Sunday, March 3, 2019
I will miss my friend Bernice. I was so sad to hear of her passing. I am heading out to Gethsemane. Thanks Elena Bennett Saragosa for letting me know. I think the story goes like this: My grandparents, Betty Signe (Bengtson) and Oscar Waldemar Sandstrom sold Sigrid Johnson the lot next door to theirs on Texas Avenue and Montrose. Sigrid had a duplex built and lived in the bottom half. Sigrid took me to church at Gethsemane at 200 W Anderson Ln, when I was a little girl. Sigrid also treated me to root beer floats and Scrabble games at her house, a duplex on Texas Avenue. We also went to Ann Louise's home across from Hancock Golf Course many, many times and I remember being treated to sherbet there. In later years it was Bernice who would go to the Swedish Midsummer Celebration with me t the SPJST Hall, located at 702 Highway 95 in Elgin. Sigrid has been gone a long time. Now it is so sad to say goodbye to Bernice, Sigrid's niece, too. It feels like saying goodbye to a whole era...
