John BJERTNESS

Family/Spouse: Louisa. Louisa was born in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1935-MN-011299

Notes:

In the 1900 census she had had 9 children, 6 still living. She came to the U.S. in 1880. In the 1910 census, as Marie, she had had 12 children, 6 still living. She had come to the U.S. in 1863.

In the 1920 census, she is probably the Marie Johnson living with her daughter Judy and some woman named Ella at 323 somewhere (probably Washington Avenue, see below) in Fergus Falls. Judy is a clerk in a dry goods store.

In the 1930 census, she and her daughter Judith L. and granddaughter Edith are living in Fergus Falls at 323 Washington Avenue.

In the 1935/36 Fergus Falls city directory, she is listed as Mrs. Mary C. Johnson, died July 5, 1935, age 74.

The informant for her death certificate was Mrs. Elias Pederson who was probably her daughter Judith. Mary’s residence at the time of her death was 323 Washington Avenue. Mary died of uterine cancer.

Birth:
other sources say 1863

Mary married Carl Henrik Johannessen (Charles) JOHNSON on 17 Mar 1881 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Carl (son of Johannes Hansen ØREN and Gürü Halvorsdatter NESS) was born on 13 Dec 1851 in Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; was christened on 4 Apr 1852 in Stiklestad, Verdal, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 28 May 1916 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 1 Jun 1916 in Norwegian Lutheran Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1963-MN-014803
• Baptism: 2 Mar 1884, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota

Notes:

He was an apprentice carpenter in the 1900 census.

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, he lives with his parents and works for the J M Bye and Co.

In the 1905 Fergus Falls directory, she was Miss Hilga L and was employed at the State Hospital.

A 21 year-old Gust Johnson, both parents born in Norway, was listed as a nurse at the state hospital in the 1905 state census.

Cecil Johnson of Pelican Rapids was the informant for his death certificate. Gustaf was a car man for the Great Northern Railway. Gustaf was a widower and his usual residence was 1006 Sheridan Street in Fergus Falls. He died of uremia and kidney failure.

In the 1910 census, he and Helga live in Devils Lake, North Dakota. The couple had been married for 2 years and had had no children. Gust was a tin smith in the “shops.” According to the birth record for Alice, he was a coppersmith.

In the 1920 and 1930 censuses, he and his wife and son lived in Minot, North Dakota. Gust was an air man for the steam railroad.

His obit noted that he was a carman for the Great Northern Railway for 41 years, and a member of the railroad carmens and pensioners association.

Birth:
His obit said 2 January.

Died:
Lake Region Hospital

Buried:
buried with Helga

Gustave married Helga L BYE on 19 Jun 1907 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Helga (daughter of Henry Hendrikssen BYE and Lena Christena SEVERSON) was born on 21 Sep 1881 in Minnesota; died on 8 Oct 1951 in Ward County, North Dakota; was buried in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Gustave married Johanna GREFSRUD on 25 Apr 1961 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Johanna was born on 14 Jul 1887; died on 7 Aug 1961 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1902 Fergus Falls city directory, he lives at home with his parents but is employed by his father’s brother’s meat market. He is not listed in the 1905 directory.

He registered for the draft in San Diego on June 5th, 1917. He lived with his wife and child at 1543 7th in San Diego. He was a self-employed attorney with his office at 218 Owl Building in San Diego. He claimed 20 months of previous military service as a private in a hospital company in the U.S. Army. He was described as of medium height, slender build, with blue eyes and black hair.

In the 1910 census, he and his wife and son lived in Coronado City where he was a solicitor for a retail grocery concern.

In the 1920 census, he and his wife and son lived in San Diego. He was a criminal lawyer.

In the 1930 census, he and his wife and son lived at 3445 32nd Street in San Diego in a house that they owned. Edwin was an attorney.

From a highly affected profile of Edwin Johnson written about 1960, as posted with The Johnson Family Tree on Ancestry:

After coming to San Diego in 1907 his first appearance by name in the city directory was as "Teamster, Coronado Beach Company."  A few months later he was helping internationally famous Glen Curtiss build his first hydroplane on North Island.

The Johnsons lived on South Island. North Island and Coronado were connected by a very thin strip of sand.  The inlet on the bay side, protected on north and south by the two larger "islands", and by the sand strip from the open sea on the west, was known as Spanish Bight.  Here, Curtiss experimented with flying boats.

