There may be members of this family who will declare that there is no relation between the various families who may use either of the spellings indicated, but their opinions probably have no foundation in fact. Actually, there are at least a dozen variations in the spelling of most names and most of them are known to have been used by related branches of the family, or to have been used in Court Records or censuses.
Census takers would often guess the age and name spelling, without asking, of people they recorded. Many people during the early censuses may not have known how to read or write or know their exact birthdate.
Ages recorded have been seen with variances up to 5-20 years!
In some cases, four different spellings have pertained to the same person. The variations already observed are: Newlan, Newlen, Newlin, Newlon, Newlun, Newlyn, Newland, Newlands, Nuland, Newlund, and Newling. The variations Nowlan, Nowland, and Nowlin have also been found in Court Records.
There are many lines or branches of the family whose common relationship has never been established, and they may therefore be unrelated in this country. Lines that are rather well identified and quite numerous are those of George Newland and William Newland who were immigrants to colonial Massachusetts in 1643.
The primary purpose of this publication is to record, insofar as possible, the genealogy and history of the descendants of William and Catherine (Mellowes) Newlan who were married in 1627, in Boston, Lincolnshire in England and immigrated to Sandwich, Barnstable County in Massachusetts.
Besides the Newlands who immigrated to Massachusetts in the 1620s and the Nicholas Newlin who immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1683, we find early records of the following persons of the name:
Richard Newland was an immigrant to Virginia in 1653 with the Warrick Company.
Another William Newland in Sandwich, was jailed in 1657 for supporting the Quakers by allowing Quaker gatherings in his home.
Will Newland witnessed a will in Carrituck County, North Carolina, in 1710.
James Newland entered land in Carrituck County, North Carolina, in 1721.
Thomas Newland brought a Certificate of Removal from the Monthly
Meeting at M't.troth, Ireland, dated June 28, 1726. Joined Philadelphia Montly Meeting October 3, 1726.
Daniel Newlin (Newlon) had a deed recorded in 1765 at Warrenton, Fauquier County, Virginia.
John Newland of Wythe County, Virginia said descendants to have come from Germany and settled there in 1750.
Many Newlins also set sail as immigrants to Australia from England in the early 1800s.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Newlun, Robert, 1924-1994
Birth 1924 March 9, in Fort Collins, Laramie, Colorado
Death 1994 March 27, in Abingdon, Washington, Virginia
"Bob" Newlun and Ray Asher, c. 1944
Bob and Anne Newlun had a large family, two sets of twins. Freddie lived with them when he started school, 3rd grade, in Ft. Collins. Bob was a Marine. He also went to college in New Jersey and got his teaching degree.
[Lindquist, L. & F. July, 2011]
Bob (Robert) had a gas station and his wife was a school teacher.
[Hoeft, C. July, 2011]
Bob Newlun's family
Death 1994 March 27, in Abingdon, Washington, Virginia
"Bob" Newlun and Ray Asher, c. 1944
Bob and Anne Newlun had a large family, two sets of twins. Freddie lived with them when he started school, 3rd grade, in Ft. Collins. Bob was a Marine. He also went to college in New Jersey and got his teaching degree.
[Lindquist, L. & F. July, 2011]
Bob (Robert) had a gas station and his wife was a school teacher.
[Hoeft, C. July, 2011]
Bob Newlun's family
Back row of photo: left to right
Bob, Tom, Dad, Mom, Danny, Kenny (deceased)
Middle row:
Joyce (Bob's wife), Kevin, Dennis (with mustache), John Wayne
Front Row:
Jane, Anne, Patrick
Although my mom was a teacher, she became a Social Worker. She retired from the State of New Jersey. There are no family members living in NJ at this time.
Funny, I just learned from this site that Aunt Lucille and I share a birthday.
[Newlun, J. June, 2012]
Dennis Eugene Newlun.
Dennis had the town pump bar for years, in Fort Collins.
