Extract from the 1900 Census:
Name: Stella L Berg
Age at last birthday: 18
Date of birth: Mar 1882
Birthplace: Minnesota
Race: white
Sex: female
Relationship to head-of-house: daughter
Home in 1900: Duluth Ward 7, Saint Louis, Minnesota
Address: 317 22nd Avenue West
Marital status: single
Able to read, write and speak English: yes
Father's birthplace: Norway
Mother's birthplace: Norway
Occupation: attending school
Siblings living at home: Ida M (age 27), Olyne A (26), Agnes (20), Laura F (13), Nina (11), Sidney A (6), and Marvin R (3)
Census place: Duluth Ward 7, Saint Louis, Minnesota; Roll: T623 790; Page: 12A; Enumeration District: 284
Date: 6 Jun 1900

Extract from the 1910 Census:
Name: Stella L Widner
Age in 1910: 28
Birthplace: Minnesota
Estimated birth year: 1882
Race: white
Sex: female
Relationship to head of family: wife
Home in 1910: Alpena Ward 4, Alpena, Michigan
Address: 616 Eighth Street
Marital status: married
Number of years of present marriage: 6
Number of children: 2
Number of children now living: 2
Able to speak English: yes
Able to read and write: yes
Father's birthplace: Norway
Mother's birthplace: Norway
Occupation: none
Census place: Alpena Ward 4, Alpena, Michigan; Roll: T624_635; Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 12; Image: 161
Date: 19 Apr 1910

Extract from the 1920 Census:
Name: Stella L Widner
Age: 37
Estimated birth year: 1883
Birthplace: Minnesota
Race: white
Sex: female
Relationship to head of house: daughter
Home in 1920: Duluth, Saint Louis, Minnesota
Address: 317 22nd Avenue West
Marital status: divorced
Able to speak English: yes
Able to read and write: yes
Father's birthplace: Norway
Father's native tongue: Norwegian
Mother's birthplace: Norway
Mother's native tongue: Norwegian
Occupation: clerk
Type of industry: department store
Salary or wage worker: wages
Siblings living at home: Olyne A (age 45), Nina F (30), and Marvin R (22)
Census place: Duluth, Saint Louis, Minnesota; Roll: T625_859; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 125; Image: 219
Date: 3 Jan 1920

Extract from the 1930 Census:
Name: Stella L Widner
Age: 48
Estimated birth year: 1882
Birthplace: Minnesota
Race: white
Sex: female
Relation to head-of-house: sister
Living with: Sidney A Berg, age 36
Home in 1930: Duluth, Saint Louis, Minnesota
Address: 317 22nd Avenue
Marital status: divorced
Education: able to speak English
Education: able to read and write
Fathers' birthplace: Norway
Mothers' birthplace: Norway
Occupation: saleslady
Industry: department store
Salary or wage worker: wages
Census place: Duluth, Saint Louis, Minnesota; Roll: 1127; Page: ; Enumeration District: 66; Image: 45.0
Date: 7 Apr 1930

Extract from the 1940 Census:
Name: Stella Widner
Age: 58
Estimated birth year: 1882
Birthplace: Minnesota
Race: white
Sex: female
Relation to head-of-house: mother-in-law
Living with: Norman C and Virginia Gjerberg, ages 39 and 35
Home in 1940: Duluth, Saint Louis, Minnesota
Address: 730 North 16th Avenue East
Marital status: divorced
Highest grade of school completed: high school 4 years
Living on farm: no
City of residence in 1935: Duluth, Saint Louis, Minnesota
Resident on farm in 1935: no
Occupation: housework
Has other income of more than $50: no
Census place: Duluth, Saint Louis, Minnesota; Roll: T627_1972; Page: 5A; Enumeration District: 88-32A
Date: 6 Apr 1940

She taught for a short time at a small rural school at Zim, Minnesota, which is located along the Duluth Missabe & Northern Railway. She met George Charles Widner, a timber cruiser, and they married 7 Aug 1903. She moved to Alpena, Michigan, the home of her husband, and their two daughters were born there: Virginia, born in 1904, and Elizabeth, born in 1909. She returned to Duluth with her children about 1911, and was divorced 25 May 1912, age 30. She resided with her sister Agnes and her husband Sigurd A Rhode for a short time, and then returned to her parents' home at 317 North 22nd Avenue West, living with her mother and sisters. Her daughters lived there also. She was employed by Thygensen's, a drygoods (department) store. It is not clear when she began work there; it may have been about 1916 or 1917. She continued to be employed there into the 1930s. She lived in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, for a period. She returned to Duluth, resided a short time with Sigurd Rhode and his wife, and then with her daughter Virginia and her husband Norman C Gjerberg, at 730 North 16th Avenue East. In 1955 or 1956 when Virginia and Norman moved to Florida, she moved in with her sister Nina at her home on West Mankato Street in Duluth.

Obituary from the "News-Tribune" of Duluth, Minnesota dated Sunday 8 Nov 1971:
Mrs. Stella L. Berg Widner, 89, of 127 W. Mankato St., died Saturday in a Duluth hospital. She was a native of Duluth and attended the Seventh Day Adventist Church. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. William C. (Virginia) Smith, Venice, Fla., and Mrs. C. R. (Elizabeth) Walford [sic], Rolla, Mo.; two sisters, Mrs. Matt Roberts, Duluth, and Mrs. L. E. Lambert, Virginia; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Children:
(1) Virginia Widner
(2) Elizabeth Grethe Widner.