29, 1889, on a farm in Flom township, the son of Lars and Karie Houglum. He was baptized and confirmed at Immanuel Lutheran Church, rural Flom. He grew up on the family farm in section 23 of Flom township, currently owned by Jerome and LaDonna Thompson. He attended country school, and he also attended the Crookston Business College, in Crookston, Mn. He assisted on the farm as a young man and also worked as a
bookkeeper in a logging camp near Big Fork, Mn.
Alma Jesness was born on October 20, 1891 on a farm near Fosston, Mn, to Ludvig and Oline Jesness. She was baptized and confirmed at Fosston, Mn. She attended elementary schools there and grew up in the area. She furthered her education and graduated from Normal School Training at
Lars and Karie Houglum Family
Crookston, Mn. She taught in rural schools for eight years in Clearwater, Polk and Norman Counties. She was also a Sunday School and parochial teacher for many years.
On June 2, 1918 he was united in marriage to Alma Jesness at Fosston, Mn. They made their home on the home farm near Flom for three years. In 1921, they moved to Fosston, Mn where they lived until 1931. At that time they moved back to the Houglum farm, near Flom, where they farmed until 1968, when they retired and moved to Moorhead, Mn.
Edward was a member and served on various boards of the Immanuel Lutheran Church for many years. He also was a past member of the local Rural School Board.
Alma was quite active in the Ladies Aid of the Immanuel Lutheran Church of which she was a member since 1931. She was also a member of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Moorhead , since 1968.
Edward and Alma were the parents of Monroe, Edgar J. and James. Edward passed away on May 17, 1974 at the age of 85, Alma passed away on December 24, 1973. They are both buried at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, rural Flom, Mn.
Edward S. and Pauline (Shefveland) Houglum
Edward Slemer Houglum was born to the Andrew Houglum's on April 10, 1892 at Lake Park, Mn. Edward married Pauline Shefveland on June 26, 1919 at Audubon, Mn. He was a member of the Bethania Lutheran Church, and had served on the Perley Creamery Board. Edward and Pauline had farmed in the Lee township until retiring in 1958. Edward died on February 9 at the Americana Nursing Home in Moorhead, Mn.
Edward and Pauline were the parents of: Carol (Andreen Midthune), Betty (Thomas Belvins), Ruby (Myron Miller), Ethel (Ralph Hest), Dr. Arvid Houglum, Edward Houglum Jr. Edward and Pauline would be the Grandparents to: Joe, Dan, and Alan Houglum who lived around Flom.
Joe and Gladys (Stende) Houglum
Joseph Henry Houglum was born to Martin and Sena Houglum, on April 22, 1916. He grew up in the Cormorant area where he was baptized and confirmed at Cormorant Lutheran Church. He attended school at Cormorant Grade school and the attended Pelican Rapids High School. Joe entered the military on August 1, 1941, serving his country in the Army. During his duration in the service he was stationed on the East Coast, also over seas in Germany and France. He was discharged from the service in January 1946, at which time he started farming.
Gladys Victoria Stende was born on August 29, 1927 to Edwin and Nellie (Nelson) Stende. Gladys was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn. Gladys attended school at District 46 country school and graduated from Ulen High School. After graduation she attended Moorhead State University where she earned a teaching degree. She taught country schools for two years before her marriage to Joe Houglum. Joe and Gladys were married on September 7, 1947 at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom. After their marriage the settled into the lives of a farmer and his wife. Joe and Gladys farmed in Flom township in section 23 for many years. It was here they raised their family; Jon Gregory and Julie Ann. Joe and Gladys both worked for American Crystal Sugar in Moorhead, the later years of their farming,in 1981 they sold the building site to Alan and Diane Stangel, they just built a new home on the building site and the old house was moved off. The land was sold to Doug Ruud. Joe and Gladys purchased a new home in Moorhead, Mn. They worked for American Crystal Sugar until their retirement. Joe passed away on January 25, 2001 he is buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery, Flom. Gladys continues to live in Moorhead.
Jon and Melany (Harrison) Houglum
Jon Gregory was born on June 22, 1953. He was adopted by Joe and Gladys at the age of six weeks. He was baptized and confirmed at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom. He graduated from Waubun High School in 1971,and served in the Armed forces in a medical unit. After he returned home he attended college in Grand Forks, ND and Moorhead, Mn. He moved to Murfreesbor, Tn and is employed at the Veteran's hospital in Nashville, Tn. Jon was born in Minneapolis, Mn.
Jon married Melany Ann Harrison (January 21, 1952), daughter of Swanson and Clara Harrison on October 17, 1973. They had two sons; Jon Anthony (12/17/1974) and Matthew Lawrence (12/29/1990). Jon Anthony married Christy Beard and they have a daughter Brandy Nicole. Melany passed away on March 25, 2001, just two months to the day after Jon's father Joe passed away. Jon resides in Christiana, Tenn.
Clifford Huseby
Clifford was born to Ove and Charlotte (Nelson) Huseby in 1918. He lived at home with his parents until their deaths. He never married. He moved into the Lutheran Memorial Home where he resided until his death in 1986.
Hans and Clara (Grondahl) Huseby
Hans Edwin Huseby was born on April 9, 1890, in Home Lake Township to Jens and Eli (Rinde) Huseby. He was baptized in the Lutheran faith at Wild Rice Lutheran Church, by Rev. Vaaler.
Clara Grondahl was born in Anthony Township of Norman County on February 7, 1896. She attended rural school in that area and also attended Moorhead State Teacher's College in Moorhead.
Hans and Clara (Grondahl) were married on June 28, 1922, at West Marsh River Lutheran church at rural Halstad, Mn. Hans spent his entire life in this community. He had served as township supervisor for 20 years, active in the school board, church secretary and cemetery sexton for many years. He had also served as township assessor for 2 years until his health failed.
After Hans' death Clara remained on the farm with her son James until she became a resident of the Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home in 1985. She resided here until her death on January 21, 1987.
Hans and Clara were the parents of James, who continues to live on the family farm in section 26 of Home Lake township, with his wife Harriet, Ellen (David Cross), JoAnn (James Grondahl), and Barbara (Walter Gwin).
Hans passed away on October 4, 1963 at St. Ansgar's Hospital, Moorhead, Mn. Both are buried at Syre Lutheran Cemetery, Syre, Mn.
Hilman and Mabel (Low) Huseby
Hilman Julian Huseby was born on August 22, 1903 on the family farm in Home Lake township, to Ove and Charlotta Huseby. He was baptized at Wild Rice Lutheran Church, and confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church. Hilman grew up on the farm and attended country school in the Woodland Nook School.