[Hoeft, C. July, 2011]
Newlun-Asher, Elizabeth Lorraine 1921-1988
Birth 1921 August 8, in Eaton, CO
Death 1988 July, in Oregon City, OR
Married
1939 Dec 3, Howard W. Godfrey
b. 1917 October, in Colorado Springs, CO
c.1942 Arthur Wiggin
1944 Aug 5, Raymond H. Asher
b. 1922 October 21, in Miami, OK
d. 2003 August 30
Children
Maryalice Godfrey
Born 1940 December 8 in Denver, CO at St. Anthony’s Hospital
Married
1964 Patrick M. O’Grady
1975 to Donald Heavilin
1995 to Raymond Springer
Elizabeth, Bertha & Howard Godfrey
Elizabeth and Howard Godfrey, c.1939
Elizabeth’s first marriage was to Howard Godfrey when she was 18 years old. At the time of my birth, Howard was 23 years old and he worked as an apprentice sheeter in a machine company. I have photos during that time and greeting cards from my father; otherwise, I was too young to remember him.
Elizabeth with daughter Maryalice
Her second marriage was to Arthur Wiggin around 1942. He could play the trumpet and composed a song for her to be played on the piano. It was called “Make Our Dreams Come True.” He was in the military and while stationed in Salt Lake City got a medical discharge.
Elizabeth and Raymond Wiggin
We moved to New Hampshire and were surrounded with lots of love from his family. I luckily captured the heart of Raymond Wiggin (Arthur’s father). I was only three years old the last time we saw each other. He sent me greeting cards with written messages until I was a young woman. Such messages as: “Miss you so much. The trip to the park, playing baseball, the swings and teeters, throwing rocks in the pool, our fire in the fireplace where Maryalice worked hard picking up leaves and sticks to keep it going,” “We surely had fun together and you were always such a jolly and friendly young companion.” I called him Pocketbook because of all the books he gave me. I’m glad my mother continued to write him telling about my life as I was growing up because it is fun to go back now and read them. After her divorce from Arthur, she moved to New Jersey to live with her brother, Bob Newlun.
Maryalice Godfrey with Howard Wiggin "Pocketbook"
Elizabeth with daughter Maryalice
Mom met Raymond Asher through her brother, Bob Newlun. They served in the military together. She married Raymond in 1944. We lived in parts of California and Oregon.
Elizabeth and Raymond Asher, 1944
Raymond worked as a logger while in Oregon and when we moved to Gould, Colorado in the late '40s, he worked with his brother-in-law, Fred Lindquist in a saw mill. We lived in a small cabin with no running water or inside toilet. We had a coal burning stove that Mom used to heat water and do her cooking. Refrigeration was by an icebox on the front porch. The winters were cold with lots of snow. We lived near the Lindquist and Stout families. We were there for a few years and later moved back to Oregon.
Fred Lindquist saw mill with Ray Asher, Gould
Elizabeth in front of cabin in Gould, CO
Raymond never wanted Mom to work and most of the time she did stay home. She provided a clean and comfortable home with her love, good cooking, decorating for the holidays, making my clothes for school, and much more. In her spare time, she liked to do handicrafts and was very good at it. She did embroidery and crocheting better than anybody I knew. Mom and Raymond divorced in 1971.
Later, she traveled with a long-time-friend, Wes Sheldrew. They traveled to San Carlos Bay, Mexico and parts of the US as well. Not too long before Wes died; they
stayed closer to home. During the times she was home, she made pretty flowers by using the sea shells that she collected from the beaches in Mexico or she would order them from the shell catalogs. She sold or gave them away to whomever would like to have them.
Wes Sheldrew and "Bess"
Her life changed drastically when she was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1987. Her sister, Lucille Lindquist, came out from CO to be with her. I was still working and couldn’t be with her full time. I appreciated Lucille being there for Mom. Elizabeth spent her last years in the Oregon City area.
Going back to my childhood days; Mom was so loving and loyal to me. These were all good qualities. I could not have had anybody more dependable and loyal than she was. She is greatly missed.
