Here are the pictures from our Mother's Day visit to Aunt Eva.
She is doing well, has immense energy, though not so good eyesight.
Of course, she had lots of cake and cookies, plus we had lunch out
at a nice seafood restaurant that specializes in salmon. The picture with the red rhododendrons is from the campus of Pacific Lutheran University, where Arnold taught and where Marilyn and I went to school.

She also shared many family pictures and writings, one that I hadn't seen before. It is an autobiography that Uncle Fred wrote in 1933 when he was just 20 years old. He describes the Hagen and Tollefson families in great detail and with some humor. I believe that Sara Lynn has a copy of this, as the last page indicates that she and Mel typed the autobiography.
A question that I had: Do any of you know how Andrew Hagen obtained the homestead. I'm reading a book entitled Land of the Burnt Thigh about homesteading in South Dakota. There there were hundreds of people vying for just dozens of claims. I know that Andrew and someone else went out before Josie and made the claim and build a "house," but I don't know details of how he got the claim. Have any of you heard or is there someone you could ask. Perhaps Berniece would know.
Love, Andrea