Lars OLOFSSON

Notes:

Died:
per Pether Sjödin’s tree on Ancestry

Lars married Kristina Sofia NYGREN on 6 Jun 1808 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden. Kristina (daughter of Olof NYGREN and Kristina Eriksdotter) was born on 8 Jun 1785 in Mo, Nordmaling, Västerbottens län, Sweden; died on 14 Apr 1869 in Lögdeå, Nordmaling, Västerbottens län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Took over father's farm.

Died by drowning. Church records indicate a very good man, "punctual and final(?)." ("punkt å slut.") Punctual to the end?

Lars married Kajsa Stina JOHANSDOTTER on 17 Jul 1843. Kajsa was born in 1817. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Listed in the Household examination for Logdea 1816-1825 as Brita Stina.

Listed in the Household examination for Logdea for 1826-1835.

Not listed in the Household examination beginning 1836.

Brita married Jacob NILSSON in 1835 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Catrina in the church record for her birth.

Family/Spouse: Per JAKOBSSON. Per was born on 8 Dec 1814; died in 1900. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Lögdeå

Family/Spouse: Lars JAKOBSSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: LECHE. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Bonde (farmer) in 1870, Hemmansegare (owning farmer) in 1890
• Baptism: 20 Jun 1830, Västerbottens län, Sweden

Notes:

Johannes in his birth record in the church book.

Johan Larsson and Sara Lindström apparently inherited the Lindström farm. At the time of the 1890 Swedish census, Johan and Sara and their children Lars, Henrik, and Katarina were residing in Mjösjö, in the parish of Nordmaling, in the county of Västerbotten.

In the 1880-1890 period, the family resided in Mo in Nordmaling.

In 1870, their residence was referred to in the census as Mo. They lived there at least for the period of the 1863-1872 Household Examination.

At the time of the 1870 census, the family had a maid residing with them named Lovisa Knutsdr, born in 1845.

Birth:
Lögdeå; 1890 residence: Mjösjö, Västerbotten county

Died:
Mo

Johan married Sara Katrina LINDSTRÖM on 17 Jun 1855 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden. Sara (daughter of Henrik Johan LINDSTRÖM and Anna Maria NILSDOTTER) was born on 30 Jun 1828 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden; died on 17 Oct 1893 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Lögdeå, Ångermanland

Died:
Ava, Ångermanland

Family/Spouse: Olof MATTSSON. Olof (son of Matts OLOFSSON and Maria Margareta ANDERSDOTTER) was born on 8 Mar 1835 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden; died on 22 Jun 1900 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Olof Petter LEVANDER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Anna Amalia Margareta. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Johan is indicated as having some kind of defect in the census entry for 1870. (There is also something noted for him in the 1863-1872 Household Examination and in the parish death record.) This defect was probably the reason he died young.

Birth:
presumed place of birth ... not listed in 1890 census

Notes:

"Moved out" (off the farm? to Bjurholm?) November 17, 1886. She received a letter from her brother Gust in the U.S. that was dated 1 December 1886 and which he had addressed to Soffia Amanda Larsson, Mo, Nordmaling.

A letter from a family member in Sweden gives her last name as Ulander.

She probably died from complications of childbirth.

Birth:
presumed place of birth ... not listed in the 1890 census

Died:
Sofia Öman says she died in Bjurholm Provåker

Family/Spouse: Karl Jonas ULANDER. Karl was born on 19 Apr 1862 in Bjurholm, Västerbottens län, Sweden; died in 1945. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Mo

Died:
Mo

Notes:

Shown with the surname Landström in the 1880-1890 household exam when the family lived in Mo. He is the only family member with that extra surname. Two others have an extra surname: his mother (Lindström) and his brother Henrik August (Berglund).

His 1890 residence: Mjösjö, Västerbotten county.

Apparently inherited the Larsson farm May 1, 1891.

Died:
in Mo as Lars Olov Landström

Lars married Johanna Kristina LÖFGREN on 22 Jun 1893 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden. Johanna was born on 4 Feb 1860; died on 6 Mar 1931 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Seems to have moved away from the family in Mo in 1884 because there is a dated entry for him in the Flyttad column. Nevertheless, there are continuing entries in the household exam annual census portion through 1890.

Shown with the surname Berglund when the family lived in Mo in 1880-1890.

Sold his farm July 31, 1901, and moved to Hyngelsböle and bought a new home. He died as Henrik August Berglund at Hyngelsböle of lung inflammation (probably pneumonia and/or tuberculosis).

Birth:
1890 residence: Mjösjö, Västerbotten county

Henrik married Anna Karolina LINDSTRÖM on 1 Jul 1894 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden. Anna was born on 5 May 1870 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden; died on 16 Aug 1923 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1928-MN-003223
• Occupation: Farmer
• Baptism: 17 Sep 1865, Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden

Notes:

Gustaf Jacob is how it’s spelled in the födelsbok.

Or Gustave Jacob, the spelling used on his wedding invitation.

A 16 year-old Gustav Landström arrived at Ellis Island on 10 Oct 1881 on the Mosel.

Emigrated to the US from Sweden May 27, 1884, at the age of 18. EmiHamn shows him emigrating 5 Jun 1884, departing Malmö, destination New York. Emigranten Populär shows him leaving Göteborg, destination Duluth, on 8 Jun 1898. Gust was traveling with his sister Johanna. The pair are shown in the St. Albans border crossings as arriving at the port of Quebec on June 22nd aboard the S.S. Lake Superior which had left Liverpool on June 11th.

He apparently spent some time in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, after arriving in the U.S. in the 1880s.

He may be the August Landstrom, laborer, “boarding” at 537 Garfield Avenue in Duluth in that city’s 1890-91 city directory.

In the 1891-1892 Duluth city directory, he is Gustave Landstrum, bridgebuilder for F T Harrington, who boards at 707 Garfield Avenue.

In the 1892-1893 Duluth city directory, he is Gustav J Landstrom, laborer, who boards at 121 Park Avenue.

He is not listed in the 1893-1894 Duluth city directory.

In the 1894-1895 Duluth city directory, he is Gustav J Landstrom, car operator for the Duluth Steam Railway, who rooms at 2531 West 2nd.

He is not listed in the 1895-1896 Duluth city directory. There is, however, in the 1896 Superior city directory, a Gustav Landstrom, laborer, living at 1807 Butler. There is an Adolph Landstrom, carpenter, residing at the same address.

In the 1896-1897 and in the 1897-1898 Duluth city directories, he is Gustav Landstrom, car operator for the Duluth Steam Railway, who rooms at 2609 Huron.

In the 1898-1899 Duluth city directory, he may be the Gustaf Landstrom, laborer, boarding at 2018 West 4th. That is the last Duluth city directory in which he is listed.

Settled in Crow Wing County in 1897. The 1900 census shows Gust as having a mortgage on his land in 1900 but the 1910 census shows that the land is owned free and clear.

“In recounting the early settlers of Deerwood Township, one must also remember G.J. Landstrom and A. Johnson. They purchased railroad land in section 35 on Shirt Lake where they helped each other build log homes and barns. In the 1890s, they returned to Sweden to bring their families to the new land. Mr. Landstrom’s son, Carl, recalled helping his father clear the land of stumps, which were mixed hardwoods with some pine. The Landstrom family farm at one time had one of the highest testing dairy herds [the milk testing high in butterfat content] in Crow Wing County, although their place became known as Landstrom's Berry Farm.”

The Landstrom land consisted apparently of 120 acres of the NW corner (all but the SW corner of the NW corner) of Section 34 on the west end of Shirt Lake in Deerwood township. (The 1913 Crow Wing County plat book says the Landstrom property was in Section 35.)

“The Landstroms were members of the Swedish Baptist Church organized June 1, 1884. In November of 1903, one acre of ground on the south shore of Hamlet Lake was donated by John Heglund and a church was built on this lovely site overlooking the lake. This Hamlet Lake Baptist Church was used for 45 years by the congregation.”

Minnesota death certificate #1928-MN-003223 issued in Crow Wing County for LANDSTROM, GUST JACOB for death date 10/28/1928.

Obituary from the Crosby Courier:

Gust J. Landstrom Passes Away Sunday

Gust J. Landstrom of Deerwood township, passed away at his home on Shirt Lake Sunday, Oct. 28 after suffering from a heart ailment for several months.

Mr. Landstrom was born in Normaldling, Vesterbatten, Sweden, on Oct. 10, 1865. At the age of seventeen years, he came to America, settling in Minnesota near Duluth. In 1898 he came to Deerwood, buying his farmstead at Shirt Lake.

He is survived by his wife, Clara Landstrom, two daughters, Naomi and Mabel, and a son, Carl. One daughter, Helga, passed away in March, 1927.

The funeral services were held on Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 31 at 1:00 p.m. from the home and 2:00 p.m. from the Hamlet Lake Baptist church. He is deeply mourned by his family, relatives, and friends.

In the 1900 census, “Gustaf” is 34 (born Sept 1865) shown as living with his 33 year-old sister "Johanna" (born Feb 1867). This must be Katrina Johanna whom we know came over to the US in 1898 (as is confirmed on the census form). She is indicated as having an occupation but the handwriting of the census-taker is illegible. It may be "housekeeper." She is shown as being able to read and write but not able to speak English. Gust emigrated in 1884, Johanna in 1898.

In the 1905 state census, he (as August), 40, and Clara, 26, are carefully entered, and indexed, as Landström. He had been in Minnesota for 17 years and 8 months and in the present enumeration district for 7 years and 1 month. She had been in Minnesota for 3 years and 2 months and in the present enumeration district for 3 years.

In the 1910 census, Gust and Clara are indicated as having been married 6 years at the time of the census-taker's visit on May 2, 3, or 4. This would indicate that they were married between June of 1903 and May of 1904. They immigrated in 1884 and 1902, respectively. Clara's occupation is indicated as "Farm Laborer."

