In the spring of 1938, I moved up to the Red River Valley, from southern Minnesota, from a little farming town called Hartland, Minn. My father had a grocery – café store but had gotten sick and the doctor recommended to him that he should get out in the open air. So my father, Edwin Kjonaas, bought a 160 acre farm four miles east of Georgetown, Minn. My brother LaVerne and I moved up to the farm with dad and mom. In the fall of 1941, my brother LaVerne was called into the army. Dad and I farmed until the fall of 1944, when my dad had an auction and sold the farmland to John Wilcutt. My father Edwin started painting and finally built a little home in Georgetown where he and mom lived until their deaths. Edwin passed away in 1958 and mom in 1964.
I married Bernice Stine in 1943 and Bernice and I moved into Moorhead, Minn. where I got a job working for A. W. Hedlund owner of the Coast to Coast store. I worked at the Coast to Coast store until the spring of 1947, when my wife’s father Lonnie Stine suddenly passed away. My wife and I then moved out to the farm of Lonnie Stine and I farmed until the spring of 1969 when I had a farm auction and rented out the land. Bernice and I lived on the farm sight. Later in 1974 we sold the land to Earl Ingebretsen.
Bernice and I had 2 girls. Sandra who married John Johnson. They had 3 children, Shaunda, Brandt, and Rachel and live in Canada. Our youngest daughter, Pamela married Rick Olek. They have a girl Tina and a son Keith and reside in Fargo, ND.
My brother Laverne came back from the Army in 1946 and married my wife’s sister Esther Stine. LaVerne was a chef at the Fargo Veterans Hospital. They had 3 children. Cathie, Lonnie, and Scott. Laverne passed away in 1965. I also have a sister, Beatrice in North Mankato, Minn. She married Leo Haack, who is deceased and she is now married to Ray Block.
 

Submitted by Richard Kjonaas from a copy of The Clay County Family Album; Taylor Publishing Company; Dallas Texas: 1976  This story was originally written by LeRoy Kjonaas.
 
 

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