In April of 1935 he married Mabel Low at the Wild Rice Lutheran parsonage. They have lived in the Twin Valley area all the time and more recently, right in the city. He was an avid sportsman, a good gardener, and an ardent reader. Hilman passed away on October 2, 1977 at the age of 74 years. He is buried at Zion Lutheran Cemetery, Twin Valley, Mn.
Hilman and Mabel were the parents of; Eunice (Vernon Strommen), Ina Mae (James Thierel), Virgil, and Donald.
Jens and Eli (Rinde) Huseby
Jens T. Huseby was born on November 22, 1851, at Sogn, Norway. He came to America and settled in Rice County, Mn. in 1866. He met Eli Rinde daughter of Helje and Kari (Offerdal) Rinde and married her on May 28, 1877. They came to Norman County, Mn the following year, taking a homestead in Home Lake township in 1878. They resided there until about 1923 when they moved to Syre, Mn.
Jens and Eli were the parents of five children; Ove (see Ove and Charlotte Huseby), Hans E., Helmer (passed away in 1913), Mrs. A.O. Dahl and Mrs. Martin Ellefson.
Jens passed away on March 1, 1935 at the age of 83 years. Funeral services were conducted at Syre Lutheran Church, Syre, Mn with interment at the church cemetery.
Lars and Bergit (Thorpe) Huseby
Lars was born in 1831 and immigrated from Lekangers Parish Sogn, Norway in 1867. He first settled in Rice County, Mn. He met and married a young woman by the name of Bergit Thorpe in 1871. The settled in section 10 of Flom township where they farmed. Here they raised their family; Sven (See Sven and Anna Huseby) , Nels (1880-1940) and a daughter Mrs. C.J. Narum.
Ove and Charlotte (Nelson) Huseby
Ove Huseby came to Norman County at the age of three months with his parents, Jens and Eli Huseby, from Rice County near Northfield, Minnesota. His father, Jens, was born November 22, 1851 at Leganger, Sogn, Norway and came to Rice County in 1866. His wife, Eli Rinde, who was also born in Sogn Norway in 1856, came to Rice County in 1867. Jens Huseby and Eli Rinde were married near Northfield, Minnesota on May 28, 1877. The following year, in 1878, they came to Norman County and homesteaded in Home Lake Township near Syre Minnesota where James Huseby now lives. They had five children Ove, Helmer, Hans, Marie, and Bennetha. In 1924 they moved to Syre. Their son, Hans, took over the farm. Jens died on March 1, 1935. Eli passed away July 15, 1943.
Ove Huseby was born February 16, 1878 in Rice County. He was baptized by Rev. Kvammen. He attended the country school and helped his father with the farm work. Wood was their only fuel and that had to be hauled a distance of ten miles with teams and sleigh. In June, 1893, he was confirmed by Rev. Hans Johnson at the Wild Rice Church.
Charlotte Nelson, daughter of Hans and Anna Nelson, was born November 15, 1878 in Ossian, lowa. She was baptized by Rev. Koren In 1880, at the age of two years, she came with her parents to Norman County. She attended the country school. She was confirmed at the Wild Rice Church by Rev. Hans Johnson in June, 1893. As a young girl she worked several years at the Wild Rice Children's Home near Fossum, Minnesota. Later, she attended a dress making school in Grand Forks, North Dakota.
On June 23, 1902, Ove Huseby and Charlotte Nelson were married at the Wild Rice Lutheran Church by Rev. J. R. Vaaler. After the wedding ceremony the bride and groom left for the bride's home in a buggy decorated with wild roses. About two hundred guests attended the reception at the Nelson home which lasted three days, and included big dinners and suppers. Neighbor ladies had spent several days baking pies, cakes, bread, and preparing the full meals.
Ove served for many years on the town board, school board, and was a trustee of the Wild Rice Church, where they were lifetime members. Charlotte belonged to a Homemakers Club and was a charter member of the Wild Rice Ladies Aid.
Mr. and Mrs. Ove Huseby and Clifford lived in Home Lake Township until the fall of 1946, when they sold their farm home to Lawrence Swenson and moved to Charlotte's childhood home. In 1947 they celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary. Ove died on January 29. 1951 and Charlotte on January 1 1966.
They were the parents of eight children.
Hilmen of Twin Valley, Minnesota.
Clifford
Almer lived in Babbitt. Minnesota;
Agnes (Mrs. Albert Dorseth) and
Constance (Mrs. Francis Fossen) both lived in Twin Valley; Sylvia (Mrs. Robert Westby) lived on a farm near Ulen, Minnesota;
Arla (Mrs. Elmer Anker) lived in Fargo, North Dakota.
One son died in infancy.
Sven and Anna (Rogen) Huseby
Mr. and Mrs. Sven Huseby were descendants of the first pioneer who settled near Flom in Norman County. Their parents, the Lars Huseby and the Ole Rogen families were with the first settlers to move from Decorah, lowa in 1868, and after a five-year stay near Northfield, Minnesota, to homestead in Norman County in 1873.
Sven Bernard Huseby was born November 23, 1874 in Flom Township, Norman County, the son of Lars and Bergitta Huseby. He was baptized by Rev. Knute Bjorge and confirmed by Rev. Hans Johnson.
Anna Mathilda Rogen was born April 25, 1876, the daughter of Ole and Ingeborg Rogen near Flom and grew up on a farm there. She was baptized by Rev. Bjorge and confirmed by Rev. Hans Johnson.
On July 12, 1899, Sven and Anna were united in marriage by Rev. J. R. Vaaler at the Wild Rice Lutheran Church. They resided on a farm near Flom for 17 years after which they moved to Twin Valley, where Mr. Huseby was manager of the Twin Valley Co-op Shipping Association. They celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary in July 1949, in Twin Valley.
Both Mr. and Mrs. Huseby were Charter members of Zion Lutheran Church, Twin Valley, and Mr. Huseby served on the Board of Trustees from 1930 to 1939. Mrs. Huseby was honorary life member of the Zion American Lutheran Church Women.
They had one daughter, Selma, (Mrs. Lawrence Mueller) and two grandchildren, Paul and Linda Mueller.
Sven Huseby passed away on November 20, 1967, at the age of 74 years, 11 months, 20 days.
Anna Huseby passed away suddenly on March 20, 1967, at the age of 90 years, 11 months.
Among the pioneers' stories about Norman County (Eastern) is the story which describes the battle of Frenchman's Bluff. A band of Indians had attacked some early French settlers there. Bones of human skeletons were found on the top of the highest hill which was a part of the Sven Huseby farm. A marker was placed on this spot several years ago by the Minnesota Geological Society.
Please note: In four issues of the Twin Valley Times covering February 1961 there is a very good "pioneer article" about Ingeborg Rogen, mother of Anna Huseby. This article includes much of the history of Norman County.
