Oline GIGSTAD

1867 - 1954  (86 years)

• Name	Oline GIGSTAD
  Birth	4 May 1867	Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	7 Jul 1867	Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
  	Valders and Jerpen
  Death	7 Feb 1954	Wisconsin
  Notes	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.
  Person ID	I25302	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	2 Jun 2017

  
  

  Father	Ole Knudsen GIGSTAD,   b. 27 Oct 1827, Nord-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 16 Jun 1909, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Ragnild Olsdatter RANUM,   b. 4 Jan 1822, Nord-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 20 Apr 1907, Liberty Twp, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin (Age 85 years)
  Family ID	F18336	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anton Olsen BERGE,   b. 10 Apr 1864, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin d. 27 May 1958, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin (Age 94 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1887
  Children	1. Belinda Rosetta BERGE,   b. 12 Aug 1888, Wisconsin d. 12 Sep 1981, Wisconsin (Age 93 years)   2. Anna Marie BERGE,   b. 3 Jan 1890, Wisconsin   3. Oscar Kenneth BERGE,   b. 23 Sep 1891, Liberty Twp, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin d. 26 Nov 1975, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin (Age 84 years)   4. Albert BERGE,   b. Abt 1894, Wisconsin   5. Ruth BERGE,   b. Abt 1895, Wisconsin   6. Walter Floyd BERGE,   b. 20 Feb 1897, Wisconsin d. 3 Jul 1974 (Age 77 years)   7. Lillian Martine BERGE,   b. 20 Oct 1898, Liberty Twp, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin d. 20 Feb 1996, Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin (Age 97 years)   8. Norman BERGE,   b. 24 May 1900   d. 29 Nov 1964 (Age 64 years)   9. Lenore BERGE,   b. Abt 1903, Wisconsin   10. Orrin BERGE,   b. Abt 1905, Wisconsin   11. Harold R BERGE,   b. 19 Oct 1906, Wisconsin d. 11 Nov 1990 (Age 84 years)   12. Alice BERGE,   b. Abt 1910, Wisconsin   13. Oley Edwin BERGE,   b. 13 Aug 1911, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin d. 2006, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin (Age 94 years)
  Family ID	F17837	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jan 2017