Saturday, August 12, 2023

Christine Tangvold -- Mrs Paul Oksol -- Paternal Grandmother -- Obituary

Highlights:
  • spelling of her first name: Christine
  • b. Trondheim, Norway, March 31, 1880
  • arrived US, 1905; first settled aat Zumbrota, MN
  • married to Paul Oksol, April 15, 1911 in Minneapolis, MN
  • moved to Newell, SD; homesteaded that sprring, 1911
  • five children: Edward, Oscar, Myrtle, Clara, and Carl
  • Belle Fourche Hospital, following 10-day illness
  • First Lutheran Church, Newell, SD
  • Reverend K. A. Knutson officiating; Mrs Knutson, organist
  • Wilson cemetery south of Newell, SD
  • pall-bearers: three sons, two sons-in-law; one nephew
    • Edward, Oscar, and Carl
    • Russell H. Wilson, Raymond Wald
    • Jerome Viseth

When I read the names of Russel Wilson and Raymond Wald, tears come; those were the "good years."




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