Life in Grays Harbor & Tacoma – Western Washington

1928 – Death of Thoralf Gulleson (1896-1928)

Thoralf was born in April 1896 and died in 1928 one month short of turning 32. He was buried in Tacoma, Washington. Thoralf passed away in Ione, Washington, on March 6. Ione is not far from Ruby, Washington, north of Spokane, where Edward Gulleson had the logging camp from 1922 – ???. How did he die? I remember my mother saying something about him falling into a river and dying from pneumonia. We have the following newspaper clipping relating to his funeral:

“Funeral services for Thoralf Gulleson will be held Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 from the C.O. Lynn Chapel with the Rev. O.J. Edwards officiating. Burial will be in the Tacoma Cemetery.”

Mrs. O.J. Edwards, the pastor’s wife, sang two solos: “Safe in the Arms of Jesus” and “There is a Home Eternal.” Edward and Anna (his second wife) Gulleson, John and Gudrun Lien, William and Sophie Kilde, Ansgar, Nelma and Jeffery were all at the funeral.

1928 – Death of Seselie Gulleson

Cecelia Gulleson took out U.S. Citizenship on May 14, 1892, at the age of 59. She was born November 29, 1832, and died on December 11, 1928. Her grave is in the Vining Lutheran Church Graveyard (Grave Number A-13401). She was 96 years old.

1928 – Cecelia Gulleson, mother of Edward Gulleson, with neighbors on both side of her in Henning, Minnesota.

Jeff Gulleson, great-grandson of Cecelia Gulleson (mother of Edward Gulleson) behind the gravestone of Cecelia in the Gulleson family cemetery plot, Lutheran Church Cemetery in Vining, Minnesota. (April 2010) NOTE: Cecelia and Anna Gulleson are buried next to each other on the top of a hill in the cemetary.)

1928 – Photo of Jeffery Gulleson, John Lien, William Kilde, Sophie (Gulleson) Kilde, Anna Gulleson (step-grandmother), Edward Gulleson (grandfather), Annie Lien and Kilde children: Ed, Ginny and Will.

1928 – Nelma graduates from high school

1929 – John, Gudrun, Annie, Sophie, Nelma, Jeffery, Will, Ed and Virginia.

1929 – Annie, Olaf, Jeffery Gulleson, Mom Kilde, Grandma and Grandpa Gulleson; Norma, Ed, Don, Will, Virginia. (This photo was probably taken in Satsop. Jeffery has on his work clothes.)

Jeffery Gulleson with Mom Kilde and the Kilde Children (1931)

1932 – Edward Gulleson with Ginny.

I am assuming that Ginny (Kilde Lease) is around five years old in this photo.

1934 – Marriage of Jeffery Gulleson and Bernice McConnell.

1938 – Gudrun Lien, Sophie Kilde, Nelma Gulleson, Edward Gulleson, Jeffery Gulleson, John Lien. Front row: Bernice Gulleson, Emily Kilde, Joey Gulleson (I think this was at the farm in Satsop. Is that Georgienne in front of Bernice?)

1941 – Death of Edward Gulleson

Newspaper Clipping: Funeral services for Edward Gulleson, 82, of Satsop, Washington, were held recently in Elma, Washington, where he died on March 9. He leaves his wife, Mrs. Anna of Seattle; three daughters, Mrs. John C. Lien, Mrs. William Kilde and Miss Nelma Gulleson of Tacoma; two sons, Jeffery of Satsop and Ansgar of Ruby, and 10 grandchildren.

Possibly taken at the time of Edward Gulleson’s funeral in 1941 in Satsop or Elma: Jeffery, Gudrun (Lien), Sophie (Kilde), Nelma, Ansgar.