Death 1988 July, in Oregon City, OR
Married
1939 Dec 3, Howard W. Godfrey
b. 1917 October, in Colorado Springs, CO
c.1942 Arthur Wiggin
1944 Aug 5, Raymond H. Asher
b. 1922 October 21, in Miami, OK
d. 2003 August 30
Children
Maryalice Godfrey
Born 1940 December 8 in Denver, CO at St. Anthony’s Hospital
Married
1964 Patrick M. O’Grady
1975 to Donald Heavilin
1995 to Raymond Springer
Elizabeth, Bertha & Howard Godfrey
Elizabeth and Howard Godfrey, c.1939
Elizabeth’s first marriage was to Howard Godfrey when she was 18 years old. At the time of my birth, Howard was 23 years old and he worked as an apprentice sheeter in a machine company. I have photos during that time and greeting cards from my father; otherwise, I was too young to remember him.
Elizabeth with daughter Maryalice
Her second marriage was to Arthur Wiggin around 1942. He could play the trumpet and composed a song for her to be played on the piano. It was called “Make Our Dreams Come True.” He was in the military and while stationed in Salt Lake City got a medical discharge.
Elizabeth and Raymond Wiggin
We moved to New Hampshire and were surrounded with lots of love from his family. I luckily captured the heart of Raymond Wiggin (Arthur’s father). I was only three years old the last time we saw each other. He sent me greeting cards with written messages until I was a young woman. Such messages as: “Miss you so much. The trip to the park, playing baseball, the swings and teeters, throwing rocks in the pool, our fire in the fireplace where Maryalice worked hard picking up leaves and sticks to keep it going,” “We surely had fun together and you were always such a jolly and friendly young companion.” I called him Pocketbook because of all the books he gave me. I’m glad my mother continued to write him telling about my life as I was growing up because it is fun to go back now and read them. After her divorce from Arthur, she moved to New Jersey to live with her brother, Bob Newlun.
Maryalice Godfrey with Howard Wiggin "Pocketbook"
Elizabeth with daughter Maryalice
Mom met Raymond Asher through her brother, Bob Newlun. They served in the military together. She married Raymond in 1944. We lived in parts of California and Oregon.
Elizabeth and Raymond Asher, 1944
Raymond worked as a logger while in Oregon and when we moved to Gould, Colorado in the late '40s, he worked with his brother-in-law, Fred Lindquist in a saw mill. We lived in a small cabin with no running water or inside toilet. We had a coal burning stove that Mom used to heat water and do her cooking. Refrigeration was by an icebox on the front porch. The winters were cold with lots of snow. We lived near the Lindquist and Stout families. We were there for a few years and later moved back to Oregon.
Fred Lindquist saw mill with Ray Asher, Gould
Elizabeth in front of cabin in Gould, CO
Raymond never wanted Mom to work and most of the time she did stay home. She provided a clean and comfortable home with her love, good cooking, decorating for the holidays, making my clothes for school, and much more. In her spare time, she liked to do handicrafts and was very good at it. She did embroidery and crocheting better than anybody I knew. Mom and Raymond divorced in 1971.
Later, she traveled with a long-time-friend, Wes Sheldrew. They traveled to San Carlos Bay, Mexico and parts of the US as well. Not too long before Wes died; they
stayed closer to home. During the times she was home, she made pretty flowers by using the sea shells that she collected from the beaches in Mexico or she would order them from the shell catalogs. She sold or gave them away to whomever would like to have them.
Wes Sheldrew and "Bess"
Her life changed drastically when she was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1987. Her sister, Lucille Lindquist, came out from CO to be with her. I was still working and couldn’t be with her full time. I appreciated Lucille being there for Mom. Elizabeth spent her last years in the Oregon City area.
Going back to my childhood days; Mom was so loving and loyal to me. These were all good qualities. I could not have had anybody more dependable and loyal than she was. She is greatly missed.
Newlun-Liva, Hazel Maragret 1919-1979
Birth 1919 March 8, in Fort Collins, Colorado
Death 1979 November in San Diego, California
Spouse
Married 1940 August 30
Stephen Michael Liva
Birth 1913 July 12 in Buffalo, NY
Died 1991 February 23 in Greeley, CO
Stephen Michael Liva (Hliva) was 100% Hungarian.
In Hungary, his last name Hliva was like the name Smith here, very common.