In the May 30, 1912, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune, is an article describing the formation of The Hamlet and Shirt Lake Telephone Company. The officers are Alfred Johnson, president, Alfred W. Heglund, vice-president, F. V. Berglund, secretary, and Gust J. Landstrom, treasurer.

The Landstroms in the 1920 census:

Landstrom, Gustav J., owns property, no mortgage, age 54. Year of immigration looks like 1884. Year of naturalization is illegible. Occupation is farmer, general.

Clara, age 41, year of immigration 1902. Year of naturalization is illegible.

Helga, age 14, attended school.

Nomie J., age 13, attended school.

Mable A., age 10, attended school.

Carl S., age 8, attended school.

The 1930 Census was taken about April 2nd by Arthur Mattson. By this time, Gust had died.

Clara, head, owner, radio set in the household, age 52, widowed, married at age 27. Emigrated in 1902; a naturalized citizen. Occupation is farmer on farm.

Naomi J., daughter, age 23, single {!}. Occupation is teacher in rural school.

Carl E., son, age 18, single. Occupation is laborer on farm.

He died of chronic endocarditis and myocarditis which he had had for 2 years. A complicating factor was senility. His doctor was Baxter A Smith of Crosby. The informant for his death certificate was his wife Clara who didn’t know Gustaf’s mother’s name and thought that Gustaf’s father was named Ole Landstrom.

Birth:
his obit and Mabel’s birthday date book show October 10th

Gustaf married Klara Andersdotter WALLBÄCK on 5 Nov 1904 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Klara (daughter of Anders JONASSON and Kajsa JANSDOTTER) was born on 19 Jan 1878 in Olsäter, Öfre Ulleruds, Värmlands län, Sweden; died on 18 Nov 1959 in Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; was buried on 22 Nov 1959 in Deerwood Scandia Cemetery, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1942-MN-026739

Notes:

Listed as “Cathrina” in the 1870 Swedish census.

Emigrated to the U.S. on May 18, 1898, at the age of 31. Emigranten Populär shows her brother Gustaf leaving Göteborg, destination Duluth, on 8 Jun 1898. Gust was traveling with his sister Johanna. The pair are shown in the St. Albans border crossings as arriving at the port of Quebec on June 22nd aboard the S.S. Lake Superior which had left Liverpool on June 11th.

Shown as living with her brother Gust at the time of the 1900 census. She is shown as being able to read, write, and speak English.

According to MOMS, she married as Katrina Johanna Lindstrom.

In the 1910 census she had had 3 children, all three still living.

In the 1920 census she was a 52 year-old widow who had come to the U.S. in 1898. She was living with her four children on their farm in Grand Lake Twp.

In the 1930 census she was a 63 year-old widow living with her two younger sons on their farm in Grand Lake Twp, St. Louis County, Minnesota.

In the 1940 census, she lived with her son Albin and his family in Grand Lake Twp.

Her son David/Daniel built a general store in Saginaw that she ran until her death. She is not shown as having any occupation in the 1940 census.

The informant for her death certificate was Albin O. Kohs of Saginaw who had no idea who her parents were. She was the widow of Daniel when she died. She had been in the community for 41 years. She died from heart disease.

The author of her son Albin’s obituary thought that Hannah’s maiden name was Engman.

Birth:
1890 residence: Mjösjö, Västerbotten county

Katrina married Daniel KOHS on 31 Dec 1903 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Daniel (son of Daniel KOHS and Louisa) was born on 13 Nov 1866 in Germany; died on 31 Jan 1917 in Grand Lake Twp, St. Louis County, Minnesota; was buried on 4 Feb 1917 in Canosia Cemetery, St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Ava, Ångermanland

Family/Spouse: Maria Christina GUSTAVSDOTTER. Maria was born on 19 Aug 1864 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jonas Daniel JONSSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Olof Albert ERIKSSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

She was a school teacher. She never married. Her husband-to-be died of a heart attack before they could marry.

Lived in Bjurholm.

In a letter to Naomi dated March 3, 1974, she mentions that she lives with Gullan and Stig.

In her visit notes, Naomi says, “Came to Bjurholm in the evening. Had more coffee. Cousin Alma is 85 and lives upstairs in 4 big rooms. She is slightly crippled and deaf.”

Notes:

He and his wife had 6 children, one of whom died at age 14. It’s likely that this is more accurately stated as they had seven children, one of whom died at age 14.

It seems likely from Naomi’s notes that those 6 children may have included sons Rune and Sigurd and daughters Gullan and Doris. Gullan seems to have been the wife of Stig Åberg. The Åbergs seem to have had a daughter Lena and a daughter Margaretta. Naomi’s notes and a letter from Alma show that Gustav’s daughter’s daughter is Margaretta, a teacher and the wife of Mertil Melin.

Birth:
Provåker

Family/Spouse: Selma Johanna Jonasdotter KARLSSON. Selma was born on 21 Feb 1897 in Sävar, Västerbottens län, Sweden; died on 22 Jan 1994 in Umeå, Västerbottens län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Provåker

Died:
Provåker

Notes:

She and Arvid had three sons.

She may be the Ester Edlund who corresponded with Naomi. There was also an Irene Edlund who may be Ester’s daughter or daughter-in-law. Irene’s children are Alexia and Johannes. Irene lives in Vännäs.

In her notes of her visit, Naomi says, “Saw cousin Ester. She is a card.”

Later, a Tuesday, “Went to Vannäs to call Ester. Inger, her son, came and got us too. Had coffee and enjoyed their place. Felt very welcome. Ester is my cousin and is a card. Lives in a home.”

Birth:
Provåker

Family/Spouse: Jonas Arvid EDLUND. Jonas was born on 1 Sep 1893 in Bjurholm, Västerbottens län, Sweden; died in 1970 in Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Supposedly died with his mother one day after birth. According to the death records, he was born and died on the same day and his mother died four days later.

Died:
Provåker

Notes:

“Died” in notes Naomi made.

Family/Spouse: NORBERG. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Purchased farm in May of 1921.

Lived in Mo. Johannes gave Naomi directions to his town. The nearest train station to Lögdeå is Nyåker. Drive up E4 to Västerbotten, Lögdeå is a mile north of the frontier of Västerbotten or 6 miles north of Örnsköldsvik in Västernorrland.

Naomi Landstrom Everson visited with Johannes during her trip to Sweden. The address that she had for him was Johannes Landstrom, 91003 Lögdea.

Died:
per Lars Lindh’s Släkten Lindh tree on Ancestry

Olov married Axelia Emerentia f. LÖFGREN on 22 Jun 1921. Axelia was born on 1 May 1895 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden; died on 19 Oct 1979 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Or Thyra. In the death records as Tyra.

Naomi Landstrom Everson visited with Thyra during her visit to Sweden. Naomi had Thyra’s address as Sjuk hemmet, Nordmaling 91001.

Naomi, in the notes for her visit, said, “We went to see Thyra who is in a wing for the aged. She is very rheumatic.” Thyra would have been in her 70’s, only a little older than Naomi. A few days later: “We went to see Thyra. This time she was radiant and we enjoyed the visit.”

Notes:

A Signe Berglund, b. ca 1896 in Sweden, arrived in New York on 17 Jun 1938.

Signe is listed in the Swedish Death Index so she must have died in Sweden.

Notes:

Died:
at Hyngelsböle of consumption

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Birth Cert Checked: Y
• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1905-05684
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1927-MN-003140
• Occupation: Teacher

Notes:

Helga graduated from Crosby-Ironton High School in the class of ‘24 whose commencement services were held on Thursday night, May 29, 1924. Also graduating in that class was Lillian Everson (#50). And graduating from the Crosby-Ironton normal school for teachers in that same commencement program was Eva M. Gustad (#135).

Lillian Everson and Helga knew each other well enough that Lillian wrote the following Christmas greeting to Helga, probably for one of the Christmases between 1924 and 1926: “A Merry Xmas & a happy New Year Mrs. Ske-- pardon me, I mean Helga. Lovingly, Lillian Everson.”

Helga probably also attended, and graduated from, the one-year normal school in Crosby-Ironton High School and would have graduated with the class of 1925, the same class as her sister Naomi’s high school class.

Taught for one year (1925-1926) in school district number 20 near her home. Entered St. Cloud state teachers' college in the fall of 1926 but had to drop out at Christmas time due to her developing heart ailment.

Died of a congenital heart ailment. DeAnn quotes Jackie: “Helga was the eldest, born with a heart condition. Diagnosis was far ahead of treatment. The parents were told that Helga would die of her heart condition in early adulthood. Yet her parents sent her to Normal school to study to be a teacher.”

Minnesota death certificate #1927-MN-003140.

Her birth certificate calls her “Hilga” Landstrom. Her mother’s maiden name is shown as “Walbeck.”

Extensive article and obituary in the Deerwood Enterprise, Friday, March 11, 1927.

Her father Gustaf was the informant for her death certificate. She died of myocarditis, which she had had for 3 months and for which she was treated by Dr. Baxter A Smith of Crosby. The death certificate also said that she had “patent foramen ovale” which she had had since birth.

Buried:
Funeral at home and at the Hamlet Lake Baptist church. Reverend Paulson of Grasston, officiating.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1906-05586
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1986-MN-014799
• Occupation: Teacher
• Social Security Number: 528-38-4627 was issued in Utah before 1951.
• Confirmation: 15 Jun 1958, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

Naomi was still living at home with Klara and Carl, and shown as single, at the time of the 1930 census in early April. Naomi would have been 6 months pregnant with Ron at that time.

