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16611

Or Floyd Lewis.

St. Olaf, ‘27.

Physics and math instructor at Hamline in later ‘30s. Involved in a chemical plant explosion in St. Paul on 27 November 1938 in which he another worker “barely escaped with their lives.”

He and Bernice lived at 1001 E. 80th Street in Bloomington at the time of Susan’s marriage.

LEIDAL, Floyd Louis (I12337)

16612

Or Frances.

In the 1909 Minneapolis city directory, she is Frances Fautsch, a telephone operator for the Northwestern Telephone Exchange Co, boarding at 1616 N E 2nd Street.

She is a telephone operator in the 1910 and 1920 censuses. Still living at home with her mother in the 1930 census. She was a telephone operator at a hotel.

According to her death certificate, she had been in Minneapolis for 45 years, was single, and worked in the commercial department at Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. She died of pneumonia brought on by lung cancer. The informant for her death certificate was her brother, Edward W Fautsch of 1616 2nd Street NE.

FAUTSCH, Francis V (I13317)

16613

Or Frances.

Most trees in Ancestry have him dying 5 Aug 1963 in Fargo, North Dakota. That death, for that named person, is not in the North Dakota Public Death Index.

A very close Johnson _is_ listed in the North Dakota Death Index. However, that Johnson is Walter L Johnson, buried in the Memorial Park Cemetery in Grand Forks, North Dakota. That Walter, according to Find A Grave, was born 21 Oct 1911 and died 5 or 6 Aug 1963. The North Dakota Death Index says that he died 6 Aug in Grand Forks County, also his county of residence.

Mother’s maiden name Turpin. (Francis’s mother’s mother, Julia Turpin, b. ca 1860 in Minnesota, lived with Francis’s parents, Oscar and Clara Johnsons, in Mahnomen in the 1940 census. Julia’s _original_ maiden name may have been Fogard or Martin.)

He was single and living with Oscar and Clara Johnson in Mahnomen, Mahnomen County, in the 1930 census.

His mother Clara was born in Minnesota, his father Oscar in Sweden. His mother was Chippewa Indian. (Mahnomen County is entirely within the White Earth Indian Reservation.)

In the 1920 census, he was the 8 year-old “daughter”, Francis A Johnson, living with his parents (Oscar E, 41, and Clara M, 35) and siblings (Leslie, Eugene, Eunice, Eloner, Antonett, and James B in Mahnomen in Mahnomen County. (Eunice, b. 7 Aug 1909 in Mahnomen County, had a mother whose maiden name was Tarfin.)

Leslie L and Eugene E lived with their mother Clara M, 26 and a widow, in Mahnomen County in the 1910 census. The surname for all three was Varty. (For Leslie and Eugene, at least, it probably should have been Broekert.) In addition, a daughter Eunice A Johnson, age 9 months, also lived with Clara. Clara was of the Chippewa tribe, as was her father and mother, but was considered ? white. The childrens’ fathers were white so the each of the three children were considered 15/16 white.

JOHNSON, Francis Atwood (I15746)

16614

Or Fred Julius.

In the 1930 census, he and Kathrine lived on his father’s farm in Chippewa County. Fred’s parents were born in Switzerland.

In the 1940 census, he and his family were mistakenly indexed as Ruberts. In that census, Fred and his family live with his brother Charles (who is designated head of the household and indicated as the owner of the farm) on the family farm in Wheaton Twp, Chippewa County, Wisconsin.

He farmed in the town of Wheaton until retiring in 1981.

ROBERTS, Fred Jules (I13583)

16615

Or Fylken.

FOLSTIEN, Thuri Nilsdatter (I40817)

16616

Or Georgine Sylvie. Called Georgine in the 1940 census. She had an 8th grade education.

MORTENSON, Sylvie Georgine (I5784)

16617

Or Gerald or Jerrold. Called Gerald in the 1940 census.

Died before his sister Elizabeth.

ISAACSON, Earl Jerrald (I21499)

16618

Or Gerhard Abraham.

As Andrew G, he and his wife and two oldest children lived in Cannon Falls at the time of the 1950 census. He was a service man for a retail hardware store.

