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A note about how
Norwegians got their names
Emigration to America
Bixby Lineage
Crum Lineage
Kirkeberg Lineage
Kjos Lineage
Grønvold Lineage
A Patchwork of Memories
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Irma and Honey (Susan)
The two were nearly inseparable growing up.
Honey was promoted to the same grade as Irma in the
second grade, which encouraged their being "connected at
the hip." Honey used to laughingly tell me about how, in
high school, they used to walk down Main Street of
Scobey, arms slung around the other's neck, and giggle
their way down the street - one foot in the gutter and
one on the sidewalk. It still made her laugh all those
years later. What made her laugh? The rolled eyes of the
shop keepers: "There go the Crum girls..."
And then
there was the time that Honey and Irma, also in high
school, were hot and wanted more than anything a breath
of fresh, cool air. A hard thing to find in the summer
in Scobey. So they climbed to the top of the water tower
in the middle of the night. Their poor mother, Ingrid,
had to come and whisper as loud as she could so they
could hear her but not loud enough for the neighbors to
hear: "You two get down here! RIGHT NOW! You'll break
your necks!"
Here come the two Crum
girls.
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Earliest
picture of Irma - in doorway - with Billy
Minot, 1912
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Earliest
picture of Susan Helen (Honey)
Scobey, 1914
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A happy
little Honey under her sunbonnet
1915
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Dobbins
girl, Honey, Irma
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Irma at
the town house
where they lived in the winters |
Irma is on
the far right, next to her is Honey
Taken in 1924, when they were in the 4th grade |
Honey
(Susan) 8th grade
"I had won a costume contest and I thought I was so beautiful...
the cat's meow."
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Honey and
Irma "playing" dress up in high school
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The Gorgeous Irma |
The Gorgeous Honey |
Two Sisters
Irma and Honey |
Two Sisters
Honey and Irma |
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Honey and Irma
"Dressed to the Nines - 1940" |
Irma and Honey 1939 |
Two Sisters Susan and
Irma
Summer 1952 |
Irma and Susan
Early 1950s |
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Two sisters - Susan
Honey and Irma
1985 |
Two sisters, Honey and
Irma - standing in the wheat fields outside Scobey, Montana
Together again on a "pilgrimage" back to the farm
Behind them is the site of their father's homestead |
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