Brian and Myra moved down to Santa Maria California in the Fall of 1976. They bought a 4 bedroom 1 3/4 bathroom home located at 1020 W. Alvin street. There were broccoli fields across from the house which was very aromatic.
Brian had been transferred to Pacific Gas and Electric Santa Maria office.
One day he called Myra at work (French Hospital, San Luis Obispo) and told her to leave as soon as possible as he had found a house to purchase. Myra drove down and met him at the realtor's office. We actually signed papers to buy the house without even going through it. While we were waiting for the key, the realtor who had shown the house came in the office, threw the key to the Alvin Street house and said to our realtor, "I just sold the house of Alvin street." He left so fast that our realtor didn't have time to tell him that the house had been sold.
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Saturday, February 22, 2020
Lindgren Family - Brian Carl Lindgren - page 36
Brian had moved to 946 Heather Circle in Salinas California in the Summer of 1974. He had graduated with a Bachelor's in Science with a Major in Industrial Engineering and a minor in Electrical Engineering.
He had been hired by Pacific, Gas, and Electric, for the Salinas office.
His mother Pat helped him buy his queen size bed, couch, coffee table, and end tables. She also bought him end table lamps, and a large swivel "leather" chair that rocked.
The apartment faced the swimming pool and was on the second floor of the building. You would park in the lot at the base of the picture, and walk towards the pool on the walkway between the 2 apartment buildings, passing the pool on your left, veering left and they up to the stairs on the right.
This was where Brian learning how to retrieve his lost change in the washer. He was frustrated after doing his laundry one day, because the change he had in one of the pockets had fallen out, and ended up under the agitator. He got his Phillips screwdriver out and took off the agitator and - voila! Not only was his change there, but there was more money from previous tenants loosing their change as well.
When ever we went to the movies in town, Brian would first check all three washing machine agitators in the complex for fast food and movie money! We would buy a couple of hamburgers from the golden arches and sneak the food into the theater. That was the only way we had money to go out!
Brian would bring a can of Tab with him being sure to be very quiet while opening it. One time we brought cheeseburgers and French fries from McDonald's, and when we brought the fries out, within a minute or 2, people would suddenly catch the scent and turn around trying to find out where that delicious aroma came from! We never fessed up and never got caught - not that we would do that now, oh no, no, no...…!
The theater that we would go to was in downtown Salinas. It was a one man operation. The same guy sold you your tickets at the door, ran the concession stand, and then would run the projector. He probably also cleaned up the place after the end of the day's showings.
I worked from Dr. Frank Joyce, who was a dentist in Salinas California. He worked so he could drive race cars when he wasn't performing dentistry. He would drive fast from his home in Carmel Valley and get tickets. He would get stopped by the CHP or police for speeding. I think - can't remember for sure, but he had so many tickets they had an arrest warrant our for his arrest. One day he was pulled over on the way to work and he showed his driver's license to the officer and said he had an emergency at the hospital and took off in that general direction. The policeman went to the hospital to check on Joyce's story and was told he wasn't on staff there. The police ended up coming to the office to find out what the story was. Dr. Joyce was rather egocentric to say the least.
We lived in Salinas until we moved to Atascadero California in the fall of 1975. PG&E, moved us. The movers called us one day and asked how much "stuff" we had. I told them it was a 500 square foot apartment. They said fine and came up from San Luis Obispo to pack us up and move us. Once the movers came and saw how much stuff we had, they called for a packer to come from San Luis to help get things packed up. I didn't think that we had THAT much stuff in there!
He had been hired by Pacific, Gas, and Electric, for the Salinas office.
His mother Pat helped him buy his queen size bed, couch, coffee table, and end tables. She also bought him end table lamps, and a large swivel "leather" chair that rocked.
The apartment faced the swimming pool and was on the second floor of the building. You would park in the lot at the base of the picture, and walk towards the pool on the walkway between the 2 apartment buildings, passing the pool on your left, veering left and they up to the stairs on the right.
This was where Brian learning how to retrieve his lost change in the washer. He was frustrated after doing his laundry one day, because the change he had in one of the pockets had fallen out, and ended up under the agitator. He got his Phillips screwdriver out and took off the agitator and - voila! Not only was his change there, but there was more money from previous tenants loosing their change as well.
When ever we went to the movies in town, Brian would first check all three washing machine agitators in the complex for fast food and movie money! We would buy a couple of hamburgers from the golden arches and sneak the food into the theater. That was the only way we had money to go out!
Brian would bring a can of Tab with him being sure to be very quiet while opening it. One time we brought cheeseburgers and French fries from McDonald's, and when we brought the fries out, within a minute or 2, people would suddenly catch the scent and turn around trying to find out where that delicious aroma came from! We never fessed up and never got caught - not that we would do that now, oh no, no, no...…!
The theater that we would go to was in downtown Salinas. It was a one man operation. The same guy sold you your tickets at the door, ran the concession stand, and then would run the projector. He probably also cleaned up the place after the end of the day's showings.
