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Eldon and Emily Sommer
Husband's Full Name: Eldon Sommer
Husband's Place of Birth: Courtland, Nicolet, Minnesota
Husband's Father's Name: Frank Albert Sommer
Husband's Mother's Name: Emma Louise Schroeder
Husband's Siblings' Names: Sylvia, Edwin, Vernon, Marvin
Wife's Full Name: Emily Fuhrman
Wife's Place of Birth: Bowdon, Wells, North Dakota
Wife's Father's Name: John Fuhrman
Wife's Mother's Name: Carolina Dietrich
Wife's Siblings' Names: Johanna, Julius, Edward, Louis, Pauline, Ida, August, Benjamin, Walter, Peter, Elizabeth, Margaret, Robert
Children's Names: Lyle ( Patty); Dorothy (Nick Faul); Eldon Dale (Vicki)
Eldon was born in Courland, Minnesota and farmed in the Manfred area from 1916 until his health failed. In 1959 he and his wife Emily moved Carrington. He had been treated for a heart ailment and died unexpectedly in his car near Valley City.