Petra Aakrann, 94, a resident of the Trinity Retirement Home in Minot formerly of Bowbells, died Wednesday: Nov. 18th. The funerals were held Friday, Nov. 20th at 3 p.m. in the retirement home chapel and Saturday at 2 p.m. at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Bowbells. Burial was at Bowbells Cemetery.
Officiating was Rev. Richard D. Broen, music was by Muriel Johnson, organist and Ruth Anderson, vocalist. Casketbearers were Odlief Berg, Donald Fee, Gilbert Hanson, Lloyd Johnson, Ed Ronning and Fred Glaspey.
Miss Aakrann was born April 28, 1887, in Tynset, Norway. She was reared in Norway, and came to the United States as a young woman. She was interested in studying nursing while in New York, but because of problems with the English language, put it off and went to work instead as a children's nurse for the Cartiers, the internationally known jewelry family. When the Cartiers returned to their home in Europe, she accompanied them, and remained for seven years.
She had a sister living in Bowbells, and returned to the United States, coming to North Dakota. She studied nursing at Trinity Hospital in Minot and in 1925, was a member of the hospital's first class of nurses to complete training. She was working as a nurse in Minot when she was contacted by the Maharajah Jam Saheb of Newanger, India, a friend of the Cartier family, asking that she come to work as a nurse in the maharajah's family.
Miss Aakrann took the job, and her life for the next nine years, from 1935 to 1944, had its storybook aspects, recorded in letters she sent to her North Dakota family and friends and in later interviews with reporters from The News.
She and her staff, which for a time included a niece from Bowbells, occupied an entire floor in the maharajah's palace. She was treated like a member of the family, who traveled to the maharajah's several palaces in coaches with police escorts and guards. She was in the party of invited guests at the coronation of King George VI of England, and later went with the maharajah's family on a cruise in the Baltic Sea. When she came back to the United States in 1944, she lived in Bronxville, N.Y., for some years, returning to North Dakota about 20 years ago.
She had continued to travel abroad until recent years, and to visit members of the maharajah and the Cartier families.
Miss Aakrann was a member of Bethlehem church, and is survived by many nieces and nephews.
From the Kenmare News.
Officiating was Rev. Richard D. Broen, music was by Muriel Johnson, organist and Ruth Anderson, vocalist. Casketbearers were Odlief Berg, Donald Fee, Gilbert Hanson, Lloyd Johnson, Ed Ronning and Fred Glaspey.
Miss Aakrann was born April 28, 1887, in Tynset, Norway. She was reared in Norway, and came to the United States as a young woman. She was interested in studying nursing while in New York, but because of problems with the English language, put it off and went to work instead as a children's nurse for the Cartiers, the internationally known jewelry family. When the Cartiers returned to their home in Europe, she accompanied them, and remained for seven years.
She had a sister living in Bowbells, and returned to the United States, coming to North Dakota. She studied nursing at Trinity Hospital in Minot and in 1925, was a member of the hospital's first class of nurses to complete training. She was working as a nurse in Minot when she was contacted by the Maharajah Jam Saheb of Newanger, India, a friend of the Cartier family, asking that she come to work as a nurse in the maharajah's family.
Miss Aakrann took the job, and her life for the next nine years, from 1935 to 1944, had its storybook aspects, recorded in letters she sent to her North Dakota family and friends and in later interviews with reporters from The News.
She and her staff, which for a time included a niece from Bowbells, occupied an entire floor in the maharajah's palace. She was treated like a member of the family, who traveled to the maharajah's several palaces in coaches with police escorts and guards. She was in the party of invited guests at the coronation of King George VI of England, and later went with the maharajah's family on a cruise in the Baltic Sea. When she came back to the United States in 1944, she lived in Bronxville, N.Y., for some years, returning to North Dakota about 20 years ago.
She had continued to travel abroad until recent years, and to visit members of the maharajah and the Cartier families.
Miss Aakrann was a member of Bethlehem church, and is survived by many nieces and nephews.
From the Kenmare News.
