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Lillie J. Lindgren was born 16 Apr 1891.  She died April 1982 in Wahoo, Saunders, NE. Find A Grave Memorial# 49862797. She married in 1915 at Malmo, Saunders, NE to Eric J. Erickson.  He was born 21 Nov 1890 in Dala-Floda, Sweden, and died May 1975 at Wahoo, Saunders, NE,Find A Grave Memorial# 48926816.  They are buried in Sunrise Cemetery, Wahoo, Saunders, NE.

Eric is cousin to Simon Nordquist, who married Annie A. Lindgren, daughter of Anders  & Charlotte Lindgren.

Eric immigrated in 1910, and stayed with his aunt, Johanna Nordquist, in Malmo, NE.  By 1920, Eric & Lillie were living in Wahoo, NE, where he had a partnership in a clothing store. In 1930, the Census shows that both his widowed mother-in-law, Anna,  and his widowed sister-in-law, Adele, were living with them.  Anna died in 1935, but Adele was still with them in 1940.

Lillie and Eric had two children:

1.  E. Gerald Erickson was born 26 Aug 1917 in Nebraska, and died 21 Feb 1989 in Wahoo, Saunders, NE.  Buried in Sunrise Cemetery, Wahoo, Saunders, NE, Find A Grave Memorial# 49862899.

He married in 1941 at Washington, D.C. to 1) Genevieve Johnson.  She was born 24 Nov 1917 and died 01 Jun 1973.  She is buried in Sunrise Cemetery with her husband.  Find A Grave Memorial# 49862931

Their children were: 

    1.  Eric Ericson,

    2.  Charles Erickson

    3.   Warren Erickson

After Genevieve's death, E. Gerald Erickson then married 2) Arlene Schmidt, the widow of LeRoy Yarmon. Arlene had two children by her first husband.

2.  Phyllis R. Erickson was born in 1917 in NE.  She died 17 May 1996.  She married  William LeRoy Laudenschlager (b: 01 Sep 1914 in NE, d: 09 May 2003), son of William M. Laudenschlager and Geneva M. Donelly

Phyllis & LeRoy had a daughter at the time of the 1940 US Census:

        1.  Marsha Kay Laudenschlager