I worked from Dr. Frank Joyce, who was a dentist in Salinas California. He worked so he could drive race cars when he wasn't performing dentistry. He would drive fast from his home in Carmel Valley and get tickets. He would get stopped by the CHP or police for speeding. I think - can't remember for sure, but he had so many tickets they had an arrest warrant our for his arrest. One day he was pulled over on the way to work and he showed his driver's license to the officer and said he had an emergency at the hospital and took off in that general direction. The policeman went to the hospital to check on Joyce's story and was told he wasn't on staff there. The police ended up coming to the office to find out what the story was. Dr. Joyce was rather egocentric to say the least.
We lived in Salinas until we moved to Atascadero California in the fall of 1975. PG&E, moved us. The movers called us one day and asked how much "stuff" we had. I told them it was a 500 square foot apartment. They said fine and came up from San Luis Obispo to pack us up and move us. Once the movers came and saw how much stuff we had, they called for a packer to come from San Luis to help get things packed up. I didn't think that we had THAT much stuff in there!
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Lindgren Family - Brian Carl Lindgren - Early rocket Man with Helpers - page 35
đLife After the Phillipines
This is Brian with his nephews Blair and Brent Davison. They had launched a rocket somewhere in Albuquerque New Mexico, and obviously it came apart in flight or upon landing, and needed repairs!
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Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Lindgren Family - Brian Carl Lindgren - Coast Guard - Gloucester City New Jersey - page 27
Coast Guard - Gloucester City New Jersey
"We had a buoy tender and the 32 foot vessels that did port inspections. We took care of the Coast Guard radios including a repeater station atop
the interstate bridge - now renamed the Walt Whitman Bridge. You went in a dinky elevator up until you were at the top of the bridge - 500 feet off the road. We had to park in the roadway as there was no pullout lane was. We would put out the orange cones so no one would hit our car. I only went up there once to service the repeater station.
"I did go to a horse show one weekend that was about 30 miles from Philadelphia.
"I was there about 6 months, before my mom contacted the Red Cross for me to come home and help take care of my Dad, who was deteriorating mentally."
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"We had a buoy tender and the 32 foot vessels that did port inspections. We took care of the Coast Guard radios including a repeater station atop
the interstate bridge - now renamed the Walt Whitman Bridge. You went in a dinky elevator up until you were at the top of the bridge - 500 feet off the road. We had to park in the roadway as there was no pullout lane was. We would put out the orange cones so no one would hit our car. I only went up there once to service the repeater station.
"I did go to a horse show one weekend that was about 30 miles from Philadelphia.
"I was there about 6 months, before my mom contacted the Red Cross for me to come home and help take care of my Dad, who was deteriorating mentally."
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Lindgren Family - Brian Carl Lindgren - page 26 - The Phillapines
Brian left Los Angeles on a commercial flight to Guam which took approximately 16 hours. His next flight from Guam to Clark Air Force Base in Manilla was approximately 4 hours. From Manilla to Talmpulan Island the flight was approximately 90 minutes in length. Overall, Brian was in a plane for nearly 22 hours. All of the pictures on this page are from GoogleEarth.com 15 February 2020.
The CO's quarters is at the far south end of the string of buildings. The 17 guardsmen were housed in the building immediately north of the CO's quarters.
That building also housed the dining hall. The transmitter was in the very north building. The projector was in the dining hall and would project the images out of a window. The pieces of plywood, that substituted for a screen, were about the size of a road sign. The island's residents would sit back and watch the movies as well.
The Guardsmen would run the diesel generators 24 hours a day for the entire station.
By the way - There are multiple ways to spell "Phillipines".
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Lindgren Family - Brian Carl Lindgren - page 25
Coast Guard - San Clemente
At that time the Coast Guard base in San Clemente was next to the Western White House of
President Richard Nixon.
Nixon would drive his golf cart around on the Coast Guard grounds which occupied the corner of Camp Pendleton.
"When Nixon drove the golf cart around the CG base, his little white poodle would be on the back of the cart. It would bark at the Coast Guardsmen. The Guardsmen were always worried that their large German Shepard would take off after the poodle and the golf cart. That would not have been good!"
Brian was one of 6 Coast Guardsmen whose job was to be the station operators for LORAN. LORAN was a long range aid for navigation. It was the same job that he would perform in the Philippines.
[Nixon's Western White House was in the location of the property that has an oval pool, orientated west to east. The Coast Guard base was to the south of that property.]
The pathway to the southeast of the property, is where families who are stationed at Camp Pendleton would walk to the beach.]
"There really wasn't more - it [the job] wasn't terribly demanding. There was preventive maintenance to do. There were 2 large transmitters that broadcast the radio timing signals that ships at sea would use for navigation. The transmitters were 6 feet by 4 feet."
"At San Clemente, I got to go home every other weekend. Dad was doing ok while I was there. He had retired from work due to the decrease in his mental acuity."
