Monona County IA Archives News.....Onawa Couple, Married 61 Years Ago, Travel Despite Ages 1929
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Sioux City Journal 1929
The Sioux City Journal  1929

Onawa Couple, Married 61 Years Ago, Like Travel Despite Ages
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Mr. and Mrs. Ole K. Lee on Long Jaunt to Texas
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	By Flora M. Colby
(Special Correspondent of The Journal)
	Onawa, Ia.—Among the sturdy pioneers of Onawa and Monona county are 
Mr. and Mrs. Ole K. Lee, who soon will celebrate the 62d anniversary of their 
marriage day.
	Mr. Lee was born in Norway, July 27, 1848, and his wife also was born 
in Norway, March 6, 1847.  Mr. Lee, with his parents, arrived in Wisconsin in 
1853, and Mrs. Lee with her parents arrived in the same county that year.
	They lived in Wisconsin until their marriage, December 27, 1868, when 
they came to Monona county, in 1870, settling on a farm near Soldier.  In 1895 
they moved into Mapleton, Ia., living there until 1912, when they came to 
Onawa.  In the fall of 1918 they moved to McAllen, Tx., where they resided 
until 1936, when they returned to Onawa, to the home of their daughter, Mrs. 
Clara Carlson.
	Mr. and Mrs. Lee were the parents of nine children but only four 
daughters now are living, Mrs. Sadie Kenyon, Sioux City, Ia.; Mrs. Emma 
Fritzy, Los Angeles, Cal.; Mrs. Clara Carlson, Onawa, and Mrs. Josephine 
Whitehead, Pharr, Tex.
	The couple having lived in the south, still had a yearning to return 
again to the Rio Grande valley, so lately they again packed their trunks and 
left for the south, to make their home with Mrs. Whitehead, whose husband, 
Col. B. G. Whitehead, editor of the Rio Grande Valley Sun, Pharr, recently 
died.


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