As Gerhard, he was living in Cannon Falls at the time of his brother Ludvig’s death.

SOINE, Abraham Gerhard (I7991)

16619

Or Gigstadt.

In the 1900 census, she had had 8 children, all still living. In the 1910 census, she had had 12 children, all still living.

Mrs. Anton O. Berge, 86, of Rt. 1, Valders, mother of 13 children, died Sunday following a lingering illness.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Valders Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Rev. A. B. Holland will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery.

She was born Olena Gigstadt in the town of Liberty in 1867 and in 1887 was married to Anton Berge. They located on the homestead farm, a mile and a half south of Valders. In October, 1952, the couple observed their 65th wedding anniversary. In 1935 her husband was honored at the University of Wisconsin, with four others in the state, in recognition of leadership given to agriculture and homemaking.

In recent years the couple lived in retirement on the homestead farm now operated by a son, Oley. Mrs. Berge was a member of the Ladies Aid Society of the Lutheran congregation. Surviving are her husband; seven sons, Oscar of Elmhurst, Ill., Albert of Rt. 1., Valders, Walter of Valders, Norman of Manitowoc, Orrin of Sheboygan, Harold of Milwaukee and Oley on the home farm; six daughters, Mrs. Belinda Klann of Liberty, Mrs. J. B. Reinertson of Riverside, Ill., Mrs. Ruth Bleck of Valders, Mrs. Kenneth Johnston of Manitowoc, Mrs. M. L. Berge of Elgin, Ill., and Mrs. Harold Gramm of Chicago; 34 grand-children and 29 great grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Berge Funeral home, Valders, after Wednesday noon. The casket will be moved to the church at 11 a.

GIGSTAD, Oline (I25302)

16620

Or Glaseman. Or Glasman. It was Glasmann in her obit.

Ramona Wohlwend, 101, of Moorhead, MN, died Sunday, July 10, 2016, in Sheyenne Crossings, West Fargo, ND.

Ramona Glasmann was born in Pequot Lakes, Minnesota where she grew up and graduated from high school in 1932. She attended both St. Cloud Teaching College and Moorhead State University. She received her Masters degree from North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND in 1958. She taught school in Brainerd, Swanville and Frazee, MN, where she met and married Neil Wohlwend, the football coach, in 1939. He was commissioned into the Navy and while he served in the Atlantic Theatre, she ran a Government Nursing School in Norfold, VA. Following WWII, they returned to Moorhead where her husband was the head football coach at Minnesota State University, Moorhead. He later was a partner in Sportland sporting goods store in Moorhead. He died in 1978.
Ramona taught in Fargo Public Schools from 1951 – 1982 and was elected an Outstanding Teacher in 1974.

Ramona has been a member of the First Congregational Church in Moorhead since 1949, where she served as Sunday School Teacher and Superintendent. She was also appointed to servce on the Religious Education Board, the Diaconate Board, and the Memorial Committee.

She was a member of the Alpha Delta Kappa Sorority, servicing as President of both the local and North Dakota State Chapters. Ramona also belonged to the A.S.T. Association for Student Teachers and, here too, she was President of both the local and North Dakota State Organization.

Ramona loved being on the MSUM Alumni Board and NCATE National Council of Accreditation of Teaching Education from 1972-1974. This National Board was made up of teachers selected from all over the U.S. She was a lifetime member of N.E.A. She taught for 38 years and was an active member of the Fargo Retired Teachers Association as well as a member of P.E.O. Chapter CO of Moorhead.

Her travels took her to Africa, Canary Islands, Bermuda, Mexico, Canada, Hawaii and Alaska and she was so proud of having been in all 50 states.

Ramona is survived by one son, Dr. Charles Wohlwend, Pueblo, CO; and a grandson, Dr. Joseph Wohlwend, Pueblo, CO; and granddaughter, Kari Faye Daniel Yamane, Detroit Lakes, MN; and two great-grandchildren, Connor and Danica Yamane.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Ethel and Alexander Glasmann; a baby brother, Keith; her husband, Neil; and sister Faye Strong.

GLASMANN, Ramona M (I29117)