Orville and Ruth (Erickson) Ingebretson
Orville was born on January 22, 1912 in Becker County, Mn to Peter and Mabel Ingebretson. He grew up here and attended school. He then went to Crookston Agricultural School and after completing his education he began farming in the Flom area.
Orville married Ruth Erickson on June 18, 1936. He later had a trucking operation and treaded in horses which he supplied for the Marshall Plan. In 1954 he moved his family to Wolf Point, Mont. Where he worked as a carpenter for the Montana Highway Department. After retiring he moved to Aqua Dulce.
Orville and Ruth were the parents of Curtis and Annette (Terry Coon).
Orville passed away on March 21, 1993 at Missions Hills California. Interment in Dawson Memorial Cemetery in Glendive.
Peter and Mabel (Lovaas) Ingebretson
Peter Ingebretson, b.12-31-1879 at Lake Park, MN to Ole Bergaard Ingebretson and Guri Einarsdtr Brekken Ingebretson. Ole and Guri emigrated from Tydal, Norway, 4-24-1861.
Peter was the sixth child in a family of 11 children. When he was between 4 and 6 years old, he went to live with Christ and Maren Pederson as their child. Ole Ingebretson and Maren Pederson were first cousins. He was never formally adopted, but they raised and educated him. He ran the farm all his adult life and inherited it. He was schooled at Walworth Dist #46 and graduated from Detroit Lakes High School Was baptized at the Walworth Baptist Church. Was a member of that church since 1902.
Peter married Mabel Lovaas, b. 9-11-1884, daughter of Christian and Mary Anderson Lovaas, married on 12-29-1910, in Swift County, MN. She was baptized in the Baptist faith. Educated in the Ortonville, MN area She was a full-time homemaker and mother.
Mabel was interested in art and as a young woman did some lovely oil paintings. She was a quiet, capable woman, active in her church, a good support for her husband. Mabel died of complications from breast cancer on 5-27-47 at Detroit Lakes, MN. She is buried in the Walworth Baptist Cemetery.
Peter spent 52 years as a farmer in Walworth Township, was very active in his community and the Walworth School District #46. He started the drive for electricity through the REA in August 1939 and was instrumental in keeping the Wild Rice Electric Cooperative project moving. Became Project Superintendent in June 1940 and resigned in May 1942.
In 1958, he was selected and honored as Brothers Keeper in the Red River Chapter of Credit Unions for his outstanding contributions in the credit union, church, co-op and civic affairs. He held offices of trust in township and county . was always interested in the cooperative movement,served on the local creamery board of directors in the Big 5-Co-op Association served as president of the union and was a member of the advisory committee for the Big 5. He was also on the Board of Directors of the Minnesota League of Credit Unions.
He and Mable moved to Mahnomen while he worked at the office of the Wild Rice Cooperative project.
In 1944 they moved to Detroit Lakes, where he was active in general insurance work. They were very much a part of the Flom Community . They raised seven children.
Peter died 8-3-1960 some months after he suffered a massive stroke at Detroit Lakes, and is buried in the Walworth Baptist Cemetery.
Peter and Mabel Ingebretson children
All of their 7 children were baptized in the Walworth Baptist Church, they don't have confirmation.Also, all the children went to Walworth Dist #46 School. They all were born at home on the farm., Walworth Township I am not presuming to try and write any history for those who are still alive. Orville and Ruth are gone as are Eleanore and Hilton.
A. Orville - b.1-22-1912, He graduated from the N.W. School of Agriculture, Crookston, MN On June 18, 1936 he married Ruth Erickson. He was first a farmer, then had a trucking operation and traded in horses which he supplied for the Marshall Plan. In 1954, they moved to Wolf Point, Montana, and he worked on building the Fort Peck Dam, and later worked for the Montana Highway Dept. as night custodian. After retirement, he became active in the restoration of buggies, wagons, and cutters,which appeared in movies such as "Little House on the Prairie." They moved to Agua Dulce, Calif. where he worked making a full scale reproduction of a authentic mud wagon stagecoach.
Orville died 3-21-1993 in Mission Hills, Calif., and is buried
in Dawson Memorial Cemetery, Glendive, MT Ruth Ingebretson b. 1-6-1914, on a farm near Twin Valley, MN to Gust and Otila Bergeson Erickson. She was raised and educated in Twin Valley, MN, attended Moorhead State College in Moorhead, MN She taught schools in Minnesota and Montana, including the Flom school. She was District Mgr. of Field Enterprises Corp while she lived in Wolf Point, Montana. She died 10-12-1991 in Agua Dulce, CA and is buried in Dawson Memorial Cemetery, Glendive, Montana. Ruth and Orville had two children, Curtis b. 6-5-1942, married to Joyce Smith on 4-21-1973, and lives in Monroe, N.C. Rynette, b. 7-27-1949, married Terry Coon 8-23-1967. They live in Glendive, Montana and have two children, Tara and Rhett and Tara has two grandsons.
B. Paul- b, 12-10-1913., He was confirmed 3-26-1943 in the Vanport Church He graduated from the N.W. School of Agriculture, Crookston, MN Paul has been a carpenter and in the building business all his life.
He married Evelyn Ostenvik on 12-24-1937, in Flom, MN. Evelyn B. 3-26-1918 to Wm and Elsie Ostenvik at Flom, MN. She was baptized on 4-21-18, at Aspelund Church, Flom. Confirmed at Aspelund in 1932.
She attended Flom School, graduated from Waubun High School and graduated from business college in Portland, OR. She ran a children's nursery during WWII at Vanport, OR. Was a secretary and for many years worked as a chief clerk and office manager in railroad sales offices in Portland, OR. Hobbies, music, computer, genealogy, reading, and grandchildren.
In his youth Paul did oil paintings. He played trombone in the band. He has made many beautiful carvings for gifts. They settled in Detroit Lakes and built their home there. During WWII, they moved to several places for war work - to Sioux Falls S. Dak. for some months, then to Lake Pendorielle, Ida. from there he was sent to Portland, OR. He headed a crew who did the finish work on oil tankers. From then on he was a finish carpenter and in the building business until he retired due to health reasons. They built their home in Portland, OR. He invented a lefse making machine - one that worked successfully, but he wanted to improve it,so started on a new one. Unfortunately, his health and family work, and time, all made it impossible to continue. He still makes wonderful lefse by hand - which is much enjoyed and looked forward to by friends and family.
Paul was active with boy scouts, the schools, a lot of building work at church, and in the community,
Paul and Evelyn had three children:
CLAUDIA, b. 1-11-39, at Detroit Lakes, Mn, Went to schools and college in Oregon and is a teacher.
