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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