Florence and Maury Qvale
About 1907
| Parents: Occupation: 2nd Marriage: |
Gauthe Emil Qvale Johanna "Jennie" Maria Pacifica Torviksen Jorgenson Electrical engineer for the power company [1940 U.S. Census] Worked for General Motors Ella M. |
| Notes: | At the time of the June 22, 1905 Minnesota State Census, Maurice was 4 years old living with his parents, sister and |
| paternal grandmother next door to uncle
S.B. Qvale and his wife on Litchfield Ave. in Willmar, MN.
At the time of the April 20, 1910 census, Maurice was 8 years
old and living with his parents, sister Florence and paternal
grandmother Gurine at the same address in Willmar. On January 19, 1920
census he was 18 years old and living with his parents and sister at 205 Litchfield Ave.
in Willmar next to his uncle S.B. and his family.
At the time of the Apr. 13, 1940 U.S. Federal census, Maurice was 38 years old, divorced and living with his 79-year-old father and sister Florence in the family home valued at $12,000 at 205 Litchfield East in Willmar, Kandiyohi, Minnesota. The family had been living in the same house in April 1935. Although both Maurice and sister Florence had completed four years of college, their father had been educated through the 6th grade only. His father was a District Judge for the State of Minnesota, working 56 hours a week for 52 weeks in 1939, and earning $5,000 (although he had income from other sources as well). Maurice was working as an electrical engineer for the power company; Florence was not currently employed. At the time of his father's retirement at age 86 in 1946, Maurice was living with him in his home in Willmar along with his sister Florence and her husband, George Westman. Maury passed away in Kandiyohi County, Minnesota on Nov. 21, 1961. He was 61 years old. Richard B. Qvale reminisces on his cousin, Maury: "Another cousin I had a lot of fun with was Maury, the judge's son. He was a John-Wayne type, even looked like John Wayne -- an Annapolis grad who resigned from the Navy and went to work for General Motors. He was a good hunter, a great shot. I remember being snowed in once for 11 days with Maury in a backwoods cabin with nothing to eat or drink but beans and whiskey. The cabin had only an outhouse. Another time Maury and I went sailing on the lake in a C-Class scow. We had been drinking and Maury's partial plate fell out into the lake in about eight to ten feet of water. It took us an hour and a half of diving to find it. "I remember cousin Maury coming to see me in Chicago. We went out and did the town and came back to my place to rest. When I woke up I didn't see him anywhere. He wasn't on the bed; I checked out the window and he hadn't fallen out the window. Then I saw him asleep on the floor on the other side of the bed. I uncorked a bottle of whiskey and waved it under his nose. Immediately his eyes opened and he said, "Rich! Where's the mix?" |
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