She married 2nd Lt. Ralph Wyatt on August 20, 1960, and spent her life moving many places with her Air Force husband , lived 4 years in Japan where she taught school and where their son Kristoffer was born. Ralph retired in 1990 as a full Colonel in the AF. They live in Corvallis, Or. They have two daughters, Kirsten, married to a Saudi Arabian, lives in Saudi Arabia, has two little sons; Kimberly Maren, b. in Los Angeles, is a graphic artist with a computer firm in Portland.
PAUL DAVID, b. 5-29-1941 in Detroit Lakes. educated in Portland Schools - college in Vancouver,\ WA. He was a grocery store manager - now retired - Very talented - does beautiful carving and makes furniture and built his own home. He had three children. Richard Paul, Portland, Or. is unmarried. He was in the Navy for some years and served in the Gulf War in 1987. Theresa - is an electrical engineer works for Computer Cast Parts. She is a Major in the National Guard and served in the Gulf War in 1981. Denise is married To Robb Tetz and they have a son, Nicholas. She works for the Teacher's Credit Union in Portland.
Claudia and Paul David were baptized in the Vanport Oregon Lutheran Church on 3-26, 1943.
ERIK, , b. 9-5-47, Portland,OR. Baptized and confirmed at Bethel Lutheran Church, Portland,OR. was educated in Portland, Oregon, graduated from Princeton University, New Jersey in 1969. was a International Scholar at Oslo, Norway, the same year and later studied city planning at the U. of Oslo. Got his graduate degree at the University of Oregon
while working for the Oregon Department of Transportation - Was a supervisor for that department. He married Cynthia Bates 4-22-1972 at Oakland, CA. They had three children:
Peter, b. 12-29-1978, lives in California,graduated from Haverford College, PA, in 2001, works in Walnut Creek, Calif. Britta, b. 12-11-82 is a student at Swarthmore College, PA Krista b. 7-25-84, Senior at Lincoln HS, Portland, OR Erik died 11-25-1993 in Portland, is buried in Lone Fir Cemetary, Portland, OR his death was a great loss to Paul and Evelyn and the whole family
C. Chester - b. 9-28-1915, attended N.W. College of Agriculture, Crookston He married Ilith Brandt 10-21-1939, They had five children: Carmen, Denise, Stephen, Mark and Ben. All are married and have children. Ilith and Chester live in Moorhead, MN
D. Muriel b. 11-16-1917, Graduated from Twin Valley High School Married Frederick McCormick, b. 10-28-1915, m. 10-20-38. They had four children, Linda, Marcia, Fred,and Patty. All are married and have children. Frederick died 3-17-1994. Buried in Glen Haven Memorial Gardens, Minneapolis, MN Muriel lives in Minneapolis, MN
E. Eleanore - b. 1-16-1920, graduated from Twin Valley High School,attended Concordia College in Moorhead, MN and spent some time at Moorhead State Teachers College
She married Hilton Hansen 9-2-41, He was born 1-23-12 in
Iowa. He was a student Pastor at the Walworth Baptist Church . He became a Baptist pastor and was also a farmer in Britt,Iowa. They adopted a son, Allen b. 2-1-50 and he died 11-1-84. Hilton died 11-26-1961 in Britt, Iowa. Eleanore died 9-4-1985 Britt, Iowa.
F. Ervin - b.1-20-1922, attended Twin Valley High School and the University in Boulder, Colorado He married Carol Boynton 12-26-1925, m.8-28-54 He was a Navy Chaplain. They had two children, Charles, b.7-1-55. unmarried, and Julie b. 3-14-58. She married Sonny Evans, and they have 2
daughters. Ervin and Carol live in Minneapolis
G. Anne (Esther) -b. 4-13-1924 She married Roy Berg, b.1-13-23. They had one son, Thomas, b. 8-18-60 and he married Maureen Kane - They have two sons. Anne and Roy live in retirement in Arlington, IL
Albert and Tillie (Berger) Jacobson
Albert Christian Jacobson was born on February 23, 1888 in Flom township to Knut and Anna Jacobson. He grew up in Flom township.
Mathilda "Tillie" Berger was born on October 16, 1890 to John Pedersen Berger and Karen Marie Halvorsen in Montevideo. Mn. Her family later moved to Henning, Mn. John Berger was born February 4, 1858 in Norway to Johanna Berger. Karen was born on February 28, 1860 in Norway to Halvor Gunderson (11-28-1932 to 4-19-1918) and Ingeborg Jorgensen (12-28-1840 to 2-13-1917). John passed away in March 1935 and Karen in August 1923, they are both buried at the Syre Cemetery.
Albert married Tillie Berger of Henning, Mn. in 1919. After they were first married they resided on a farm in Flom township until 1926 when they moved to Flom and they entered the restaurant business. They operated Jacobson’s Cafe on the east side of Main Street in Flom, with their residence above the Cafe. Albert ran Jacobson’s cafe until his death on September 24, 1942. After his death Tillie remained in Flom. In the later years she would spend time traveling between her children’s homes, but still keeping her home above the Cafe, even after they closed the cafe down she continued to live there. Tillie passed away on January 24, 1967. At the time of her death she was residing at Eveleth, Mn. They are both buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery, Flom, Mn. After her death the old cafe building was sold to Don and Kay Johnson who owned Johnson’s Store in Flom. After the Store burned in 1981, they rebuilt, moving the new store further north. Johnson’s Market was built on the former location of Jacobson’s cafe.
Tillie Jacobson was a member of the Aspelund ALCW, she was a very kind and generous person and if the situation occurred, she was always willing to help her neighbors and friends. Albert and Tillie were the parents of six children;
Joyce, Adeline, Kenneth, Muriel, Edwin and a infant son (unmarked grave at Aspelund)
Joyce C. was born on December 17, 1911. She married John Skansgaard, son of Iver Erlandsen and Anne (Pedersen Aspehaug) Skansgaard, in Flom township, on July 20, 1929. They were the parents of two children; Ronald D. (Joanne) and Sandra K. (Tom) Moe. Sandra has two children; Trevor J. Seidl and Stephanie E. Seidl.
Adeline E. was born on November 12, 1920. She married Hans P. Mitchell. They had no children.
Kenneth Jerome was born on October 29, 1922. He married Imogene Buchholz , daughter of Benny and Gyda Buchholz of Flom on June 24, 1850. He died suddenly from a heart attack at his home in Eveleth, Mn on April 26, 1980, he is buried at Aspelund. They had no children. After his death Imogene moved back to Twin Valley, Mn where she still resides at Valley Pines. She works at the Norman County East Elementary School in the Grandparent program.
