Salomon Gottfrid “Godfrey” Halberg

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Salomon Gottfrid “Godfrey” Halberg

Birth
Mossebo, Tibro kommun, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
Death
29 Sep 1942 (aged 71)
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Burial
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
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Range 87 Grave 24
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Godfrey worked all his adult life as a machinist. His first wife, Signe, died just short of her 27th birthday of tuberculosis, when their only son, Lewis, was not yet two. After his second marriage, to Hilda, Godfrey and family lived at 48 Lopez Street in Cambridge, where most of their eight children were born; two died in infancy. Later, around 1920, they moved to a farm in Acton for about two years, then settled in Watertown, at 50 Hall Avenue. Around 1935, Godfrey, now a widower, lived at 358 Arlington Street with son Everett and daughter Irene. In his final years, he lived with son Everett and daughter-in-law Ruth at 24 Bradford Road.

Related by grandson Allen S. Halberg: "Grandpa was a staunch Swedish Lutheran. His church was foremost in his life and he brought up all his children to respect the Christian faith. Many times when my mother would reminisce about how strict Grandpa was in his religious life, she would remind me how Grandpa and the entire family each Sunday morning would hike 4 to 5 miles from home to the Augustana Lutheran Church on Broadway (Cambridge, MA) for morning service (which would be entirely in Swedish). After services, the family would walk back home, have dinner, sit at the dining room table and read scriptures in Swedish until it was time to return to church for the evening vespers. Again they would walk the distance, attend the vespers and return home to go to bed. This apparently was the ritual every Sunday 52 weeks a year when the children were growing up."
Godfrey worked all his adult life as a machinist. His first wife, Signe, died just short of her 27th birthday of tuberculosis, when their only son, Lewis, was not yet two. After his second marriage, to Hilda, Godfrey and family lived at 48 Lopez Street in Cambridge, where most of their eight children were born; two died in infancy. Later, around 1920, they moved to a farm in Acton for about two years, then settled in Watertown, at 50 Hall Avenue. Around 1935, Godfrey, now a widower, lived at 358 Arlington Street with son Everett and daughter Irene. In his final years, he lived with son Everett and daughter-in-law Ruth at 24 Bradford Road.

Related by grandson Allen S. Halberg: "Grandpa was a staunch Swedish Lutheran. His church was foremost in his life and he brought up all his children to respect the Christian faith. Many times when my mother would reminisce about how strict Grandpa was in his religious life, she would remind me how Grandpa and the entire family each Sunday morning would hike 4 to 5 miles from home to the Augustana Lutheran Church on Broadway (Cambridge, MA) for morning service (which would be entirely in Swedish). After services, the family would walk back home, have dinner, sit at the dining room table and read scriptures in Swedish until it was time to return to church for the evening vespers. Again they would walk the distance, attend the vespers and return home to go to bed. This apparently was the ritual every Sunday 52 weeks a year when the children were growing up."

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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76498701/salomon_gottfrid-halberg: accessed ), memorial page for Salomon Gottfrid “Godfrey” Halberg (23 Nov 1870–29 Sep 1942), Find a Grave Memorial ID 76498701, citing Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by BobB (contributor 47607961).