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a. Note:   Gjerding family records / Obituary - Adoph = s/o Iver and Ingeborg (Stenbratte) Gjerding (born in Norway, emigrated to North Dakota in
 1908).
b. Note:   - SSDI file: Adolph GJERDING
 Birth Date: 27 May 1912 Death Date: 21 Mar 2010 Social Security Number: 531-01-3382 State or Territory Where Number Was Issued: Washington Death Residence Localities ZIP Code: 98199 Localities: Fort Lawton, King, Washington Magnolia, King, Washington Seattle, King, Washington - Obituary - Norwegian American Weekly, published 20 MAY 2010:
 ADOLPH GJERDING
 May 27, 1912 - March 21, 2010
 Born May 27, 1912 to Iver and Ingeborg Gjerding on a farm near Litchville, N.D. He was the fifth of nine siblings, and the
 second-born after his parents emigrated from Norway in 1908. He came
 to Seattle in 1936 after an especially poor year of farming. Even
 though the Depression was in full swing, he was able to find work
 right away and worked steadily until he retired in 1977.
 He married Olga Marie Hartman at the Salem Evangelical Free Church in Ballard in 1940. They had one son, Bradley Keith, in 1943. Marie
 died in 1995. He married Bergitte Asko Boe in 1996 (they had first
 dated in 1938). Bergitte died in 2003.
 The most important relationship in his life was his relationship with His Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and from his early years as a
 child until the last of his life he found fellowship and support in
 the church community and daily scripture reading.
 Adolph moved to an apartment at Crista in 2004, later to Assisted Living. He moved to Columbia Lutheran Home in September 2008. He
 passed away March 21, 2010. He is survived by his son Brad Gjerding
 (Kay Riegel) and siblings Cora Barthold, Hazel Nesland, and Ivan
 Gjerding.
c. Note:   Obituary
d. Note:   1920 (15 JAN) U.S. census, Rosebud Twp., Barnes Co., ND, p. 179A, Dwg. 140 / Fam. 144, lines 34-43:
 GJERDING, Iver, head, M W, 53, M, em. 1908, alien, Norway Norway
 Norway, farmer (general farm), owner Farm #36
 Ingeborg, wife, F W, 36, M, em. 1908, alien, Norway Norway Norway Iner, son, M W, 17, S, em. 1908, alien, Norway Norway, Norway, farm laborer, home farm
 Marie, dau., F W, 15, S, em. 1908, alien, Norway Norway Norway Karen, dau., F W, 13, S, em. 1908, alien, Norway Norway Norway Agnes, dau., F W, 10, S, ND Norway Norway Adolph, son, M W, 7, S, ND Norway Norway Inga, dau., F W, 6, S, ND Norway Norway Hazel, dau., F W, 4 2/12, S, ND Norway Norway Olga, dau., F W, 2 6/12, S, ND Norway Norway
e. Note:   Conversations with Adolph: his marriage exempted him from the draft in WWII.
f. Note:   Pastor Douglas Lindsay performed the ceremony. Adolph and Bergitte first met each other in 1938 in Seattle. They dated for about 8 months
 until Bergitte's departure in the spring of 1939 for a visit to
 Norway. Adolph proposed marriage before she left, but Bergitte did not
 want to be an "engaged girl" during her visit (which was cut short by
 the 01 SEP 1939 start of WWII in Europe). She quickly returned to
 America, stopping in New York City. By the time she returned to
 Seattle (in the summer of 1940), she learned that her relationship
 with Adolph had changed (he was about to marry another woman on 07 SEP
 1940). As she spoke of it later, this discovery "closed that chapter
 of her life." She put away her picture album displaying photos of
 Adolph and did not speak of him until their courtship resumed 56 years
 later, about six months after the death of Adolph's first wife (02 AUG
 1995).

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