| Show The Grantsville liAZfciTfc jr unique occasion took place A recently at the City Park Grantsville One hundred sixty-fi- ve descendants of the Charles and Annie John Dorothy Strooberg family met together at that special occasion a strikingly Noel Strooberg of 81 years and the only living member of that was master of family The ceremonies story he told of his parents and of others made us stop and think of our heritage and of those brave pioneers who blazed the trail handsome MOM'S AND KIDS entire assisting with group 1b her the reception home The lawn grandparent's Is available to children and on grandchildren for parties The Grant Gunderson heme Itself was a family project The boys helped build the house and the girls were each Two given a room to decorate of the daughters took charge of the landscaping details " The home reflects the family's and personality creativity night be work party never She gets occurs to Mother real Joy out of seeing people and wants us to simply happy She Is a enjoy one another real work-hors- e” Marge and Grant feel that If can teach your family to love one another through being together those feelings can extend beyond the family to others The purpose of life” you states Marge another" "is to love one The v family does enjoy being togtherv Larsen irtates ”M(y as a child were spent" ‘ fondest-memorie- ’ Me playing with my cousins spent hours playing 'Kick the Now Can' and 'Antie I Over' can tell our parents truly love us because of all the time they spend "You Is also at all her parents children "The could worship as they pleased Charles sailed on the German ship "Athenla” where some 38 passengers died from measles other ailments and Annie sailed on the ship The Monarch of the Sea” Annie was a child and ld After brother In Grantsville they one-roo- m lean-t- o Annie and her sister were sent out by their mother to gather sagebrush buds which she cooked and thickened sparingly bad amazed do for the Idea that a their beyond Annie and endurance Charles They Strooberg among them left their homeland of Sweden to come to America where they tested almost with dirt floors and by the time spring came a small jar of flour was all the food they 4 us” Grantsville were from arriving lived In a small children are having the same She kind of experience” doing things for Vicki Matthews Many three-year-o- my continues! before our time of seven years when they walked across the plains where she often took turns carrying her Sherry Daughter man CHARLES JOHN STROMBERG That with the precious flour of was only the beginning IN GRANTSVILLE FOR ALL YOUR PRINTING NEEDS! Letterheads Cards Invitations Envelopes Statesments Flyers Carbonless Forms LOW PRICES FAST SERVICE No job too Large nor too small Call 884-62- 17 Wednesday July 24 1985 greater trials to li page come After having met and married he and Annie Charles their established Grantsville home where In the In foll- owing nine years they had six children four boys and two girls One child Mary Alice lived only a few months Another Ettle died three days a short time after birth fore Charles was called serve a mission for the church back to his native den Annie was left be- to LDS Swe- alone with the remaining three children The following July she gave birth to George Albert Life was difficult as Annie struggled to make ends meet At one time she found necessary to sell her wedding ring for a little money In March it 1886 the children all came seriously with of ill bedlp-the- ria In spite of the constant loving care given by Annie all four of the children died Three boys were burled In one grave Friends rallied to but it became necessary to send for her hushelp Annie to be at her side When they met she didn't cry or band smile ing It was a sad Each morning Annie homecom- - lined up the little shoes of her children in front of the kitchen stove She mourned the loss so much that Charles asked the church Patriarch to corns from Salt Lake to give her a bless- CONTINUED ON P 12 |