"I was stationed there for about 18 months. After that, I was sent to the Philippines."
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At that time the Coast Guard base in San Clemente was next to the Western White House of
President Richard Nixon.
Nixon would drive his golf cart around on the Coast Guard grounds which occupied the corner of Camp Pendleton.
Brian was one of 6 Coast Guardsmen whose job was to be the station operators for LORAN. LORAN was a long range aid for navigation. It was the same job that he would perform in the Philippines.
[Nixon's Western White House was in the location of the property that has an oval pool, orientated west to east. The Coast Guard base was to the south of that property.]
The pathway to the southeast of the property, is where families who are stationed at Camp Pendleton would walk to the beach.]
"There really wasn't more - it [the job] wasn't terribly demanding. There was preventive maintenance to do. There were 2 large transmitters that broadcast the radio timing signals that ships at sea would use for navigation. The transmitters were 6 feet by 4 feet."
"At San Clemente, I got to go home every other weekend. Dad was doing ok while I was there. He had retired from work due to the decrease in his mental acuity."
"I was stationed there for about 18 months. After that, I was sent to the Philippines."
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Lindgren Family - Brian Carl Lindgren - page 24
Brian spent a total of 2-3 months on the Burton Island. On 15 December 1966 the USS Burton Island was decommissioned from the Navy and then Commissioned for the United States Coast Guard on the same date.
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His longest sea time was about 3 days [Seattle to Long Beach] and had the dry heaves for the entire time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCGC_Burton_Island_(WAGB-283)
[Retrieved from Wikipedia, 22 February 2020.]
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Lindgren Family - Brian Carl Lindgren - page 22
Coast Guard -Groton, Connecticut
After graduation from Government Island, Alameda, Brian was sent to Electrical A school in Gloucester City Connecticut.
Brian arrived in New Jersey on the red eye flight from Los Angeles after having 1 month leave.
"I took a bus at 0430 to Groton Connecticut, which was also the location of the US submarine base. Then I took a taxi to the training center located on the mouth of Thames River which separates
"The training center had previously been built as a boys school. It had one large 2 story barracks around a center quad space, with a large administration building and other support building. It covered about 10 acres of land.
"During that 6 months I covered various electronic, radio, and radar operations. During the training period, testing was performed in the month before training was completed. All the trainees grades were looked at, and good grades were rewarded by getting the highest pick of assignments.
"While I was stationed in Groton, I went into New York City. I went up to the top of the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. I stayed the night with the Italian family of one of the guys at the training station. They were extremely nice and fed me.
"There was also a bowling alley in one of the auxiliary buildings. It only had 2 lanes. Because the pin setting machine was manual, someone volunteered as the pin spotter to set the pins while 2 others where bowling. As the pins were knocked down, the pin setter would set them in the "holding" part of the mechanism until they were ready to be set. When the machine operator pushed a button, the mechanism would set it up for the next bowler."
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After graduation from Government Island, Alameda, Brian was sent to Electrical A school in Gloucester City Connecticut.
Brian arrived in New Jersey on the red eye flight from Los Angeles after having 1 month leave.
"I took a bus at 0430 to Groton Connecticut, which was also the location of the US submarine base. Then I took a taxi to the training center located on the mouth of Thames River which separates
"The training center had previously been built as a boys school. It had one large 2 story barracks around a center quad space, with a large administration building and other support building. It covered about 10 acres of land."During that 6 months I covered various electronic, radio, and radar operations. During the training period, testing was performed in the month before training was completed. All the trainees grades were looked at, and good grades were rewarded by getting the highest pick of assignments.
"While I was stationed in Groton, I went into New York City. I went up to the top of the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty. I stayed the night with the Italian family of one of the guys at the training station. They were extremely nice and fed me.
"There was also a bowling alley in one of the auxiliary buildings. It only had 2 lanes. Because the pin setting machine was manual, someone volunteered as the pin spotter to set the pins while 2 others where bowling. As the pins were knocked down, the pin setter would set them in the "holding" part of the mechanism until they were ready to be set. When the machine operator pushed a button, the mechanism would set it up for the next bowler."
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Lindgren Family - Brian Carl Lindgren - page 23
"In Long Beach my parent's drove me to the Coast Guard recruiting office. That's where new recruit's caught the bus up to Government Island in Alameda California."
For 40 years, Government island was the site of the Coast Guard's recruiting training center - boot camp. It is a 67 acre island, within the city limits of Alameda California. It was made from dredging the San Francisco Bay between the Oakland estuary and San Leandro Bay in 1913.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast_Guard_Island
"There was a place for docking the Ocean going cutters (150 foot long) on the Island which would go out half way between California and Hawaii to sail the Pacific for 30 days at a time. They were there to rescue any downed planes, or boats that were in distress.
"While I was at Government Island I was in Company Charlie 50. We were stationed there for 60 days.
"Our company's sleeping area was in the 2nd story of the barracks building."We were in groups, and each group had different training assignments every week.
