Oscar (b.1912), patriarch Paul, Eddie (b. 1911), Carl (b. 1922);
Clara (b. 1916), matriarch Kristine, Myrtle (b. 1914).
If photo taken in 1936: Eddie, 33; Oscar, 32; Myrtle, 22; Clara, 20; Carl, 14.
Carl could not have been any younger, but if Carl was 16, then
Eddie and Oscar were 35 and, respectively.
Myrtle Oksol Wilson, 89, Rapid City, died Wednesday, November 19, 2003, at Fountain Springs Health Care in Rapid City.
A prayer service will be held on Friday, November 21, 2003, at 7 p.m. at Kinkade Funeral Chapel, with Pastor LeRoy Flagstad officiating. Visitation will be Saturday from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. at Kinkade Funeral Chapel. Burial will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Wilson Cemetery near Newell, with Rev. Al Jacobson officiating. Family and friends may gather at Kinkade Funeral Chapel prior to leaving for the cemetery or meet at the cemetery. A memorial service will be held Sunday, November 23, 2003, at 2 p.m. at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Rapid City, with Pastor Al Jacobson and Pastor Don Brendtro officiating.
Myrtle was born October 9, 1914, near Castle Rock, SD, to Paul and Christine (Tangvold) Oksol.
She was raised on a farm south of Newell and graduated from Newell High School in 1933. On June 1, 1940, she married Russell Wilson. To this union two children were born, John Paul and Charlotte.
After Russell's death in 1959, Myrtle began a career working for the federal government and later the South Dakota State University at the Newell Experiment Station. When the office moved to the Research and Extension Center in Rapid City, Myrtle moved to Rapid City, and retired after nearly 20 years. She also worked for several years at the Town and Country Ladies Wear in Rapid City.
Throughout her life, Myrtle devoted many hours to church service. She was organist at First Lutheran Church in Newell for over 30 years and she also sang for hundreds of weddings and funerals in the Newell area. After moving to Rapid City, she joined Trinity Lutheran Church and sang with the sanctuary choir for another 30 years. She was active in many church groups including Trinity Lutheran Church Women and Abigail Circle.
She was a Charter Member of Sons of Norway, Borgund Lodge, where she served as the social director and taught beginning Norwegian for several years. She enjoyed spending time with friends and family, dancing, playing bridge and telling Ole and Lena jokes. She was a volunteer at the Chapel in the Hills, wearing her traditional Norwegian Bunad and being photographed with visitors.
Myrtle is survived by her son, John Paul Wilson and his wife, Marlene, Charlotte, NC; her daughter, Charlotte Wilson, Sturgis; one brother, Carl Oksol, Willison, ND; and numerous nieces and nephews, and a wide circle of friends. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, two brothers, and one sister.
East Frisia is a small coastal region in northwestern Germany, bordering the Netherlands.
1. If East Frisia were a country, its annual consumption of tea
at 300
liters per capita would be the highest in the world. But it's not a
country. So, let's ask this question: at 290 liters tea per capita which
country is in first place?
__ India
__ England
__ Ireland
__ Turkey
__ Kuwait
From Wiki, East Frisia.
In an otherwise coffee drinking country (Germany), East Frisia is noted for its consumption of tea and its tea culture.
Per capita, the East Frisian people drink more tea than any other people group, about 300 litres per person every year.
Nearly 75 percent of all tea imported to Germany is consumed in this region.
Strong black tea is served whenever there are visitors to an East Frisian home or other gathering, as well as with breakfast, in mid-afternoon and mid-evening.
The tea is sweetened with kluntjes, a rock candy sugar that melts slowly, allowing multiple cups to be sweetened.
Heavy cream is also used to flavour the tea. The tea is generally served in traditional small cups, with little cookies during the week and cake during special occasions or on weekends as a special treat. Some of the most common traditional cakes and pastries to accompany tea are apple strudel, black forest cake, and other cakes flavored with chocolate and hazlenut.
2. Name the breed of horse Zorro rode in The Mask of Zorro (1998) and The Legend of Zorro (2005).
__ Arabian
__ Friesian
__ Morgan
__ Budweiser Clydesdales
Answer at wiki if I forget to provide answer later.
What else is East Frisia "famous" for?
The birthplace of the Mennonites. Their founder was Menno Simons, 1496 - 1561.
Barbara Flessner:
The German immigrants in the mid- to late-1800s arrived in the US through two different ports: New York and New Orleans.
