Gunhild Peterson/Sundström 29/3 1903 – 31/7 1964

Gunhild will be called ‘Gunel’ and is born 29 of March. She goes to Elementary school for 8 years.

Gunhild married William (Gustave) Sundstrom  who is 13 years older than Gunhild.

Gustaf is born in Illinois 16th of Aug.1889  and has Swedish parents. 17 years old, 1917 working as a shipping clerk, he is drafted to WW I  5th of June. He is of medium size and has blue eyes and brown hair. 1920 he is still single and stays with his widowed 67 year old mother Louise and his 3 year younger brother Walter and 16 year old little sister Mildred.

1930 he works as a stenographer and Gunhild works in a company. She is expecting their first child. They are neighbors of Gunhilds parents: Amelia, 65 and Peter G., 71  and her youngest sister Helen who is 22.

They have 3 children: Joyce 1930, Arlene 1934 and Eleanor 1935.

William dies 4th of Oct.1938 – only 48 years old. : she is only 35 years old and the children are 8, 4 and 3 years old.

1940 she lives with her 3 children of 9,6 and 4 in S Carpenter str. Chicago, Ill. where the family lived before. She has now been looking for work for 8 weeks. She is registered as a ‘New worker’.

Gunhild passes away 31/7 1964- 61 years old.

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