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19081

She lived with the Eivind Bye family for several years and graduated from Fergus Falls high school. She met and married her husband while they were in the military.

She lives in Metairie, Louisiana. She accompanied her cousin Diane to the 2008 Trønderlag Centennial in Fergus Falls. Minnesota.

An article from September, 2005, regarding survivors of Katrina:

Bonnie Clavijo, a 1940 graduate from Fergus Falls High School is one of them. At 83 years old, Clavijo has ridden out every storm and hurricane that has blown through Metairie, La. for the past 59 years, according to her cousin, Diane Machande, another Fergus Falls graduate. But Hurricane Katrina refused to be reckoned with, and Machande said her cousin was forced to evacuate her condo for the first time when flooding started engulfing the city the day after the hurricane hit. Not too far from New Orleans, Metairie was one of the cities that suffered great damage from the hurricane. Machande said Clavijo, a widow, was helped by a friend's daughter. The three were some of the last in the city to drive out by car, Machande said. They were able to reach an airport where they took a flight to safer ground in Virginia. "I was just so glad she was able to tell me she is safe and sound," Machande said. "When people get to that age it makes it difficult. The tension is greater for an old person in this situation." Machande said Clavijo did not know the state of her home, but Machande said her condo is on the third floor so hopefully some of her belongings will be spared.

From a Baton Rouge newspaper article of December 7, 2012:

Four Women Veterans of Louisiana members spoke about their experiences in the military during World War II on Oct. 13 at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

Geneva Johnson, Army; Bonnie Clavijo, Coast Guard; Lillie Clark, Army; and Vera Nuschler, Marines, participated in the event to educate the public about what women do in the military. Also attending the event were Vietnam-era members Ramona Hudson, Navy; Shirley Avants, Army; and Anna Sanders, Air Force.

Women Veterans of Louisiana members serve as honor guards at the funeral of any woman veteran in Louisiana.

Her daughter, Peggy Rockey, accompanied her mother on an Honor Flight out of Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 10, 2015:

Bonnie Clavijo stood and waved proudly when the Coast Guard Hymn was played at the Bixby High School auditorium.

The World War II veteran from Bartlesville was the only member of that branch of service on the Honor Flight roster.

Clavijo, one of the first female members of the Coast Guard SPAR, originally had enlisted in the Navy.

When the call went out for volunteers she made the change.

The first assignment was the Coast Guard Office off Charleston, S.C. and the new members were quickly challenged when they had to find their own quarters.

“I had a high school education and two years world experience at that time,” she said. “I grew up in a hurry. If my folks who lived in the midwest had known why was going on they probably would have come to get us.”

Parental actions would not have been permitted since Clavijo and others had enlisted for three years.

Future enlistees would have living quarters available, but Clavijo and her colleagues were permitted to stay in their original accommodations.

Clavijo said her Coast Guard training was extended three weeks beyond that of her Navy counterparts.

The reason, she said was they had to learn the meaning of SPAR, the Coast Guard motto The Latin and English translations are Semper Partus! Always Ready!

Her rank in the Coast Guard was Y2C.

LAMPORT, Bonnie Rae (I14235)

19082

She lives with her parents in Lowell in the 1870 census.

In the 1880 census, she and her husband and her parents live in Methuen in Essex County, Massachusetts. The farmhand Melvin Farrell is included in their household.

HAND, Mary F (I19215)

19083

She married Allard E Stevens in Chippewa County in 1981.

NORMAN, Ann Rachel (I38268)

19084

She married Andrew E Johnson in January of 1928 in Mason City.

ANDERSON, Gyda Elise (I29270)

19085

She married Charles Nicklaus in Wisconsin in 1968. She was still married to him and living in Freeport, Illinois, at the time of her father’s death in 1976.

She was Carol Jahn, wife of Marshall, of Freeport, Illinois, at the time of her brother Virgil’s death in late 2004.

SEVERSON, Carol Jean (I42250)

19086

She married Cyril Isaac Holaday in Nevada on 3 Apr 1934.

RICHARD, Fanchon (I36582)

19087

She married Dan Rafferty in Great Falls, Montana, on 6 Oct 1951 and was the divorcee Laura Rafferty at the time she married John Lalim. In her marriage certificate, that first marriage is shown as ending in California in 1952. Both of her parents were born in Russia.

She had two children, a son and a daughter, with John Lalim.

POLESCHOOK, Laura (I31243)

19088

She married Earl Jay Lasseson twice and divorced him twice. The second marriage was in Hennepin County on 19 Feb 1977. The second divorce was in Hennepin County on 22 Jul 1982.

BIEGEL, Jane Brace (I28444)

19089

She married Edwin Martin Schelde in Goodhue County on October 30, 1895. He died in January of 1905. She and Edwin had one daughter, Mildred, b. 28 Oct 1899 in Mower County.

Went by Susie.

Mrs. Karen Susanna Lykken, 86, died Tuesday noon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Alfred Lundberg. Funeral services are set for 1:15 p.m. Friday in Anderson mortuary and at 2 p.m. in the Vang Lutheran church with Rev. B. J. Blikstad officiating. Interment will be in Vang cemetery. Pallbearers are Carl Underdahl, T. Gerhard Haugen, Arthur Hegland, Franklin Thoreson, Ingram Gaasedalen and Ori Ims. Karen Talla was born in Wanamingo township on Sept. 17, 1869, her parents being John Nelson Talla and Ollegaard Heltne Talla. She went to public school and attended St. Olaf college for a short time. Mrs. Lykken was a member of Vang Lutheran church. Two daughters survive, Mrs. Mildred Lewis, Dennison and Mrs. Alfred Lundberg of Northfield, with whom she had lived the past 11 years. Two grandchildren also survive.

TALLE, Karen Susanna Johannesdatter (I29552)

19090

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

HOMEIER, B.J. (I20333)