Cavalier Chronicle
Gunlogson Rites Held - Cavalier Woman Dies in Grafton; Was Ill about Three Weeks
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternooon, May 2, from the Wm. Gunlogson home near Cavalier at 1:30 and at 2 o'clock from the Vidalin Church at Akra for Mrs. John Gunlogson who died early Sunday monring, April 29 in the Grafton hospital after an illness of three weeks. Rev. E. H. Fafnis officiated at the service.
Magnea Gudrun Vivatson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Halldor Vivatson, was born November 15, 1882 in Eyarbakke, Iceland. At the age of one year she came with her parents to the United States, locating in the Svold community. Her entire life was spent in that community and in the Akra vicinity with the exception of the past seven years when she and her husband, who was an invalid, resided in Cavalier.
In 1906 she was married at Akra to John Gunlogson who preceded her in death in January of this year.
Children surviving are Frank and William of Cavalier; John, Hammond, Ind.; Carl, Chicago,; Marvin and Alvin, Calumet City, Ill; Lynn, Walhalla and Mrs. Ralph Olmsheid of Grand Forks. Three sisters, Mrs. A. S. Dinuson, Svold; Mrs. Hans Jorgenson, Grand forks; Mrs. Wm. O'Mara, Mansfield, Ohio and two brothers, H. W. Vivatson,, Grand Forks and Wm. Vivatson, Hensel survive her with twenty grandchildren. One brother, G. A. Vivatson and two daughters preceded her in death.
She was a member of the Lutheran Church.
Burial was in the Vidalin Cemetery.
Cavalier Chronicle
Gunlogson Rites Held - Cavalier Woman Dies in Grafton; Was Ill about Three Weeks
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternooon, May 2, from the Wm. Gunlogson home near Cavalier at 1:30 and at 2 o'clock from the Vidalin Church at Akra for Mrs. John Gunlogson who died early Sunday monring, April 29 in the Grafton hospital after an illness of three weeks. Rev. E. H. Fafnis officiated at the service.
Magnea Gudrun Vivatson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Halldor Vivatson, was born November 15, 1882 in Eyarbakke, Iceland. At the age of one year she came with her parents to the United States, locating in the Svold community. Her entire life was spent in that community and in the Akra vicinity with the exception of the past seven years when she and her husband, who was an invalid, resided in Cavalier.
In 1906 she was married at Akra to John Gunlogson who preceded her in death in January of this year.
Children surviving are Frank and William of Cavalier; John, Hammond, Ind.; Carl, Chicago,; Marvin and Alvin, Calumet City, Ill; Lynn, Walhalla and Mrs. Ralph Olmsheid of Grand Forks. Three sisters, Mrs. A. S. Dinuson, Svold; Mrs. Hans Jorgenson, Grand forks; Mrs. Wm. O'Mara, Mansfield, Ohio and two brothers, H. W. Vivatson,, Grand Forks and Wm. Vivatson, Hensel survive her with twenty grandchildren. One brother, G. A. Vivatson and two daughters preceded her in death.
She was a member of the Lutheran Church.
Burial was in the Vidalin Cemetery.
Family Members
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William Edward Gunlogson
1906–1987
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Franklin Gudmunder "Frank" Gunlogson
1907–2001
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Ruth Gunlogson Faucher
1909–1945
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Doris Gunlogson Rasmussen
1909–1948
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Carl Gunlogson
1910–1975
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John Eggert Gunlogson
1915–1963
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Lynn Gunlogson
1918–1970
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Mabel Gunlogson Olmscheid
1919–1971
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Marvin Gunlogson
1921–2011
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Alvin Gunlogson
1925–1986
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