Thelma lived on the island off Oslo known as Lindoya. During the World War II, the German soldiers used her property to check flight traffic. Upon her return to the property she found many damaged items around the house.
Thelma fell and broke her hip. One week later she died of hip injury.
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 grew up in Spring Grove near Richmond, Illinois. He enrolled the Illinois School for the Deaf in Jacksonville, Illinois in 1917 and left in 1929.
He worked as a dish washer and bus boy at the Thompson in Chicago during the depression period. His father Oscar wanted to see that Herman made a good living by moving to Grand Rapids, Michigan (woodworking industrial city) and a good use of his skills in woodworking. He lived at the YMCA. He made a new friend with Mr McGinnis who had a good friend of Fred Wheeler. Later Fred introduced his sister Florence to him at his home in Kalamazoo on May 21, 1930. This couple became a sweetheart on June 12, 1931 and engaged on February 20, 1933 in Kalamazoo.
He got married on December 22, 1934. He was soon put in a jail for fighting with a guy in Chicago because he became upset when somebody made a pass on 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 became employed at the state road maintenance and the Continental Can Company in New Jersey before he learned to be an auto 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 on December 13, 1945.
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).
Note:
The following cities are where Herman and Florence lived.1. Chicago, Illinois in 1934
2. Manhattan, New York in 1936
3. Elmsford, New York in 1936
4. Jersey City, New Jersey in 1938
5. Brooklyn, New York in 1942
6. North Long Beach, California in 1946
7. Compton, California in 1950
8. Cerritos, California in 1970
9. Palm Springs, California in 1980
10. Cathedral City, California in 1982 (Florence passed away)
11. Union City, California in 1985
12. Fremont, California in 1991
13. Anaheim, California in 1991The following cars are where Herman had.
1. 1926 Ford in Chicago - 1931
2. 1932 Cord in Elmsford - 1936-38
3. 1931 Ford Victora - 1940-1943
4. 1935 Oldsmobile - 1944-1947
5. 1940 Plymouth used - 1948-1949
6. 1949 Mercury - 1949
7. 1950 Nash Rambler - 1950
8. 1952 Nash Ambassador - 1952
9. 1947 Chevrolet used - 1953
10. 1954 Nash Rambler - 1954
11. 1955 Nash Ambassador - 1955
12. 1956 Lincoln used - 1957-1959
14. 1960 Chevrolet Monza - 1960-1970
13. 1959 Cadillac De Ville used - 1960-1964
15. 1962 Chevrolet Corsair used - 1965-1967
16. 1968 Chevrolet Impala - 1968-1977
17. 1970 Cadillac de Ville used - 1977-1980
18. 1980 Buick Regal - 1980-1984
19. 1983 Buick - 1985-1987
20. 1987 Mercury - 1988-1990
Flo enrolled into the Michigan School for the Deaf in Flint in 1916 and left 11th grade to support her family in the year 1930. 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.
Francine attended the California School for the Deaf in Berkeley for two years and then transferred to the California School for the Deaf in Riverside until she graduated. She graduated from Gallaudet University in 1968 and became a teacher at the Montana School for the Deaf, Michigan School for the Deaf, and Selaco-Downey High School in California. After California, she became a Rights Representative for the Division on Deafness within the Department of Labor in Michigan. While working there, she was an advocate for a statewide relay service and later was offered a job as the manager of the Michigan Relay Center by Michigan Bell/Ameritech. She met Bobby at one of the Deaf gatherings and they reminisced the good old days of Berkeley and Riverside. They corresponded and love blossomed. She gave up her job in Michigan and moved to California and became a teacher at the Fremont School for the Deaf. They married in 1998. Now that she is a retiree, she sits on the board of the California Relay Service Advisory Council, sub teaching and do a lot of traveling.
Her birth month is not clear. It could be September or March.
Month of birth is not known.
Sverre used to live at 2056 Algarheim, Norway.