Petra Aakrann, 94, a resident of the Trinity Retirement Home in Minot formerly of Bowbells, died Wednesday: Nov. 18th. The funerals were held Friday, Nov. 20th at 3 p.m. in the retirement home chapel and Saturday at 2 p.m. at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Bowbells. Burial was at Bowbells Cemetery.
Officiating was Rev. Richard D. Broen, music was by Muriel Johnson, organist and Ruth Anderson, vocalist. Casketbearers were Odlief Berg, Donald Fee, Gilbert Hanson, Lloyd Johnson, Ed Ronning and Fred Glaspey.
Miss Aakrann was born April 28, 1887, in Tynset, Norway. She was reared in Norway, and came to the United States as a young woman. She was interested in studying nursing while in New York, but because of problems with the English language, put it off and went to work instead as a children's nurse for the Cartiers, the internationally known jewelry family. When the Cartiers returned to their home in Europe, she accompanied them, and remained for seven years.
She had a sister living in Bowbells, and returned to the United States, coming to North Dakota. She studied nursing at Trinity Hospital in Minot and in 1925, was a member of the hospital's first class of nurses to complete training. She was working as a nurse in Minot when she was contacted by the Maharajah Jam Saheb of Newanger, India, a friend of the Cartier family, asking that she come to work as a nurse in the maharajah's family.
Miss Aakrann took the job, and her life for the next nine years, from 1935 to 1944, had its storybook aspects, recorded in letters she sent to her North Dakota family and friends and in later interviews with reporters from The News.
She and her staff, which for a time included a niece from Bowbells, occupied an entire floor in the maharajah's palace. She was treated like a member of the family, who traveled to the maharajah's several palaces in coaches with police escorts and guards. She was in the party of invited guests at the coronation of King George VI of England, and later went with the maharajah's family on a cruise in the Baltic Sea. When she came back to the United States in 1944, she lived in Bronxville, N.Y., for some years, returning to North Dakota about 20 years ago.
She had continued to travel abroad until recent years, and to visit members of the maharajah and the Cartier families.
Miss Aakrann was a member of Bethlehem church, and is survived by many nieces and nephews.
From the Kenmare News.
Officiating was Rev. Richard D. Broen, music was by Muriel Johnson, organist and Ruth Anderson, vocalist. Casketbearers were Odlief Berg, Donald Fee, Gilbert Hanson, Lloyd Johnson, Ed Ronning and Fred Glaspey.
Miss Aakrann was born April 28, 1887, in Tynset, Norway. She was reared in Norway, and came to the United States as a young woman. She was interested in studying nursing while in New York, but because of problems with the English language, put it off and went to work instead as a children's nurse for the Cartiers, the internationally known jewelry family. When the Cartiers returned to their home in Europe, she accompanied them, and remained for seven years.
She had a sister living in Bowbells, and returned to the United States, coming to North Dakota. She studied nursing at Trinity Hospital in Minot and in 1925, was a member of the hospital's first class of nurses to complete training. She was working as a nurse in Minot when she was contacted by the Maharajah Jam Saheb of Newanger, India, a friend of the Cartier family, asking that she come to work as a nurse in the maharajah's family.
Miss Aakrann took the job, and her life for the next nine years, from 1935 to 1944, had its storybook aspects, recorded in letters she sent to her North Dakota family and friends and in later interviews with reporters from The News.
She and her staff, which for a time included a niece from Bowbells, occupied an entire floor in the maharajah's palace. She was treated like a member of the family, who traveled to the maharajah's several palaces in coaches with police escorts and guards. She was in the party of invited guests at the coronation of King George VI of England, and later went with the maharajah's family on a cruise in the Baltic Sea. When she came back to the United States in 1944, she lived in Bronxville, N.Y., for some years, returning to North Dakota about 20 years ago.
She had continued to travel abroad until recent years, and to visit members of the maharajah and the Cartier families.
Miss Aakrann was a member of Bethlehem church, and is survived by many nieces and nephews.
From the Kenmare News.
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