David recalls: “After we moved away from Cedar Lake [in 1943], my mother went back to teaching there. She continued to teach there until 1948 when the WWII vets started coming out of college and the standards for teaching were raised to a four-year degree. She went back to college during the winter quarter of 1950 and accumulated enough credits to get her certificate renewed. She continued to go to summer school every year and eventually got her degree after all of her children had graduated.”

Naomi taught grades 1-8 in District 90, Crow Wing County, in the 1926-27 school year. She then taught grades 1-8 in District 20 for the three years 1927-28 through 1929-30. She then taught grades 1-8 in District 27 in the 1930-31, 1932-33, and 1933-34 school years (she apparently did not teach during the 1931-32 school year). She then resumed teaching grades 1-8 in District 90 for the four school years 1944-45 through 1947-48. After two years of not teaching (part of which was spent attending two semesters at the University of Minnesota in Duluth), she taught grades 1-8 for two years in District 102 in Aitkin County (1950-51 and 1951-52). From the 1952-53 school year through the 1954-55 school year, she taught grades 1-6 in District 34 in Crow Wing County. For the three school years starting in 1955, she taught grades 1-6 in Independent School District 4 in Lawler, Minnesota. For one year only, the 1958-59 school year, she taught grades 1-3 in Tamarack, Minnesota. Finally for the seven school years beginning in 1959 she taught special classes in McGregor, Minnesota. Lawler, Tamarack, and McGregor were all in Independent School District 4 in Aitkin County. She apparently retired in 1966. Over the forty year period between 1926 and 1966, Naomi taught in 27 school years.

Naomi attended elementary school, 1911-1920, in District 20, Crow Wing County. She attended Crosby-Ironton High School and graduated with the class of 1925. She attended the high school training department at Crosby-Ironton in the 1925-26 school year. She attended Duluth State Teachers College in the summer of 1928. Between 1950 and 1960 she took correspondence courses, summer workshops, and summer sessions at the Bemidji and Mankato teachers colleges and at the Duluth and Twin Cities campuses of the U of Minnesota. She received her Bachelor of Science degree (as Naomi Landstrom Everson) from the University of Minnesota in August of 1960.

In his September 13, 1945 letter to his brother Harold, George Everson wrote: “Naomi is teaching school again at the same place.”

Naomi travelled to Sweden in the 1970s and kept up a regular correspondence with her father’s and mother’s Swedish relatives. Naomi “had hopes” of going to Sweden to be an “exchange teacher.”

Funeral at Immanuel Lutheran Church at Iron Hub. Pallbearers Mark Nelson, Paul Everson, Daniel Everson, Scott Everson, David Everson, Timothy Everson, and Michael Everson.

Minnesota Death Cert ID# 1986-MN-014799.

Her birth certificate reads “N. Johanna.” Her mother’s maiden name is shown as “Walbeck.”

In the November 6, 1985, issue of the Aitkin Independent Age, the Iron Hub correspondent, Mrs. Nora Jones, wrote,”Naomi Everson entered St. Joseph’s Hospital in Brainerd last Wednesday. She underwent surgery on Thursday. As I write this Sunday night, Naomi is seriously ill and not up to having company other than family members. Naomi is a friend to many of us and until she is well enough for company we will do best to remember her and her family in our prayers.”

Naomi married Albin EVERSON on 10 Jun 1930 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Albin (son of Anders (Andrew) EVERSON and Anna Gustava (Annie) Martinusdatter BYE) was born on 11 Jun 1901 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota; died on 11 Dec 1972 in Crosby, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; was buried on 16 Dec 1972 in Deerwood Scandia Cemetery, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1909-06029
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1999-MN-028538
• Occupation: Homemaker, Nurse
• Social Security Number: 469-40-2683, issued in Minnesota in 1954
• Baptism: 1958, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota
• Confirmation: 15 Jun 1958, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

The October 25, 1944, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that Mrs. John Everson was re-elected secretary-treasurer of the Deerwood Farm Bureau.

Mabel, her brother Carl, and their mother attended Gladys Bergstrom’s funeral in Duluth in 1946.

In May of 1953, Mabel was elected to the Deerwood school board. She and Kenneth Burns were unopposed. Mabel got 22 out of the 23 votes cast.

She apparently had hip surgery in late 1997 or very early 1998.

Mabel’s obituary, as it appeared in the Crosby-Ironton Courier on Wednesday, October 20th:

Services planned for Mabel Everson, 90

Mabel Amanda Everson, 90, Crosby, died Monday, Oct. 18, 1999, at the Cuyuna Regional Care Center in Crosby.

She was born Jan. 4, 1909 in Deerwood Township to Gustav and Clara (Anderson) Landstrom. She married John E. Everson on January 24, 1929 in Aitkin. They settled on a farm outside of Deerwood and she worked at the Brainerd State Hospital. Upon retirement she received a letter from Gov. Wendell R. Anderson thanking her for many years of service and outstanding employment record.

She is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, William and Edna Everson, Naples, FL, Robert and Cheryl Everson, New Berlin, WI; three daughters and sons-in-law, Elaine and Don Carlson, Bloomington, Joanne and Jack Davis, Hastings, Judy and Jerry Redfield, Shakopee; one brother, Carl Landstrom, Crosby; 13 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, John; one son, John Andrew Everson; and two sisters, Naomi Everson and Helga Landstrom.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m., Thursday, October 21, 1999 at Salem Lutheran Church, Deerwood, with Rev. Jim Walth officiating. Friends may call one hour before services at the church. Burial will be in Deerwood Scandia Cemetery in Deerwood.

Memorials are preferred to the Alzheimer’s Association or the donor’s choice.

Arrangements are with Koop Funeral Home in Crosby.

[Carl was living in Brainerd at the time of Mabel’s death. Mabel said that she was married in Brainerd, not Aitkin.]

Not listed in the index of Minnesota births.

Minnesota Death Certificate 1999-MN-028538. Mother’s maiden name noted as Anderson.

She graduated from Crosby-Ironton high school on June 3, 1927, as Mabel A. Landstrom. The class celebrated its 50th reunion at the Deerwood Legion Club on July 16, 1977. Mabel was on the committee in charge of arrangements.

From a history of the Miners Hospital in Crosby:

Mabel Landstrom Everson remembers the early Miners Hospital

(a 1972 interview with Maryon Aulie)

"In those days, Dr. Shannon did most of the deliveries of babies. I would get the mothers and the room ready for the delivery. They had their babies right in the same room. There was no delivery room. We would bring a basket in for the baby. After the baby was born, we would take the basket into the X-ray room which we used for a nursery. We would carry the baby in to the mother to nurse but she didn’t keep the baby in the same room with her. The mothers stayed in the hospital eight to ten days. One time, when the nurses were gone on vacation, I was there alone when Dr. Shannon brought in a girl for delivery and I had to help. After the baby was born, Dr. Shannon said, ‘Oh, there’s another one!’ My first time helping with twins.

"We started work at 7:00 am and worked 12 hour shifts, either the day shift or the night shift. I can’t remember too many days off. We took temperatures first thing in the morning - we had a thermometer in a little jar of alcohol - and then we carried breakfast trays. The trays came up from the kitchen on the dumb waiter. Margaret Kellerman was the cook. She lived right there at the hospital with her little boy, Crone. I lived at the hospital too, up on the third floor. I shared a room with Fran Stark and Mabel Hasskamp who was a nurse’s aide too. We got our room and board plus $25 a month. After I had worked there two years, I got raised to $45 a month. But then I quit and got married.

"When you walked in the front of the hospital, Dr. Smith and Dr. Shannon each had an office, one on each side of the hall. There was a roll-top desk in Dr. Smith’s office and some cupboards that held all the medicines and instruments. They had jars of pills and jars of powders; sometime they would mix together the different types of powders into a prescription for a sick child. Dr. Smith kept all the patients’ records on a big spindle on his desk. The walls [of the rooms] were plastered, with hardwood floors. A stairway went up to the second floor where the patients’ rooms and the operating room was. One was a kitchen and two extra patients’ rooms. There was room for about 14 or 15 patients."

Of her own experience as a patient at the age of 12, Everson recalled: "My father just drove me up to the hospital and gave me a quarter and let me off. I went in all by myself and told them I came to get my tonsils out. They were really big ones. That night I got to walk uptown and spend part of my quarter for some peppermints. I almost lost my way coming back to the hospital but everyone trusted that I could take care of myself. The next morning, Dr. Shannon came in and put the ether over my nose and I remember fighting real hard. Then, after I woke up, I vomited and vomited all day. I stayed there two days and two nights. A tonsillectomy cost $15 in those days, including room and board. A baby delivery cost $45, including room and board. If you were a miner or a miner’s child, you didn’t pay anything because it was all in the mining contract. I remember the rivalry between the Miners Hospital and the other hospital on 1st Street called the Cuyuna Range Hospital owned by Drs. Hallenback and Pengilly. They each tried to get the most patients.

"Mabel Hasskamp worked there even after I did. After I got married, Dr. Smith delivered my babies at Miners Hospital. I remember when I had my first baby girl, Mrs. Smith came to see me and brought her little boy, Baxter, along. He (the little boy) wanted to know the baby’s name. He wanted me to name her Elaine. That was his favorite name. He grew up and married an Elaine."

... and from another interview, probably in the same publication:

My thoughts drift back ten years further to the 1920s, to Mabel Landstrom Everson’s account of going to work for Doctors Smith and Shannon right after graduation from high school. "I had what you might call ‘on the job training’ and got broken into working right away. By the second day, they showed me how to mix a hypo with the syringe and the powder and draw up the solution, all the sterile methods used. I worked with the charge nurse who was Lydia Halden from Aitkin and also a nurse named Barbara Friedstrom who used to come from Brainerd for special duty. We worked to take care of five or six patients, gave baths, and helped in the operating room too. They did tonsillectomies and appendectomies and gall bladders in those days. Dr. Shannon gave the anesthesia and Dr. Smith did the tonsillectomies."