"The first 2-3 days were basic skills testing to see where the Coast Guard which specialty school you would be sent to for additional training. In my section I received the highest grade in the electrical area, so I chose to go to electrical tech school in Connecticut for training in electronics theory and equipment.
"We then learned other skills which included swimming; 2 days worth of firearms training; and a weeks worth of working in the dining hall feeding the recruits who had come in ahead of us. We would clean and set up the dining hall, as well as serve the food. My duty was keeping the milk and juice bar stocked which was fine with me.
"We were also trained on military regulations, courtesies and protocols, and the history of the Coast Guard. There was drills for marching commands and drilling.
"I was placed in a holding company for 2 weeks after I had completed basic training. I was waiting for the new class to start at the training center [in Connecticut].
"At one point I was assigned to the officer of the day (OOD). I reported to the OOD office at 8pm to serve as a fire watch standard. I entered the office so quietly that neither officer hadn't heard me enter. Not having any other options I said "SIR- BRIAN C LINDGREN - 3640-37 - REPORTING TO DUTY SIR!" and scared them half to death. I stood the night 4 hour shift for 2 weeks after that.
"The only other duties left for me was night fire watch, or messenger service during the daytime. One night while on fire watch I saw a glow coming from one room in the barracks. I discovered that the First Class Petty Officer had fallen asleep while watching his portable Sony TV, that he had placed on his stomach. Not wanting him to turn and have the TV fall to the ground and wake him up, I crawled to the bed and gently lifted the TV off his stomach and placed it on the ground. The best part? - he didn't wake up!
"I then got a month's leave prior to reporting to Connecticut for electronics school. It was a push over as I had studied it the last year of high school and junior College.
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Lindgren Family - Brian Carl Lindgren - page 21
Jobs I have done - Part 1-Dictated by Brian Carl Lindgren
When I was 16 years old [1962]- I loaded concrete blocks, concrete, redi-mix, manure (bagged), lumber, pipe - cut and threaded pipe (the old fashioned way) and drove a forklift. Almost tipped the forklift over one day while drag racing. (Lin-Brook Hardware, Anaheim, CA)
When I was 17 years old [1963] - This summer, Duane was raising corn in a field immediately adjacent to Nana's, my mother's mother's, house. I was going to sell the corn there at the side of the street and split the profit with him but the corn was not mature yet. I went to a larger farm on the west side of Knott's Berry Farm and bought corn there. I sold it at a 100% markup at Duane's field. Good money - lots of business. As I remember the corn was about $12 - $15 a crate (144 ears).
When I was 18 years old [1964] - I worked at Wallace Tractor Co - Cleaned shop and yard areas. Delivered and picked up tractors, loaders, and backhoes. Drove a truck and trailer through Watts, CA the day before the riots broke out in 1965.
Also when I was 18 years old - (Summer of 1964) I got up at 4A.M., Monday through Friday to help load up catering trucks (what we call food trucks now except they were much smaller). Think of a regular sized pickup but with a specially built truck bed to hold drinks, sandwiches, chips, candy, coffee, and hot sandwiches. One of the largest sections of this truck was for cold sodas, iced tea, juices, etc., and this section needed lots of ice. My principle job was to take a contractor's sized wheelbarrow, and load it up as far as possible with ice from a walk-in ice maker - about 12 feet square. I would then take it out to the catering trucks and totally fill in the space set up for the cold drinks. The driver would then take over and position all the drinks as he wanted. I usually received $5 - $7 for each truck I serviced. I usually earned $30 - $35 each morning in tips for performing about 3-3.5 hours of work. Not bad - no taxes taken out. Then my buddy Kim and I would go to Newport Beach twice a week or so to go body surging for a couple of hours. Then it was home to bed. [I think Kim found this job for the 2 of them.]
When I was 19 years old [1965] - I drove a Yellow Cab in Anaheim, CA during the summer of 1965. [Brian told me that one time he was driving "a little old lady", who noticed a motel sign advertising that they had water beds. She said
something like "I wonder what that is like." Brian answered "Oh you don't want to stay there! Someone stayed there and got so tangled up in the sheets that they drowned!"
I don't know everyone in this picture, Karen is to the right of Brian.To the left of the picture is Anne, then Connie, and then MaryLou, Anne's friend.
Between during my 20 - 24 years of age I spent them in the Coast Guard.
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When I was 16 years old [1962]- I loaded concrete blocks, concrete, redi-mix, manure (bagged), lumber, pipe - cut and threaded pipe (the old fashioned way) and drove a forklift. Almost tipped the forklift over one day while drag racing. (Lin-Brook Hardware, Anaheim, CA)
When I was 17 years old [1963] - This summer, Duane was raising corn in a field immediately adjacent to Nana's, my mother's mother's, house. I was going to sell the corn there at the side of the street and split the profit with him but the corn was not mature yet. I went to a larger farm on the west side of Knott's Berry Farm and bought corn there. I sold it at a 100% markup at Duane's field. Good money - lots of business. As I remember the corn was about $12 - $15 a crate (144 ears).
