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1391

Also called Lotte or Lottie.

Possibly, she is the “Charlotte Tel” recorded in the WHS genealogical index as born in Marathon County on 11 July 1886.

According to Roger, who has seen Charlotte’s death certificate, she died from pernicious anemia.

DIETL, Charlotte L (I7946)

1392

Also called Mari Roarsdatter Kvamme.

At the time of the 1900 census, she had had six children, all still living.

Called Maria in the 1910 census, at which time she had had 14 (?) children, ten still living.

According to the Dalby database, her parents were “Roar and Anna Kjos Quam-Qvamme-Quamme.”

Funeral services were held at the Vang Lutheran church, Saturday, March 30, at 2 p.m. for Mrs. Mary Rauk, who passed away at the Gaylord Hospital in Gaylord, Minn., Wednesday, March 27, at the age of 92 years. The Rev. B. J. Blikstad officiated. Mrs. Blikstad sang "O God Of Mercy" and "Tenk naar engang", accompanied by the church organist, Mrs. Cyrus Midje. A poem, "Life", composed by Jennifer Frettem, an 11 year old grandchild of Mrs. Rauk was read. Pallbearers were Robert Larson, Rodney Rauk, Charles Meyer, Stanley Arndt, Mayold Frettem and Charles Anderson. She was laid to rest in the Vang Cemetery. Mary Rauk was the daughter of Roar and Anna Kjos Quam. She was born Dec. 29, 1871, in Holden Township, Goodhue County. She was baptized and confirmed by the late J. N. Kildahl. She was united in marriage to Knut Rauk in 1890. They established their home on a farm adjoining that of her girlhood home in Holden Township, where she lived until 1932. She then moved to Kenyon, where she has since resided. Her husband died in 1927. Ten children have also preceded her in death. She is survived by eight children, Mrs. Lester (Sophia) Larson, Hans, Sigurd and Raymond of Nerstrand; Carl of Vermillion, S. D.; Mrs. Willard (Agnes) Meyer of Winthrop, Minn.; Mrs. Martin (Mildred) Westermo, Madison, Wis. and Mrs. Charles (Thelma) Rumpf, Denver. She is also survived by 16 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren. She was a life-long member of the Vang Lutheran church and took a keen interest in her church and community. She was a gold star mother.

QUAMME, Mary (I13708)

1393

Also called Mary Anderson.

GUSTESON, Mary Clara (I32280)

1394

Also called Mathew Ostensen.

In the 1900 census, he was Mathew Ellingboe (mis-indexed as Ellington), a house painter living in Stoughton with his wife Maggie and their daughter Minnie. They also housed three boarders.

On August 14, 1903, he attempted to beat his wife to death and then kill himself by hanging. As the headline to the story in the State Journal says, he failed at both. The article says that he was jealous of his wife and had been drinking heavily recently although witnesses said he was not drunk when he tried to murder his wife. The article also said that he “has a wife and one child, a married daughter, and the family conducts a boarding house on the corner of Fourth and Main Streets in Stoughton.

He called himself, and signed himself, “M.A. Ellingbo” in documents related to his first wife’s estate.

In the 1910 census, he was Matthew M Ellingbo, a house painter living in Stoughton with his second wife Anna. They also have six lodgers.

Seems to be referred to as Nels Ellingbo in a few brief articles in the Janesville Daily Gazette in 1917.

An article in the April 22, 1922, edition of the Capital Times notes that communication with Northfield had been received of the death of Matt’s brother John. The article mentions a sister of Matt and John, Mrs. Jens Cold, also of Stoughton.

In the 1930 census, he and Andrina were living in Stoughton. Matt was a carpenter.

Matt Ellingbo inherited $6,000 from the estate of his wife Andrena, an extraordinary sum in 1934. Also named in her will: $50 to the Martin Luther Orphan’s home, $50 to the United Lutheran Church for mission work in China, and $100 each to Mrs. Emma Eggum, Chicago, Emma Iverson, Dunkirk, and Josie Ruer, Stoughton.

Attending his funeral were his niece and nephew, Bertha Ellingboe Gunderson and John Ellingboe of Northfield. An obit in the Capital Times says that he was the last survivor of “the family of Johan and Margaret Ellingbo, Stoughton pioneers of covered wagon days.”

ELLINGBOE, Mathias (I2661)

1395

Also called Mt. Faith Cemetery. The cemetery is located off Mt. Faith Avenue. Buried with her first husband as Karen S. Wold Bye.

OLSON, Karen Sophie (Sophie) (I1216)

1396

Also called Sonja J Mattson, perhaps erroneously.