Initially I assumed the Flessners and the Folkerts
arrived in the US at New Orleans. That was wrong.
The Flessners arrived in the US at New York. It turns out that at least two of the Folkerts arrived via New York, also.
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Steamer Bremen
Bremen, Germany, to New York, New York
May 25, 1868
110 Eilert Folkerts 27 m farmer Germany US
310 Garrels Folkerts 25 m Germany US The given names (Eilert and Garrels) I recognize as in our family tree. *******************************
Link here. SS Herman
Bremen, Germany, to New York, New York
330* Folk Folkerts 26 m farmer Wiesede
331* Taalke Folkerts 28 f Wiesede
332* Folk Folkerts 1m m Wiesede
The given names (Folk, Tallke) I do not recognize as in our family tree.
Until I found this link, I assumed the Flessners and the Folkerts arrived in the US at New Orleans. The German immigrants in the mid- to late-1800s arrived in the US through two different ports: New York and New Orleans.
In this case, the Flessners arrived in the US at New York. It turns out that at least two of the Folkerts arrived via New York, also.
SS America
Bremen, Germany, to New York, New York
September 1, 1869
District of New York -- Port of New York
The home at this address is the house that the Williston Oksol children would remember. We visited Storm Lake perhaps every other or every third summer when growing up..
It was only later, much later, that I learned how lonely mom -- Ruth -- was for Storm Lake. The loneliness of the Dakota prairie is epic. It can drive people insane and it does.
But for mom, I think, loneliness and the Dakota prairie were only two legs of a three-legged emotional stool. The third leg was the desire to share the joy of her four, then five, and finally six children with her parents in Storm Lake. Only in hindsight do I realize that Grandpa Flessner and Grandma Reka did not see their Williston grandchildren nearly enough. And the reverse was true and emotionally, even more difficult. Ruth did not get to see her beloved Iowa enough -- where all her memories were -- growing up on the farm, among too-numerous-too-count German cousins, uncles and aunts; taking the train between Manson and Fonda, a memory that died with Ruth. Even her brother Don does not recall mom taking that train but she must have done it often. It was one of her stories she told later in life when most other memories were fading. When we visited Storm Lake, to the best of my knowledge / memory, Ruth never visited anyone other than her parents. If I understand her history correctly she graduated from high school in Fonda and went to nursing school in Sioux City after that. If that is correct, she never lived in Storm Lake. Her parents would have moved to Storm Lake after she left home.6
Compared to North Dakota, Iowa is a garden of Eden -- longer summers; less severe winters; more green; smaller iconic Norman Rockwell American farms; big lakes; trees and squirrels. And less wind; though more terrible tornadoes.
When the Williston Oksol children visited the house at 711 Elmwood Drive, one of our favorite activities was rushing to the front door of the house or, when we were older, actually running to the end of the street, when we heard the train whistle.
It's funny, but no one ever asked where that train originated or its destination. Only now, when I'm trying to piece Ruth’s history together, do I ask the question.
It turns out the Illinois Central had two main arteries: one from Chicago to New Orleans; and, one from Chicago to Sioux City. I believe the entire system was called the Illinois Central but it was composed of the two main corridors. The north-south line was the Illinois Central, and the east-west line, the Chicago Central, was from Sioux City/Omaha to Chicago. We never even thought of asking if the train stopped in Storm Lake but with a packing plant there, it may have. If not, its stops would have been Sioux City/Omaha, Fort Dodge, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids, Dubuque, and Chicago.
The interesting aspect of that track for me is this: it would have connected Manson and Fonda and that would have been the train Ruth would have taken, visiting her two sets of grandparents, while growing up.
Interestingly, assuming there was a passenger train at the time, Ruth could have also taken the train back and forth between Sioux City and Storm Lake while in nursing school, another question we never thought to ask.
Reka and Ike lived on a short street, Elmwood Drive, that ran north-to-south, off W. Milwaukee Avenue. There were only seven houses on their side of the street between Milwaukee (Iowa Highway 7) and the railroad track. The Flessner house was the third house north from the track.
Sixth Street ran along the track for about a block before it ran into Vestal Street. I've long forgotten but it was probably on Vestal Street, about another block down the street, where there was a very, very small convenience store. At least once a week, during our school-age years, we would walk by ourselves to the convenience store to buy candy from the few coins Reka would give us.
From wiki the Illinois Central Railroad as of 1996, a freight train by then:
