Obituary: Byron James Skoog, age 75, of Forest Lake, Minn., and formerly of
Brainerd, went to be with his Lord and Savior peacefully on Sept. 14, 2009, at
the age of 75. Byron was a 1953 graduate of Washington High School in
Brainerd. After graduation, Byron served his country in the United States
Navy, where he sailed throughout the world. He had a successful career in
basketball while in the Navy, playing for DESLANT and the flagship of the
fleet, the Yosemite. Byron was an avid deer hunter who loved to be outdoors
and often spoke of winning the lottery. He was a former Teamster at Murphy
Motor Freight and was employed with Forest Lake Schools as a bus driver. He
loved his family dearly and he was equally loved back. He is preceded in death
by his parents, Myer and Nora (Nelson) Skoog; brothers Martin, Clinton, Ronald
and Arne; sisters, Muriel and Ruth. He is survived by his loving son, Erik
(Tiffany), of Wyoming, Minn.; his grandchildren, Cole, Paige, Whitney and
Marcus Skoog; former wife and good friend, Pat Skoog; his stepsons, Audy
(Sheryl) Ford, Jack Ford, Doug (Sheila) Ford; stepgrandchildren, Brittany,
Stephanie, Cheyenne, Cody, Chansey, Tessie, Katie, Jacquie and Preslea Ford;
brothers, Myer "Whitey," of St. Peter, and Rodney (Sandra), of Forest Lake;
sisters, Claryce (Curtis) Johnson, of Anoka, and Ardyth (Gary) Quarnstrom, of
Monticello; many nephews and nieces. He will be greatly missed by his family,
but in the end, he finally won the biggest lottery of all--Heaven.
Learned to read and write Norwegian. 1939 hitchiked to California settling in
Riverside. She later moved to San Francisco. Moved to Los Angeles where she
worked as a waitress & hostess at Mannings and Du Pars restaurants.
She returned to Minnesota in the 1950s, settled in Bloomington and worked at
the Red Owl for 25 years. Moved to Anoka in the 1980s.
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Marriage record, Maria Spreizer, 21, single, of Dolejna veis?(vus?) #16,
father Jakop Spreizer marked as deceased, mother Anna Panian.
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Matij Stajer, Age 44, widower, of Yelsevnik #25 on 1867 marriage record.
Retired and spent most Winters in Mexico
Died at birth
Death Notes
Suicide
Left home when he was 12-14 years old, came to the Bemidji area and stayed with
a family by the name of Schroth. He worked in logging camps, he was a
corporal in World War I, during which he acquired a Purple Heart. He was
gassed and shel shocked a number of times in the war.
Obituary:
Leone Hammerbeck, 87
Leone E. Hammerbeck, a resident of Little Falls, died March 26, 2006, at St.
Ottos Care Center in Little Falls.
A Mass of Christian Burial was held March 29 at St. Marys Catholic Church in
Little Falls with Rev. Nicholas Landsberger officiating. Burial was in the
Minnesota State Veterans Cemetery.
Leone was born Nov. 18, 1918, in Royalton to the late Edward and Sarah
(Stewart) Stein. She grew up in Royalton and graduated from the Royalton High
School in 1936. Leone moved to Minneapolis where she worked as a waitress and,
during WW II, at a munitions plant. She was united in marriage to Richard
Stewart in 1942 who was serving in the armed forces and was killed in combat
during WW II in 1943. Leone was united in marriage to Harold M. Hammerbeck on
May 7, 1946, in Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Royalton. The couple were
lifelong residents of Little Falls, raising five sons and a daughter. She
enjoyed crocheting, traveling and playing cards, especially with her card
club. Leone especially loved her family and looked forward to family
gatherings when they could all be together. Her church and faith were a very
important part of her life. She was a faithful member of St. Marys Catholic
Church, served in the Mission Circle and as a Christian Mother. Leone was also
a member of St. Gabriels Hospital Auxiliary and the Little Falls American
Legion Auxiliary for many years.
Leone E. Hammerbeck is survived by her sons, Richard Stewart and wife Nancy of
Plymouth, Bruce Hammerbeck and wife Patti of Little Falls, Keith Hammerbeck
and wife Eileen of Cedar, Kevin Hammerbeck of St. Louis Park and Daniel
Hammerbeck of Clermont, FL; daughter, Lori Kneeland and husband Kurt of Little
Falls; sister, Jeanette McLeod and husband Norman of Crystal; grandchildren,
Jill Kellar, Jenny Stewart, Leisha Tays, Lindsay Hammerbeck, Kelly Hammerbeck,
Mark Hammerbeck and Kassara Kneeland; great grandchildren Cade and Cole Kellar
and Caleb Tays.
Leone was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Stewart; husband, Harold
M. Hammerbeck; parents; brothers, Arthur and Everett Stein; sisters, Helen
Junglen and Gerry Bjornstad-Eastman.
Casketbearers were her sons.
Taught his first cousin, Mary Agnes MacArthur (1895-1999) before 1909.
Raised the three daughters of her brother, Alexander, after the death of his
first wife, Julia Murphy.
DONALD STEWART
Wibaux Pioneer-Gazette, June 22, 1989
Donald Daniel Stewart, 69, of Stockton, California died on May 25 at
home. Mr. Stewart was a Stockton resident for 38 years. He was a sheet
metal worker for C & S Plumbing and Heating and a member of Stockton Rod
and Gun Club and American Legion Post Local 803 in Stockton, Knights of
Columbus in Oakland.
He was born on October 29, 1919 to Joe and Cecelia Stewart on a cattle
ranch in Wibaux County, he attended county grade school and high school
here.
Upon graduating from high school, he enlisted in the civilian
Conservation Corps, where he spent three years. He then enlisted in the
Army in 1941 and was discharged in 1946, serving one and a half years in
Europe. Donald was inducted in the Army in Monterey, California. Before
he went overseas, he was in the 179th General Hospital at Camp Barkley
near Abilene, Texas. He went on the ship "America," which was renamed
"West Point" after World War II, to Liverpool, England and a train to
South Lampton, England, then on a ship to Omaha Beach Normandy.
Survivors include his wife, Irene Stewart of Stockton; a son, Robert
Daniel Stewart; four sisters; Leona Jendro of Wibaus, Marian Potts of
Missoula, Rosella Schlepp of Pine Bluff, Idaho and Eleanor Guillory of
Lake Charles, Louisiana; a brother, Jim Stewart of Wibaux and three
grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers.
Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated on May 30 in St. Michael's
Catholic Church.
JOHN STEWART HOLDINGFORD, Minn. John L. Stewart, 93, died Saturday at his home.
He was born April 2, 1879 in Holdingford, and married Annie McLellan July 11,
1916 at St. Mary's Church. Surviving are sons and daughter, Joseph, Bowlus,
Minn.; James, Holdingford; and Katherine, at home; seven grandchildren;
sister, Mrs. E. A. Stein, Royalton, Minn. He was preceded in death by two
brothers asd two sisters. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at
St. Mary's Church, with burial in the parish cemetery. The Rev. Paul Kunkel
will officiate. Friends may call after 2 p.m. today at the Brenny Funeral
Home. St. Mary's parish will say the parish prayers at 8:30 p.m. tonight at
the funeral home.
John Stewart (Iaian Stuibhard) left Sigh Point, Cape Britain, Nova Scotia,
Canada about 1870-75 with his wife to settle on land adjoining other Scottish
immigrants (MacArthurs, Campbells, Kennedys & MacPhersons) in what was called
the Scottish Settlement in the County of Stearns, Minnesota, near Holding
Ford.
A correspondent recollects, "As I look back, I can remember that they were a
jolly group of people and when all their children were born, they made quite a
gathering when they were together at parties in their respective homes with
singing of Scottish songs, violin music and of course, dancing Scottish
reels."
From STEWART'S FAMILY ANCESTORAL SKETCH, by John Agnus Stewart, 1949
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Mati (Mother, antiquated, formal term) Marija (Maria) 1883 - 1953
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Elizabeth, called Lizzie, was born in Crov, Prussia, the 18th of September 1851
to John and Catherine (Dommershausen) Trossen. On the 17 th of September
1869, Lizzie and Joseph Junglen married in Crov. Joe was born in 1846 to
Phillip and Antonia (Herges) Junglen in Crov, Prussia, Germany.
THE COMPLETE LIBRARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEGE, copyright 1904, gives this
information on Prussia. Like Austria, Prussia was a German state. Austria
had been the leader or strongest state until the war of 1866. At that time
Prussia took that role and after the Franco-Prussian War, in 1871, William of
Prussia was named president and Emperor of a coalition of German states. Many
men left Germany at that time to prevent being drafted into the military.
The Junglen's first child, Regina, was born 2 January 1870, in Crov. She was
called Jannie. The second child, Elizabeth, was born the 7th of June 1871.
Her life may have been short but a death record has not been uncovered at this
time. (They had 2 or 3 other daughter's named Elizabeth.)
In late 1871 or the spring/summer of 1872 the family came to the United
States. The trip normally took about 6 weeks. More than likely their port of
entry would have been New York. They would probably have gone directly to
Illinois as the other Trossen families had earlier. Perhaps the Collmann's,
John Trossen's in-laws from his first marriage, were willing and able to
shelter this family and help them get settled in their new home. It must have
been soon after their arrival that Mary was born. Her life started on the 7th
of November 1872 in Illinois.
By the time the next child, Peter, was born in 1873 the family was living in
St. Cloud. Interestingly, John and Dorothea's first son is also born in St.
Cloud in 1873 and was named Peter. The normal naming process would suggest
this name would be for a family member or someone they admired. Perhaps
someone they stayed with in IL.
Joe and Lizzie had several more children, 14 total. Others are: Joseph Jr.
born 1878; August born 1879; an infant that lived a month in 1880; Casper born
in 1881; Marie Elizabeth born 1882; Catherine born 1886; Mayme Mary born 1887.
To support his large family, Joseph worked as a plasterer. Life dealt the
Junglen's a difficult hand. They lost one infant in Germany and another in
this country. Then Joseph had a broken arm and had to have it amputated. The
darkest day however, was 14 April, 1886, when a "cyclone" ripped through the
town blowing their house and their family to pieces. Two girls and one boy
were killed in the cyclone, as tornadoes were called then. Seven year old
Casper had his leg broken and Joseph was badly hurt. Their house was totally
demolished. Just six weeks later another infant died. That was the 5th child
they had buried in just three years. Elizabeth had to bear not only the pain
of losing three children at once but five children in three years.
Unable to work as a plasterer, Joe and Lizzie had a "small fruit stand on St.
Germain street." They were surviving on the profits from this fruit stand
when Joseph died on 5 March, 1888. Poor Elizabeth seemed doomed.
Joseph's obituary states that he fathered 14 children and only 5 were still
living.
The anguish of poor Lizzy is beyond imagination. In the above mentioned
obituary she asks that her friends continue their patronage of the fruit stand
as this would be her only means of support.
A little over a year later, in August of 1889, Lizzie marries again. This
time to Mathias Lenger.
They have one child, Christian, named after Mathias' father. (More on this
part of Elizabeth's story in the Lenger book.)
In 1897, Elizabeth's son Joseph is crushed between two train cars. Joseph Jr.
was 19 years old and employed by the Great Northern Rail Road. According to
an article in the DAILY TIMES, September 15: "There were three cars near the
top of the grade which were being repaired by a crew of car repairers. The
repairs being finished one of the brakemen climbed on top and loosened the
brake. Junglen was cleaning sand from the track about twenty feet from the
cars and was not seen by the brakeman. The cars being on a down grade moved
swiftly and silently upon their unsuspecting victim, and before he was aware
of the terrible fate which awaited him, was struck and thrown under the
relentless wheels. He was fearfully crushed, being almost unrecognizable when
taken up." The article goes on the say that his mother, "Mrs. Lenger is
nearly frantic with grief."
It seems when grandpa's brother, Nicholas, was killed in1896, in Kilkenney in
a train accident his body was taken to his aunt Elizabeth Lenger's house. How
much worse now to have it be her son.
Yet in an article written by her granddaughter it says, "she was a warm and
affectionate human being."
Elizabeth does fair some what better in her new marriage.
Elizabeth died 8 Dec 1922 at her home in St. Cloud.