| Summary: | Elizabeth Catherine Piatz was born October 9, 1925 at Harvey, to parents John Piatz and Marion Burgard Piatz. They were united in marriage January 2, 1946 by Father F.X. Miller at Knox. They are the parents of six children: Deborah Marie, born June 26, 1947, married Curtis Leier of Esmond, November 19, 1966 at Bowbells. They are now living on a farm at Mcintosh, Minn. He is also a brick layer. They have four children. Kenneth Vernon, Jr., born June26, 1948, married Arlene Barman of Ray, March 5, 1971. They are living at Ray where he works as Field Office Manager at Northwest Mutual Aid Telephone Corporation. They have two children. Lilia Diane was born September 13, 1955. She is a Licensed Practical Nurse, working at Mery Hospital in Williston. Julie Ann was born June 24, 1960 at Maddock. She is a sophomore at Tioga High School. Larry Al was born July 12,1962. He is in theeighth grade at Tioga High School. Penny Leah was born April 29, 1964. She is in the sixth grade at Tioga grade school. While in Esmond he had a Farmers Union station and did mechanic work. They live at Tioga now where he has been working as a mechanic for Brown and Root Western for the past ten years. Kenneth was active in Fillmore community as a school board member, a charter member of American Legion, town constable, bus driver, and a member of St. Ann's Catholic Church. Kenneth V. Lund, Sr. was in the Army in World War II. He served in the European area. He was in the 103rd Reconnaissance Troop. Kenneth V. Lund, Jr. was in the Army. He served in Vietnam for one year. MR. AND MRS. CHARLEY LUNDE Charley was born on January 24, 1885 in Telemarken, Norway. His parents were Neis and Kari Lunde. He was one of nine. Others were half sister Lena, Christ, Lars, Carl, Toni, Louisa, Severine and Christina. Charley, along with his parents and family, set sail for America on July 8, 1890 at which time he would have been 5V2 years old. When they came to America they settled in Ridgeway, la. After his boyhood Charley attended Valder Business College in Decorah, la. for two years which is near Ridgeway. Later in 1904 he and a brother came to Aneta where his uncle and an older brother were operating a threshing rig and was put to work. He then returned to his home in Iowa and a short time later, having a real yen for North Dakota, came back to Richardton in about 1907. Here he engaged a farmer with team and wagon to haul him to a point near Lemmon, S. Dak. where he proved up a parcel of land for homestead. He carted with him his personal belongings which he carried in a large trunk along with some lumber with which to erect his first mansion on the lone prairie. They traveled to a point which he considered to be near the property that he had filed on and there he was left alone, and parked his property on the sea of grass. They arrived late fall on a Sunday evening and his farmer, wagon transport operator took off hurriedly to get back as far as Mott where he could find a cafe and livery for his horses. Charley recalls his first night in coyote land sleeping in a tent that he made by propping some of his lumber on his trunk where he made it through the night. He had food along but water was his problem which meant that he had to set off on foot with a pail, where he wound up at the South Fork of theCannonball, now called the Cedar River, before he could quench his thirst then carrying a pail of water back with him. He recalls upon waking the first morning that everything was coated with frost. This cool morning he sets out in search of his section line to his new claim and found he was about 500 feet of the property. On this place he put up the walls of his building, he lived in the dwelling for about ten months, then paid a small price for the acreage and left for Lemmon, S. Dak. Here he found work as a painter and decorator, following his father's trade. Shortly after moving to Lemmon he was called back to Iowa due to sickness in the family. A short time later he returned to North Dakota. This time to Minnewaukan and Maddock area, then to York where he was engaged in his painting trade for about a year before finally winding up in the Esmond community about 1912 where he has resided since. On December 15, 1915 he married Clara Nielson, an Esmond girl, in the Esmond Lutheran Church. They had three boys, Nordan, Ove, Lynn and two daughters, Mavis and Avis. Avis passed away in infancy. Clara Lunde passed away in 1945. Charley continued his painting trade in Esmond area until 1921 at which time he was advised by his Dr. to find outside work if possible for health reasons. This he did by going to work for Standard Oil as a bulk agent. He continued as bulk agent until his retirement in 1950. He again returned to his given talent as artist painter. One of his paintings at one time adorned the decor of our state Governor's Mansion. At the age of over 90 (1975) Lunde referred to as "Papy" by his grandchildren, said he has completed over 20 paintings since his retirement. He has gotten ideas for his paintings from his travels which has taken him to Alaska, Norway, and through western United States. A highlight in Charley's life was a return trip to Norway by plane. He visited his old homestead site in Telemark as well as their old church which was built in the year 1100. It was a touching moment for him when he had his picture taken by the baptismal font in the church in which he had been baptized some 86-87 years before. At this sacred old place, his parents had also been baptized, confirmed and married, as wel I as other brothers and sisters born and living there. He lives alone on his two acres of land in the northwest part of town. Recently he stated he planned to remodel his kitchen and one living room wall. He does his own housework, trims his hedge and trees and cuts the grass. 157 Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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