Mabel’s Minnesota Practical Nurse License was No. 17728 and was valid through March 15, 1972, and perhaps later.

She made her claim on Social Security on 4 Oct 1973 through the Bemidji field office.

Birth:
“Reported by O. C. Coffin and officially filed in Book B, p. 119”

Died:
died at 5:30 PM

Buried:
Funeral at Salem Lutheran Church, Deerwood. Pallbearers William Everson,Robert Everson, Jerry Everson, David Everson, John Davis, and Donald R. Carlson.

Mabel married John Edwin EVERSON on 24 Jan 1929 in Brainerd, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. John (son of Anders (Andrew) EVERSON and Anna Gustava (Annie) Martinusdatter BYE) was born on 28 Dec 1902 in Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; died on 29 Apr 1982 in Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota; was buried on 1 May 1982 in Deerwood Scandia Cemetery, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1911-06125
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2001-MN-516567

Notes:

See notes for Gust in which Carl describes clearing land.

Carl had a winter residence in Texas at 2100 S. Bridge Avenue, Weslaco, TX 78596.

According to the 1940 census, Carl’s education ended after 10th grade.

Carl’s Social Security number was issued in California before 1951. His last residence was Naples, Florida, so apparently his nephew Bill was managing Carl’s finances. Bill made distributions from Carl’s estate in 1999.

Buried:
Cremated. Memorial service on this date. His funeral program said that he was to be buried at Scanda Cemetery.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: DC-65226

Notes:

Johann Daniel on his birth certificate.

He was at home in the 1920 census.

In the 1930 census he is probably the David E Kohler, single, 25 years old, born in Minnesota (and both parents also born in Minnesota) who was living in Milwaukee. That David was a laborer in building construction.

He left home and essentially ghosted his family for five years in the early 1930s. “He was never home and he never wrote.” He reappeared in April of 1937, new wife and children in tow, much to the relief of his poor mother.

In the 1940 census, as David Kohler, he and his family and a servant lived at 2972 North Hackett in Milwaukee in a house he owned worth $9000. He was the proprietor of a tavern. He and his wife were high school graduates.

Had a tavern at 732 N Water in Milwaukee in the 1939, 1940, and 1942 city directories. He and his wife Marguerite lived at 2972 N Hackett Avenue.

His SS# was issued in Wisconsin in 1951.

Listed as Dan, of Milwaukee, at the time of his brother Gustaf’s death in 1968. Not listed as a survivor of his brother Albin.

Died as David Kohler.

Died:
as David Kohler

Family/Spouse: Marguerite. Marguerite was born on 19 Sep 1905 in Wisconsin; died on 3 Dec 1973 in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1907-42144

Notes:

She is probably the 24 year-old Minnie Kohs who is a restaurant waitress rooming in Chicago in the 1930 census although that Minnie is claimed to have been born in Illinois.

Minnie Dostis received her Social Security number in Illinois.

In the obit for her husband, Peter J. Dostis, she is referred to as “neé Helmouth.” This was a name she assumed.



Not listed in her brother Gustaf’s obituary. Listed as surviving “sister, Minnie, of New York” in the obituary of her brother Albin.

Minnie Dostis. 100, of Hetcheltown Rd. entered into eternal life on July 14, 2007.  Born in Saginaw, MN on April 4, 1907, she was the daughter of the late Daniel and Johanna Landstrom Kohs.  Minnie grew up in Duluth, MN and spent most of her life in Cook County (Chicago Ill) where she was married to Robert Klein until his passing in 1968. {?sic} Later she was married to Peter J. Dostis.

A devoted housewife/homemaker, she was always conscientious of health and nutrition.  Minnie was a great cook and enjoyed baking. She was an avid reader of poetry and religiously took brisk walks. At the age of 92 she made a point of climbing over three flights of stairs each day. Minnie resided in Pleasantville, NY from 1976-79 then moved north to the Capital District. She was fond of her centurion status and her many friends at Glendale Home. Surely she will be missed.

Minnie was predeceased by her three brothers.
 
Survivors include two daughters, Marian Kroon and her husband Eugene of Roselle, IL and J. Maria Dostis of Rexford, NY.; grandchildren, Steven E. Kroon (Christine) of Schererville, IN, Sharon Devo of Illinois and Chara Vlamis Burnett and husband G. Keith Burnett Jr. of Palo Alto, CA; great grandchildren, Andrew and Joel and Taylor Kroon, Ian and Ryan Devo and Skylar Burnett.
 
Graveside committal services will be held at Elmwood Cemetery Chicago at the convenience of the family.  There will be no calling hours.

Remembrances may be made in Minnie Dostis' name to Activities Department c/o Glendale Home 59 Hetcheltown Rd. Glenville, NY 12302.

Birth:
perhaps born in Duluth although Daniel and “Cathrina” were already in Grand Lake in the 1905 state census

Died:
SSDI last residence

Family/Spouse: Robert KLEIN. Robert died in 1968. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Wilhelmina married Peter John DOSTIS on 15 May 1941 in Cook County, Illinois. Peter was born on 17 Apr 1902; died on 27 Jul 1968 in Cook County, Illinois; was buried in Elmwood. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1908-34053

Notes:

Gustaf on his birth certificate. Gustaf in his obituary. Called Albert by some in the family.

He was not mentioned in his mother’s 1937 letter to his cousin Alma in Sweden.

He was Gustaf A Kohs when he registered for the draft in October of 1940. At that time he was married to Emma May, was a farmer, and lived at Rt 1, Box 64A, Saginaw, St. Louis County, Minnesota.

In the 1943 Duluth city directory, he and Emma lived at 336 N 58th Ave W. He was a laborer for the DM&IR Ore Docks.

In the 1948 city directory, he and Emma lived at 12 N 56th Ave W. He was a laborer for Minnesota Power.

In the 1952 city directory, he and Emma lived at 4508 Grand Ave. He was a watchman for Berwind Fuel.

In the 1960 city directory, he and Emma lived at 6603 Polk. He was still a watchman for Berwind Fuel.

His obituary was published on p. 06:6 of the June 15, 1968, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune:

Gustaf Albert Kohs, 59, of 319 N. 51st Avenue W., died Thursday in a Duluth hospital. He was a life-long resident of Duluth and a former employee of the Berwind Coal Co. He was a member of the Church of God. Surviving him are his wife, Emma; two brothers, Dan, of Milwaukee, and Albin, Saginaw, and several nieces and nephews.

Birth:
St. Mary’s Hospital. Find A Grave has his birth date, quite erroneously, as 31 Oct 1938. It also calls his mother Hannah Engman.

Gustaf married Emma Mae HICKS in 1940. Emma (daughter of Eugene Charles HICKS and Wilhelmina A SANDEN) was born on 15 Jul 1909 in North Dakota; died on 30 Jan 1983 in St. Louis County, Minnesota; was buried in Oneota Cemetery, Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1910-33711
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2000-MN-025711

Notes:

His mother’s maiden name is shown erroneously as Engman on his death certificate. It is Landstrom on his birth certificate.

In the 1940 census, he and his wife and children and his mother live in Grand Lake Twp in the same house in which he and his mother had lived in 1935. He is a farm laborer.

His obituary was published on p. B05 of the August 31, 2000, edition of the Duluth News-Tribune:

Albin O. Kohs, 90, of Seville Road, Saginaw, died Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2000, in St. Mary’s Medical Center.

He was born April 23, 1910, in Saginaw to Augus and Hannah (Engman) Kohs. He was a lifelong Saginaw resident and had been an employee of Duluth Winnipeg and Pacific Railway Company for 45 years, retiring Jan. 8, 1975. He married Edna M. Forsell 64 years ago in Duluth.

Albin loved his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, and dancing, and watching baseball and boxing.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers.

Survivors include his wife, Edna; two sons, Kenneth (Betty) of Saginaw and Lyle (Barbara) of Bozeman, Mont.; two daughters, Janet (Bob) Willeck and Gloria (Chester) Hanson, both of Saginaw; a sister, Minnie, of New York; 11 grandchildren; and 16 great-granchildren.

Burial in Sunrise Memorial Park. Arrangements by Bell Brothers Funeral Directors - Bell Brothers Chapel, 601 N. 56th Avenue W.

In the notes for one of her Swedish visits, Naomi writes, “Got some letters from Alma for Albin Kohs. They were written by his mother to Alma in 37-38.”

One of his nieces remembers Albin as a big guy who spoke with a Swedish accent.

Birth:
at St. Mary’s Hospital

Albin married Edna Marie FORSELL in 1936 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Edna was born on 23 Jan 1911 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota; died on 9 Apr 2007 in St. Louis County, Minnesota; was buried in Sunrise Memorial Park, Hermantown, St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Ava, Ångermanland

Family/Spouse: Märta VIKSTROM. Märta was born on 21 Jul 1908 in Unbyn, Norrbottens län, Sweden; died on 26 Oct 1973 in Piteå, Norrbottens län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jonas Olov ERIKSSON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Gustav’s oldest daughter.

Birth and death information from Anna Nilsson - släktträd.

Family/Spouse: Axel SUNDBERG. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Information from Anna Nilsson - släktträd

Birth:
Sävar

Family/Spouse: Vivi-anne Marie Louise BURSTÖM. Vivi-anne was born on 14 Oct 1932 in Sävar, Sweden; died on 16 Sep 1996 in Umeå, Västerbottens län, Sweden. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Stig ÅBERG. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: GRUNDSTRÖM. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Torsten ANDERSSON. Torsten was born in 1926; died in 2012. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: School headmaster

Notes:

“Rektor i Kramfors”

Had many children with wife Ulla.

