Dear Jerrald, Annette and other Listers! Thank you very much for your messages in regard to Otto Bolstad! I have been in contact with a couple of family members, so some of this information is known to me, while many details are still missing. And those requested marriages are among the latter category. The family was apparently quite "international"... A brother of Otto's was for many years a resident of Madagascar! If Otto's 2nd marriage to Cecile occurred in Alaska, I can understand we have difficulties finding it, since Alaska records appear to be rather "sketchy", but even marriage records from WA are not always included in the otherwise so excellent records from the Washington State Archives! Even more surprising is it though that Otto's 1st marriage to Minnie Cook shall be so difficult to find. FamilySearch appear to have a large collection of vital records from Illinois, but still it's so hard...! Thanks again for your efforts in this matter! I would think these marriages must have been announced somewhere, in some newspaper? Very sincerely yours, Lars E. Oyane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Mar 14, 2015, at 10:51 PM, Annette Bowen via wrote: > Lars, > I found a brief obit for his first wife, Minnie, in 1945, and a longer obit > for their son David, who died in a plane crash in North Africa in 1953. > Neither gave any clue as to the marriage location. there was an Otto > Bolstad in Grand Forks, ND, a teacher, but your Otto would not have been > old enough to be that man. > > Minnie died 22 Dec., was the wife of Otto D. Bolstad, mother of Daniel, > David, Ralph, Helen, Jean, Doris, Lois and Joan, daughter of William H. > Cook. She was a member of Central Lutheran Church and was buried at > Lincoln memorial Park. > (Oregonian, Portland, Dec. 25, 1945) > > David was born in Chicago October 30, 1930, attended school at Sequim, > Wash., and Benson High School in Portland, Oregon. His survivors were his > widow, Nina D. Bolstad, Rossier City, La. (this should be Bossier City), > who was expecting their second child in May, one son David W. Bolstad, Jr., > 3, father and step-mother Mr. and Mrs. Otto D. Bolstad, Mountain View, > Alaska; five sisters, Helen Campbell, Chicago; Lois Olson, Lowell, Wash.; > Joan Bolstad, Mountain View, Alaska, and Jean Anson and Doris Liebe, > Hermiston; two brothers, Airman 1/C Daniel Bolstad, Tripoli, and Ralph > Bolstad, Everett, and grandparents, mr. and Mrs. H. D. Bolstad, Everett. He > was buried in Willamette National Cemetery.(Portland Oregonian, Feb. 25, > 1953) > > Annette > > > On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Lars E. Oyane via <norway@rootsweb.com> > wrote: > >> Dear Listers! >> >> Again I am hoping for newspaper articles to help me out finding answers to >> these questions, and since no answers have reached me this last week, I >> decided I would relaunch the questions. >> >> Thanks a million for your wonderful assistance! >> >> Very sincerely yours, >> >> Lars E. Oyane >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> >> On Mar 6, 2015, at 6:15 AM, Lars E. Oyane via wrote: >> >>> Dear Listers! >>> >>> I have for quite some time tried to find the PLACES of these two >> marriages, but so far to no avail: >>> >>> Otto Daniel BOLSTAD, born in Pope Co., MN Jne 21, 1901, died at Chelan, >> WA Feb. 20, 1989 >>> >>> He was married 1st time June 10, 1926 - presumably in or near Evanston, >> IL - to >>> >>> Minnie Blanche COOK, born at Toronto, ON Sep. 16, 1902, died in >> Portland, OR Dec. 22, 1945 >>> >>> He was married 2nd time Nov. 11, 1950 - presumably in Sequim, WA or in >> Anchorage, AK - to >>> >>> Cecile Pearl REINKE, nee BLANCHARD, born in Waushara Co., WI June 23, >> 1894, died in Spokane, WA Sep. 10, 1966 >>> >>> He also married a 3rd time at Coeur d'Alene, ID Oct. 13, 1969, but that >> marriage has been taken care of before... >>> >>> I am rather "stumped" with the fact that I cannot find these marriages >> anywhere, so now I ask you, dear Listers, whether you can help me? Maybe >> newspaper announcements can be found? >>> >>> Thanks a million in advance for your great assistance in this matter! >>> >>> Very sincerely yours, >>> >>> Lars E. Oyane