Her parents were Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Watson of Aspinwall.

In the 1951 Ames, Iowa, city directory, she was a librarian at ISC. She and John L lived at 565 Pammel Court.

Her engagement to John Ellingboe was announced in the Pittsburgh newspaper in August of 1951. She was a senior at Carleton College at the time.

Her address was 6179 S Elati Street, Littleton, Colorado.

Sonya Ellingboe was still living in Littleton as of 2009 and was manager of Colorado Community Newspapers.

An “about me” published in January of 2018 in coloradocommunitymedia:

I was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1930. My mother was an art teacher and my dad taught economics. We moved to Pittsburgh, and my dad taught at the university there for the rest of his career.

There was a lot of art in our lives. My mother would take me to museums, and my dad would bring me books.

I met Jack Ellingboe in college, and we were married right after I graduated. I worked in a library until our son John was born. In 1956 we moved to Littleton so Jack could work at Marathon Oil. Back then, we said they paid salaries in scenery — you could make more money elsewhere, but it was just so beautiful here.

We bought a home in Aberdeen Village. The streets weren’t paved yet — Ridge Road and County Line were still dirt.

Jack served on city council, and we had four children together: John, Kirsten, Karen and Bruce. My life was pretty much feeding kids and schlepping them around. I still took time out to get a babysitter so I could go to the art museum, or I would take a class or something so I could talk to big people.

We opened a book store called Bookhouse in 1970. Jack and I divorced in 1981, and I had to close the bookstore in 1986 because the big box stores were carrying the new best sellers for what I was paying wholesale.

My friend Gretchen Peacock invited me to work at her new newspaper, the Littleton Times. I was like the office manager, but I started writing about the arts too. Sometimes we were up until 3 in the morning doing pasteup. The Healeys bought the paper in the early 1990s, and folded it into the Littleton Independent.

Watching Littleton get more creative and encouraging the arts was what fired me up and still does. I remember suggesting to city council that we spend 1 percent of the budget on art, like Denver does, and they were absolutely horrified.

I sat on the Fine Arts Committee at Bemis Library, and later helped start the Town Hall Arts Center. Hudson Gardens was another important thing for me. Evelyn and King Hudson were close personal friends of mine.

Family is important to me, and so is making art accessible to as many people as possible. I feel my mission in writing stories isn’t to slam something, but to get people off their sofas to go see it.

Littleton has changed so much, but I’ve been involved in much of it.

I get nostalgic about old things that get overwhelmed, but I think we need to be changing and gaining.

I hope I’m remembered as someone who encouraged people to participate in what pleases them. Getting involved in your community makes a huge difference in how your life proceeds.

Be open to new ideas, even if you sense pretty fast you won’t agree. Keep listening. I’m not big on advice — I’ve been a joiner, and I recommend it.

She retired from Colorado Community Media in the fall of 2023.

From Colorado Community Media:

Sonya Ellingboe, a longtime Littleton resident and beloved community activist widely known for her decades of writing about arts and culture in Colorado Community Media newspapers, died Feb. 22, 2025, at age 94.

Ellingboe was born Sonya Joyce Watson on July 9, 1930, in Columbus, Ohio, to economics professor Jesse Paul Watson and art instructor Elizabeth Joyce Watson. The little family moved soon after to Pittsburgh, where Ellingboe grew up and began her love of art and reading, influenced by her parents and “a really super art teacher in high school,” as she recalled in a 2018 biographical interview with Colorado Community Media.

Ellingboe got her bachelor’s degree in visual art from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, where she met St. Olaf College student John “Jack” Ellingboe. They married after she graduated from college and she then lived in Ames, Iowa while her husband got his doctorate in analytical chemistry at Iowa State University and the first of their children was born.

The young couple wanted to live in Colorado, and Ellingboe recalled how a college connection helped her husband arrange an interview with Littleton’s Marathon Oil operation, where she said the company was “paying salaries in scenery.” They moved to Littleton in 1956 and lived there except for a couple of years at the Marathon home office in Ohio in the mid-1960s. They raised their four children in Littleton’s Aberdeen Village neighborhood before divorcing in 1981.

“I had four children in six years, which can tell you pretty well what my life was like,” Ellingboe said of her time as a busy young mother, but from her earliest days in Littleton she began her community engagement by joining the League of Women Voters, going to museums and classes, and creating pottery in a local studio “to talk to big people.