Birth:
Jukkasjärvi per Lars Lindh’s Släkten Lindh tree on Ancestry

Died:
Gudmundrå per Lars Lindh’s Släkten Lindh tree on Ancestry

Johan married Ulla on 22 Feb 1953. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Went by Thorild. From Naomi’s trip notes, he apparently lived in Mo, near Umeå.

In the Swedish death records as Lars Torild Landström.

Lars married G.f. GRAMSTRÖM [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1931-06366
• Occupation: Pilot, USAF
• Baptism: 1943, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

The August 7, 1944, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that Ron and David were visiting relatives in Park Ridge, Ill.

In the 1950 census, he is living at home with his parents and two younger siblings and working as a drill helper for an iron mine. He is shown as having worked 28 weeks in 1949 and having earned $1,025. He is also shown as having lived in Fort Knox, Kentucky, one year before (i.e., April of 1949).

An article in the June 17, 1963, edition of the Brainerd newspaper announced Captain Everson’s assignment to Itazuke AB in Japan following his graduation from the USAF training course for F-105 Thunderchief pilots at Nellis AFB in Nevada.

Air Force pilot. His F-105 Thunderchief Wild Wiesel was shot down by North Vietnamese and he was held prisoner for several years during the war. Released about 1973. Retired with the rank of Colonel.

David says that he “resisted going to college after high school and worked one winter with my father drilling for iron ore at Emily and Rabbit Lake. That was enough to convince me to start college.”

From veterantributes.org:

Colonel O-6, U.S. Air Force

Minnesota Army National Guard 1947-1951
U.S. Air Force 1954-1978
Cold War 1947-1951, 1954-1978
Vietnam War 1966-1973 (POW)

David Everson was born in 1931 in Brainerd, Minnesota. He enlisted in the Minnesota Army National Guard on September 22, 1947, and was trained as a Radio Repair Specialist. Everson received an honorable discharge from the National Guard on September 21, 1951. He was commissioned a 2d Lt in the U.S. Air Force through the Air Force ROTC program at the University of Minnesota on August 21, 1954, and went on active duty on March 27, 1955. After completing Undergraduate Pilot Training in 1956, Everson served with the 336th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina, until February 1961. He was stationed with the 80th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Itazuke AB and then Yokota AB, Japan, from February 1961 to December 1964, and then with the 562nd and then the 561st Tactical Fighter Squadron at McConnell AFB, Kansas, from December 1964 to November 1966. Maj Everson began flying combat missions in Southeast Asia with the 354th Tactical Fighter Squadron at Takhli Royal Thai AFB, Thailand, in November 1966, and he was forced to eject over North Vietnam and was taken as a Prisoner of War on March 10, 1967. After spending 2,186 days in captivity, LtCol Everson was released during Operation Homecoming on March 4, 1973. He was hospitalized to recover from his injuries at Scott AFB, Illinois, and then attended Air War College at Maxwell AFB, Alabama, graduating in August 1974. He then completed refresher flight training at Randolph AFB, Texas, followed by F-111 Aardvark upgrade training at Nellis AFB, Nevada. Col Everson's final assignment was with the ACEVAL/AIMVAL project at Nellis AFB, where he ran an independent analysis team in the Joint Test and Evaluations that took place at Nellis between 1974 and 1978. He retired from the Air Force on July 31, 1978. David Everson and his wife Karlene had three children together before her death-DeAnn, David, and Daniel.

The following is a recollection David wrote for Ann Jones’s book:

“After having learned my lesson, I started school at the University of Minnesota - Duluth in the fall of 1950. My academic career was cut short when the Aitkin Guard was called to active duty in December, 1950. We were supposed to be on active duty for two years but my enlistment was up in September 1951. I went back to school and continued until graduation in August, 1954. The army taught me that officers live better than enlisted men so I enrolled in Air Force ROTC. Midway through school the Air Force told me I was qualified for flight training and I was hooked. I never looked back.

“While in school I worked at a garage across the street from the Hotel Duluth. There we parked cars, washed cars, and supplied ambulance service to the entire city of Duluth. At the beginning of my senior year, I married Karlene Carpenter, daughter of Carl and Ellen Carpenter of Glen. Our first child, DeAnn, was born the week after I graduated.

“When I was called to active duty, we went to Florida and Texas for flight training. Then we were moved from one base to another like most of the Air Force. We spent four years in Japan from 1961 to 1964. By the time we returned to the states in December 1964, the Viet Nam war was heating up. In the fall of 1966, I was trained as a Wild Weasel pilot and sent to Takh Li, Thailand. I started flying missions in November 1966 and was shot down 50 miles north of Hanoi on March 10, 1967. I was on my 56th mission.

“My experience as a prisoner of war is typical of the stories most POWs tell. I was to suppress surface-to-air missile firing during a raid on a steel plant at Thai Nguyen, fifty miles north of Hanoi. We were hit in the left wing by gunfire and the aircraft came apart. We were going too fast for bailout at first but were pinned in the cockpit by G forces. By the time I could move, the part of the aircraft we were in had slowed and we ejected.

“I came down in a courtyard of a small factory. For a few seconds, no one saw me. I used this time to transmit a message on my survival radio that I was alive. Nobody heard it. The civilians in the factory saw me then and surrounded me. I took two serious hits on the head from rifle butts and rolled into a ball on the ground. Before the crowd could get organized and do me some real damage, some soldiers arrived and took me away.

“My left knee kept folding up when I tried to walk and I thought my knees had been injured. I found out after I came home that I had a spinal fracture because I was not sitting properly when I ejected. The soldiers who captured me took me to a small building where they stripped me down to my shorts and socks. I was blindfolded; my hands were tied behind me. A bandage was put around my head. I was kept in a gun pit until it started to get dark, then I was put together with my Electronic Warfare Officer and we were forced to run. We were running in a large circle because we passed the same noises over and over. The crowd was encouraged to throw stones, to hit us and whatever they could do while we were running by. It is difficult to dodge blows when blindfolded. I fell a lot because of my knee and had to get up myself every time. My back seater {Capt. José David Luna of California} was annoyed because I fell against him a lot and knocked him down too. After what seemed like hours, we were walked into a dugout and after a short while were put in the back of an open truck and taken to Hanoi.

“During my first two months as a prisoner I was kept in a block of cells we called Heartbreak Hotel. {This was a part of the larger complex known as the ‘Hanoi Hilton.’} I was in stocks for a large part of that time. The Vietnamese were not interested in military information but were attempting to destroy the morale of the prisoners and make them compliant. I was in solitary confinement during this time.

“After two months of this, I was put in a cell with my back seater and moved to a camp we called ‘The Zoo.’ It had this name because early in the war the guards had allowed the local civilians to tour the prison and harass the prisoners. I was with my back seater and another prisoner for about two weeks. Then I was placed in solitary confinement for one and a half years. During this time, the emphasis was on collecting ‘confessions’ from the prisoners with the intent of using the confessions in trials at a later date. We were also pressed for propaganda. This included meeting foreign journalists and delegations from ‘peaceful’ countries. In order to convince us to cooperate, they used things like the ropes and wrist irons. To do this, they tied our elbows tightly together behind our back, then put tight steel clamps on the wrists, then tied our feet to our wrists and tied a rope around our necks which was tied to our elbows tight enough so we could just breathe. For me, this lasted until the fall of 1968. By this time, I had lost forty pounds and didn’t look too good.

“I was finally put in a cell with another POW. We were mostly left alone after this but had some harassment. During this entire time, the food consisted of a plate of rice and a bowl of vegetable soup twice a day. We found out later that the prison staff was stealing a lot of the food provided for the POWs.

“In the summer of 1969 I was moved into a cell with three other POWs. This was quite nice because it actually had a window. After several months of quiet living, in October of 1969 our treatment improved dramatically. We got better food, improved medical care, and more outside time. The torture and harassment stopped. Walls in the building that had been built to make small cells were destroyed so prisoners were in a larger cell with more cellmates.

“In the fall of 1970, a large group of us were moved to a new prison miles from Hanoi. It was quite nice (relative to what we had before). We had the freedom of the courtyard during the day. It all ended when the Son Tay raid took place. We were all loaded on trucks and taken to the Hoa Lo prison {the infamous ‘Hanoi Hilton’} in downtown Hanoi. The place was crowded because the previous prisoners (mostly South Viet Nam soldiers) had not yet been moved out.

{The Son Tay raid took place November 21-22, 1970. It was a rescue mission on a POW prison camp 20 miles west of Hanoi. The raid was unsuccessful; the prisoners had been moved.}

“The move to Hoa Lo prison got all the POWs together in the same prison for the first time. We were in cells that held about fifty people and had good communication with all the prisoners. Some POWs were later moved to other camps but I stayed in Hoa Lo until we were repatriated in March of 1973.”

Mark has found an article in the February 2006 issue of Air Force Magazine that describes the flight activities on that day in 1967 when David was shot down.

The description of David Everson's role that day starts here:

“The flight commander was Maj. David A. Everson, Lincoln 01, with Capt. Donald A. Luna, the electronic warfare officer (EWO), in the back seat. Capt. Bill Hoeft was Lincoln 02. The leader of the second element was Capt. Merlyn Dethlefsen, Lincoln 03, with Capt. Kevin A. “Mike” Gilroy as his EWO. Flying on his wing was Maj. Kenneth H. Bell, Lincoln 04.

“All six airmen in the Weasel flight had plenty of experience. Each of them had flown more than 50 combat missions and had been to North Vietnam many times.”

and concludes with this

“Lincoln flight approached Thai Nguyen in combat spread formation, the four aircraft almost line abreast with Everson and Hoeft on the right and Dethlefsen and Bell on the left. Two miles out from the target, the Weasels detected a SAM radar tracking them.