Grandfather could not speak English, so they spelled his name Levi.
[Hoeft, C. July, 2011]
Children
Carole Lucille
Birth 1942 December 16 in Denver, at St. Anthony
married in October, 1961 to
(Nyle) Glenn Brannon
Birth 1935 March 5 in Jamestown, TN
Daughter: Catherine Marie married Jeff in October, 1985
Birth 1962 August 25
Her Daughter: Elizabeth Ritchie 1985 October 20
Son: Stephan Michael "Mike" married Oki in 1986
Birth 1964 October 23
His Daughter: Julia adopted in 1998
Sons: Peter Glenn 1967 June 16
twin brother Paul, died at birth
His Daughters: Stephanie by his wife Tonia,
and Valerie
Catherine "Kay" Marie
married Tom Hoeft
Son:Greg
When my parents met, my Mom, Hazel, was working at the Denver General Store as a sales person. My Dad, Steve, learned to be a Machinist in the CC Camps. That was during the great depression.
We lived in the 1940's on 1641 Ratan, in Denver.
Liva family, c. 1950
Moved to San Diego in 1951.
Carole Liva communion
Kay Liva communion
My folks paid $10,500 when we moved to Linda Vista after staying with my other grandma and Uncle Johnny. The government had low income federal housing, so my folks were starting over from leaving Colorado and my dad just started a new job at North Island as a machinist. After my mother started working a few years later at a dry cleaners, she saved the money for a down payment. Oh, she also did mending. I think she put $500 down.
The first house that Glenn and I bought in 1967, we paid $16,500. My parents thought we were crazy.
Carol and Glenn, Thanksgiving 197?
I really didn't want to move (from Lakeside). I was working as an LVN making $9.45 hour and moved to Greeley and started as a Business Associate (old work clerk) in ICU and CCU for $4.65 hour. What a shock.
An article was in the magazine, the title was "Enough is Just Enough." When Glenn and I were interviewed, I was asked what more did I want. I looked out at almost four acres of land and no neighbors. National forest all around us.
I remember a bear on our porch eating the donuts, I forgot to burn them because you don't leave any food around. Looking at the blue jays, saw a coyote off a ways. A dirt road, was well maintained. We paved our road. Our property was called "Carole's Place" until a drunk ran off the road and up our hill and took it out. It's funny for so many acres of space between homes we had a lot more friends. I cooked almost every weekend and we would watch the football games or play games. Fun, fun. Every one helped each other. Not like the city.
[Brannon, C. July, 2011]
Steve Liva
Steve Lived in Linda Vista until Hazel's death and then moved back to Colorado to be close to family.
Death 1979 November in San Diego, California
Spouse
Married 1940 August 30
Stephen Michael Liva
Birth 1913 July 12 in Buffalo, NY
Died 1991 February 23 in Greeley, CO
Stephen Michael Liva (Hliva) was 100% Hungarian.
In Hungary, his last name Hliva was like the name Smith here, very common.
Grandfather could not speak English, so they spelled his name Levi.
[Hoeft, C. July, 2011]
Children
Carole Lucille
Birth 1942 December 16 in Denver, at St. Anthony
married in October, 1961 to
(Nyle) Glenn Brannon
Birth 1935 March 5 in Jamestown, TN
Daughter: Catherine Marie married Jeff in October, 1985
Birth 1962 August 25
Her Daughter: Elizabeth Ritchie 1985 October 20
Son: Stephan Michael "Mike" married Oki in 1986
Birth 1964 October 23
His Daughter: Julia adopted in 1998
Sons: Peter Glenn 1967 June 16
twin brother Paul, died at birth
His Daughters: Stephanie by his wife Tonia,
and Valerie
Catherine "Kay" Marie
married Tom Hoeft
Son:Greg
When my parents met, my Mom, Hazel, was working at the Denver General Store as a sales person. My Dad, Steve, learned to be a Machinist in the CC Camps. That was during the great depression.
We lived in the 1940's on 1641 Ratan, in Denver.
Liva family, c. 1950
Moved to San Diego in 1951.
