Oscar L SUNDAL

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1968-MN-009153

Notes:

St. Olaf, ‘23.

He is probably the Oscar L. “Sundahl”, public school superintendent, age 31 (?) living in Walkon Village, Isle Harbor Twp, Mille Lacs County, Minnesota, in the 1930 census. The information shown here assumes that. That Oscar’s father was born in Norway and his mother in Minnesota. This Oscar was also a veteran of the World War.

His death certificate gives his occupation as a supervisor for the U.S. Postal Service. He and Lillian, who was the informant for Oscar’s death certificate, lived at 6101 Emerson Ave., N. in Brooklyn Center. Oscar died of pancreatic cancer. He was a veteran.

Died:
North Memorial Hospital, Robbinsdale

Buried:
Section 14, Lot 150B, Grave 1

Oscar married Lillian C HENNINGSON about 1928. Lillian was born on 16 Jun 1911 in Iowa; died on 26 Nov 2002 in Georgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
They apparently married a second time on 21 Aug 1943 in Hennepin County

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Lutheran Pastor (Free Church)

Notes:

Came to the U.S. in 1883 according to one census, 1880 in the 1920 census.

He was a pastor in Crookston in the 1900 census. He was a pastor in Moose Twp, Roseau County in the 1910 census.

He is listed in “The Valdris Book”, a history of the Valdris Samband published in 1920 (available on Google Books), as Rev B L Sundal of Farmington. He was a member of the Samband between 1913 and 1916. Not listed in any of the Valdris parishes in the 1865 Norwegian census.

In the 1920 census, he and his wife and all of his children lived in Eureka Twp. He was a “clergyman, rural church.” Oscar was a farm laborer and Judith was a grade school teacher.

He and Hilda and sons Harold, Gerhard, and Arnold lived in Eureka Twp, Dakota County, in the 1930 census. Berndt was a minister and farmer.



According to his grandsons, Bernt attended Augsburg College in Minneapolis where he was in a traveling music quartet with F. Melius Christiansen. His friendship with Christiansen may have led to Bernt’s four oldest children attending St. Olaf College.

Buried:
Section 14, Lot 150B, Grave 3

Bernt married Sylvina JACOBSON on 22 May 1896 in Chippewa County, Minnesota. Sylvina (daughter of Ole JACOBSON and Jonette A) was born in Apr 1879 in Minnesota; died before 1904 in Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Married:
Bk C - pg 272

Ole married Jonette A. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]