“Everson in Lincoln 01 attacked first. He swept wide to the right, dived through the flak, and launched a Shrike missile toward the SAM site. Seconds later, Lincoln 01 took a critical hit from the AAA. Chute beepers confirmed that Everson and Luna had bailed out. They reached the ground and were captured immediately. They spent the rest of the war as POWs, returning in the general repatriation in 1973.

“Hoeft, Lincoln 02, followed Everson into the flak. He was also hit and put out of action. An 85 mm shell blew a four-foot hole in his left wing, just outboard of the landing gear. He was lucky to make it to Udorn Air Base in northern Thailand, where he recovered.”

EVERSON, DAVID

Name: David Everson
Rank/Branch: United States Air Force/O4
Unit: 354 TFS
Date of Birth: 04 September 1931
Home City of Record: Aitkin MN
Date of Loss: 10 March 1967
Country of Loss: North Vietnam
Loss Coordinates: 214400 North 1055000 East
Status (in 1973):
Category:
Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: F105F #8335
Missions:
Other Personnel in Incident: Jose Luna, returnee
Refno: 0612

Source: Compiled by P.O.W. NETWORK from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews.

REMARKS: 730304 RELEASED BY DRV

SOURCE: WE CAME HOME copyright 1977
Captain and Mrs. Frederic A Wyatt (USNR Ret), Barbara Powers Wyatt, Editor
P.O.W. Publications, 10250 Moorpark St., Toluca Lake, CA 91602
Text is reproduced as found in the original publication (including date and spelling errors).

DAVID EVERSON
Lieutenant Colonel - United States Air Force
Shot Down: March 10, 1967
Released: March 4, 1973

The following is a bio David wrote for a POW network, apparently right after he returned to the U.S.

I was born in 1931 and graduated from the University of Minnesota in Duluth, Minnesota in 1954 and entered the Air Force in 1955. I went through pilot training and flew fighters at various bases in the United States and in the Far East until I was shot down several miles north of Hanoi. I was flying a F-105 Thunderchief out of Takhli, Thailand. I arrived back in the States on March 7, 1973, just three days less than six years from the day I was shot down.

I have three children. Daughter DeAnn is 18 and a freshman in college. Davy is 15 and a sophomore at Coon Rapids High School. Danny is 12 and in the 7th grade. My children waited for me in Coon Rapids, Minnesota.

The tremendous welcome that I had and the other returned POWs have received makes me feel very proud and at the same time very humble. I know many men have been killed or crippled in this war. Very few of the men who returned earlier received half the welcome accorded the POWs. I hope we will all remember the families of these men and try to insure that their children will have the same opportunities that your children and mine will have. I was very happy and proud on the day of my release because we were able to return home with pride. Thank you for all your kindness and God bless you all.

December 1996
David Everson retired from the United States Air Force as a Colonel. He and his wife Ann reside in Minnesota.

The following is an article published in the Minneapolis Star and Tribune on Thursday, February 17, 2000:

Commentary: A character forged in the Hanoi Hilton

by Lori Sturdevant

One theory about the 2000 presidential election is that the guy most possessed of Clinton antimatter will win.

Buy it or not, that theory goes a long way to explain the rise of the meteor of the month, John McCain. Forget about issues for now. In comparisons of human raw material -- temperament, experience, style -- the Arizona Republican is more conspicuously not Bill Clinton than any other candidate still in the running.

That, says Dave Everson, has a lot to do with Hua Lo Prison in Hanoi. He shared a cell there with McCain for 15 months.

"He learned a lot in captivity -- we all did," said Everson. "They say that whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I think there's truth in that."

Everson, 68, retired from the St. Paul Companies as a computer programmer several years ago. He lives a private, apolitical life in Inver Grove Heights. It's a world away from the torment he and some 600 other Americans endured three decades ago in North Vietnamese prisons.

Everson does not talk easily about those years -- especially when he's addressing a newspaper audience. But he recognizes that voters won't glimpse the president John McCain could be unless former POWs like him describe the McCain they knew and the circumstances they shared.

Everson, an Air Force major, was incarcerated at the infamous Hanoi Hilton in March 1967; McCain, a Navy lieutenant commander, arrived the following October. Both had been injured as they ejected from planes shot down during bombing missions. Everson's back was broken and his knees damaged. McCain broke both arms and one leg. Both were beaten with rifle butts, paraded for civilian abuse, bound in contorted poses and interrogated at exhaustive length before landing in solitary confinement.

Everson's isolation lasted a year and a half. His captors spiced his routine by beating him or binding his feet to his bed and one wrist to his ankles, then leaving him in twisted discomfort for days.

McCain had it worse. He was in solitary confinement for two years. The North Vietnamese offered McCain early release in 1968 when they learned that his father, Adm. Jack McCain, had been appointed commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific. When the younger McCain refused, citing the code of conduct that POWs should be released in the order in which they were captured, he was beaten savagely.

"Isolation is the worst thing that can happen to you," said Everson. "You get irrational after a while." He suspects McCain had the same mental crisis.

The nation would be right to worry that McCain left a piece of his sanity in Hanoi, had the POWs been suddenly released in 1969, at the time of Ho Chi Minh's death. A quick passage from isolated horror to normal society likely would have been too much for even the most disciplined military mind to take.

But the POWs were not released until early 1973. What changed after Ho's death was the treatment the prisoners received. Solitary confinement and beatings ended. Suddenly prisoners had cellmates, hot water, instant coffee, six rather than three cigarettes a day. "We sat and smoked until we got sick," Everson said.

In late 1971, he moved into a large communal cell with 49 other POWs. The ensuing 15 months before their release were a time of physical and psychological healing for every man in the cell. The men understood and supported each other as no one else could.

One of Everson's cellmates was John McCain, reputed to be the "toughest guy in the place" because of the torture he had endured.

McCain stood out -- but, Everson says, not for the extent of his injuries or for the cocky attitude he reportedly showed. "Most fighter pilots are that way. If you aren't a little arrogant and cocky, you're too passive to fly a fighter."

It was his intellect that distinguished McCain. The prisoners passed time by teaching each other what they knew of languages, literature and mathematics. McCain held forth on Roman history. He drew sharp, well-reasoned analogies between the decline of the Roman Empire and the threat that moral decline posed for the United States.

McCain was also the senior officer's choice for some undercover work involving information transfer from one cell to another. It was dangerous business, but McCain was never caught.

Everson remembers a man who knew the value of discipline and dignity as only someone who had clung to them for survival could. He remembers occasional displays of temper, like the day Everson teased that his Viking ancestors and McCain's Irish forebears might have known each other intimately. But mostly, he recalls a good soldier.

"Being in prison made John more steady. It taught him self-control. It gave him focus. When he left that prison, he knew what he wanted," Everson said.

McCain became a moderate Republican. Everson, whose political thinking borders on libertarianism, would call another candidate with the same views suspiciously liberal. But he's eager to support his cellmate.

"I trust him. He's a totally trustworthy person. If he says he'll do something, he'll move heaven and earth to do it. He's rock-solid."

A lot of Americans long to be able to say as much about a president.

-- Lori Sturdevant is a Star Tribune editorial writer.
© Copyright 2000 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.

From the Ancestry data base on returned Vietnam War Casualties:

Personal Information

Name: David Everson
Age: 41
Birth Date: 4 Sep 1931
Race: Caucasion
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Married
Home Location: Aitkin, Minnesota
Rank: Lieutenant Colonel
Service Branch: Air Force
Discharge Date: 4 Mar 1973
Date Processed: Mar 1973
Component: Regular
Casualty Type: Hostile - Captured/Interned - Returned to Military Control
Country of Casualty: North Vietnam
Casualty Cause: Aircraft Loss/Crash Not at Sea
Casualty Air Type: Fixed Wing Air Casualty - Pilot

In August of 1966, the North Vietnamese aired a televised interview with David in which the voice track was done separately. The interview had David saying that he hoped that the war would end soon and that he wanted to get home and that he was sorry to have taken part in the war. In an article in the Minneapolis newspaper, David’s brother Ronald, then a member of Minnesota’s House of Representatives, said that neither the voice, nor the words spoken, were that of his brother. “His philosophy was to pursue the war and win,” Ronald said. Ronald, his wife, and his parents all saw the film and agreed that David “looked good.” It was the first time that they had seen him since his picture was shown following his capture. {In that picture, David is shown looking down and with a bandage around his head.} Ronald said that both he and his parents had been notified the Air Force that the filmed interview would be shown. At the time of the article, Karlene and the children were living at the McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita and apparently were not consulted by the reporter writing the article.

In January of 1968, the North Vietnamese released a picture of a captured American pilot that they said was David Everson. An article from the January 29, 1968, edition of the Minneapolis Star, datelined Wadena, has Ronald saying that the man in the photograph was not his brother.

The front page of the March 8, 1973, edition of the Minneapolis Tribune shows David being greeted by his family at Scott AFB in Illinois. The caption notes that David had not seen his family since his last visit home in October of 1966.

The Minneapolis Star had an article on David on its front page in May of 1973. The article was written by staff writer Stan Strick and included a photograph of David sitting on the front step of his home in Coon Rapids.

POW Life Fades from Everson’s Memory

The North Vietnamese prisoner of war camps are about as far from the mind of Air Force Lt. Col. David Everson as Hanoi is from Coon Rapids.

Everson was released just over two months ago after his airplane was shot down in early 1967. Now about two-thirds of the way through his readjustment period, the ordeal seems far away.

“It’s very difficult to sit here and believe I was really there,” Everson said in an interview yesterday. “It’s just two months and two weeks since I got out. It was so different over there than what it is here that it’s difficult to relate the two lives.”

He, his wife and three children are living at 2408 119th Avenue NW in Coon Rapids where his wife bought a home to wait out his imprisonment. Both are from Aitkin, Minnesota.

