Sunday's Obituary: Anna Christina (Borg) Greandahl

Vidette-Messenger, 29 February 1944, page 1

From the February 29, 1944 issue of the Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Indiana):

Pioneer of County Dies

CHESTERTON, Ind. – Mrs. Anna C. Greandahl, 83, a pioneer resident of Porter County died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Carl Nelson.

She was born at Baileytown north of here on Aug. 25, 1860. All her life has been spent in north Porter County.

Surviving besides the daughter Mrs. Lillian Nelson are a granddaughter; two brothers, Gus and Daniel Borg, and three sisters, Mrs. Mary Dahlquist, Mrs. Minnie Olson and Mrs. Malinda Lawrence, all of Chesterton.

Memorial services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Carl Nelson residence and at 2 p.m. at the Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Rev. Cecil Johnson officiating. Burial will be in Chesterton cemetery.
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Anna was the oldest sister of my 2nd-great-grandmother Mary/Marie Louise Borg. Their parents, John (Johannes) and Johanna Carolina (Samuelson) Borg, emigrated from Sweden in the 1850s. Anna married John Lewis Greandahl, a Swedish immigrant, on 28 April 1894. Her only child, Lillian V. Greandahl, was born on 8 February 1896. John Lewis Greandahl died in 1930.

Malinda was actually the only one of her siblings who was still living in Chesterton. Daniel was living in San Francisco, California, and the others were living in Chicago, Illinois. Four brothers and a sister predeceased her.