Notes for Oskar Andrew: ANDREW Soundex +A536 Name: OSCAR ANDREW Event Date: 1937 5 15 (Yr/Mo/Day) Age: 50 Gender: Male Event Place: PRINCE GEORGE Reg. Number: 1937-09-529333 BC Archives Microfilm Number: B13159 GSU Microfilm Number: 1953192
From Mark Westrum's website: Oskar's sister Ane Maria wrote a memoriam on his death : A Loving Father so gentle and kind. What a wonderfull memory he left behind. long days long night she bore his pain. To wait for cure but all in vain, Till GOD himself knew what it was. He took him home and gave him rest. Ever remembered by his loving wife and family. OLGA ORVILLE LUCILLE CORA And KENNETH.
More About Oskar Andrew: Date born 2: Cheyenne North Dakota.35 Died 2: May 13, 193736 Location: 1912, Briercrest, SK.37 Religion: Lutheran.37
Oscar Andrew & Olga Espelien
More About Oskar Andrew and Olga Gelina Espelien: Marriage: February 28, 1912, Zion Meth. Parsonage, Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.37
Marriage Notes for Oskar Andrew and Olga Gelina Espelien: From a letter received by Doris Scriven from Bev Hawes, daughter of Lucille and granddaughter of of Olga (Espelien) Andrew. June 18, 1977 "One of the books in my Lit. Class that made me think about Grandma was "My Antonia" by Willa Cather, set in the prairies of Nebraska with 'old established' immigrant families (English and Norwegian), and the newcomers, in this case, the Bohemians. It must have been amazing, for the newcomer, to see all that vast 'free' land while the hardships of leaving old ways could be very depressing. Anyway, Grandma never talked about early times and it would have been her parents in any case who were the newcomers but I imagine there are some similarities. I'll try to recall a few things that mom (Lucy) has told me. For one - she- Lucy, seems to have been quite spoiled and when groups gathered for a dance (with her dad and his brother alternating between the fiddle and the piano) she insisted on going along but not to be relegated to the room with the babies - piled on the hostess' bed Helter skelter with the coats, the way it sounds! She wanted to dance, so did Olga. But Grandpa was always busy playing - he did take time out a few times to dance with Lucy - not with her mom! Now I remember Grandma's temper and I'm sure Grandpa heard about it later. When Orville was a half grown boy (say 12 or 14) all the guys had new one piece knitted swim suits - he 'needed' one, too. Come to think of it, that definitely makes him an adolescent. Grandma, of course, couldn't afford any such thing but she did have an old orange sweater which she unravelled and reknit into what was probably the snazziest bathing suit of any boy headed for the Fraser River - until - he got OUT of the water and the new suit was stretched to his ankles. I can imagine the scene both then, and when he got home - probably was 'never going to forgive you'. Poor Grandma she did squirrel away the money for a new store-bought suit for Orville. Another story Mom just told me (Wed. June 23) is about when the family went camping in the summers in the mid - 20's around Prince George, BC where they lived. Grandma cooked fore the road building crews and the three kids (Orville, Cora and Lucy) helped with the dishes and toting water. There were wood-based tents pitched at a site, then the wood bases were toted to a new site. On one such trip a friend who had a river scow invited them on a trip down the Crooked River, which was very low that August, so sometimes there were portages. She remembers the Riffles as the place to catch fish and her Dad getting Dolly Vardon Trout at Harrison riffle, an icy-blue pool. Another dangerous riffle was Scattereyass riffle with it's whirlpool. Of course the kids latched onto a name like that! Grandma also liked to gamble. Bingo was about her favorite pastime and she like to go to the horse races and sometimes took a bus tour to Reno with other widows" Bev also sent the clipping from the Moose Jaw Times Herald dated Mar. 23, 1957 that Emma Peachey had contributed about the Trees being a Memorial to the Pioneer Espelien's. It was accompanied by the picture of the house newly refurbished and the lawn ornaments, buggy wheels etc. It ends with a bit about the old spinning wheel that Bev has in her home, it reads thus: "The old spinning wheel, brought in 1904, had spun many yards of yarn for the family. It is now winding its way back across the border to a granddaughter for its resting place as an antique"
Children of Oskar Andrew and Olga Gelina Espelien are:
+Lucille May Andrew, b. May 21, 1916, Briercrest, Regina, Sask, d. April 01, 2005, Long Beach, CA.
Oskar Andrew (b. April 06, 1887, d. May 15, 1937)
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