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Olaf Severine Sahlbom

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Olaf Severine Sahlbom

Birth
Tunadal, Sundsvalls kommun, Västernorrlands län, Sweden
Death
4 Dec 1942 (aged 58)
Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, USA
Burial
Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, USA Add to Map
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Section 22, Lot 48, Grave 6
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Olaf was born in 1884 in Sweden, son of Anton Wilhelm Sahlbom and Mathilda Kristina Dahlstedt. His father emigrated alone to America on 29 May 1885, and on 7 May 1886, Mathilda and Olaf left Sweden on the steamship HEKLA, and arrived in New York on 28 May 1886.

Olaf was a tallyman at E. K. Woods Company. He moved to Ephrata, Washington, and was in partnership with a Bellingham lawyer, Mr. Peringer, and bought a fruit orchard. He came back to Bellingham after the death of his first wife, Anna Marie (Persson), in 1917, of tuberculosis.

Olaf & Anna had a son (died in infancy) and four daughters: Gladys Marie (Mrs. Oscar Ostrom), George Olaf, Ethel Mathilda (Mrs. Paul Robertson), Martha Margaret (Mrs. Stewart Aldrich) and Alice Lillian (Mrs. Cecil Remington.)

Olaf married a second time to on May 25, 1923, in Mount Vernon, Skagit County, Washington, to Bertha Marie Hansen Nygaard, a Norwegian, and had a daughter and three sons: Arlene Marion (Mrs. Byron Meyer), George Severine, Kenneth Lloyd and Eugene Norman Sahlbom.

Olaf died of a coronary occlusion at the age of 58 in Bellingham, Washington.

The picture at bottom left is of Olaf & Bertha Marie, his second wife, and they are my grandparents.
Olaf was born in 1884 in Sweden, son of Anton Wilhelm Sahlbom and Mathilda Kristina Dahlstedt. His father emigrated alone to America on 29 May 1885, and on 7 May 1886, Mathilda and Olaf left Sweden on the steamship HEKLA, and arrived in New York on 28 May 1886.

Olaf was a tallyman at E. K. Woods Company. He moved to Ephrata, Washington, and was in partnership with a Bellingham lawyer, Mr. Peringer, and bought a fruit orchard. He came back to Bellingham after the death of his first wife, Anna Marie (Persson), in 1917, of tuberculosis.

Olaf & Anna had a son (died in infancy) and four daughters: Gladys Marie (Mrs. Oscar Ostrom), George Olaf, Ethel Mathilda (Mrs. Paul Robertson), Martha Margaret (Mrs. Stewart Aldrich) and Alice Lillian (Mrs. Cecil Remington.)

Olaf married a second time to on May 25, 1923, in Mount Vernon, Skagit County, Washington, to Bertha Marie Hansen Nygaard, a Norwegian, and had a daughter and three sons: Arlene Marion (Mrs. Byron Meyer), George Severine, Kenneth Lloyd and Eugene Norman Sahlbom.

Olaf died of a coronary occlusion at the age of 58 in Bellingham, Washington.

The picture at bottom left is of Olaf & Bertha Marie, his second wife, and they are my grandparents.

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  • Created by: Sonja Turner Relative Grandchild
  • Added: Mar 3, 2001
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/5238930/olaf_severine-sahlbom: accessed ), memorial page for Olaf Severine Sahlbom (23 Oct 1884–4 Dec 1942), Find a Grave Memorial ID 5238930, citing Bayview Cemetery, Bellingham, Whatcom County, Washington, USA; Maintained by Sonja Turner (contributor 46583962).