Anne Marie DIGENE

1886 - 1946  (60 years)

• Name	Anne Marie DIGENE
  Birth	4 Mar 1886	Hedalen, Sør-Aurdal, Oppland, Norway
  Gender	Female
  Baptism	10 Apr 1886	Hedalen, Sør-Aurdal, Oppland, Norway
  Washington Death Certificate	182
  Death	21 Oct 1946	Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington
  	Find A Grave says 22 Oct 1948
  Burial	IOOF Cemetery, Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington
  Notes	From notes on Anne Marie Digene on the Johnson website. (As told by Elna Johnson, Fall, 2000) Anne Marie Digene came from Norway with a cousin ( no name known) and traveled to Minnesota to stay with an older sister, Gunhild/Julia in 1903/04. Her father drove her from Hedalen to Oslo with a horse cart. She was just 18 when she came, and pretty adventurous. She came through Castle Garden, where she was checked out for diseases (a story she told for years). She was sponsored by sister Julia. She came to Ellensburg, Washington, and stayed at the Eidal farm. She met her husband-to-be, John David, at Sarah Digene Wold's in their two story house, which is torn down now. She had never seen her sister Sarah (Siri) Digene Belgum Wold, who was 21 years older than her, until she came to the US. Anne's father's brother was the first to come...and that was how Sarah came. Sarah did not move to Ellensburg until after her first husband Belgum died. Anne worked at various jobs around Ellensburg when she first came. (Chris Eidal and Charlie Anderson were friends in Roslyn, And when Anne and John David Johnson were married, they lived and worked at Charlie Anderson's. Later they were sold the 12 acres that is still in the family today, and where Elna, Della, Charlie, and Melvin grew up. The 12 acres was "on the wrong side of the track" for the Anderson farm... Immigration Record: Digen, Anna M. Norwegian, Scandinav. Digene Naerers October 08, 1904 18y 6m F S Ship Adria Christiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway Destination Clarissa, Minn By whom was this passage paid Erik Thompson The manifest for the Adria, which had sailed from Kristianssand on 24 September, agrees with this summary. She was a servant and had $4. Her destination was her sister, “Hullie” E Thompson of Clarissa, Minnesota. She had a ticket to that final destination. In the 1910 census, she is living with her sister Sadie Eidal’s family in North Kittitas Precinct, Kittitas County, Washington. The Eidals don’t live far from Sarah and Peter Wold. John D. Johson lives next door to the Eidals. Died on October 22 according to her death certificate (#182). Her obit, as posted by Alison on Anne Maria’s Find A Grave page: Mrs. Anne Maria Johnson, 60, who lived in the Woldale district for 42 years, died early today at the Ellensburg General hospital. She had been ill for two and a half years. A native of Hedalen, Norway, Mrs. Johnson was a life long member of the Lutheran church. She is survived by her husband, A. D. Johnson; two daughters, Mrs. Della Peterson and Miss Elna Johnson; two sons, Melvin A. and Charles D. Johnson, all of here; a brother, Erick Digene, Norway; and three grandchildren. Funeral services, with the Rev. Luther Strommen officiating, will be held Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the Honeycutt chapel. Interment will follow in the I.O.O.F. cemetery. Ellensburg Daily Record October 22, 1946 page 1
  Person ID	I1761	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2018

  
  

  Father	Mikkel Gudbrandsen DIGENE,   b. 23 Sep 1835, Nederbye Gård, Hedalen, Sør-Aurdahl, Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 19 Oct 1919, Hedalen, Sør-Aurdal, Oppland, Norway (Age 84 years)
  Mother	Marit Eriksdatter DAHLEN,   b. 6 Nov 1845, Bagn, Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway d. 3 Jan 1933, Hedalen, Sør-Aurdal, Oppland, Norway (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	24 Sep 1864	Sør-Aurdal i Valdres, Oppland, Norway
  Family ID	F298	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John David JOHNSON,   b. 6 Feb 1885, Bolg, Satila, Sweden d. 26 Feb 1958, Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington (Age 73 years)
  Marriage	1 Jan 1912	Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington
  	First Lutheran Church
  Children	1. Adella (Della) Marie JOHNSON,   b. 25 Jun 1912, Washington d. 27 Mar 2013, Washington (Age 100 years)   2. Melvin Augustus JOHNSON,   b. 24 Nov 1914, Kittitas County, Washington d. 7 Jun 2008, Washington (Age 93 years)   3. Charles David JOHNSON,   b. 10 Mar 1916, Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington d. 30 Oct 1998, Ellensburg, Kittitas County, Washington (Age 82 years)   4. Elna Margaret JOHNSON,   b. 16 Apr 1919, Washington d. 10 Aug 2016, Yakima County, Washington (Age 97 years)
  Family ID	F1269	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Apr 2007