Muriel J. was born on September 12, 1921. She married Donald F. Aagenes. They had two children; David and Vicki. David A. (Patricia) Aagenes, they have three sons; Jason D., Daniel P., and Kyle C. Their daughter Vicki L. Aagenes Parise, Vicki has two daughters, Christina D. and Jill J. Muriel J. Aagenes passed away on February 2, 1978 and is buried at the Concordia Cemetery, Fertile, Mn.
Edwin M. was born on June 19, 1932. He has three children; Laura, Randy and Kim. Laura (Mark) Thompson, they have a son William Randy (Rachael) Jacobson , they have three children; Edwin, Lidia, and Alex. In 1978 Edwin married Dorothy Christianson.
There was also an infant (still born) during the later half of the 1920, and he is buried in an unmarked grave in Aspelund Cemetery, Flom.
Arthur and Geneva (Gunderson) Jacobson
Arthur Julius Jacobson was born on January 23, 1898, in Jackson county, Mn., to John and Milla Jacobson. He was baptized in the Belmont Lutheran Church there. He came to the Flom area with his parents at an early age. He was confirmed at Immanuel Lutheran Church, rural Flom, Mn., on October 19, 1913. He grew up in this area and attended country schools here.
Geneva Gunderson was born on November 23, 1901 to Henry and Bertha Gunderson in Flom township, Mn. She was baptized on the home farm and confirmed at Aspleund Lutheran Church. She attended rural elementary schools in the area.
Arthur and Geneva were married on November 26,. 1033 at the Wild Rice Parsonage. After their marriage the resided on his father's farm for a year, on the T. R. Rue farm for nine years and then they moved to their own farm stead in Mahnomen County, Popple Grove township in 1943. Here they raised their daughter; Junnell. Junnell married Dennis Jenson, and they resided in Moorhead, Mn. at the time of her mother's death, when Arthur died they were listed as living by Lake Park, Mn. In 1965 they retired and moved to Twin Valley, Mn, where they lived until their deaths.
Arthur also had a special hobby of raising , buying and selling horses. Geneva was active in her community and church. She was a member of her church circle and a efficient homemaker and loved flowers.
Carl and Clara (Jacobson) Jacobson
Carl Martin Jacobson was born on April 9, 1896 at Lakefield, Mn to John and Milla Jacobson. He was baptized and confirmed in the Belmont Lutheran Church at Jackson, Mn. He came to this area when he was 16 years old.
Carl served in the armed services of his country during World War 1, in the infantry, and also in the home guard, Company M at Moorhead during World War II.
As a young man he did mechanical work at the Smith Motors in Moorhead, Mn, for over 20 years. He then attended the Crookston College of Engineering, where he graduated and then was employed with the Moorhead High School as a heating engineer. Hen then went to Moorhead State College where he was employed for 20 years until his retirement.
On November 8, 1920 he was united in marriage to Clara Jacobsen at her parents home in Flom township. They made their home in Moorhead, Mn for many years.
Clara passed away in 1955. Because of failing health in his last years, Carl became a resident of the Fair Meadow Nursing Home at Fertile in 1975.
Carl was active for many years as a member of the Moorhead American Legion Post and was a member of the Drum and Bugle Cops there. He was also an entertaining violinist and played for many years.
Carl and Clara were the parents of two children; Earl Jacobson and Majorie (John) Knight. The Jacobson woods to many who live around here is located where the Old Aspelund Cemetery is.
Jewitt and Lorraine (Opsahl) Jacobson
Jewitt was born on June 29, 1918 in rural Flom township to Nels and Clara (Kvidt) Jacobson. He was raised and attended school near Flom. He was baptized and confirmed at Immanuel Lutheran Church rural Flom.
After completing his education he served in the United States Army during World War II, of which he entered on January 13, 1942 and served in Puerto Rico for two years. He was discharged on November 15, 1945.
Jewitt married Lorraine Opsahl on January 5, 1945. They lived in Detroit Lakes, Mn where he worked as an auto mechanic. In September of 1964, he became an instructor at the State School of Science in Wahpeton, ND. Where he taught auto mechanic until his retirement in June of 1983. They left the Wahpeton area in 1985 and moved to Fargo, ND.
Jewitt passed away on April 18, 1988 in Fargo. Funeral services were held at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom, Mn with interment at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, rural Flom. After his death Lorraine remained in Fargo, where she still resides.
John and Emelie (Johnson) Jacobson
John Jacobson was born near Windom, Mn in October 1868. He spent his childhood on the farm. In 1889 he was married to Emelie (Millia) Johnson.
After their marriage they settle on a farm near Jackson and lived there for many years. In 1912 they sold out and packed up moving to the Flom area. It was here they purchased a farm 2 1/4 miles northeast of Flom. Here they built a fine home to raise their family in.
John and Millia were the parents of five children. Caroline who died at the early age of two. Nels, Minnie, Carl and Arthur.
After John's death in 1942 Millia moved into Flom into the home on the west edge of town last occupied by Carl Hamre. She later entered the Lutheran Memorial Retirement Home in Twin Valley where she lived until her death in September of 1959 at the age of 91 years.
Millia had come to the United States from Norway when she was 20 years old. She was a good cook. Always had cookies and good doughnuts on hand whenever some one would come to visit. The coffee pot was always on at her house.
John and Millia were faithful members of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Rural Flom. John also had served on the church council of which he was treasurer at the time of his death.
Knut and Anna (Fossen) Jacobson
Knut Jacobson was born in Norway on April 9, 1844 to Jacob A. Brenden and Guri Braget Brenden. Knut came to Norman County from Pope county, Mn in 1877. He settled in section 34 of Flom township, where he homestead.
Knuts parents Jacob A. Brenden was born on October 23, 1815 in Norway and died on January 4, 1890. Gurie Braget Brenden was born on December 23, 1817 and died on September 4, 1895.
Anna Fossen was born in Norway on June 2, 1853 to Sigrid P. Fossen. Anna’s mother Sigrid was born to Neils K. Flaten and Ronnag Olsdatter on March 30, 1823 and died on November 25, 1908. Sigrid Fossen is buried at Aspelund Lutheran Cemetery.
Knut and Anna were the parents of six children; Eline (see Ole and Eline Johnson), Julia (see Ole and Julia Odegaard) , Albert (see Albert and Tillie Jacobson), Clara, Gina and Edwin.
Clara was born on November 17, 1889 and died on September 10, 1955. She was married to Carl Johnson who was born on April 9, 1896 and died on July 18, 1976. Clara and Carl were married in 1920. They were the parents of two children; Marjorie "Margie" (John) Knight and Earl.
Gina was born on February 5, 1882 and died on September 1, 1894. She is buried at Aspelund Cemetery.
