Margaret BYE

1908 - 2004  (95 years)

• Name	Margaret BYE
  Birth	7 Nov 1908	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	4 Feb 1909	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  	She had been baptized earlier at home on November 10, 1908, probably because her survival had been in doubt.
  Confirmation	14 May 1922	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  	Bethlehem Lutheran
  Minnesota Birth Certificate	1908-18515
  Death	25 Jan 2004	Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona
  Notes	No first name shown on birth certificate. Mother’s maiden name shown as Hagen. Spelled Margarette in the 1910 census. She was a student at St. Olaf College at the time of her mother’s death. She graduated from St. Olaf in the class of 1930. Margaret Bye was, apparently, adopted by her uncle after her father’s (and mother’s) death. She is listed as a foster daughter in the obituary for Hans Bye. Her marriage to John Ellingboe was announced in the Northfield News edition of June 1, 1928. Elaine visited the Ellingboes in the middle of August, 1943. The Ellingboes lived in Robbinsdale at that time. Margaret was the informant for her uncle Hans’s death certificate. At that time (late 1946), her address was Richfield Station, Route 4, Minneapolis. Margaret knew that Hans’s parents were Martinus Bye and Olianna Johnson. Margaret and John Sr. moved to Phoenix in 1953 according to their son. Margaret’s obit in the Arizona Republic: Margaret Bye Ellingboe Margaret Bye Ellingboe, Born November 7, 1908 in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, passed away January 25, 2004. Preceded in death by her husband, John Sr., survived by her son, John Jr., of Gualala, CA, and her daughter, Mary Masterson of Phoenix, 7 grandchildren, and 9 great grandchildren. No memorial service is planned. Contributions may be made to Habitat for Humanity, Phoenix Rescue Mission, or Trinity Hospice. (Published in the Arizona Republic from 1/31/2004 - 2/1/2004.) Margaret Bye's father John was one of the charter members of the Trønderlag of America, the bygdelag for the Trøndelag region. John's brother Hans, John's and Hans's uncle Johannes (John) E. Bye, and John's and Hans's uncle Theodor Johnson (all of Fergus Falls) were also charter members. Although they weren't charter members, Johan Nathan Kildahl and his son Harald B. Kildahl joined the lag within its first two years. I suspect that this Trønderlag connection was what led Hans Bye (Margaret's uncle as well as step-father by that time) to send Margaret Bye to Kildahl's St. Olaf in 1926. Hans, having no children of his own, would have had the means to support Margaret's education and may have met Kildahl or known his fellow Trønder was president of St. Olaf. Northfield was quite a ways from Fergus Falls so it would have been unusual (except for the Trønderlag connection) for Margaret to have been sent off to St. Olaf. Mabel’s address book had Jack and Margaret’s address as 2002 W Sunnyside Dr, GH #20, Phoenix, AZ 85029
  Person ID	I140	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2022

  
  

  Father	Johan Edvard Martinusson (John M) BYE,   b. 28 Dec 1869, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway d. 2 Jun 1922, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota (Age 52 years)
  Mother	Grethe Johanna Mikalsdatter (Gertie) HAGA,   b. 20 Dec 1872, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway d. 12 Oct 1926, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota (Age 53 years)
  Marriage	4 Jun 1895	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  Family ID	F100	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	Hans Peter Martinusson BYE,   b. 24 Sep 1875, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway d. 31 Oct 1946, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota (Age 71 years)
  Mother	Marie (Mary) STANGVIK,   b. 6 Nov 1874, Stangvik, Møre og Romsdal, Norway d. 15 Jul 1941, Otter Tail County, Minnesota (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	22 Apr 1900	Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota
  Family ID	F99	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John Leverne ELLINGBOE, Sr,   b. 12 Jul 1905, Northfield, Rice County, Minnesota d. 10 Feb 1998, Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona (Age 92 years)
  Marriage	21 Nov 1927	Rice County, Minnesota
  	per MOMS, another source has their marriage location as Eau Claire
  Children	1. John Leverne ELLINGBOE, Jr,   b. 3 Nov 1929, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota d. 31 Dec 2022, Sea Ranch, California (Age 93 years)
  Family ID	F1684	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Apr 2010