When I was 18 years old [1964] - I worked at Wallace Tractor Co - Cleaned shop and yard areas. Delivered and picked up tractors, loaders, and backhoes. Drove a truck and trailer through Watts, CA the day before the riots broke out in 1965.
Also when I was 18 years old - (Summer of 1964) I got up at 4A.M., Monday through Friday to help load up catering trucks (what we call food trucks now except they were much smaller). Think of a regular sized pickup but with a specially built truck bed to hold drinks, sandwiches, chips, candy, coffee, and hot sandwiches. One of the largest sections of this truck was for cold sodas, iced tea, juices, etc., and this section needed lots of ice. My principle job was to take a contractor's sized wheelbarrow, and load it up as far as possible with ice from a walk-in ice maker - about 12 feet square. I would then take it out to the catering trucks and totally fill in the space set up for the cold drinks. The driver would then take over and position all the drinks as he wanted. I usually received $5 - $7 for each truck I serviced. I usually earned $30 - $35 each morning in tips for performing about 3-3.5 hours of work. Not bad - no taxes taken out. Then my buddy Kim and I would go to Newport Beach twice a week or so to go body surging for a couple of hours. Then it was home to bed. [I think Kim found this job for the 2 of them.]
When I was 19 years old [1965] - I drove a Yellow Cab in Anaheim, CA during the summer of 1965. [Brian told me that one time he was driving "a little old lady", who noticed a motel sign advertising that they had water beds. She said
I don't know everyone in this picture, Karen is to the right of Brian.To the left of the picture is Anne, then Connie, and then MaryLou, Anne's friend.
Between during my 20 - 24 years of age I spent them in the Coast Guard.
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Sunday, February 9, 2020
Lindgren Family - From HerrÀkra and Söraby A Family History - page 148D
*s.Brian Carl Lindgren 11 Feb 1946 14 Feb 1975
w.Myra Lee Winch 16 Oct 1954
+s.Andrew Carl Lindgren 8 Jan 1986
*d.Karen Louise Lindgren 3 Dec 1953 14 Feb 1976
*h.Dennis Cascarelli Divorced
+s.Travis Lane Cascarelli 14 Dec 1978
+s.Owen Scott Cascarelli 16 May 1981
-d.Florence Christina Lindgren 18 Nov 1905 15 Jul 1979 1926?
h."Hedge" Hedgers.
-s.Robert James Lindgren 12 Oct 1910 23 Mar 1940
w.Gurly Schonborg 17 Jul 1915
*d.Joan Roberta Lindgren 21 Mar 1942 6 March 1966
h.Stephen Howland
+s.Stephen Howland IV 6 Dec 1967
*d.Margaret Jean Lindgren 27 April 1944 6 June 1981
*s.Robert James Lindgren,Jr. 22 Mar 1949 20 Nov 1982
w.Marion O'Neal Phillips 8 July 1945
-d.Margaret Lindgren 1937
h.Ralph Riddle 1937
THE BRITTA NILSDOTTER STENDAHL FAMILY
Britta Nilsdotter was one of the seven daughters of Nils and Elin Petersson, born 23 July 1838, according to Söraby church records. Records in Center City, Minnesota, list her birth date as 3 July 1838. We know that she was still living at the home farm (Norraby NorregÄrd) in 1856 when her niece Emma (Leaf) was born to sister Catharina. we also know that Britta moved to Hemmesjö parish in 1865.
I think that Emma was very close to her Aunt Britta in Sweden. I also think that they agreed that Emma would join Britta in America after Britta became settled in the new land.
Britta was 38 and single when she left for America 11 years after her move
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Lindgren Family - From HerrÀkra and Söraby A Family History - page 148C
JONAS & MARTA'S FAMILY:
Birth Date Death Date Married
2s. Johan Gustaf Jonasson 14 Jun 1860 26 Feb 1934 Unmarried
3. d.Elin Elissa Jonasdotter 10 Sept 1862 26 Nov 1949
h. Mr. Magnusson
-s.Erik Jonan Magnusson 1893 1925
-d.Hannah Elisabet Magnusson 1899
h.Magni Gustaf Karlsson?