He says he has picked up his place in the family and now is looking forward to his next assignment, probably to the Air War College at Maxwell AFB in Alabama.

What’s it like to see your family after a six-year absence?

“Well, the first couple of days it’s a little goofy,” Everson said. “After that it seems we settled down to just like we’ve always been.

“I think the first couple of days the children were a little on guard. They didn’t know if they were going to say something that would offend me or if I would snap at them,” he said.

Everson spends his time reading, answering mail and visiting relatives until his new assignment comes through. He says he plans to order his life differently from his days as a fighter pilot when he was away from home a lot while on flying missions.

“I liked flying and I liked everything that went with it,” Everson said. “I can see now it probably wasn’t good for my family to be left alone so much and I plan that whatever job I get it’s going to be one that will allow me to be home so I can take my boys hunting, fishing, and doing the things I should have been doing for the last six years.”

He said he found the readjustment period without many difficulties or severe shocks. “During my last year in prison we had contact with people who were shot down in 1972. That did a lot toward helping us understand what was going on,” he said.

Between reports from newly-captured pilots and “interpreting” Vietnamese propaganda, the prisoners came to have a good picture of the world they were being denied, he said.

“There were a lot of discussions over there (on), ‘What are you going to do if....’ It helps a lot to think about these things while you’re there so you won’t make a snap decision when you get home and meet a bad situation such as losing your wife or finding that things have gone to pieces while you’re gone.

“I think most people had some decisions pretty well in their head (that) ‘If this happens, I’m going to do thus and so.’”

Everson said he was surprised at the depth of his family’s involvement in prisoner-of-war projects. His wife was state coordinator of the National League of Families and his brother, Ronald, was also active.

“My wife doesn’t agree entirely with me on the war,” Everson said. “She more had the attitude that we should get out (and) get the prisoners out. I’m really not that way. If we had to stay there an extra year to win the war, I wasn’t opposed to that.

“I’d rather stay there one more year and win it than come home a year or two early and blow the whole thing. I don’t know if we’re going to win it now.”

Still, there were some things that were unexpected, such as:

Long hair. “When we were shot down, the only people who wore long hair was the hippie crowd. Then we learned everybody was doing it.”

Frankness in sex. “Sex, I guess, is the biggest change. I don’t think the actual morals can change that fast. The ones who have been after sexual freedom feel free to talk louder.”

Movies. “When I was shot down movies that are now rated as G or PG wouldn’t have been shown anywhere. You know, ‘Pete and Tillie’ is supposed to be a comedy, and it’s really sick. It wasn’t funny except in a very few places.”

Television programs. “They’re a little duller than they used to be. I think when Sid Caesar and Jack Gleason went off the air, television never recovered.”

Gas stations. “They aren’t too worried any more about selling gas. If you want your oil checked, you have to ask. Sometimes you have to go in to find the guy to put gas in your car.”

But for himself, Everson believes the ordeal is over, the adjustment completed and life back on a routine path. “Maybe two years from now I won’t think it’s normal, but it sure seems to be normal now.”



DeAnne said that her dad enlisted in the Army and rose to Master Sargent at age 19 after being called to active duty. He took his GI Bill and went to UMD, was Cadet Captain in ROTC, married my mom and then was called up for flight training when I was 1. He endured six years in the Hanoi Hilton, came home and stayed in the USAF until 1978. He eventually went to Control Data programming school and worked for the St. Paul companies until his second retirement around 1996.

David married Karlene Elaine CARPENTER on 20 Sep 1953 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Karlene (daughter of Carl CARPENTER and Ellen SHERRETS) was born on 21 Nov 1932 in Winthrop, Buchanan County, Iowa; died on 29 Oct 1980 in Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada; was buried on 3 Nov 1980 in Lakeview Cemetery, Aitkin Twp, Aitkin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

David married B.H. GAGE [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Jean Marie MACDONALD. Jean was born on 11 Jun 1930 in Aitkin County, Minnesota; died on 16 Feb 2004 in Hennepin County, Minnesota; was buried in Acacia Park Cemetery, Dakota County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1930-06504
• Baptism: 19 Aug 1930, Cedar Lake Lutheran Church, Farm Island Twp, Aitkin County, Minnesota
• Confirmation: 27 Aug 1944, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

Carlson, Elaine M. 90, died at her home in Eagan, Minnesota, on June 25, 2020.

She was born on February 27, 1930, at the old Miners' Hospital in Crosby, Minnesota, as the first child of John and Mabel Landstrom Everson of Deerwood. Elaine attended the one-room Cedar Brook country school and attended ninth grade at Aitkin High School. In 1944 she moved to her aunt and uncle's home in suburban Chicago and graduated from Maine Township High School in Park Ridge, Illinois, in 1947. That same year she married Donald Carlson of Minneapolis.

She and her husband raised their family in east Bloomington and she and Don moved to Eagan in 2005. She was a devoted mother and wife, an excellent bridge player, and the greater Everson family's worrier-in-chief. She will be dearly missed by all who knew her and loved her.

Elaine is survived by her two children, Don (Mary) Carlson of Green Bay and Cheryl (Kevin) Fautch of Eagan, three grandchildren, Eric (Chris Hynes) Carlson of Portland, Oregon, Lindsay (Scott) Wing of Chicago, and Krista (Bobby) Bloch of Apple Valley, and two great-grandchildren, Logan and Preston Bloch. Elaine is also survived by her sister Judy Redfield, her brother Bill (Edna) Everson, and her close Everson cousins Ronald Everson, David Everson, Jerry Everson, Jackie Higby, Jean Haselhuhn, and David Graham, and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband in 2011 and by her brothers Andy Everson and Bob Everson and her sister Joanne Davis.

The family would like to thank Laura Nees, Elaine's cousin's daughter, who provided excellent care to Elaine during her final days.

In lieu of flowers, the family encourages donations to the charitable organization of their choice. Private burial at Sunset Memorial Park. Celebration of Life to be held later.

Birth:
6:25 AM, Miners’ Hospital

Baptism:
by Pastor Ole Dahle, founding pastor of the Cedar Lake church at Dorris. Baptismal sponsors were George Everson and Eva Gustad.

Confirmation:
Elaine’s memorized Bible verse was John 11: 25-26. Pastor George Boyer may have served two churches at one time: Immanuel and St. John’s in Aitkin.

Mabel married Donald Herbert CARLSON on 8 Nov 1947 in Aitkin County, Minnesota. Donald (son of Maurice Edward CARLSON and Cora Christena ANDERSON) was born on 13 Jul 1924 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota; died on 15 Mar 2011 in Eagan, Dakota County, Minnesota; was buried on 18 Mar 2011 in Sunset Memorial Park, Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1934-06632
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2016-MN-015334

Notes:

The Wednesday, June 20, 1945, edition of the Brainerd newspaper notes: “Miss Joanne and Gerald Everson left Wednesday for Minneapolis and Park Ridge, Ill. for a week’s visit with relatives.”

She was runner-up in the Crosby-Ironton Homecoming Queen contest in September of 1951.

Jo and Jack were living in Cloquet in the summer of 1956.

According to the Faribault city directory, Jo was a teller for the Security National Bank in 1967 and a saleswoman for Ochs Brothers in 1972.



Joanne Clara Davis, age 82, of Hastings, passed away at Regions Hospital on May 7, 2016. She was born on April 11, 1934 in Deer Wood, MN to John and Mabel Everson.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Jack, and daughter, Nancy Ann Davis. She is survived by her daughter, Jayne Davis - Pickart (Bryce Pickart); sons, John (Kris) Davis, and Jeff (Genny) Davis; grandchildren, Andrew, Heather, and Nicole; great grandchildren, David, Sam and Charlotte; other relatives and friends.

A memorial service will be held at Regina Memorial Chapel in Hastings on Thursday, May 12.

Birth:
probably in Miners Hospital, Crosby

Died:
Regions Hospital, St. Paul

Joanne married Jack Cecil DAVIS on 5 Feb 1952 in Day County, South Dakota. Jack (son of Rolland Cecil (Cubby) DAVIS and Fern Mildred CROWELL) was born on 15 Apr 1931 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota; died on 24 Nov 2015 in Dakota County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1937-MN-043946
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1972-MN-017788
• Occupation: Electronics Technician (Northwest Airlines)
• Social Security Number: 476-38-8820 issued in Minnesota in 1954.
• Confirmation: 15 Jun 1958, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

The Monday, August 4, 1947, edition of the Brainerd newspaper notes that “Andy Everson returned from Minneapolis on Friday. He visited a week with Billy Marsh and while there he attended the water sports show.”

From the Wednesday, September 15, 1954, edition of the Crosby-Ironton Courier: “The land judging team from the Vocational Agriculture class at the C-I High School placed second among 12 teams in a contest held at North Branch. The boys on the team were Andy Everson, Paul Wynn, and Don Tysk. William Frey is the instructor.”

From the Wednesday, December 29, 1954, edition of the Crosby-Ironton Courier: “Andy Everson, 16, a member of the Cedar Lake 4-H Club, has been named this year’s champion horticulturalist in Crow Wing County.”

An article in the June 24, 1961, edition of the Brainerd newspaper noted that “Airman Second Class John A. Everson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Everson of Deerwood, recently graduated from the 36 week Radio Relay Equipment Repairman course at Keesler AFB, Miss. At Osceola AFS, Wisconsin, he will install, inspect, maintain and repair microwave radio relay and associated equipment.”

Later he worked for Northwest Airlines.

Died of a brain tumor. His death certificate said he died from cardiac arrest caused by a glioblastoma on the left frontal area of his brain which he had had for 2 years. His wife Edna was the informant. The family’s residence was 10949 Washburn in Bloomington.

