Category: Life

It was a warm late winter day in 1937, and I was a seven year old boy. Our good neighbors had joined us for a day of harvesting ice for our newly constructed Ice House. No one in our community had refrigerators as they weren’t readily available nor did we have electricity to operate them,…continue reading »

The death certificate showed the cause of death to be a stroke. Life began in 1874 in Sweden. In 1878 my grandfather returned from a church meeting and informed his wife to pack up their belongings. They were moving to another country where they could have religious freedom. With no room for negotiation Grandma Christina…continue reading »