Ellingboe’s love of reading was a big part of her life, which she shared with others by working as a librarian in Iowa in the 1950s until her first child was born in 1955, and later by buying The Book House bookstore in Englewood’s Brookridge shopping center in 1970, then moving the store to a house on Littleton’s Curtice Street near Arapahoe Community College. “I moved it from Brookridge to an old house across from ACC, which had been a dream of mine from when we were in Ames, where there was a woman who had a bookstore in an old house,” she recalled.

Ellingboe operated The Book House until competition from chain stores led her to close the business in 1986. With her lifelong love of books remaining strong, she then returned to work as a librarian, spending the next couple years with Jefferson County’s Columbine Library.

In 1988, Ellingboe began her career as a writer, first for the Littleton Times and then the Littleton Independent and its sister papers in the Colorado Community Media chain. Her writing career lasted 35 years until her retirement at age 93 in September 2023.

Even after health issues led her to retire, Ellingboe remained active in book clubs and kept a stack of books at hand to read along with The Denver Post, The New York Times and the Littleton Independent. She also continued to attend local artistic performances.

Through her years in Littleton, Ellingboe was active in many community organizations and cultural amenities and played a founding role in some. They included the League of Women Voters, Bemis Library Fine Arts Committee, Town Hall Arts Center, Littleton Business Chamber, Commission on Human Rights, Littleton Fine Arts Guild, Hudson Gardens and Event Center, Friends of the Library and Museum, Littleton Garden Club and Historic Littleton Inc.

“Most of the time we’ve been here I’ve been involved one way or another with something going on in Littleton … I get nostalgic about old things that get overwhelmed but I think we need to be changing and gaining,” Ellingboe recalled in the 2018 interview.

“I’ve been a joiner, I guess,” she added with her signature bright laugh. “I recommend it.”

Ellingboe’s career as an arts and culture writer was marked by the positivity and encouraging tone of her coverage. “Family is important to me, and so is making art accessible to as many people as possible,” she recalled. “I feel my mission in writing stories isn’t to slam something, but to get people off their sofas to go see it.”

In December 2023, the Littleton City Council approved a Local Historic Landmark Designation for the house on Curtice Street where Ellingboe had her bookstore for many years, and in January 2024 the Littleton Arts and Culture Commission named Ellingboe as the first-ever recipient of the City of Littleton Arts and Culture Award, with a ceremony honoring her held in March 2024. This year, the Littleton Independent received funding from the city’s Arts and Culture Grant Program to support coverage of arts and culture in Littleton and the south metro area, in honor of Ellingboe.

Ellingboe is survived by son John (Page Hartwell) Ellingboe, daughter Kirsten (Al) Orahood, daughter Karen (Peter Krasnoff) Ellingboe and son Bruce (Cindy) Ellingboe; half-sister Anne Redmond; four nephews; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

No public memorial service is planned, as family members note their gratitude for the many celebrations of Ellingboe’s life while she was alive.

“I hope I’m remembered as someone who encouraged people to participate in what pleases them,” Ellingboe said in the 2018 interview. “Getting involved in your community makes a huge difference in how your life proceeds.”

She added: “Keep moving — that’s my other advice — as long as possible.”

WATSON, Sonya Joyce (I143)

1397

Also called Tollef Helgrim.

At the time of the 1865 Norwegian census, he was an unmarried 32 year-old shoemaker living on the large (#20) Ellingbø nordre farm.

Had daughter Sigri with Randi Olsd. Ellingbøe ("Bakste-Ragndi") in 1859.

Emigrated 14 April 1866, age 32, unmarried.

In the 1885 Iowa state census, he (as “F.H.” or “T.H.”) and his family live in Newburg Twp, Mitchell County, Iowa. Their farm is shown as the south half, NW corner of Section 6, Range 18.

He was a farmer named Tollef Ellingboe, living in Deer Creek Twp, Worth County, Iowa, in the 1895 Iowa state census.

He was L. H. Ellingboe (maybe T. H.) , still in Deer Creek Twp, in the 1900 census. Sarah and Julia were no longer at home.

ELLINGBØE, Tollev Helgeson (I2914)

1398

Also called Wilde.

GLEISNER, Eulalia Helen (I2103)

1399

Also called, by some sources, Marie Cecile. Other sources say that Mary Blanche had another child named Marie Cecile by another man named Alfred Joseph Poudrier.

Probably called Marian S. in the 1920 census.

May be the Stella M. Lemay, born about 1909, who died in Wenatchee, Washington, on 11 Mar 1992.

LEMAY, Stella Igatinia (I5630)

1400

also Corley

CORLEW, Charles M (I31498)