Edwin Jacobson was born in 1897. He served his country during World War I in the 118th Infantry Regiment, 30th Infantry Division during World War I. He was a veteran of WW I, he died on September 25, 1918 and is buried in the Somme American Cemetery in Bony France.
Nels and Clara (Kvidt) Jacobson
Nels Jacobson was born on April 26, 1894, in Jackson county, Mn, to John and Milla Jacobson. He was baptized and confirmed in the Belmont Lutheran Church at Jackson. He also attended country school there. He came to the Flom area at the age of 16, in 1912. Nels had one brother Carl and one sister Minnie ( Lien), there was one other brother and one sister who proceeded him in death.
On April 23, 1916, he was united in marriage to Clara Kvidt at the Wild Rice Lutheran Church. They farmed near Flom for 46 years, moving into Flom in 1958 when they retired from farming. Nels lived in the home currently occupied by Elinor Swenson, on the east side of main street, next to Flom Regional Insurance company. His last few years he was a resident of the Lutheran Memorial Retirement Center in Twin Valley, Mn.
Clara passed away on August 27, 1961, and Nels passed away on February 19, 1975, they are both buried at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, rural Flom.
Nels and Clara were the parents of four children; Newman (Doris Burda), Jewitt (Lorraine), Mildred (Palmer Grefsrud) and Hazel ( Leonard Seykora).
Newman and Doris (Burda) Jacobson
Newman C. Jacobson was born on March 16, 1926 at Twin Valley, Mn to Nels and Clara (Kvidt) Jacobson. He was raised and attended school in this area. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Faith at Immanuel Lutheran Church, rural Flom, Mn.
Newman and Doris were married on September 24, 1949 at Atlanta Lutheran Church, rural Ulen, Mn. Doris Burda was born on July 27, 1927 in Nebraska, to Bernard and Pearl (Irish) Burda. She moved to the Ulen area in 1940 with her family when they moved here from Primrose, Nebraska. Here Doris grew up and attended school. Newman and Doris have one son: Loren. Loren and his wife reside in Wisconsin and are the parents of three children; Tim, Cindy and Ryan.
After they were first married they lived and farmed in the Twin Valley and Flom area for six years. Newman then went to work at the Flom Creamery for eight years and Doris ran the Cafe in Flom during this time. They lived in John Christensen’s Photo Studio on the north side of town.
In October of 1964 Newman and Doris left the Flom area and settled in West Bend Wisconsin where he was employed for the city of West Bend. Doris during this time was employed at a furniture store.
Newman was active on Pool and Horseshoe leagues in the West Bend area, as well as spending time with his family and friends. Newman passed away on September 17, 1987 at the age of 61 years. Funeral services were held at Aspelund Lutheran Church, Flom with interment at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, rural Flom.
After his death Doris remained for a short time in West Bend before moving to Detroit Lakes, Mn where she still resides. She is an active member in her church, Aspelund. Doris and Newman loved to visit with friends, enjoyed dancing and socializing.
Ole and Karen (Hattleberg) Jacobson
Ole Jacobson was born on June 7th, 1858, in Winneshiek county, Iowa to Jacob Olson and Anna Hanson. When he was a year old they moved to Freeborn county, Mn.
In 1880 he was united in marriage to Karen Oline Hattleberg and the same year they moved to Lake county, S.D. While they lived in South Dakota they were engaged in farming for many years and then took up the carpenter trade which he followed as long as he was able to work.
Ole and Anna were the parents of ten children. One boy passed away in infancy. Alfred and Adolph lived in Madison, SD; Henry moved to Eureka, Ca; Corrin ( Mrs Nerdahl) lived in Ada, Mn; Odin, Spokane, WA; Alvin lived in Orlando, CA; Olga (Karth) lived in Oswego, NY; Edwin, Chicago, Ill; and Anna (Raad) lived in Twin Valley, Mn.
Ole was a charter member of the Prairie Queen Lutheran Church of Lake county SD, the church he loved. At it’s golden jubilee in 1933 he was an honorary guest-one of the few living charter members.
In 1942 he suffered a severe heart attach from which he never recovered and another attack in 1943 which left him a invalid. During the last few months of his life he was confined to his bed. On Sunday September 16th 1945 at 8:45 he slept peacefully away. Ole is buried at the Prairie Queen Church near Madison, SD.
Ole was a serious minded man and a true Christian. He lived for others that they might be happy.
Alma Johanna Jensen
Was born in 1892 to John and Amelia Jensen. She worked most of her life in the local area doing housekeeping. She lived her entire life in Fossum Township. Alma was very dedicated to her church, Wild Rice, where she was a lifelong member. In her later years, she lived with her nephew, Clifford Dalhaug. She never married.
C.L. and Mary (Jorgenson) Jensen
Mary Annetta Jorgenson was born on February 27, 1883 at Geneva she married Carl Jensen on June 18, 1903 at Winnebago City. Carl served parishes in Iowa and Nebraska before coming to the Walworth Church in 1915. He retired in 1941 and they moved into Ulen, Mn. Their later years they lived in the Rest Home.
Mary died in 1946 and is buried at Walworth Baptist Cemetery, rural Flom, Mn.
They were the parents of three sons, Paul (see Paul and Frances Jensen), Gordon and Norman.
Carl Olaf and Regina (Korsgaden) Jensen
Carl was born on September 18, 1877 to John and Amelia Jensen. He was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, Mn. He received his education in Norman County schools and furthered his education at Park Region College at Fergus Falls, Mn.
Regina was born on April 13, 1886 to Lars and Ronnag Korsgaden. She was baptized and confirmed at Wild Rice. She received her education in Norman County and was a life long member of Wild Rice Lutheran Church.
Carl and Regina were married at Wild Rice on November 19, 1905. They settled in Fossum township and raised their family here. They were the parents to; Kenneth, Sanford, Arnold, Oris, Howard, Lyle, Helen (Arne Eide), and Gelaine (Arthur Gredvig).
Carol was active in church and community organizations having served faithfully on many of the church boards, he was also financial secretary for twenty years. He also served on township boards and school boards at Marsh Creek and Twin Valley. Regina and Carol were very concerned about their children’ welfare and their public and Christian education. They were successful farmers in Fossum Township.
Carl died on September 24, 1953 and Regina died on August 7, 1960. Both are buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery, rural Twin Valley, Mn.
Don Jensen
Don was born in June of 1948. He farmed for awhile and was married to Verna Mergenthal. They had three children. Nickole (deceased and buried at Immanuel), Jodi and Donivan. Jodi is married to Matt Kvien and they live in Laverne ND with their four children: John 10 years, Lane 4 years, Karlee 3 years and Sage who was born in August of 2001.
