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• Published: North Dakota State Library
• Subjects: Canada; Grand Forks; Homestead; Three Sisters; glacier*; glaciers; Alaska; midnight sun
• Online Access: http://cdm16921.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/ndsl-books/id/56119

August and Mae Sommerfeld August and Catherine Mae Sommerfeld August was born to Julius Sr. and Emilie (Behnke) Som­merfeld in 1912. He attended a country grade school. After his father’s death he fanned the family homestead. In 1937 he married Catherine Mae Talbot born in 1919, the daughter of Edward and Carrie (Groh) Talbot of McVille, N.D. They started farming five and one half miles north east of Michigan on the farm known as the Wheeler farm. In 1939 a son Gary was born. In 1943 they moved to the Joe Lamb farm, they farmed for 10 years. In 1953 they bought the farm known as the Neil Nelson farm. They farmed un­til August, started working for Lambs Lumber Company in 1958 and then bought their present home known as the Oscar Jallo home. August worked for Lamb Lumber Yard for 24 years and then retired. Catherine Mae worked at Joe Lambs Kite Cafe for 22^ years, retiring in September 1981. Gary attended seven years grade school at Michigan and eighth grade in a country school in Center Township. He graduated from McVille High School. He enlisted in the Air Force serving for 5 years. After returning home he went to UND for two years. In 1971 he married Gay Eilene Stenne (Splide). They live in Grand Forks, N.D., and have one adopted daughter Teresa. ?f Clara Sommerfeld in her home. Clara Sommerfeld Clara Sommerfeld is the daughter of the late Emil and Bertha Brede Sommerfeld. She attended both elementary and secondary school at Whitman, N.D. In 1938 she was granted a Standard Elementary Diploma from the Mayville State Teachers College. She spent the next 32 years teaching in various North Dakota schools. She is an active member of Zion Lutheran Church of Michigan and has taught both Sunday School and Vacation Bible School. During her school vacations she had many opportunities to travel in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Her two most impressive ventures outside the U.S. was the one in 1976 when her three sisters and she spent the summer traveling in England and nine continental European coun­tries by means of a Eurialpass, bus, car, boat, and taxi. When a place of interest was reached they would take local tours. A very crowded street in Amsterdam will be remembered as the place where Clara was pickpocketed. The loss seemed minor when five more victims came to the police station including a tearful father with his family who had lost everything. The other is the 1978 tour of the Holy Lands namely Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and Greece where some of the Biblical accounts almost became real. The tour also included a camel ride to the Pyramids and a l’/2 horse-back ride to the not often visited rose-red city of Petra in Jordan. A recent tour to Alaska enabled her to see the midnight sun and floating glaciers. She preserves her experience with pictures, slides, poems, and scrap books. She has now retired and resides in her late parents home which adjoins the city of Michigan. Standing L to R: James, Ruth and Arnold. Sitting L to R: George, Caroline, Catherine and Richard. Richard and Catherine Sommerfeld Richard Sommerfeld was born Feb. 24, 1910 north of Michigan in Sarnia Township. He was the oldest of eight brothers and five sisters and farmed with his father when very young. He had to walk all day behind horses and drag when he was only eleven years old. In later years he ran their first threshing machine, a Minneapolis, with his father. He also ran their International and drove their Rumley tractor when very young. Catherine Gunderson was born Jan. 9, 1921 northwest of Michigan. She is the daughter of Oscar and Susie Gunder­son. She is the second of three children, one older sister and a younger brother. Her mother died at the birth of her brother when she was only two years old. At the young age of eleven she learned to bake bread, cakes, etc. with the old cook stove and had to wash clothes on a scrub board. Richard and Catherine were married on June 1, 1939 at Niagara, N.D. They spent their honeymoon at the World's Fair in San Francisco. They farmed 9 miles north of Michigan in Sarnia Township, Nelson County for 40 years before moving into Michigan in 1979 where they had built a new home. They 984 Scanned with a Czur book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited in Adobe Acrobat Pro