When Ed was 15 years old he was through grammar school and was working in his home state of Minnesota as a "printer's devil." Before E.L.J. came to San Diego, at the age of twenty two, he had just completed two years in the army.  Before that, in addition to printing-office experiences, he had been a miner in the Black Hills and a farmer.

As a young teamster in San Diego, working for John D. Spreckels and others who were developing Coronado, Ed Johnson kept a copy of Blackstone's commentaries under the seat of his wagon.

Law practice for the senior Johnson commenced in 1911.  It included the successful defense for murder charged against one of his former bosses of the Coronado Beach days; also experiences as deputy district attorney from 1923 to 1926. His most interesting case was the one written up in "Master Detective" in 1950.  The facts, which had occurred 27 years before, concerned a successful prosecution in San Diego of a first degree murder charge without the availability of a corpse. The victim had just disappeared--forever.

Birth:
other sources say November 1885

Edwin married Loretta Wilhelmina ACHENBACH on 2 Sep 1907 in San Diego County, California. Loretta was born on 6 May 1887 in Meade County, South Dakota; died on 29 Jul 1952 in San Diego County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Still living at home in the 1910 census.

Died:
Lake Region Hospital

Buried:
This cemetery may also be known as Zion Lutheran Knollwood Memorial Gardens, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota.

Constance married Peter J BARRY on 27 Feb 1918 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Peter was born on 14 Mar 1892 in Minnesota; died on 21 Jul 1960 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried in Knollwood Memorial Gardens, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1968-MN-007084

Notes:

Still living at home in the 1910 census. Living with her widowed mother in the 1920 census. Judith is a clerk in a dry goods store.

In the 1930 census she is the widow Judith L. Moe living with her mother and daughter at 323 Washington Avenue in Fergus Falls.

In the 1941/42 Fergus Falls city directory, as the widow of Elias, she is Judith L. living at 116 Bancroft Avenue East.

She was the informant for Elias’s death certificate.

According to her obit, she was a cashier at the J. C. Penney store for many years.

Referred to as Judith L in her daughter’s obit.

Buried:
apparently as Judith Moe

Judith married Robert S MOE on 29 Jun 1920. Robert (son of Paul MOE and Augusta Maud OLSON) was born on 30 Jun 1893 in Hanska, Brown County, Minnesota; died on 24 May 1929 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 27 May 1929 in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Judith married Elias PEDERSON on 5 Sep 1933 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Elias (son of Peder PEDERSON and Anna ERICKSON) was born on 14 Jun 1865 in Namdalen, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway; died on 25 Oct 1939 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried on 28 Oct 1939 in Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Doesn’t seem to be listed in the 1905 state census but she is listed in the 1910 census.

In the 1905 state census she is listed with the household of her aunt and uncle: Theodore and Martha.

One source refers to her as Geda Eletta.

An obit:

Mrs. Geda E. Moe, 85, 116 E. Bancroft, died Friday, July 23, at Lake Region Hospital. Services are scheduled for 10 a .m. Wednesday, July 28, at Zion Lutheran Church with Rev. James Armstrong officiating. Burial will be in Bethlehem Lutheran Cemetery.

The daughter of Charles and Mary (Bjertness) Johnson, she was born July 16, 1897, in Fergus Falls. A life member of Zion Lutheran Church, she was baptized and confirmed there. On Dec. 1, 1917, she married Phillip J. Moe. The couple moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa, and she resided in Iowa while her husband was stationed in the military service there during World War I. She returned to Fergus Falls when her husband was sent overseas. Also spending a time in Wisconsin, she resided in Fergus Falls most of her life.

Her husband died in September 1978.

She had served as president of the ladies aid at Zion Lutheran Church, had been president and treasurer of the Pioneer Home Sunshine Society and was a member of the World War I Barracks Auxiliary. She was moderator of a local Saturday morning radio program, "The Christian Woman Speaks."

Surviving are a son, Phillip J. Moe Jr., Campbell, Calif.; two daughters, Mrs. Otto (Ruth) Kvernstoen, Fergus Falls, Mrs. Dwain (Nancy) Tollefson, Crookston; 16 grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren; several nieces and nephews.

Visitation is this evening and all day Tuesday at the Olson Funeral Home, continuing at church one hour prior to services Wednesday morning.
 

