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Note: N8 As the oldest child, Odin had to return home from the Navy to take care of his brothers and sisters when his father died in 1907. Siblings were sent to relatives in 1908.
Odin served in the Navy from 1902 to 1906 on the USS Constitution and Old Ironside. He was a cook on a chuck wagon in Minnesota, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Montana. He was a logger in Wyoming and a steeplejack working on the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, Michigan. Odin was also a lumberjack on the West Coast and in Canada. Later, when carpentry work was hard to find, his brother-in-law (Fred Stephan), a lieutenant on the police department, helped him get a job working for the A & P Supermarket chain in Detroit for fifteen years. After leaving A & P in 1942, the family moved from downtown Detroit and he went to work for Taylor Realty. At this time he bought two pieces of property in order to build a house. While building the house, the family (George, Olliene, and Bert) lived in a tent for six months. Odin also became and independent roofer and later a contractor. Three of his sons, Tom, Joe, and Art, sometimes helped him on roofing jobs and carpentry work. It's apparent that his spirit of adventure never left him, for after he retired he travelled extensively to visit his children.
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