Klara Andersdotter WALLBÄCK

Other Events and Attributes:

• MN Death Cert Checked: Y
• Minnesota Death Certificate: 1959-MN-003667

Notes:

Just “Klara” in the födelsbok. That entry shows her mother as Maria Jansdotter, age 40.

According to the clerical survey, may have been confirmed June 26, 1892.

Listed as “Clara Walbuck” on Mabel’s birth certificate. (Some of Klara's siblings took the name Wallbäck.) The name on her transportation contract was Klara Andersson.

Obituary says, incorrectly, that she was born January 19, 1877, as does her death certificate. Nevertheless, the household examination for the family in the 1876-1880 period shows 1878. She also claimed to be 24 on her transportation contract which supports the 1878 date for her birth.

She and Gust had engraved wedding invitations:

The pleasure of your company is requested at
the marriage of
Miss Clara Walbeck
to
Gustave Jacob Landstrom
at 1911 West First Street, Duluth, on
Saturday evening, October 5, 1904,
at 8 o’clock.

The 1937-38 Brainerd city directory, which includes other communities in Crow Wing County, Mrs. Clara Landstrom is shown as living on land in Deerwood Twp that she does not own. In the 1939-40 directory, she is shown as the owner of land in section 35 of Deerwood Twp. Same in the 1942-43 directory. In the 1949 directory, her land seems to be in Carl’s name but still may be with a mortgage.

In the 1940 census, Carl and Clara live on their farm in Deerwood Twp in the same house in which they had lived in 1935. Clara had an eighth-grade education.

The entire obit, from the November 25, 1959, Crosby Courier:

Services for Mrs. Landstrom

“Mrs. Clara Landstrom, a pioneer resident of Deerwood township, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Albin Everson, on Wednesday of last week.

“Born in Sweden on Jan. 19, 1877, Mrs. Landstrom had been a resident of the Deerwood area since 1903. Her husband, Gust, preceded her in death in October of 1928.

“In addition to her daughter, Mrs. Albin Everson, she is survived by another daughter, Mrs. John Everson, and a son, Carl, all of Deerwood township. Ten grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren also survive.

“Funeral services for Mrs. Landstrom were held from the Koop Funeral Home in Crosby on Sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. The Rev. Ewald Eisele of the Deerwood Baptist church officiated and burial was in Scandia cemetery in Deerwood.”

Emigrated to the U.S. from Varmland, Sweden, August 23, 1902, at age 24 (perhaps with her 18 year old brother, Gustaf Ludvig). The transportation contract was executed through J. Oscar Reis, who was apparently a transportation agent for the Cunard Lines in Gothenburg. The contract, for 228 Kronor, was to take Klara Andersson from Gothenburg to Duluth via Hull or Grimsby, Liverpool, and either Boston or New York. The contract says that the embarkation date from Gothenburg was August 27, 1902. Passenger list records show that Klara, as K Anderson, arrived in Boston on September 17, 1902, aboard the S.S. Ivernia which had sailed from Liverpool on September 2nd. The manifest for the Ivernia shows that her ultimate destination was Duluth where she would meet her brother, Edward Wallbak, of 208 Eater Street. Ron has the immigration inspection card that she was given in Sweden which showed that she had been vaccinated and which also shows that she was #28 on the ship’s manifest and that her contract ticket was 32006.

She seems to have been living at 1944 W 1st Street at the time of her marriage.

It appears that she was not married to Gust Landstrom at this time. According to the 1910 census, taken in early May of 1910, Gust and Klara had been married for 6 years. In that census, Klara is shown as having emigrated in 1902 and as having had 3 children, all living.

Mildred Monson interviewed Clara in August of 1936, perhaps for a newspaper. The report of that interview, with corrected spellings and punctuation, is as follows:

“The Landstroms came to Shirt Lake, District #20, in the late 1800’s, building a two-room home. Later they built a large frame house, barn, and granary and machine shed, garage, and a nice large hen-house.

“They raise berries on the flat below their building locations, overlooking the lake. It really is a beautifully laid out home. They’ve recently planted Chinese elms as the old box elders do not stand up through the years as well.

“In 1902, they were married. They were the parents of four children, all living now, save the oldest girl, Helga.

“Naomi ---- Mrs. Albin Everson of Cedar Lake, Crow Wing Co. She has three children. Her husband is a farmer.

“Mabel ---- Mrs. John Everson of Deerwood, Rt. 1. Farmer, formerly diamond drill setter.

“Carl ---- at home, farming.

“Mrs. Landstrom was born in 1870, coming to the United States at twenty-two, with her two brothers, now of Duluth. There she worked for two years, cooking for the Colonel Grover family. (Colonel Grover is in the Swedish consular office.) There she had many liberties and was treated very well, enjoying her stay in Duluth.

“But since, owing to her husband’s ill health and ultimate death, Mrs. Landstrom has worked exceedingly hard -- outdoors daytimes and indoors, night. But she always seems to have won out, being of that slender, smiling, plucky type of woman.

“Mr. Landstrom died at the age of sixty-three of heart trouble and rheumatism. ‘During his later years he had to sometimes lay off for a year at a time; but then he would go back to work, trying to make up for lost time, and would overdo.’

“Mrs. Landstrom and her son carry on berry farming and dairying and raising poultry, etc. From the wonderful east hill on which they built their home, one can look out across Shirt Lake over a fine neighborhood, and up across the way to the Alfred Johnson home.”

Klara sent quite a bit of money back home. According to receipts for an international money orders, somebody, most likely Klara, sent money back to Sweden as follows:

$ 7 to someone in Munkebol, Munkfors, Varmland, from Duluth on 17 November 1902.

$ 5 to someone in Munkfors, Varmland, from Duluth on 5 December 1903.

$10 to someone in Blia, Munkfors, Varmland, from Duluth on 28 March 1904.

$ 5 to someone in Munkebol, Munkfors, Varmland, from Duluth on 6 October 1904.

$10 to someone in Munkfors, Varmland, from Duluth on 6 October 1904.

There were probably other transmittals; these are the ones for which, for some reason, the receipts were saved. It’s probably significant that the sending back of money may have ended after Klara’s marriage.

Clara, Carl, and Mabel attended Gladys Bergstrom’s funeral in Duluth in 1946.

Her son was the informant for her death certificate. Clara died from pneumonia, myocarditis, and artersclerosis. She spent the last 6 days of her life at the home of her daughter Naomi in Rabbit Lake.

Klara only spoke Swedish. David says that he never could understand her but Ron, who spent more time at the Landstrom farm, could.

Klara married Gustaf Jakob LANDSTRÖM on 5 Nov 1904 in Duluth, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Gustaf (son of Johan LARSSON and Sara Katrina LINDSTRÖM) was born on 14 Sep 1865 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden; was christened on 17 Sep 1865 in Nordmalings, Västerbottens län, Sweden; died on 28 Oct 1928 in Crow Wing County, Minnesota; was buried on 31 Oct 1928 in Deerwood Scandia Cemetery, Deerwood, Crow Wing County, Minnesota. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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: 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]

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]