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Earlier family photos |
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1912-13? Bloomquist Brothers with father, left to right (clockwise): Arnold Bloomquist (b1904), |
Arvid Bloomquist (b1899), Reuben Bloomquist (b1897), Laurence Bloomquist (b1909), |
Ernest Bloomquist (b 1901), and their father, Carl Eric Bloomquist (b1871), in center. |
Reuben Bloomquist was Roberta Swanson's father. |
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1930? Reuben Bloomquist? Father of Roberta Swanson |
and husband of Hilma Bloomquist |
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1940? Kenneth and Gary Bloomquist, sons of Arvid Bloomquist (cousins of Roberta Swanson) |
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1947 July Carl Eric Bloomquist trying out Karl Bloomquist's bicycle in Middletown, Illinois. |
Karl reported that it was his first bicycle (he was 9) and it cost the "princely sum" of $50. |
Thanks for the picture, Gary Bloomquist. Thanks for the memory, Karl. Carl Eric was |
great great grandfather to Jackie and Adam Ross. |
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1950 Jim & Roberta Swanson |
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1959? Roberta, Hilma, and Jim in Grand Junction, Iowa, according to Frances Bloomquist. |
She wrote that this was in Roberta and Jim's living room. It was with another |
picture from the same time, supposedly 1959? |