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blaise-memories/roy-nielsen

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+Roy Nielsen was Blaise's maternal grandfather. +

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table of contents

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1916-1933 childhood

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+Born October 26 1916. +At that time family lived in San Francisco CA. +

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+ + Roy's family prior to WWI in San Fransisco. +
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Campo Seco

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+During WWI the family moved to Campo Seco CA where Yens worked the copper mine. +They lived in tents. +

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+ + Tents for miners in Campo Seco. +
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Alameda

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+1918 WWI ends. +Family moves to Alameda CA, living at 945 Park St. +

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- Roy and siblings before both of their parents died. They were living in Alameda. + 1918. Roy and siblings with parents.
- - Roy and siblings after they had been adopted by the Anderson family + + Left: Nielsen family at 945 Park St. Right: same house pictured in 2011.
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16 Costa St.

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+1924 they move back to San Fransisco. +They live at 16 Costa St. +The house was on a steep hill and the horse pulling the wagon of furniture in the move could not make it up the hill. +So the family had to carry their things the last three blocks home. +The family owned a goat for milk and purchased fresh eggs from a neighbor who had chickens. +

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- Roy early photo of Jens' + Costa St, San Fransisco. Picture taken sometime between 1924 and 1927. +
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+At this time Roy's father Yens Nielsen worked a variety of odd jobs. +Yens' main job was nightwatchman at the California shade and cloth factory. +He also had a job training guard dogs, where he played the role of "bad guy to be subdued". +

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+ + One of Yens' shirts which had been damaged by dog training.
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+The entire family would go to the Russian River camp spot on public transportation to vacation. +Sunday afternoon Jens would return to SF to work the week and then return the next weekend, etc. +They may have stayed at the river multiple weeks each summer. +

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+ + The Nielsen children play at Russian River. Right to left Hubert, Ingeborg, Roy. +
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Church Caretaker

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+In 1927 the family moved to the Swedish Baptist Church in San Fransisco. +It was here that Roy and Inge became believers during services by a visiting evangelist T. Gideon Solandar. +The family cared for the church together and lived in an apartment above the church. +

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+ + The Swedish Baptist Church where the Nielsens lived and worked. Photo taken later in 1973. +
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death of parents

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+Jens' died suddenly in January 1930. +In response to what was thought to be a ruptured stomach ulcer a friend, Mr. Smith, drove Jens, in his Dodge touring car, from the church to UCSF. +UCSF denied him care as he was too poor. +From there Mr. Smith drove Jens to the SF County Hospital. +There they operated on Jens and he died the next day. +Hubert remembered that they visited briefly with Jens just before he died. +The pastor told them to tell Jens they would see him in glory but they refused. +

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+Their uncle Hans helped them care for a church for a while after Jens died. +Six months after Jens' death the mother Sophie began hemorrhaging and was hospitalized and put into a nursing home. +During this time Ingeborg lived with a family in Oakland who were relatives of Dwayne Nelson and Hubert and Roy lived with two families in San Fransisco. +They slept in the basement of the Olsens and ate next door with the Holmlunds. +Arnie was already living in a boarding house in Berkeley. +

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+On August 27 1931 Sophie was well enough to come home. +They rented an inexpensive flat on Anderson St. +However the very day she came home the hemorrhaging began again. +She was taken to the County Hospital where she died the next day. +The family was able to experience home together for only one day. +According to Arne they barely managed to pay for Sophie's funeral. +

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+Jens, Sophie, and Rolph are buried at Cypress Lawn cemetery, San Fransisco. +

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+ + Nielsen family tombstone at Cypress Lawn. +
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adoption

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+ + Roy and siblings after they had been adopted by the Anderson family +
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1933-1941 college

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Begins college UC Berkley fall 1935. + Finished in 1939 with BA in Geology. +Went back in 1940 for graduate degree in Library Science.

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Roy college years.
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Roy on boat with friends.
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1941-1943 marriage

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Roy and Betty are married.
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1943-1968 children

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Roy, Betty, Nancy, and Jim at 638 Viona in Oakland.
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Roy at Campo Seco.
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1968-1982 empty nest

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1982-1991 retirement

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Roy on a cruise in Greece, 1986.
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1991 death

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Died December 11 1991

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Memorial at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland.
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life themes

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