Carole Liva communion
Kay Liva communion
My folks paid $10,500 when we moved to Linda Vista after staying with my other grandma and Uncle Johnny. The government had low income federal housing, so my folks were starting over from leaving Colorado and my dad just started a new job at North Island as a machinist. After my mother started working a few years later at a dry cleaners, she saved the money for a down payment. Oh, she also did mending. I think she put $500 down.
The first house that Glenn and I bought in 1967, we paid $16,500. My parents thought we were crazy.
Carol and Glenn, Thanksgiving 197?
I really didn't want to move (from Lakeside). I was working as an LVN making $9.45 hour and moved to Greeley and started as a Business Associate (old work clerk) in ICU and CCU for $4.65 hour. What a shock.
An article was in the magazine, the title was "Enough is Just Enough." When Glenn and I were interviewed, I was asked what more did I want. I looked out at almost four acres of land and no neighbors. National forest all around us.
I remember a bear on our porch eating the donuts, I forgot to burn them because you don't leave any food around. Looking at the blue jays, saw a coyote off a ways. A dirt road, was well maintained. We paved our road. Our property was called "Carole's Place" until a drunk ran off the road and up our hill and took it out. It's funny for so many acres of space between homes we had a lot more friends. I cooked almost every weekend and we would watch the football games or play games. Fun, fun. Every one helped each other. Not like the city.
[Brannon, C. July, 2011]
Steve Liva
Steve Lived in Linda Vista until Hazel's death and then moved back to Colorado to be close to family.
Newlun-Lindquist, Lucille Mae 1916-2009
Born 1916 October 18 in Colorado
Death 2009 March 1, in Longmont, Colorado
Married
Fred Lindquist
July 30, 1935
Marriage Certificate signed John F. Wagan
In Ft. Collins, Colo
Fred and Lucille Newlun Lindquist married, in 1935, in Ft. Collins, Colorado.
Jon Fred Lindquist was a young man in Sweden in the late 1920s and decided to emigrate to America.
This all started when his cousin, Fred, had purchased a ticket aboard a ship sailing to New York. Fred decided he was not going to use his ticket to sail to America. Shortly before the departure date of the ship, Jon discovered his girlfriend with another man. So Jon goes to his cousin and asks him if he could use his ticket to sail to America and pay him back when he makes enough money. Fred agrees and gives him the ticket and his passport. There was not enough time for Jon to get his own passport before the ship set sail and they, being cousins, shared the same names, Jon Fred and Fred Jon Lindkvist and looked enough alike in the ID photo to pass upon inspection.
Jon sails to America and settles with other Swedes in St. Paul, Minnesota and gets work in an Armour slaughter house. With the oncoming Depression, layoffs eventually force many men out of work. Jon, now Fred, offers up his position in an attempt so that his manager, with a wife and child, could save his job.
Fred and a friend of his decide to head west in search of work. Upon hearing of a work lead at a timber mill, Fred heads to Wyoming, outside of Laramie, and becomes a lumber jack, up in the hills in Keystone.
Hampton Inn Laramie, WY
Keystone mine
He would later meet and fall in love with red-headed Lucille, who worked in the cook house for the timber mill. She had lived next door to the lumber mill owner with her parents in Colorado. They soon married and had a son, Freddie.
Freddie Lindquist, 1942
A few years later, Lucille gave birth to twin girls, Janet and Joan.
With the outbreak of WWII, the US government is concerned about Swedish migrant workers returning to Sweden, as their skill and labor working for the mill was needed for the war effort. Fred was questioned by the mill manager and asked, what would make him stay? He said he wanted to stay in America and wanted to be a citizen. Without taking classes and studying for the test, as they were too far away, a judge comes up to administer the test and he passes. He is granted full citizenship (with his cousin’s passport) and stays in Wyoming.
In around 1943-44, the lumber camp accepts some Germans as POWs, along with other prisoners of the Germans, who were not enemies of the USA, such as some Eastern-Europeans (Polish, Serbian, Hungarians…). The Germans were detained and worked in the mill with the other POWs, who were allowed to roam free and as they pleased, bunking among the other mill workers already there.
