Descendants of Ben Bjornstad

　

Generation No. 1

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BEN1 BJORNSTAD1,2 was born 16 Oct 1893 in Norway3,4, and died 01 May 1988 in Worland, Washakie, Wyoming5. He married BERTHA L. NORE5,6 03 Dec 1920 in Billings, Yellowstone Co., Montana7, daughter of RASMUS NORE and CHRISTINA NORE. She was born 19 Jul 1898 in Laurel, Montana8,9, and died 22 Oct 1989 in Bethesda Care Center, Worland, Wyoming10.

More About B

EN BJORNSTAD:

Burial: 1988, Ten Sleep Cemetery, Ten Sleep, Washakie, Wyoming, Lot 149F owned by Bjornstad10

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ERTHA L. NORE:

Bertha L. Bjornestad, Obituary, Northern Wyoming Daily News, Worland, Wyoming, October 24, 1989, page 2.

Bertha L. Bjornestad died Sunday, Oct. 22 at Bethesda Care Center in Worland. She was 91.

She was born July 19, 1898 in Laurel, Mont., a daughter of Rasmus O. and Christina I. Nore. She was raised in Laurel, Columbus and Billings, Mont. She attended Billings Business College before her marriage.

On Dec. 3, 1920, she married Ben Bjornestad in Billings. The couple moved to the Big Horn Basin in 1924 and lived on a ranch on the Lower Nowood near Ten Sleep.

She was a member of the American Lutheran Church. Her hobbies included reading, baking and growing flowers.

Survivors include four sons, Bill of Manderson, Raymond and Bernie of Cody and Orval of Byron/ 15 grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband on May 1, 1988 and by her parents, three brothers and three sisters.

The service is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in the Grace Lutheran Church in Worland, with the Rev. Greg Kaiser officiating. Burial will be in Ten Sleep Cemetery at noon on Wednesday.

Memorials may be made at the Stockgrowers State Bank in Worland for a fund to be named later.

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ERTHA L. NORE:

Burial: 1989, Ten Sleep Cemetery, Ten Sleep, Washakie, Wyoming, Lot 149G owned by Bjornstad10

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EN BJORNSTAD and BERTHA NORE:

Marriage: 03 Dec 1920, Billings, Yellowstone Co., Montana11

Children of B

EN BJORNSTAD and BERTHA NORE are:

i. R

AYMOND2 BJORNSTAD12, b. Abt. 1922, Montana12.

More About RAYMOND BJORNSTAD:

Military service: Abt. 1922, Master Sargent, United States Airforce, Korea

ii. ORVILLE BJORNSTAD12, b. Abt. 1924, Wyoming12.

iii. BERNARD BJORNSTAD12, b. Jan 1930, Wyoming12.

iv. BILL BJORNSTAD, b. Aft. 1930, Wyoming.

　

　

Endnotes

1. Ten Sleep Cemetery Records.

2. United States Census, 1930, Election District 3, Washakie Co., Wyoming, April 25.

3. Ten Sleep Cemetery Records.

4. Social Security Death Index.

5. Ten Sleep Cemetery Records.

6. United States Census, 1930, Election District 3, Washakie Co., Wyoming, April 25.

7. Obituary.

8. Ten Sleep Cemetery Records.

9. United States Census, 1930, Election District 3, Washakie Co., Wyoming, April 25.

10. Ten Sleep Cemetery Records.

11. Obituary.

12. United States Census, 1930, Election District 3, Washakie Co., Wyoming, April 25.