4 c. Emilia (Emily) Jonasdotter 5 Jun 1871
5. d.Kiristina Jonasdotter 25 May 1873 9 Jan 1959
h.Carl William Lindgren 2 May 1872 1935
-s.Harry Malloch Lindgren 9 Jan 1899 Sep 1982
w.Marjorie Reed
*d.Judith Lindgren 18 Sep 1940 1959
h.Jerry Morris 6 May 1937
+s.James Morris 7 Dec 1959
+s/Jeffrey Morris 18 May 1961
+d.Julie Morris 29 Jun 1963
+s,John Morris 5 Jan 1968
+d.Jennifer Morris 31 Jan 1983
s.Steven Reed Lindgren 10 Dec 1944
w.Martha Jane Mello 16 Mar 1947
+s.John Carl Lindgren 16 Feb 1981
+d.Kristine Eliz. Lindgren 1 Mar 1982
-d.Linea Lindgren 1926
h.Francis Stone Nelson
*d.Linea Nelson
h.John Sundbye
+s.John Sundbye
+s.Nelson Sundbye
-d.Nina Lindgren 1905 1936
h.Marshal Spencer Leve
*s.Marshall Leve
*s.William Leve
*d.Christine Leve
-s.Carl Herbert Lindgren 21 Sep 1903 17 Sep 1970 15 Jun 1931
w.Helen Louise Clark 6 Jun 1910
*s.Duane Clark Lindgren 3 Jun 1936 1960
w.Connie Van Dalsen
*s.Jeffrey Kyle Lindgren 18 Jun 1968
w.Barbara Germaine Chezik 16 Feb 1974
-d.Anne Christine Lindgren 11 May 1939 16 Dec 1961
h.John Wayne Davison 4 Feb 1938
+s.Blair Courtney Davison 17 Oct 1962
+s.Brent Vincent Davison 30 Jun 1964
148C
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Lindgren Family - From HerrÀkra and Söraby A Family History - page 148B
CHRISTINE LINDGREN'S FAMILY (continued)
in return. She faced her illness with courage and never complained of her misery though she was so very weak. She had a strong faith and ready to enter a New Life on Sunday, July 15, 1979." Florie worked as office manager for Lawrence Systems.
Robert was born in 1910 in Oakland and was married in 1940 to Gurly Schonborg (born in 1915 in Rhode Island). Gurly has provided me with the information and pictures on Christine's family. They have three children. Joan (1942) married Stephen Howland in 1966 and has one child, Stephen IV, born in 1967 in Whittier, CA. Margaret (1944) died in 1981. She and Joan were both born in Michigan.
Robert James, Jr., was born in 1949 in Los Angeles and married Marion Phillips in 1982. She was born in Scotland in 1945.
Christine's youngest child was Margaret. She married, but she and her husband both passed away within a very short time of each other.
Robert was a Lt. Commander in the Navy during World War II. He was a graduate of the California Maritime Academy with an in engineering degree. Before and after his service time he worked for Kobe, Inc., a manufacturer of hydraulic oil pumps.
Carl was a geologist and a graduate of the U. of Cal. at Berkeley, where Harry also received his degree. Linea was a grade school teacher with degrees from UCLA and USC, later worked as a school psychomotrist.
MĂRTA, JONAS' FAMILY BORN DIED
MĂ€rta Nilsdotter 25 Jan 1835 6 Jan 1887
h.Jonas Peter Gustafsson 15 Dec 1828 1908
1 d.Anna Jonasdotter 3 Jan 1858 6 Oct 1946
h. Mr. Karlsson 6 Mar 1858 2 Feb 1937
- (Had children and grandchildren but research not yet completed.
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in return. She faced her illness with courage and never complained of her misery though she was so very weak. She had a strong faith and ready to enter a New Life on Sunday, July 15, 1979." Florie worked as office manager for Lawrence Systems.
Robert James, Jr., was born in 1949 in Los Angeles and married Marion Phillips in 1982. She was born in Scotland in 1945.
Christine's youngest child was Margaret. She married, but she and her husband both passed away within a very short time of each other.
Robert was a Lt. Commander in the Navy during World War II. He was a graduate of the California Maritime Academy with an in engineering degree. Before and after his service time he worked for Kobe, Inc., a manufacturer of hydraulic oil pumps.
Carl was a geologist and a graduate of the U. of Cal. at Berkeley, where Harry also received his degree. Linea was a grade school teacher with degrees from UCLA and USC, later worked as a school psychomotrist.
MĂRTA, JONAS' FAMILY BORN DIED
MĂ€rta Nilsdotter 25 Jan 1835 6 Jan 1887
h.Jonas Peter Gustafsson 15 Dec 1828 1908
1 d.Anna Jonasdotter 3 Jan 1858 6 Oct 1946
h. Mr. Karlsson 6 Mar 1858 2 Feb 1937
- (Had children and grandchildren but research not yet completed.
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CHRISTINE LINDGREN'S FAMILY (continued)
Linea was Christine's second child. She married Francis Nelson in 1926 and had one daughter, Linea, who married John Sundbye, a dentist, and had two children, John and Nelson.
Carl Wilhelm, born in San Francisco, married Helen Clark, and they have four children--Duane, Ann, Brian and Karen- and six grandchildren. Ann and John Davison were married in Glenrothes, Scotland, and their first child was born in St. Andrews, Scotland.Florence "Florie" was born in 1905 in San Francisco and married "Hedge" Hedger in about 1926. That marriage lasted about two years and there were no children. Florence died in 1979. When Florence was six years old the family moved from San Francisco to the Los Angeles area. She later reminisced that she was six months old and brother Carl 2 1/2 years old at the time of the earthquake in San Francisco. Brother Harry was seven and told how the house withstood the quake but that the bricks in the chimney came down. Forty-four people stayed in their house during the nights immediately after the earthquake.