His birth certificate information:

Name: John Andrew Everson
Birth Date: 8 Dec 1937
Birth County: Crow Wing
Father: John Everson
Mother: Mable Landstrom
File Number: 1937-MN-043946

Birth:
Elaine said December 8th, Funeral announcement said Dec 8th, SSDI said 7th

Died:
Fairview Southdale Hospital

Buried:
Funeral at Mt. Hope Lutheran Church, Bloomington

John married Edna Mae WYNN on 3 Jun 1961 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota. Edna (daughter of Gailand Beauregard WYNN and Viola Ferne MILES) was born on 17 Jul 1941 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota; died on 19 Oct 2020 in Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Birth Certificate: 1949-MN-058696
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2011-MN-607797
• Occupation: Engineer
• Baptism: 4 Jun 1950, Deerwood Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota
• Confirmation: 1963, Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota

Notes:

Baptized in his parents’ home by George M. Boyer of Immanuel Lutheran Church, Iron Hub, Rabbit Lake Twp, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. His oldest nephew was baptized at the same time.

Crosby-Ironton High School, 1967
Attended St. Olaf College, 1967-68
B.E.E., University of Minnesota, 1971

Everson, Robert Allen age 62, of Lakeville, died May 25, 2011. Preceded in death by parents, John and Mabel Everson; and brother, Andrew Everson. Survived by wife, Cheryl; daughters, Jennifer (Arik) Nesbitt and Courtney (Manuel) Betonio; grandchildren, Kellen and Amelia; siblings, William (Edna) Everson, Elaine Carlson, JoAnne (Jack) Davis and Judy (Jerry) Redfield; and many nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Visitation Thursday from 9:45 A.M. until the 11 A.M. service at Grace Lutheran Church, 8700 Old Cedar Ave., S., Bloomington. Interment Resurrection Cemetery. Memorials preferred to American Liver Foundation or Fairview Hospice.

In his January 10, 2012, letter on Bob’s autopsy report, the Mayo Clinic physician noted: “… he indeed suffered from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP).” The report also seemed to imply that the initial clinical diagnosis, of a “mixed syndrome of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and PSP,” was incorrect, or at least misleading, and that PSP was the principal cause of death. The physician noted that, “There was no evidence of Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Lou Gehrig’s disease, or any other additional neurologic disorder.”

Birth:
Draper Hospital, 9 lbs., 4 oz.

Baptism:
At home. DRC baptized at same time.

Died:
at home at 2:30 AM

Buried:
Funeral from Grace Lutheran Church in Bloomington, Pastor Steven Svoboda presiding. Pallbearers Arik Nesbitt, Don Carlson, Manuel Betonio, Jr., Jerry Redfield, Greg Ryan, Wally Jensen.

Robert married C.A. MERCIER [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Age 5 in the 1940 census (March 18th).

Peter Francis Kohler, M.D., (1935-2005) died September 16, 2005, right after he survived Hurricane Katrina, in his Home in Covington, La. He had retired after having served 20 years as Professor Of Medicine and Herbert Harvey Chair in Clinical Immunology Emeritus from Tulane University in New Orleans, La.

He was born In Milwaukee, WI and attended Milwaukee University School, Princeton University (1957), and Columbia Medical School (1961). He met and married his wife, Christa Eckert Kohler, M.D., in 1962 during his residency at the University of Minnesota. He then served as a Research Fellow at the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation In Lajolla, California, before becoming Professor of Medicine and Head Of Clinical Immunology at the University Of Colorado School of Medicine. He was a well-known and much published researcher and speaker and belonged to numerous medical boards and societies.

Dr. Kohler was much loved by his patients, but also a great teacher. He inspired his students and his Family to always value scholarly pursuits. But he also loved life and laughter and was always full of new ideas. He loved to lecture and travel throughout the world; to hike, camp and ski; to play tennis and ride his horses; and, most of all, to do those things with his beloved family and numerous close friends. Peter is survived by his wife, Christa Eckert Kohler, M.D.; son Michael Kohler, Ph.D., J.D. and his wife Lynn Haaland, J.D. and their son, Haakon; son, Nicholas Kohler, Ph.D., his wife Ann Fifield, M.S. and their son, Wiley; son Andre Kohler, M.S.; and sister, Jill Kohler, M.S.

A memorial service will be held at Ss. Peter And Paul Church, 2490 N. Cramer, Milwaukee, Wi 53211, at 11:00 am on Saturday, October 29, 2005.

From the Princeton Alumni Weekly, January 26, 2006, issue:

Peter died Sept. 16, 2005, after a lifelong career in the medical profession and a lifelong battle with diabetes.

At Princeton, he majored in history, joined Tiger Inn, and roomed in his senior year with Frank Jones, John Thomas, and Rick Weiss.

After graduating, Peter spent four years in medical school at Columbia. He then went to the University of Minnesota for an internship and residency in internal medicine. There he met and married Christa Eckert.

The couple moved to La Jolla, Calif., for a research fellowship at the Scripps Clinic. Next, Peter became a full-time faculty member at the University of Colorado Medical School, teaching there for 18 years and heading the division of clinical immunity.

Then he moved to Tulane University, where he became chief of medical service at Charity Hospital and associate director of the general clinical research center. He edited a book on Charity Hospital, the oldest hospital in continuous existence in the U.S.

Peter and Christa lived on a small horse farm across Lake Pontchartrain and kept a condo in the New Orleans French Quarter.

He is survived by Christa, sons Michael '88, Nicholas '89, and Andre; a sister; and two grandsons. The class offers its sincerest condolences to Peter's wife and family.

The Class of 1957

Peter married R.C. ECKERT [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

In the 1940 census, she was Marion Klein, an 8 year-old second grade student lodging at the St. Patrick Academy in Momence, Kankakee County, Illinois. Five years earlier she had lived in Chicago.

Indexed in the Cook County marriage index as Marion Klein Dostis for her marriage to Eugene Kroon.

Her obit:

Marian T. Kroon, 78, of Roselle, formerly of Addison. Beloved wife of the late EuGene; loving mother of Steven (Christine) Kroon and Sharon Kroon-Devo; cherished grandmother of Andrew, Joel, Taylor, Denny, Ian and Ryan; fond sister of Maria Dostis; and aunt of Chara Burnett; longtime companion of the late Ed Stein. Funeral Service Saturday, 10:15 a.m. from Humes Funeral Home, 320 W. Lake St., Addison (2 Mi. W. of Rt. 83, 2 Mi. E. of Rt. 53) to St. Philip the Apostle for Mass at 11 a.m. Interment private. Visitation 2 to 8 p.m. Friday. If desired, memorials to the Christine Center, W8303 Mann Rd., Willard, WI 54493 appreciated.

Marian Kroon, b. 28 Aug 1931, d. 25 Jan 2010. Last residence Roselle, Du Page County, Illinois. Last benefit in Addison, Du Page County. SSN issued in Illinois before 1951.

Marian married Eugene Hans KROON on 22 Sep 1951 in Cook County, Illinois. Eugene (son of Orvar August KROON and Emma JOHNSON) was born on 28 Jul 1928 in Cook County, Illinois; died on 10 Jul 1987 in Du Page County, Illinois. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2003-MN-002873

Notes:

Middle name Joanne or Jo-Anne on her children’s birth certificates. Also Jo-Anne in the MOMS database.

Of Saginaw at the time of her father’s death.

Janet J. Willeck, 66, of Saginaw, died Thursday, Jan. 30, 2003, in Fairview University Medical Center, Minneapolis.

She was born on January 13, 1937, in Duluth, to Albin and Edna (Forsell) Kohs. Janet worked as a Certified Nursing Assistant for St. Louis County for 28 years until she retired.

She enjoyed when her grandchildren stayed over, the Friday 13th Gang get-to-gether, her church friends, lunch outings, and gal pal Shirley. She was involved with the women's 4-H Camp, and enjoyed trail walking. Janet also loved her weekend retreats with her best friend of 50 years, her husband Robert.

Janet was preceded in death by her father, Albin. She is survived by her mother, Edna Kohs of Saginaw; loving husband of 50 years, Robert of Saginaw; sons, Keith of Saginaw, Randall 'Randy' (Beverly 'Bev') of Brookston, and Jamie (Bonnie) of Eden Prairie; sister, Gloria (Chet) Hanson of Saginaw; brothers, Kenneth (Betty) Kohs of Saginaw, Lyle (Barb) Kohs of Bozeman, Mont.; four grandchildren, Cory, Heidi, Claire, and Grace.

Internment will be at Sunrise Memorial Park, Hermantown.

Died:
Fairview University as Janet Joann Willeck

Janet married Robert Franklin WILLECK on 5 Nov 1955 in St. Louis County, Minnesota. Robert was born on 14 Jun 1933 in St. Louis County, Minnesota; died on 11 Dec 2009 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota; was buried in Sunrise Memorial Park, Hermantown, St. Louis County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
Aspeå, Ångermanland

Family/Spouse: Johan Kasper STRÖMGREN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1954-MN-001708

Notes:

Birth:
born at 9:00 PM according to Cora’s diary

Other Events and Attributes:

• Minnesota Death Certificate: 2013-MN-032787

Notes:

Nesbitt, Jennifer Ann (Everson) age 40, of Savage, passed away peacefully at home after a valiant fight with liver disease on October 19, 2013. Preceded by her father Robert Allen Everson. She is survived by her beloved husband Arik and son Kellen, as well as her mother Cheryl Everson, sister Courtney Betonio (Manuel), and many nieces, nephews, cousins, in-laws, and caring family members. Special thanks to the liver transplant team at Fairview University Hospital and her angels, Courtney Betonio and Diana Goreki who donated parts of their livers to her.

Birth:
St. Luke’s Hospital

Buried:
cremated

Jennifer married A.W. NESBITT [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]