Geda married Phillip Johannes MOE on 1 Dec 1917. Phillip (son of Paul MOE and Augusta Maud OLSON) was born on 19 Oct 1894 in Hanska, Brown County, Minnesota; died on 22 Sep 1978 in Cass County, North Dakota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Ancestry trees call her Louise Camilla.

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1916-MN-010169

Notes:

The informant for her death certificate was her sister, Constance Johnson. Ruth’s residence when she died was 323 Bismark Avenue in Fergus Falls. She died of tuberculosis complicated by “la grippe.”

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1910-18396
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1910-MN-009338

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2005-MN-037412
• Occupation: Lutheran pastor

Notes:

Of Pelican Rapids at the time of his father’s death in 1963.

By 1970, he was Bishop Cecil Johnson, bishop of the Northern Minnesota District of the ALC.

His obit, from Find A Grave:

The Rev. Cecil M. Johnson, 87, Eventide Lutheran Home, Moorhead, died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2005, in the nursing home.

Mr. Johnson was born Nov. 24, 1918, in Minot, N.D., where he grew up and graduated from high school in 1935. In 1940, he earned an education degree from Minot State University. From 1940 to 1941, he taught high school in Zahl, N.D. From 1941 to 1943, he worked for Lockheed Aircraft, Los Angeles. On Dec. 24, 1941, he married Eleanor Granstrom in Appam, N.D. He served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1943 to 1946. He graduated from Luther Seminary, St. Paul. From 1949 to 1956, he served at a four-point parish in Starkweather, N.D. He then served at a two-point parish in Pelican Rapids, Minn., until 1969. He received an honorary doctorate from Concordia College in 1969. From 1969 to 1981, he served as district president (bishop) of the northern Minnesota district of the American Lutheran Church. He worked for Oak Grove (Minn.) Lutheran High School from 1981 until his retirement in 1983. She died in 2004.

He is survived by a son, The Rev. Timothy (Susan), Anoka, Minn.; two daughters, Kathryn Benson, Moorhead, Sita (Norman) Johnson, Richfield, Minn.; eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Visitation: Monday from 5 to 7 in Wright Funeral Home, Moorhead, and Tuesday from 10 to 11 in Trinity Lutheran Church, Moorhead.

Funeral: Tuesday at 11 in the church.

Died:
Eventide Lutheran Home, a nursing home

Cecil married Eleanor Delphine GRANSTROM on 24 Dec 1941 in Williams County, North Dakota. Eleanor was born on 18 Dec 1917 in North Dakota; died on 10 Oct 2004 in Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota; was buried on 14 Oct 2004 in Prairie Home Cemetery, Moorhead, Clay County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Lawyer

Notes:

Called Ashley C. and listed as living at home with his parents in the 1930 census. He had no occupation.

In the 1940 census, he was C. Ashley Johnson, an attorney in San Diego. He and Janet had no children.

Charles married Janet Ethel GANS on 30 Apr 1932 in Yuma County, Arizona. Janet was born on 9 Oct 1910 in New York; died on 22 Dec 1997 in San Diego County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1939/40 Fergus Falls city directory, she was a high school student.

Elaine married Wallace Lester ROBERTSON on 11 Oct 1947 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Wallace was born on 23 Dec 1924 in Minnesota; died on 22 Apr 1982 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried in Knollwood Memorial Gardens, Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2009-MN-026275

Notes:

Born Edith Marilynn.

In the 1939/40 Fergus Falls city directory, she was Marilynn Moe, high school student, living at 116 Bancroft Avenue East. In the 1941/42 Fergus Falls city directory, she is E. Marilynn Moe, living with her mother at 116 Bancroft Avenue East.

Her obit:

Marilynn M. Lee, 86, of Woodbury, Minn., and formerly of Fergus Falls, died Saturday, Sept. 12, 2009, at the Woodwinds Hospital in Woodbury.

She was born March 21, 1923, in Fergus Falls, the daughter of Robert S. and Judith L. (Johnson) Moe. She grew up in Fergus Falls, graduating from high school in 1941. She attended the University of Minnesota, receiving her B.S. in 1949, and her Masters in Social Work in 1951.

On Dec. 28, 1950, she married Owen M. Lee at Zion Lutheran Church in Fergus Falls.

