Dear Mark and other Listers! Thank you very very much, Mark, for finding so quickly Edith Walker's obituary and sending me off-list both the obituary and also the notice telling about the actual accident. I am indeed impressed with your findings! So Edith came from the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota leaving behind a large number of siblings and relatives! This is very interesting, but I am still not able to find her birth in Minnesota! Noone named Edith was born in MN on Apr. 18, 1827, which was given as her birthdate at the time she died! Could it be, having so many relatives in the Red Lake reservation, that there is some write-up about her death in the Bemidji, MN paper? Or maybe the reservation has (had) its own paper? Thanks again for your great assistance in this matter! Very sincerely yours, Lars E. Oyane ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On May 15, 2015, at 9:08 AM, Mark Erickson via wrote: > Pasadena Independent; Tuesday, December 5, 1961; page 20 > > WALKER—Edith L.Walker of 224 West Verdugo, Burbank passed away Dec. 2,1961. A native of Minnesota, she had been a resident of this vicinity the past two years. Survived by her husband Robert D. Walker and daughter Lori Lee Walker; also four brothers and four sisters at the Red Lake Indian Reservation, Red Lake, Minnesota. Services will be held Thursday, Dec. 7, at 3 p.m. at the Lamb Funeral Home, 415 East Orange Grove Blvd., to be conducted by the Rev. Omar Gjerness. Interment private. Dear Listers, I realize that I am now in the "wrong" part of your beautiful sunny state, but since I have had such great assistance from you NORCAL listers in the past, and not being a member of the SOCAL list, I was hoping maybe someone has the possibility to check for a NEWSPAPER CLIPPING telling about this event: Edith L. Walker (Mrs. Robert Donald Walker) of Los Angeles, CA, born Apr. 18, 1927, was killed in a car accident in Los Angeles, CA on Dec. 2, 1961. Her father was of Norwegian background, but he died in 1977. Their little daughter (born in 1959) was adopted by his sister and brought up by her, not knowing anything at all about her birth mother apart from her first name! So, if any write-ups can be found about this event, that would be of great interest both to the daughter and to me! Thanks a million in advance for your great assistance in this matter! Very sincerely yours, Lars E. Oyane

Lars, FamilySearch seems to indicate that the Red Lake Reservation maintains its own vital records: https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Red_Lake_Indian_Agency_%28Minnesota%29 Perhaps she was born on the reservation and her birth record is kept there? James Aylard On Friday, May 15, 2015, Lars E. Oyane via <norway@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Dear Mark and other Listers! > > Thank you very very much, Mark, for finding so quickly Edith Walker's > obituary and sending me off-list both the obituary and also the notice > telling about the actual accident. I am indeed impressed with your > findings! > > So Edith came from the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota leaving > behind a large number of siblings and relatives! This is very interesting, > but I am still not able to find her birth in Minnesota! Noone named Edith > was born in MN on Apr. 18, 1827, which was given as her birthdate at the > time she died! > > Could it be, having so many relatives in the Red Lake reservation, that > there is some write-up about her death in the Bemidji, MN paper? Or maybe > the reservation has (had) its own paper? > > Thanks again for your great assistance in this matter! > > Very sincerely yours, > > Lars E. Oyane > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > On May 15, 2015, at 9:08 AM, Mark Erickson via wrote: > > > Pasadena Independent; Tuesday, December 5, 1961; page 20 > > > > WALKER—Edith L.Walker of 224 West Verdugo, Burbank passed away Dec. > 2,1961. A native of Minnesota, she had been a resident of this vicinity > the past two years. Survived by her husband Robert D. Walker and daughter > Lori Lee Walker; also four brothers and four sisters at the Red Lake Indian > Reservation, Red Lake, Minnesota. Services will be held Thursday, Dec. 7, > at 3 p.m. at the Lamb Funeral Home, 415 East Orange Grove Blvd., to be > conducted by the Rev. Omar Gjerness. Interment private. > > Dear Listers, > > I realize that I am now in the "wrong" part of your beautiful sunny state, > but since I have had such great assistance from you NORCAL listers in the > past, and not being a member of the SOCAL list, I was hoping maybe someone > has the possibility to check for a NEWSPAPER CLIPPING telling about this > event: > > Edith L. Walker (Mrs. Robert Donald Walker) of Los Angeles, CA, born Apr. > 18, 1927, was killed in a car accident in Los Angeles, CA on Dec. 2, 1961. > > Her father was of Norwegian background, but he died in 1977. Their little > daughter (born in 1959) was adopted by his sister and brought up by her, > not knowing anything at all about her birth mother apart from her first > name! > > So, if any write-ups can be found about this event, that would be of great > interest both to the daughter and to me! > > Thanks a million in advance for your great assistance in this matter! > > Very sincerely yours, > > Lars E. Oyane > > > -- James Aylard

Hi Mark, Have you tried the Tribal records - I believe they have a record of such things. All the best Barbara in MA On 5/15/2015 12:15 PM, Lars E. Oyane via wrote: > Dear Mark and other Listers! > > Thank you very very much, Mark, for finding so quickly Edith Walker's obituary and sending me off-list both the obituary and also the notice telling about the actual accident. I am indeed impressed with your findings! > > So Edith came from the Red Lake Indian Reservation in Minnesota leaving behind a large number of siblings and relatives! This is very interesting, but I am still not able to find her birth in Minnesota! Noone named Edith was born in MN on Apr. 18, 1827, which was given as her birthdate at the time she died! > > Could it be, having so many relatives in the Red Lake reservation, that there is some write-up about her death in the Bemidji, MN paper? Or maybe the reservation has (had) its own paper? > > Thanks again for your great assistance in this matter! > > Very sincerely yours, > > Lars E. Oyane > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > On May 15, 2015, at 9:08 AM, Mark Erickson via wrote: > >> Pasadena Independent; Tuesday, December 5, 1961; page 20 >> >> WALKER—Edith L.Walker of 224 West Verdugo, Burbank passed away Dec. 2,1961. A native of Minnesota, she had been a resident of this vicinity the past two years. Survived by her husband Robert D. Walker and daughter Lori Lee Walker; also four brothers and four sisters at the Red Lake Indian Reservation, Red Lake, Minnesota. Services will be held Thursday, Dec. 7, at 3 p.m. at the Lamb Funeral Home, 415 East Orange Grove Blvd., to be conducted by the Rev. Omar Gjerness. Interment private. > Dear Listers, > > I realize that I am now in the "wrong" part of your beautiful sunny state, but since I have had such great assistance from you NORCAL listers in the past, and not being a member of the SOCAL list, I was hoping maybe someone has the possibility to check for a NEWSPAPER CLIPPING telling about this event: > > Edith L. Walker (Mrs. Robert Donald Walker) of Los Angeles, CA, born Apr. 18, 1927, was killed in a car accident in Los Angeles, CA on Dec. 2, 1961. > > Her father was of Norwegian background, but he died in 1977. Their little daughter (born in 1959) was adopted by his sister and brought up by her, not knowing anything at all about her birth mother apart from her first name! > > So, if any write-ups can be found about this event, that would be of great interest both to the daughter and to me! > > 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 >