One of these POWs would often come by the Lindquist’s house and sit on the floor with the infant twin girls. Lucille said he would just sit there and cry while gazing at the girls. He talked about how he was told that his whole family had been killed back home in the war, so he had nothing to go back to. He deeply missed his little children and wife he had lost forever.
Janet and Joan Lindquist, 1943
At the end of the war, the POWs are all returned back to Europe. Many of them even returned to work at the lumber camp.
One day, the Lindquist’s get a letter from far away. It’s a letter in an envelope, written in blue-crayon on something that looked like old brown butcher paper. It was from the POW who used to come by the house and sit with Janet and Joan.
Inside, it had written something like:
Dear Lindquist,
Wife alive.
Children alive.
It was difficult to read the writing and his signed name. Janet doesn’t recollect what country in Eastern Europe the letter might have come from.
Freddie said the man was from Germany. Freddie was in Ft. Collins going to school, during this time.
Lucille would remark on how everyone involved in the war, the Germans, the Swedes, the Eastern-Europeans, and the Americans all shared similar cultures and a common fear (an ethno-relative mindset). Nobody knew what would happen, because of the war. “Everybody was scared,” (experiencing the same anxieties), and everybody was happy to be in Wyoming.
Lucille also talked about the German POWs and what “young, scared boys” they were. The Germans were mindful in their situation in being away from the war, yet in a new country not sure how they would be accepted by the people there. They were just kids, like her younger brother, a Marine in the Pacific fighting the Japanese. She also thought that the American Army guards were “assholes” and acted like jerks with their mindless authority over the German POWs.
Children
Frederick Duane, Jr.
Janet Kay Croft
Joan Ann Harding
A Trip Over the Golden Gate
We were heading south from Oregon. Somehow she got on the northbound side. She tried once or twice more but always ended up going the wrong way. Finally, the last time when she realized what she had done she made a u-turn right in the middle of the (Golden Gate) bridge. She had to drive over two concrete islands to do it. When the toll booth guy saw what she did, he about blew a gasket. Told her he would only let her off the bridge if she promised to NEVER come back. This was in the '50s. We hit the toll booth going each way several times. That's why the guy remembered us. We had just paid the toll and could not have had time to go all the way across and come all the way back. Also, you have to remember this was the '50s and highway signs and directions have much improved since then. In addition, paved roads were a luxury to people used to driving on gravel roads. Freeways, were mind boggling.
[Croft, J. June, 2011]
Swedish Visitors
In 1970, Fred went back to Sweden the first time sense he left (41 years).
In 1976, Freddie took relatives on a visit of the southwest USA. Cousin Ketty spoke English.
March 1978, some of them (Swedish relatives) visited us in Arvada, CO and San Diego, CA.
In 1979, Karl Gunner had a second trip to Colorado.
In 1984, Lucille, Fred and Janet went to Sweden.
Death 2009 March 1, in Longmont, Colorado
Married
Fred Lindquist
July 30, 1935
Marriage Certificate signed John F. Wagan
In Ft. Collins, Colo
Fred and Lucille Newlun Lindquist married, in 1935, in Ft. Collins, Colorado.
Jon Fred Lindquist was a young man in Sweden in the late 1920s and decided to emigrate to America.
This all started when his cousin, Fred, had purchased a ticket aboard a ship sailing to New York. Fred decided he was not going to use his ticket to sail to America. Shortly before the departure date of the ship, Jon discovered his girlfriend with another man. So Jon goes to his cousin and asks him if he could use his ticket to sail to America and pay him back when he makes enough money. Fred agrees and gives him the ticket and his passport. There was not enough time for Jon to get his own passport before the ship set sail and they, being cousins, shared the same names, Jon Fred and Fred Jon Lindkvist and looked enough alike in the ID photo to pass upon inspection.
Jon sails to America and settles with other Swedes in St. Paul, Minnesota and gets work in an Armour slaughter house. With the oncoming Depression, layoffs eventually force many men out of work. Jon, now Fred, offers up his position in an attempt so that his manager, with a wife and child, could save his job.
