Herman was born in Evanston, Illinois on April 5, 1909 when Oscar was 37 years old and Nina was 34 years old near Stanley Avenue and Isabella but the name of streets are not on the map anymore. It is thought that the university was built on the area known as the Northwestern University. As shown in the birth certificate, his middle name was Oleson but all of his lifetime his middle name was known as Lawrence. Need evidence that Herman's middle name was Lawrence.
He was put in a jail for fighting with a guy in Chicago. His wife, Florence, had a place to stay in New York with assistance of her brother Fred. After he was released, his two children were born in New York.
He learned to be a fender and body repairman from his mentor, Fred Wheeler. He felt it was too cold to work as the repairman in Brooklyn, New York so he moved to a warmer climate, to Long Beach in California with his family.
He had a close call after visiting with her sisters in Milwaukee. Right after Thanksgiving in 1953 he had an auto accident near Holbrooks, Arizona. He suffered a neck injury from this accident for the rest of his life.
After the death of his wife, he lived with his son Bobby in Union City, California (San Francisco Bay area) for 5 and half years. He then moved to the Walnut Manor in Fremont, California and two months later blacked out from diabetic shock. He fell and hit his head on the floor and he lost a bladder control. He was placed at the Walnut Manor in Anaheim, California. Two years later he died of natural cause (pneumonia).
Flo left 11th grade from Michigan School for the Deaf in Flint to support her family. During her school days she was well liked by friends and teachers. She was excellent as a basketball player. She enjoyed drawing the faces of famous movie stars. Her brother Fred met Herman Skedsmo who later married her.
She was heart broken when the family moved to California but she made new friends. Not only this but her brother and sister moved to California from Washington.
She was a garment sewing operator in Los Angeles downtown and an electric assembler at North America Rockwell in Anaheim until she retired in 1960.
She died of Alzheimer's disease that she had it for ten years. When Herman Skedsmo, her husband, had four bypass heart surgery, she was placed at the Yucca Valley Manor where she died a short time afterwards. Her son Bobby was at her bedside when she had a difficult time breathing. She died a week later while he was at the US Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs.