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18931

She was still at home with her parents and siblings in the 1900 census and the 1905 state census.

In the 1920 census, as Francis Vorwerk, she is a 41 year-old boarder with the Luke Toole family in Rose Twp, Ramsey County. She is listed as single and works as a clerk in an office.

In the 1940 census, she is Frances M Ward, age 60, an inmate at the “Anoka State Hospital (Insane Asylum).” Five years earlier, she had lived in St. Paul. She had an eighth-grade education.

Frances died at the Anoka State Hospital where she had been an inmate for five-and-a-half years. The death certificate showed that she was married but her husband was unknown. She died of tuberculosis and had been institutionalized due to “psychosis.” Frances had been a stenographer in her earlier life and had lived in St. Paul.

MAYER, Frances (I4854)

18932

She was still Diane, “at home”, at the time of her parents’ 25th wedding anniversary in 1965.

Diane Merz, died Friday, Aug. 15, 2014, at her home, under hospice care, with her family by her side.

She was born January 16, 1950, in Fergus Falls, the daughter of Marvin and C. Evelyn (Lerbakken) Toso. She attended school in Fergus Falls, graduating in 1968. Following high school, Diane attended Fergus Falls Community College.

On Nov. 15, 1969, she married Eldor Merz at Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Fergus Falls.

She was employed in the legal department of Otter Tail Power Company in Fergus Falls, for 45 years.

Diane was a member of Zion Lutheran Church, Fergus Falls and served on the council. She enjoyed quilting, reading, baking, sewing, knitting, and flower gardening. She was a former member of the Elizabeth Lions Club.

Her father, Marvin, preceded her in death in 2003.

Survivors include her husband, Eldor; children, Corey Merz, Tyler (Janice) Merz, and Brady (Naomi) Merz all of Fergus Falls; grandchildren, Zach, Madisin, Jazmyn, Kaelyn, Mackenzie, James, John, and Anna all of Fergus Falls; her mother, C. Evelyn Toso of Fergus Falls and a sister, Marlene (Vance) Johnson of Foxhome.
Memorials are preferred to Zion Memorial Fund or Lake Region Healthcare Cancer Care and Research Center, Fergus Falls.

TOSO, Diane Luann (I9411)

18933

She was still living at home in the 1940 census. She was single and was stenographer for a school paper.

The Thursday, October 18, 1945, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that “Mrs. J.B. Orfald, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Cartwright and daughter, Linda, of Biwabik visited with the John Eversons Tuesday.”

The Thursday, August 21, 1947, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that “Mr. and Mrs. Henry Norton of Chicago, Mrs. Arthur Cartwright and Mrs. J. B. Orfold of Biwabik visited with Mrs. Anne Everson and John Everson on Thursday.”

The St. Louis County Death Index records the death of an Edna Elizabeth Cartwright in Aurora.

Of Biwabik at the time of her sister Ruth’s death.

Not in SSDI.

Her obituary was published on p. 7B:3 of the December 2, 1978, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune:

Edna Elizabeth (Arthur) Cartwright, 66, Biwabik, died Thursday in an Aurora hospital. Surviving, besides her husband, are two daughters, Linda (Russ) Norha, Wayzata, and Shirley (Rich) Czarniecki, Harvey, Illinois; a brother, Robert Orfald, Virginia; three sisters, Jennie Goodman, Biwabik, Myrtle Lehto, Wichita, Kan., and Mabel Croon, Chicago, and four grandchildren. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Sunday in Range Funeral Home, Virginia. Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday in Community United Church of Christ, Biwabik. Burial will be in Lakeside Cemetery, Biwabik.

ORFALD, Edna Elizabeth (I569)

18934

She was still living with her mother in Willmar Twp at the time of the 1940 census.

HAGEN, Myrtle Grace Bernice (I26048)

18935

At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.

CLARK, M. (I16204)

18936

She was still single and living at home in the 1910 census. She was a music teacher.

She and her husband lived in Minneapolis at the time of the 1920 census. He was a stock clerk at a music store.

She and her husband and two sons lived on Lyndale in north Minneapolis in the 1940 census, the same house in which they all had lived in 1935. Howard was a buyer for Schmitt Music Company.

She survived her sister. She lived in Minneapolis at the time of Zoe’s death.

At the time of her death, she lived at 4235 17th Avenue in south Minneapolis.

OLSON, Mabel Ethel (I31621)

18937

She was Sylvia Gentz when she married Kenneth Toso.

HAGEN, Sylvia Elaine (I17041)

18938

She was the 19 year-old Severina Flaten arriving at Quebec aboard the S.S. Vancouver on 27 April 1896. She was Norwegian, her passage was paid by her sister, and she was traveling to see her uncle, Erick Flaten, of Cyrus in Pope County, Minnesota.

In the 1910 census, she was shown to be born in Minnesota. In the 1920 census, she was born in Norway and had come to the U.S. in 1896. Same in 1930.

FLATEN, Anne Severine (I7669)

18939

She was the 25 year-old Miss Julia Thompson of Thompson, North Dakota, when she married Knute J Holien.

Her divorce from Knut was a big deal in Grand Forks when the trial began in February of 1913. She claimed that Knut had beaten her, called her vile names, drenched her with milk, and threw a pitchfork at her. In the divorce, she was granted custody of two of her three children. In October of 1913, she asked for custody of that other child, John, then 6 years old.

The custody battle may not have succeeded. In the 1920 census, only her daughters were living with her.

In the 1940 census, she was Julia Anderson.

THOMPSON, Julia (I28618)

18940

She was the daughter of August and Clara Rice Gerber.

GERBER, Clara (I17930)