Donivan lives in Fargo with his two sons Austin is 7 years and Elias is 4 years. Donivan had one daughter Mia Lynn who is deceased and is buried at Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Flom, MN.
Don now is employed at Norman County Highway Department. He continues to live on the family farm in section 36 of Home Lake Township. In his spare time he runs some feeders and raises Longhorn Cattle. He also has some Quarter horses and a team of Belgian mares for giving sleigh and wagon rides. He enjoys living the life of a "cowboy" going on yearly trips to Medora ND where he enjoys the life outdoors while helping with the annual branding of cattle for a friend. Don and his children love to work with horses and this is also a very high interest with the grandchildren.
Lars and Sena (Simenson) Jensen
Lars Jensen was born in Jutland, Denmark and Sena Jensen was born in Oslo, Norway. They both grew up near Springfield, Mn., where they met and were married on March 30th, 1904. All five of their children were born near Clements, Mn. They came to Flom Township around 1918. They had 10 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. Lars died on March 18th, 1957 and
Sena died in 1960 they are both buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery, rural Twin Valley, Mn
Their children are:
James Ed Jensen he married Lillie Prestegord in 1943 and they farmed in Flom Township for many years. Ed died on July 14th, 1982. Lillie lives in Twin Valley, Mn They have two children and two grandchildren. Linda married Richard Ringerud and they live in Fridley, Mn. Larry married Mary Ann and they live in Fayetteville, NC. They have two daughters Kelly and Renee.
Olga Jensen Kragero was married and lived many years in Fargo, ND. She died on March 11, 1962 and had one child Curtis who is married to Charlotte and they live in Fargo, ND. They have six children, Susan, Terry, Robert, Sharon, Larry and Curtis Jr.
Mabel Jensen Stenseth. She married Charles Stenseth and they lived for many years in Heiberg, outside of Twin Valley, MN. Charles died on October 23rd, 1968 and Mabel died January 27th, 1988. They have one daughter Carol Jean Stenseth who resides in Twin Valley, MN. She works for Lutheran Memorial Nursing Home in Twin Valley.
Lillie Jensen Jones was married and lived many years in the state of Washington. She died on March 5th, 2001. Lillie had four children and six grandchildren. They are Leonard (deceased), Lorraine, Lyle and Lois.
Lester Jensen married Reome Raad: See Lester and Reome Jensen
Lester and Reome (Raad) Jensen
Lester Jensen left home at the age of 14. He worked on various farms in North Dakota and Minnesota before ending up at the Henry Spielman farm.
While working there he met Reome Raad. She had been sent by her mother to help Mrs. Spielman with some things in the house. Sometime during the day she "happened" to meet the hired man. Lester and Reome were married on October 11th, 1941 at Mahnomen, Mn. Lester continued to work for Spielmans until 1943 when he bought a farm in Home Lake Township and started farming on his own.
Their first child Don was born in June 1948. About a year later the barn was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. No one was injured but some cattle were lost. In May of 1953 a daughter Bonnie was born. A short time later disaster struck again. When they lost their entire herd of milk cows to Bang's disease. They always managed to survive like the strong always do and continued to work and live on the farm until Lester's death in 1982. Reome continued to live on the farm until 1994 when she moved to Twin Valley, Mn. Reome is still active in the Aspelund Lutheran Church where she helps with quilting, and with the women's organizations. She still loves to go out to the far and mow the grass during the summer.
Lester and Reome have two children. Don: See Don Jensen
Bonnie was born in May of 1953. After graduating from High School Bonnie went on to further her education at Moorhead Tech. She worked for St. Luke's Hospital for a while then she joined the Women's Army Corp. She ended up in Lawton, Oklahoma and graduated from Lawton University. It was here she met and married Gaylon Anderson. They later moved to Minneapolis, Mn, Albert City, IA, Evansville, Ind., and now are living in Bellvue, Nebraska. Gaylon has continually worked for Con Agra as a Finance controller and Bonnie always ends up with a teaching job wherever they get transferred to. Bonnie and Gaylon have two sons: Geoff who lives in Terre Haute, Indiana and Erick who lives at home.
John and Amelia (Larson) Jenson
John Jenson was born to Jens Jorgen and Elise Oldsdatter Knutson on the Gronaya Farm near Telemarken, Norway on September 28, 1849. John’s parents died when he was ten years old. His father was a teacher and a farmer. After his death, John and his siblings lived with various relatives. At sixteen he and another boy hired out as cabin boys on a seafarer, which took them to Havana, Cuba, and later into the Mediterranean Sea as far as the Turkish, coast. There the whole personnel of the boat with the exception of the captain and Mr. Jenson succumbed to yellow fever. Mr. Jensen was brought through by the tender care of the captain and he in turn took care of the captain later. From there he was sent home on another ship. His pay was very meager and the work very hard, but the roving spirit of adventure was not quenched, and he again set out with his brother at the age of 18 for Leland Illinois. He stayed there for a couple of months and then moved on to Rice county, Mn., remaining there until in 1873 when he, together with a friend Henry Benson, and John’s brothers; George Johnson (Jorgen) and Jens Morland (Jens took the last name of his uncles farm in Norway where he was raised) set out in a covered wagon and oxen for Norman County, Mn. The trip taking three weeks. John Jenson settled in Section 20 of Fossum township He endured the early hardship of pioneer days and to augment his not always plentiful supply of cash, went to Hawley, Mn in the early summer of 1873 to break land for a Scotch farmer there. It was while he was there on a week day that the then young pastor Bjorgo came and had services in a Norwegian home near Hawley. John laid off the afternoon to take in the services and told about the settlement near the Wild Rice river and he and his companion, Mr. Urdahl, induced the pastor to promise a visit a little later on in their home community. Thus two young men, just in their early twenties, had desire enough to plead for a pastor and did bring about the formation of the Wild Rice congregation that at one time numbered as many as 183 families. He took an active part in the formation of the congregation and was among those who furnished both logs and work for the first church. He also stood as the first groom, being married on September 28, 1873. The congregation was organized on July 20, 1873 on Rev. Bjorgno’s first trip to the area, on his second trip to the congregation he performed the wedding ceremony of John and Amelia.
Amelia Larson was born in Decorah, Ia to Wellick and Kirsti Larson. Soon after her birth, the family moved to Fairbault, Mn, where they lived until 1873. It was then that they traveled to Norman County by ox cart. Amelia was a charter member of the Wild Rice congregation where she was active in Ladies Aid and other church activities.
John and Amelia had the following children; William (Jens) , Carl O., Edward, Elisa (Oscar Dahlhaug),
Clara who died at the age of two, Alma, Birdie who died at the age of 14, Clara Valmin (Sigurd Dahlhaug) and Nile.
