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Hannah
Anthony Daniel Stimmler
June 8, 1935
Mason City, Cerro Gordo, Iowa
Worked in local school lunch program
Worked full-time in University of Minnesota kitchens
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Solomon "Sam" Tidslevold Hannah Anthony Daniel Stimmler June 8, 1935 Mason City, Cerro Gordo, Iowa Worked in local school lunch program Worked full-time in University of Minnesota kitchens |
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| Children: | Janet Joyce | Jan. 26, 1936 | † July 15, 1988 |
| Bonnie Jean | Oct. 10, 1941 | ||
| Karen Lee | Apr. 26, 1944 | ||
| Richard Anthony | Nov. 17, 1947 | ||
| Gerald James | Sept. 11, 1949 |
| Notes: | Ruth was born October 18, 1913, to Hannah and Solomon Tidslevold, immigrants from Norway, and lived on a small |
| farm in Clark, South Dakota, until she was 10 years old. Ruth, her sister Inez and brother Nels moved with their parents to Minneapolis, MN, where she spent much of her life. She married Anthony Daniel Stimmler in 1935 when she was 22 years old and they had five children. Ruth was a full-time, devoted mother, but became a young widow at the age of 38. Her children then ranged in age from 2 to 15 years.
Parenting was her major goal in life; living with many hardships she remained a full-time parent until all the children were in school. She then worked around their schedule, finding work in the local school lunch program and later full-time work in the kitchens of the University of Minnesota. Ruth loved to travel and had the Viking spirit, so she traveled later in life with her grown children. She visited her Norwegian relatives twice and lived for a time in Florida and in beautiful Hawaii. Ruth enjoyed the simple things in life, was good-natured and always centered her life on the family. She moved to Grand Marais for eight years during the 1980s, helping with grandchildren Nadine, Lynn and Brian. Ruth also enjoyed babysitting other children and eventually helping daughter Bonnie in her Pierre’s Pizza restaurant. Ruth lived at 16700 Main Street, Apt 304, in Eden Prarie, Minnesota from 1993 to 2000. She died two days before her 99th birthday at the Care Center in Grand Marais, Cook, Minnesota where she had lived the last 9-1/2 years of her life. |
| Ancestry: | The Stimmler/Stimler Line [through marriage] |
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