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Our daughter, Angeline, married Clinton Coyne of Ma-Me-O and they have a daughter, Corrine. Angie was employed at the Falun Co-op for one year before her marriage. Barry married Beverly Schmidt and lives in the Rapid Creek district. GUST. ALFRED LOFGREN Mr. and Mrs. Gustof Alfred Lofgren came to the district in 1904 from Stanton, Iowa, and homesteaded the NE1/414-46-27-W4. They had three children: Gerhard, who passed away in 1916 at age thirty-one; Einar; and Minnie. They brought all their cattle, horses and machinery along when they came to settle here, but times were very hard and very little money was available. Einar went back to the States, and kept coaxing his parents to come back to the States also. In 1917 they sold the farm and livestock to Fred Holmlund and went back to the States, and very little was heard from them since. The house and barn which they built have been moved and are still being used. This land stayed with the Holmlunds until 1960 when it was sold to Arthur Ruskowsky. THE JURYKOSKI FAMILY In 1931, the Joseph Jurykoski family came to Canada from Poland. They lived in the Brightview district for five years and Ma-Me-O for one year before purchasing the NW1/~,-14-46-27-W4 from Fred Holmlund in 1938. They had seven children. The oldest son, Joe, died in 1944 of wounds received in World War II in Italy. John also served overseas. Lloyd, along with Mr. and Mrs. Jurykoski, lives in Thorsby, Alberta. Henry, married to Marlene Hagen, has three children, and lives in Edmonton; Ed married Sherry Mousir, has one boy, and resides in Calgary; Mary is Mrs. M. Clark, has three boys, is widowed and lives in Ponoka, Alberta; Ann, Mrs. Alvin Garraway, lives in Vancouver, B.C. John bought the farm from his father in 1947. He married Margaret Killaly in October, 1949. They have six children Connie, in Wetaskiwin ; Gail, in Ponoka ; Nolan, Wayde, and Laurie, at home. Faye, married to Roger Bakaas, has two children, Aaron and Cori, and lives at Falun. HENRY ANDERSON - by daughter Alma My parents' surnames were both Anderson. My father, from the Lofoten Islands, was named Hendrick but was called Henry, and my mother, from the Voss Fjord part of Norway, was named Ingeborg but called Emma. They came with their parents to Minnesota, U.S.A., and according to


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