Fred and a friend of his decide to head west in search of work. Upon hearing of a work lead at a timber mill, Fred heads to Wyoming, outside of Laramie, and becomes a lumber jack, up in the hills in Keystone.
Hampton Inn Laramie, WY
Keystone mine
He would later meet and fall in love with red-headed Lucille, who worked in the cook house for the timber mill. She had lived next door to the lumber mill owner with her parents in Colorado. They soon married and had a son, Freddie.
Freddie Lindquist, 1942
A few years later, Lucille gave birth to twin girls, Janet and Joan.
With the outbreak of WWII, the US government is concerned about Swedish migrant workers returning to Sweden, as their skill and labor working for the mill was needed for the war effort. Fred was questioned by the mill manager and asked, what would make him stay? He said he wanted to stay in America and wanted to be a citizen. Without taking classes and studying for the test, as they were too far away, a judge comes up to administer the test and he passes. He is granted full citizenship (with his cousin’s passport) and stays in Wyoming.
In around 1943-44, the lumber camp accepts some Germans as POWs, along with other prisoners of the Germans, who were not enemies of the USA, such as some Eastern-Europeans (Polish, Serbian, Hungarians…). The Germans were detained and worked in the mill with the other POWs, who were allowed to roam free and as they pleased, bunking among the other mill workers already there.
One of these POWs would often come by the Lindquist’s house and sit on the floor with the infant twin girls. Lucille said he would just sit there and cry while gazing at the girls. He talked about how he was told that his whole family had been killed back home in the war, so he had nothing to go back to. He deeply missed his little children and wife he had lost forever.
Janet and Joan Lindquist, 1943
At the end of the war, the POWs are all returned back to Europe. Many of them even returned to work at the lumber camp.
One day, the Lindquist’s get a letter from far away. It’s a letter in an envelope, written in blue-crayon on something that looked like old brown butcher paper. It was from the POW who used to come by the house and sit with Janet and Joan.
Inside, it had written something like:
Dear Lindquist,
Wife alive.
Children alive.
It was difficult to read the writing and his signed name. Janet doesn’t recollect what country in Eastern Europe the letter might have come from.
Freddie said the man was from Germany. Freddie was in Ft. Collins going to school, during this time.
Lucille would remark on how everyone involved in the war, the Germans, the Swedes, the Eastern-Europeans, and the Americans all shared similar cultures and a common fear (an ethno-relative mindset). Nobody knew what would happen, because of the war. “Everybody was scared,” (experiencing the same anxieties), and everybody was happy to be in Wyoming.
Lucille also talked about the German POWs and what “young, scared boys” they were. The Germans were mindful in their situation in being away from the war, yet in a new country not sure how they would be accepted by the people there. They were just kids, like her younger brother, a Marine in the Pacific fighting the Japanese. She also thought that the American Army guards were “assholes” and acted like jerks with their mindless authority over the German POWs.
Children
Frederick Duane, Jr.
Janet Kay Croft
Joan Ann Harding
A Trip Over the Golden Gate
We were heading south from Oregon. Somehow she got on the northbound side. She tried once or twice more but always ended up going the wrong way. Finally, the last time when she realized what she had done she made a u-turn right in the middle of the (Golden Gate) bridge. She had to drive over two concrete islands to do it. When the toll booth guy saw what she did, he about blew a gasket. Told her he would only let her off the bridge if she promised to NEVER come back. This was in the '50s. We hit the toll booth going each way several times. That's why the guy remembered us. We had just paid the toll and could not have had time to go all the way across and come all the way back. Also, you have to remember this was the '50s and highway signs and directions have much improved since then. In addition, paved roads were a luxury to people used to driving on gravel roads. Freeways, were mind boggling.
[Croft, J. June, 2011]
Swedish Visitors
In 1970, Fred went back to Sweden the first time sense he left (41 years).
In 1976, Freddie took relatives on a visit of the southwest USA. Cousin Ketty spoke English.
March 1978, some of them (Swedish relatives) visited us in Arvada, CO and San Diego, CA.
In 1979, Karl Gunner had a second trip to Colorado.