John died on May 5, 1940 and Amelia died in 1939 both are buried at Wild Rice Lutheran Cemetery.
Rev A.H. Amundson pastor and friend wrote these words of John; Mr. Jenson was a sturdy pioneer embodying those sterling qualities we love to find among these fine old folks. His church was uppermost in his hear and he came faithfully to worship as long as he could and he often sent for his pastor for communion and spiritual service. That was also his last conscious act before the Lord called him home. He kept well up with his affairs until the end and the sad news of the war in Norway saddened his heart a lot. The words written at the passing of his wife, the following are very fitting to his also;
We need to pause when these venerable pioneers pass on. They have done much for church and state. And their love for their special institution - the church- is specially worth mentioning. Here they came with small means to wring a home and a living out of the wilderness for them and their families. It was work -more hard work and many privations that faced them daily. And for that reason they seemed to have a special love for the church that is hard to find in the growing generation. The church stood as an unfailing rock of comfort and cheer and here they sought renewed courage and strength to continue the daily grind. And so they learned to love and esteem the church in a very special manner and also the servant of the church. And they shared liberally as God prospered them. May the memory of them be enshrined in the hearts of many as we honor them one by one in the passing.
Nile and Ida Jenson
Nile was born in 1899 to John and Amelia Jensen near Twin Valley, Mn. Ida (Jenson) was born on 1904 to Hans P. and Lena (Haugness) Jenson. He and Ida were married in 1924 in Ada, Mn. They settled on the farm near Borup, Mn where they stay until 1940, when they moved to this area.
Children born to them were: Vernon, Norris, Leland, Donald, Delano, Dennis, James, Nile Jr., Vernette (Christianson), Iola (George Samuels) and Deloris Gilberth (Homer Neeley).
Nile died on November 27, 1976 and Ida died on January 25, 1991; both are buried at Wild Rice.
Paul and Frances (Larson) Jensen
Frances Larson was born on May 28, 1909 at Tracy, Mn. She came to the Twin Valley area with her parents when she was a child. She received her education at Home Lake Country Schools and then went to Twin Valley High School where she graduated. After completing her education she attended Normal School in Ada, Mn.
She taught for a few years before her marriage to Paul Jensen on June 14, 1933 in Twin Valley, Mn. They made their home in Walworth township in section 4. Paul passed away on January 26, 1973 at which time their son Phillip took over the farming operations. Frances "Peaches" continued to live on the farm with her
son until 1985 when she moved into the Lutheran Memorial Homes in Twin Valley, Mn. Here she remained until her death on May 15, 1987.
The Jensen’s were active in the church, Walworth Baptist Church which is located just north of their homeplace. Their son Phillip continued to farm until his retirement, due to heath in the 1980’s. At this time he rented out his farmland until his death.
Paul and Frances were the parents of; Phillip and Marian (Carl Shaw).
Paul, Frances and Phillip are all buried at Walworth Baptist Cemetery, rural Flom, Mn.
Ole Olson and Eliza (Everson)Jensveen
On August 31, 1840 Ole was born in Sakssumal, Faaberg, Oppland, Norway the 7th of 8 total children. His father died in 1844 and his mother (Marit) remarried in 1846. Leaving the area on April 17,1855 with another family, Ole most likely sailed on the William Tell, leaving Christiania on May 2 and arriving in Quebec on June 18. He settled in Rock Prairie, Wis. and is on the 1860 census. In 1868 Marit sailed on the Emerald with husband Peder and their only child Johannes (Lien).
The clan migrated to Goodhue County in the 1870's where Ole married Miss Eliza Everson on February 7, 1871. Staying there about 9 years, Ole and family moved to Fossum township and resided in Section 33 farming 160 acres until 1914 when declining health mandated a move into Twin Valley. Ole died July 17, 1919 and Eliza died on May 27, 1922. They are buried in unmarked graves lot 14, block 9, in the Twin Valley Cemetery.
Picture: Top Oscar, Julia, Edward Clara, Ole, Eliza, Arthur, Sophia
The Ole Olson Jensveen children;
1. Clara b. 7/16/1871 d. 2/10/1953 Culbertson, MT of Arteriosclerosis
2. Julia b. 4/21/1873 d. 12/11/1943 Plentywood, MT of Mycardial infarction
3. Edward b. 12/18/1878 d. 3/22/1960 Moorhead, MN of Arteriosclerosis
4. Oscar b. 12/18/1878 d. 11/13/1967 Harve, MT of Acute Cardiac Failure
5. Sophia b. 7/12/1882 d. 11/19/1916 Twin Valley, MN of Tuberculosis
6. Arthur b. 1/11/1885 d. 11/2/1968 Plentywood, MT of Cerebro Vascular Disease
Peder died July 4, 1882 and Marit moved into the Jensveen house and is listed on the 1885 state census. Marit died December 15, 1894. Both Peder and Marit are buried in unmarked graves is the Wild Rice Cemetery. Johannes Lien, Ole's 1/2 brother died February 6, 1924 and is also buried in the Wild Rice Cemetery.
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Russell and Eleanor (Ramsey) Jeske
Russell Jeske was born on June 18, 1914 in Springfield, Mn to Ernest and Clairbel (Spielman) Jeske. He moved with his family when he was a year and a half to Twin Valley, Mn. Here he grew up and attended school and graduated with the class of 1932. He was confirmed at Zion Lutheran Church in Twin Valley, Mn. As a young man he worked for area farmers for several years.
Russell and Eleanor were married on July 6, 1941 at Zion Lutheran Church in Twin Valley, Mn. They made their home in section 2 of Flom Township, and farmed with her parents for the first five years. It was during this time they purchased a farm southwest of Mahnomen and it was to become their home. They moved onto this farm in 1946 and remained there until 1985, at which time they sold the farm and moved into Twin Valley, Mn.
Russell worked for Sig Anderson starting in 1960 at the Implement in Mahnomen, which he later purchased and renamed Mahnomen Implement. He retired from the business in 1980.
Russell and Eleanor were active member in their church Wild Rice Lutheran Church, rural Twin Valley, Mn., both having been a part of the church choir. Russell was also active in the Men's Quartet and served many years on the church boards. Russell enjoyed fishing, woodworking, gardening and flowers, he enjoyed sharing his beautiful gladiolus that he grew with the church and many friends.
Russell passed away in 1989 at the age of 74. Eleanor remained in their home in Twin Valley until the late 1990's when she moved into the Normandy Apartments in Twin Valley, after their completion. Russell is buried at Wild Rice Cemetery.
Vincent V. and Anna (Schwartz) Jirava Sr.
Vincent V. Jirava was born on Nov.11,1884 in Otrocineves, in Cze
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