Dear Listers! This morning I would very much like to resend a few past inquiries about individuals that may have been forgotten, and which I am VERY interested in trying to fill in missing details about before going to press. This is one of them, and I wish to thank you all very very much for every little bit and piece of information that can be found, perhaps basically thru newspaper notices(?). Very sincerely yours, Lars E. Oyane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Begin forwarded message: > From: "Lars E. Oyane via" <norway@rootsweb.com> > Date: March 15, 2015 7:16:27 AM EST > To: norway@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [NOR] Otto Bolstad's marriages 1926 and 1950? > Reply-To: "Lars E. Oyane" <lars.e.oyane@sdsl.no>, norway@rootsweb.com > > Dear Jerrald, Annette and other Listers! > > Thank you very much for your messages in regard to Otto Bolstad! I have been in contact with a couple of family members, so some of this information is known to me, while many details are still missing. And those requested marriages are among the latter category. The family was apparently quite "international"... A brother of Otto's was for many years a resident of Madagascar! > > If Otto's 2nd marriage to Cecile occurred in Alaska, I can understand we have difficulties finding it, since Alaska records appear to be rather "sketchy", but even marriage records from WA are not always included in the otherwise so excellent records from the Washington State Archives! > > Even more surprising is it though that Otto's 1st marriage to Minnie Cook shall be so difficult to find. FamilySearch appear to have a large collection of vital records from Illinois, but still it's so hard...! > > Thanks again for your efforts in this matter! I would think these marriages must have been announced somewhere, in some newspaper? > > Very sincerely yours, > > Lars E. Oyane > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > On Mar 14, 2015, at 10:51 PM, Annette Bowen via wrote: > >> Lars, >> I found a brief obit for his first wife, Minnie, in 1945, and a longer obit >> for their son David, who died in a plane crash in North Africa in 1953. >> Neither gave any clue as to the marriage location. there was an Otto >> Bolstad in Grand Forks, ND, a teacher, but your Otto would not have been >> old enough to be that man. >> >> Minnie died 22 Dec., was the wife of Otto D. Bolstad, mother of Daniel, >> David, Ralph, Helen, Jean, Doris, Lois and Joan, daughter of William H. >> Cook. She was a member of Central Lutheran Church and was buried at >> Lincoln memorial Park. >> (Oregonian, Portland, Dec. 25, 1945) >> >> David was born in Chicago October 30, 1930, attended school at Sequim, >> Wash., and Benson High School in Portland, Oregon. His survivors were his >> widow, Nina D. Bolstad, Rossier City, La. (this should be Bossier City), >> who was expecting their second child in May, one son David W. Bolstad, Jr., >> 3, father and step-mother Mr. and Mrs. Otto D. Bolstad, Mountain View, >> Alaska; five sisters, Helen Campbell, Chicago; Lois Olson, Lowell, Wash.; >> Joan Bolstad, Mountain View, Alaska, and Jean Anson and Doris Liebe, >> Hermiston; two brothers, Airman 1/C Daniel Bolstad, Tripoli, and Ralph >> Bolstad, Everett, and grandparents, mr. and Mrs. H. D. Bolstad, Everett. He >> was buried in Willamette National Cemetery.(Portland Oregonian, Feb. 25, >> 1953) >> >> Annette >> >> >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 8:06 PM, Lars E. Oyane via <norway@rootsweb.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear Listers! >>> >>> Again I am hoping for newspaper articles to help me out finding answers to >>> these questions, and since no answers have reached me this last week, I >>> decided I would relaunch the questions. >>> >>> Thanks a million for your wonderful assistance! >>> >>> Very sincerely yours, >>> >>> Lars E. Oyane >>> >>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>> >>> On Mar 6, 2015, at 6:15 AM, Lars E. Oyane via wrote: >>> >>>> Dear Listers! >>>> >>>> I have for quite some time tried to find the PLACES of these two >>> marriages, but so far to no avail: >>>> >>>> Otto Daniel BOLSTAD, born in Pope Co., MN Jne 21, 1901, died at Chelan, >>> WA Feb. 20, 1989 >>>> >>>> He was married 1st time June 10, 1926 - presumably in or near Evanston, >>> IL - to >>>> >>>> Minnie Blanche COOK, born at Toronto, ON Sep. 16, 1902, died in >>> Portland, OR Dec. 22, 1945 >>>> >>>> He was married 2nd time Nov. 11, 1950 - presumably in Sequim, WA or in >>> Anchorage, AK - to >>>> >>>> Cecile Pearl REINKE, nee BLANCHARD, born in Waushara Co., WI June 23, >>> 1894, died in Spokane, WA Sep. 10, 1966 >>>> >>>> He also married a 3rd time at Coeur d'Alene, ID Oct. 13, 1969, but that >>> marriage has been taken care of before... >>>> >>>> I am rather "stumped" with the fact that I cannot find these marriages >>> anywhere, so now I ask you, dear Listers, whether you can help me? Maybe >>> newspaper announcements can be found? >>>> >>>> Thanks a million in advance for your great assistance in this matter! >>>> >>>> Very sincerely yours, >>>> >>>> Lars E. Oyane > > Norwaylist Archiveshttp://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=norway > > RESUBSCRIBE UNSUB > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/NOR/NORWAY.html > > guidelines http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~norway/guidelines.htm > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message