In 1984, Lucille, Fred and Janet went to Sweden.
Newlun-Smith, Alice 1912-1976
Birth 1912 June 7
Death 1976 July 11
Alice and Jim Smith lived on Catalina Island. She died of lung cancer. They had a daughter, Donna who still lived there (died Dec., 2011), also Mickey and Charley. Mickey passed March, 2007.
[Lindquist, L. July, 2011]
Alice, Bertha and sister Lucille, 1940
Donna Francis Smith Piacentini was born on May 4th, 1935, in Ft. Collins, Colorado. The Smith family relocated to Catalina Island from Colorado, in 1944 during WWII, while her father was serving with the US Maritime Services.
Donna was the first child born, followed by her brothers Mickey and Charlie Smith. She attended Avalon School and graduated from Avalon High. She then went to college at Long Beach City College, to be close to her family on the Island. Donna married Michael Angelo Piacentini in 1955. Mike and Donna adopted a son, Gregg in 1961, and a daughter, Suzanne in 1963. Donna passed away peacefully at age 76, on December 16, 2011.
[Vasu, S. Dec., 2011]
Death 1976 July 11
Alice and Jim Smith lived on Catalina Island. She died of lung cancer. They had a daughter, Donna who still lived there (died Dec., 2011), also Mickey and Charley. Mickey passed March, 2007.
[Lindquist, L. July, 2011]
Alice, Bertha and sister Lucille, 1940
Donna Francis Smith Piacentini was born on May 4th, 1935, in Ft. Collins, Colorado. The Smith family relocated to Catalina Island from Colorado, in 1944 during WWII, while her father was serving with the US Maritime Services.
Donna was the first child born, followed by her brothers Mickey and Charlie Smith. She attended Avalon School and graduated from Avalon High. She then went to college at Long Beach City College, to be close to her family on the Island. Donna married Michael Angelo Piacentini in 1955. Mike and Donna adopted a son, Gregg in 1961, and a daughter, Suzanne in 1963. Donna passed away peacefully at age 76, on December 16, 2011.
[Vasu, S. Dec., 2011]
Newlun, Wayne 1907-1983
Birth 1907 April 19, in Colorado
Death 1983 July, in Eaton, Weld, Colorado
Wayne & Lorene Newlun's Christmas card, 1945
The pictures of Wayne are of him when he was younger and the older one
was taken in 1969. I sent the clipping. I'm not sure of the date when Uncle Wayne visited with his scouts but I think I was still living at home (late '50s or early '60s).
[Godfrey, M. Feb., 2012]
Wayne Newlun with Explorer Scouts, Portland
Wayne was an Explorer Troop Leader in the Boy Scouts. One year, his troop made a trip to the Northwest and visited with Elizabeth while they came through Oregon.
Wayne Newlun, 1969
Wayne was the oldest. He lived in Long Beach, California, and moved back to the Ft. Collins area in his last years and died of a heart ailment.
[Croft, J. July, 2011]
He had a TURP called a "roto-rooter job," for an enlarged prostrate. Then, he was in ICCU and died. I believe he died of heart failure, or a heart attack.
[Brannon, C. July, 2011]
Death 1983 July, in Eaton, Weld, Colorado
Wayne & Lorene Newlun's Christmas card, 1945
The pictures of Wayne are of him when he was younger and the older one
was taken in 1969. I sent the clipping. I'm not sure of the date when Uncle Wayne visited with his scouts but I think I was still living at home (late '50s or early '60s).
[Godfrey, M. Feb., 2012]
Wayne Newlun with Explorer Scouts, Portland
Wayne was an Explorer Troop Leader in the Boy Scouts. One year, his troop made a trip to the Northwest and visited with Elizabeth while they came through Oregon.
Wayne Newlun, 1969
Wayne was the oldest. He lived in Long Beach, California, and moved back to the Ft. Collins area in his last years and died of a heart ailment.
[Croft, J. July, 2011]
He had a TURP called a "roto-rooter job," for an enlarged prostrate. Then, he was in ICCU and died. I believe he died of heart failure, or a heart attack.
[Brannon, C. July, 2011]
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