Finnestad Ancestry

In 1950, Lillian (Finnestad) Risetter and her husband George were living in DeKalb, DeKalb county, Illinois with two of their three children, Betty Lou and Rodney. The Risetter family can be located on lines 7 - 10 of the US Census.    George was employed as a night  manager for a trucking company.   Betty Lou worked in the meter department for the electric company and Rodney was a milling machine operator for an electric factory. Lillian was the daughter of Caroline (Quitno) and Ole (Olson) Finnestad Jr. and the granddaughter of  Mari (Iversdatter Nord-Skaar) and Ole (Olson) Finnestad Sr.    

The next confirmation class with multiple Finnestad descendants was 1913.    I'd posted Ole and Mari Finnestad's granddaughter, Lillian's photo and ledger in 2009. Ole and Mari's great grandson, Elmer Seward Sanderson was in the same class as Lillian Finnestad. Lillian Finnestad is seated in the bottom row, far right. Lawrence is standing in the back row, second from the left side of the photo. Lawrence's parents were Ellen Marie/Mary (Vallem) and Seward Sanderson, his grandparents were Rachel (Finnestad) and Lewis Vallem.

I have had previously posted the obituary for my great great grandfather Ole Finnestad several posts back. I have not yet been able to locate an obituary for my great grandparents Oliver and Mary Finnestad, though here are the obituaries for my grandparents, Kenneth and Lillian Finnestad.