Anne's parents were Thomas T. & Synnove or Sunneiv Johansdatter Thoengen.

She married Ole Skriubraten in 1929. Both Anne and Ole were about the same age and living near Nesbyen before they married. Anne lived on the Thoengen farm and Ole at the Skriubraten farm, which was along the same road but nearer to the village. So in a sense she married the boy next door.

Vigdis Thoengen said that her "grandma made both brown and yellow cheese." She believes that brown cheese may be a Norwegian specialty. She said that brown cheese "can be made from both goat's milk and cow's milk, the latter giving a milder and sweeter taste." Brunost or brown cheese is not technically a cheese. It's a by-product of the cheese making process. Leftover whey from the cheese making process is boiled down until it carmelizes. After cooking, it's packaged up into blocks. Today, Brunost can be purchased in stores throughout Norway. The family had a milk cow named Gullifjor, which means Golden Feather. Also on the Thoengen farm was an animal called Harley. Harley might have been a goat. He was named Harley because the shape of his horns resembled the handlebars on a motorcycle.

The traditional Norwegian diet is similar to and considered as healthy at the Mediterranean diet. Anne would have been serving the traditional Norwegian diet to her family. Vigdis said that she can remember her Grandma Anne regularly serving "simple, but delicious meals of meat, potatoes, carrots and Swedish turnip." She said "the latter is sometimes called Nordic orange because of its high content of vitamin C."
I asked Vigdis if her Grandma Anne ever served dessert and if so, what kind. She said, "I can't remember my grandmother serving dessert actually. But when it was time for coffee, she served some biscuit-like cakes called "snipp". They were shaped like the diamond in cards, and tasted sweet, but not very sweet. She always kept them in a round box in her cupboard."

The Thoengen farm didn't have running water, so Anne used to carry buckets of water from a small creek just behind the house inside for cooking and cleaning. In the 1980's, Anne and Ole moved into an apartment in Leif's house. It was closer to the village than the farm.

Anne and Ole had two children: Leif Thoengen, who married Aud Koldingsnes and Solveig Marie Thoengen, who married Rasmus Stoyva. Leif had two children. Solveig didn't have any children.