Florence graduated from Los Angeles Polytechnic High School and attended many college and adult education classes in the years following. She loved the outdoors and hiked five miles each day in the Hollywood hills and also swam two miles a day. She once took a raft excursion over the Colorado River rapids.
She visited Sweden in 1975. I believe she traveled with cousin Evie Lindblom at that time, though I am not sure of that. She had a life-long interest in blind children and provided transportation for them to the Center and other recreational activities.
At the time of her death, Sunday, July 15 1979, sister-in-law Gurly Lindgren said of her, "She was a special person who gave much of herself and demanded nothing
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Lindgren Family - From HerrÀkra and Söraby A Family History - page 148
THE MARTA GUSTAFSSON FAMILY (continued)
(1872), Ida Kristina (1874), and Johan August (1877). At this point I can't figure out how they fit into that family.
John, Kristina's half-brother, arrived in America in 1882, settling first in Bristol, South Dakota. He moved to Langford, South Dakota, in 1889. He apparently never did marry. He died in 1934.
Kristina married Karl Wilhelm Lindgren, who was born in 1872 at Sodatcroft 105 Herkelocken, Betingtorp, the son of Karl Peter Lindgren of DÀdesjö and Botilda Charlotta Svensdotter, born 22 Nov. 1842. Kristina's husband Karl was one of eight children. At the time of his emigration at age 16 on 3 April 1889, he was listed as a servant. He was well-known as a tailor (cutter) in Minnesota and Los Angeles. He cut suits for celebrities as Adoph Menjou (often mentioned as the world's best-dress man), Charlie Chaplin and Cecil B. DeMille. Carl would go to the homes of customers, measure them and cut their suits while at their homes.
Kristina and Carl had seven children. I do not have Kristina's emigration date or the date of her marriage to Carl.
Son Harry was born in 1899 and died in September 1982. He married Marjorie Reed in 1939. She was a well-known artist in the West, famous for her paintings of the Santa Fe Trail. Harry was a best known as a sound technician at Paramount Studios. He was the sound operator for all of Cecil DeMille's pictures. Before that time he was a radio ham operator, worked for station KFI. During World War II he went back to MIT and was sent to Hawaii as a Colonel to install radar equipment. In the 1960's, when work became slack in the movie industry, he went to sea as an officer in Merchant Marine as a radar and radio operator.
[Harry was the sound man on the second "The Ten Commandments. I believe that his daughter Judy has the bound script. All of the actors autographed the script. I remember Charleston Heston's signature is there, and the notation; "Harry - you always make us sound good!"]
Harry and Marjorie had two children, Judith [Judy] and Steven. Judith, born in 1939, married Jerry Morris and has five children. Steven has two children and lives at 15464 McAdams Creek Road, Fort Jones, CA 96032. [Steven died in 2017, Fort Jones, Siskiyou, California.]
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Lindgren Family - From HerrÀkra and Söraby A Family History - page 146B
CHRISTINE LINDGREN'S HALF SISTERS - ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The following information on Christine Lindgren's half sisters, Anna and Elin Elissa, has not been substantiated or verified and is offered here as a starting point for future research. Because much of the material is written in Swedish, and I couldn't find anyone immediately to help with the translation, I could not research the material properly.
Among Anna's descendants is a woman named Edith. The information I have says she is a daughter of Anna. But it also says she married Einar Gustavsson on 18 March 1935 and had a son, Harald, born 30 October 1936. I guess it would not be impossible for Anna to have a daughter married in 1936, but it almost seems like we're skipping a generation. If Anna's daughter Edith was born when Anna was 40 years old, then Edith would be 37 years old when she married and 38 when her son Harold was born. Edith's brother Edwin was married 30 December 1932
and had two daughters, one name Ulla. Elin Elissa probably had at least two children. Erik appears to be a son and Hannah a daughter of Elin Elissa. On her death announcement Elin Elissa's last name is Magnusson. Assuming that was her first and only husband's name, son Erik Johan Albert would be a Magnusson, and Hannah must have married a Karlsson (Magni Gustaf Gustaf Daniel Karlsson).
On a Christmas picture of Elin Elissa's family, the identification on the back introduces many more relatives I cannot fit in at the present time. They are listed as Helena and Karl, Edith and Frans, Oscar Carlson, Erik, Gustav, Hannah, Elissa, Ruth Lundin, Linda Carlson, Ruth's brother Gunnar Lundin and Alfred Carlson. The picture was taken at Christmas, probably some time in the 1920' or 1930's.
