Ingeborg Emma Vetleson was born April 16, 1886, at Tumuli township northeast of Dalton, and was just six years old when her father, Vetle Torgerson (Torjussen) passed away. While her siblings moved away during the early 1900s, Emma and her younger brother, Carl Oscar, stayed with their mother, Aase Torgerson, to try to keep the farm going. Though they would own the farm through the 1940s, Emma and her mother had moved off it and lived together in Fergus Falls as of the 1920 census. Emma worked as a cigar maker in a small local factory. After her mother’s death in 1929, she decided to make a break from the Midwest and moved west to California. She quickly found a job at the Stockton State Hospital for the Insane. Joseph M. Murtha also worked at the hospital. The 1930 census finds them listed on the same page, she as a nurse and he as a “hydrotherapist.” Many of the patients at the hospital received daily bath or shower treatments as a form of therapy. The hydrotherapist managed the patients during this procedure. Emma and Joe married the next year in Stockton, on September 12, 1931. The bought a home at 1819 West Flora Street and lived there for years, until moving to an 1859 address on the same street. Ingeborg Emma Vetleson died when she was 74, on March 13, 1961. Joseph M. Murtha died the next year, on April 12, 1962. Their funerals were held in the Cathedral of the Annunciation and burial was in San Joaquin Cemetery in Stockton. Her obituary appeared in the Fergus Falls Journal on April 7, 1961.
Ingeborg Emma Vetleson was born April 16, 1886, at Tumuli township northeast of Dalton, and was just six years old when her father, Vetle Torgerson (Torjussen) passed away. While her siblings moved away during the early 1900s, Emma and her younger brother, Carl Oscar, stayed with their mother, Aase Torgerson, to try to keep the farm going. Though they would own the farm through the 1940s, Emma and her mother had moved off it and lived together in Fergus Falls as of the 1920 census. Emma worked as a cigar maker in a small local factory. After her mother’s death in 1929, she decided to make a break from the Midwest and moved west to California. She quickly found a job at the Stockton State Hospital for the Insane. Joseph M. Murtha also worked at the hospital. The 1930 census finds them listed on the same page, she as a nurse and he as a “hydrotherapist.” Many of the patients at the hospital received daily bath or shower treatments as a form of therapy. The hydrotherapist managed the patients during this procedure. Emma and Joe married the next year in Stockton, on September 12, 1931. The bought a home at 1819 West Flora Street and lived there for years, until moving to an 1859 address on the same street. Ingeborg Emma Vetleson died when she was 74, on March 13, 1961. Joseph M. Murtha died the next year, on April 12, 1962. Their funerals were held in the Cathedral of the Annunciation and burial was in San Joaquin Cemetery in Stockton. Her obituary appeared in the Fergus Falls Journal on April 7, 1961.
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