Oct 25, 2024

The Passing of my Second Cousin

 

My second cousin
Timothy Edwin Jacobson
b. March 26, 1946 Detroit, Michigan 
d. October 23, 2024 Bellingham, Washington


Tim's dear wife for over 60 years
Robin Helen Jacobson
b. September 21, 1946 New Rochelle, New York
d. September 23, 2024 Bellingham, Washington


    Their memory is certainly a blessing,


*right click to enlarge obituary on your computer for easier viewing*


Oct 10, 2024

Three Immigrant Sisters


Anna, Lydia & Ruth


 This photo was taken about 1958/9 in front of my grandmothers home on Hollywood ave. in Chicago. I always remember Aunt Anna as a tall gal but my grandmother Lydia was right below her. The long skirt hides it just a bit. Grandma had rickets as a child and severe arthritis in her later years so her legs were quite bent. A cousin used to say "Grandma's legs are so bowed you can drive a truck between them!"

All gone many years now but still fondly remembered,



Oct 7, 2024

1950 Census Andrew and Ruth Soderstrom



1408 9th Street, Moline, Rock Island, Illinois
not a farm, less than 3 acres


#18 - Soderstrom, Andrew, Head, white, male, 61 yrs old, married, born in Sweden, naturalized citizen, worked 40 hrs in last week, as a toolmaker, in a farm implement factory, private business

#19 - Soderstrom, Ruth, wife, white, female, 55 yrs old, married, born in Sweden, naturalized citizen, at home, does not work outside of home 

#20 - Soderstrom, Evelyn, daughter, white, female, 15 yrs old, never married, born in Illinois, OT, not working outside of home  (OT refers to as other, 14 yrs and under considered to be at school. Evelyn is at school but many over 14 are working at this point.)

my great uncle
Andrew Olof Soderstrom
1888-1960

my great Aunt
Ruth Abrahamsson Soderstrom
1894-1969

my first cousin once removed
Evelyn Ruth Soderstrom Eckberg 
1935 -

Andrew and Ruth's older 3 children are all pretty newly married. So far they have 1 grandaughter.


Oct 1, 2024

An Anniversary to Remember

Seventy five years ago today my parents, 
Melvin Kallman and Grace Sevald, became husband and wife.
75th is the diamond anniversary.




The happy young couple
Mr. & Mrs. Melvin Kallman
married: October 1, 1949





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Sep 25, 2024

Another Lovely Baby Cousin

 Another lovely baby photo of a long ago cousin, found on Ancestry.com. 


my second cousin once removed
Nanna Ragnhild Arvida Landen
b. May 23, 1891 Göteborg och Bohus, Sweden
d. February 21, 1960 Stockholm, Sweden



Sep 17, 2024

Swedish Covenant Hospital

 The Swedish Covenant Hospital, on Foster Avenue, is on the north side of Chicago. The hospital was established in 1885 in an area heavily populated with newly immigrant Swedes. It was Swedes, more specifically members of the Swedish Mission Covenant church that founded this great hospital.  I was born there and both of my Swedish grandparents died there. I found an interesting article on the history of Swedes and the Swedish Covenant Hospital that continues to serve the now ethnically diverse area. I enjoyed the read and thought perhaps you would also?

click here →   A NEW SHIFT FOR SWEDISH