On another picture with Elin Elissa and a younger married couple, it talks about Edith being married in Ăstra TorsĂ„ parish and goes on to mention son Harold and also Edwin, who had two daughters, ages four years and four months, the younger one name Ulla. The question is whether Elin Elissa is referring to her own descendants of those of her sister Anna. The picture is taken at what looks like Tarjo MĂ„nsgĂ„rd, Torgelstad. The identification is in Swedish, and there are several words which I can't make out because of the poor handwriting.
These pictures and several letters in Swedish written by Elin Elissa to her half sister Christine in California were sent to me by Christine's daughter-in-flaw, Gurly Lindgren. I will need more time to put the puzzle together. I am sure that the letters have some helpful information, but I can't translate them because I can't read the handwriting.
Actually, we are not dealing here with blood relatives of mine. They and Christine, of course, had the same father. But there is no blood relationship with Christine's cousins --Anna Matson, Emma Leaf or Esther Lindblom. Nevertheless, it is information that we would like to have straight, and it is important to Christine's descendants.
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Lindgren Family - From HerrÀkra and Söraby A Family History - page 147
THE MĂRTA NILSDOTTER GUSTAFSSON FAMILY
Emma Leaf was very close to at least two of her aunts --MĂ€rta and Britta --and several cousins who came to America. It is through these cousins that we were able to get on the track of Emma's roots.
Jonas Peter Gustafsson had three children from a previous marriage. They were Ann (1858), John (1850) and Elin Elissa (1862). Born to Jonas and MĂ€rta were Emilia (1871) and Kristine (1873). Anna married a Mr. Karlsson, and Elin Elissa apparently married a Magnusson. I have some names as far as Ann and Elin Elissa's descendants are concerned, but haven't had time to fit things together. I have written down some of those things on Page 146B. Don't take them as gospel at this time.
Before her marriage to Jonas, MÀrta was living at the home farm where she and niece Emma were both born. She left the Norraby NorrgÄrd farm the year Emma was born (1856) and moved to DÀdesjö. She died on 5 January 1887 when her daughter Kristina was 14 years old.
Emilia emigrated to America 13 June 1887 but returned to Sweden on 2 July 1890. In the period between 1880 and 1890 the Gustafsson family lived at a croft called Kalleskruf or SlÀtten. The croft belonged to the village of Ramnasa in the parish of DÀdesjö parish.
In the parish records of 1880 there was listed a widow living at their home, Ann Stina Andersdotter, born in 1837. Named with her were her six children Anders Peter (1865), Ingrid Maria (1868), Anna Katrina (1868), Matilda Lovisa
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Lindgren Family - From HerrÀkra and Söraby A Family History -cover page 2
FROM HERRĂ
KRA AND SĂRBY
THE LOFGRENS FROM HERRĂ
KRA (INCLUDING LEAF, SAND, LINDQUIST, AHLQVEST)
THE NILSSONS AND NILSDOTTERS FROM SĂRBY (INCLUDING JOHANSDOTTER, LINDGREN, MATSON, CHELGREN, YOUNG)
BY EARL W. LEAF
PUBLISHED IN 1986 BY
LEAF LOGS
ROUTE 1, BOX 850
NEW LONDON, MINNESOTA 52673
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This book was given to me by Robert James Lindgren, Jr., in January 2020. He had possession of it from many years if not decades. I deeply appreciate his trust in me to be able to have this volume, excerpted for my blog, Lindgren and Allied Families.
[Family Names]: Lofgren, Hawkins, Kent, Hebaus, Lindquist, Lundholm, Johnson, Malmqvist, Leaf Haagenson, Holcombe, Lindgren, Larson, Lindblom, Pegors, Lindemann, Howard, Mundfrom, Maher, Gibbs, Reep, Marxhausen, Franksen, Matson, Granath, Malmgren, Frandeen, Nelson, Eld, Neuman, Nolin, Delisle, Orre, Hult, Green, Chelgren, Bravinder, Peterson, Pegors, Waugh, Leve, Tschimperle, McClellan, Uram, Kwak, Isaia, Herron, Havens, Hanson, Doely, Powell, Rau, Martinson, McKenna, Nelson, Ogren, Pommier, Pentz, Richter, Stephen, Strand, Stevens, Shobe, Gesch, Gebings, Gutfield, Ericsson,Davison, Duncan, Davis, Beck, Bailely, Bossard, Cascarelli, Cutler, Correa, Antal, Weakly, Webbenhurst, Vietmeier, Waltech, White, Younger, Wenz, Wight Valentino, Svensson, Mansson, Nilsdotter, Olsson, Pilant, Pouliot, Platzer Person, Rutgersson, Rook, Sandell, Warling, Tornblad, Widing, Thurenius, Anton, Craig, Bergman, Bengtsson, Bergstrom, Ahlqvist, Polfus, Tidball, Stavig, Stendahll, Singer Srock, Williams, Zachek, Berset, Young, Asbridge, Swanberb, Asp, Sundbye, Norwood, Sand, Miller, Swenson, Lovgren, Scharr, Luce, Swanson, Richer, Lubewicz
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