Marilynn was employed with the Wilder Foundation in St. Paul from 1951 to 1988 as a social worker. She was serving as Vice-president and Division Director of Children’s and Family Services at the time of her retirement in 1988.

During World War II she held a technical position with the FBI in Washington, D.C., for three years.

She was formerly a member of the National Association of Social Workers.

Marilynn enjoyed playing piano, music, reading, and playing golf in her younger years. She especially enjoyed entertaining friends and relatives at their home on Lake Superior, near Lutsen, Minn.

Survivors include her husband, Owen M. Lee of Woodbury; a stepbrother, Luther Pederson; two stepsisters-in-law, Marian Pederson and Margret Pederson; 10 nephews and nieces; and many grandnieces and nephews.

Preceding her in death were her parents, Robert and Judith Moe; her stepfather, Rev. Elias Pederson; her grandparents: Charles and Mary Johnson, and Paul and Marie Moe; two stepbrothers, Reuben Pederson and Morton Pederson; and a stepsister, Henrietta Pederson Bye.

Memorial Service: 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 3, at Zion Lutheran Church in Fergus Falls
Clergy: Rev. Marv Abrahamson
Interment: Oak Grove Cemetery, Fergus Falls
Funeral home: Olson Funeral Home in Fergus Falls

Birth:
Fergus Falls

Died:
Woodwinds Hospital, Woodbury

Marilynn married Owen M LEE on 28 Dec 1950 in Fergus Falls, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2005-MN-014865

Notes:

In the 1935/36 Fergus Falls city directory, she is a high school student living with her parents at 111 W Vernon Avenue. In the 1937/38 Fergus Falls city directory, she has no occupation and lives with her parents at 621 Union Avenue South.

She graduated from Fergus Falls High School in its class of 1937.

Ruth (Moe) Kvernstoen, 86, Fergus Falls, died May 12, 2005, at the Lake Region Hospital Skilled Nursing Facility.

She was born Jan. 13, 1919, in Fergus Falls, arriving in time for the great cyclone of 1919. She married Otto in 1939, and with characteristic optimism, bore 4 children. Her children still struggle to make her optimism warranted. Although a town girl, she adapted well to life on the farm, near Dalton, where she lived until 1979, then moving to Fergus Falls, where she lived at 619 East Summit for 26 years. She worked for 20 years at the Pioneer Home, and made many friends there.

She was a person of many interests, talents, and friends, all three categories too numerous to mention in entirety. Interests included poetry (reading, memorizing, and writing), crochetting, music, her dog Brie, and voracious reading. She liked nothing better than sitting down with a good book and "a little something" to eat. If there are murder mysteries and Racko tournaments in Heaven she will be happy there.

To all her many friends: she would regret leaving without saying goodbye to all of you. She will be greatly missed by many. It is hard to express our loss. Fortunately, we have tears.

She is survived by her children: David Kvernstoen, Kristie (James) Martinka, Constance (Bernard) Adams, Steven Kvernstoen and wife Orapan Footrakoon; grandchildren: Matt and Sara Martinka, and Tina, Kari, and Joel Adams; and sister Nancy (Dwain) Tollefson.

She was preceded in death by her husband; parents; brother Phillip; and her beloved hearing-ear dog, Brie.

Visitation: Monday from 5 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home and will resume one hour prior to the service at the church on Tuesday.

Service: 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Zion-Sarpsborg Free Lutheran Church in Dalton

Clergy: Revs. Steve Carlson and Dennis Norby
Burial: Sarpsborg Cemetery in Dalton
Funeral Home: Olson Funeral Home, Fergus Falls
 

Ruth married Otto Martin KVERNSTOEN on 1 Jan 1939 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Otto (son of SAGENG) was born on 8 Aug 1910; died on 20 Dec 1988 in Otter Tail County, Minnesota; was buried in Sarpsborg Cemetery, Tumuli Twp, Otter Tail County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1941/42 Fergus Falls city directory, he is a high school student.

In the 1950 census, he worked in a college bookstore in Menlo Park, California.

In the 1955 city directory for San Jose, he was an engineer. He received a degree from Stanford in 1951.

Phillip married Mary ADDLEMAN on 4 Jun 1949 in Santa Clara County, California, and was divorced in Apr 1970 in Santa Clara County, California. Mary was born on 5 Mar 1930 in Cook County, Illinois; died in 2005 in Santa Clara County, California. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]