Wahkiakum Co. Eagle-September 25,  1975

Marie A. Bjorge

  Age 71, of Longview, died at home.  She was born in Norway, and had 
lived on Puget Island for 27 years before coming to Longview in 1971, 
and was a member of Our Saviour’s Lutheran church and Wahcoma Chapter 
of OES.
  Survivors include two sons, Glenn of Puget Island, and Wallace of 
Kelso; six sisters, Raggie Lee of Hawthorne, Calif., Anna McDaniel of 
Newhall, Calif., Clara Petersen of Cathlamet, Ethel Prestegard of 
Hoquiam, Hulda McKee of Saugus, Calif., and Esther McKee of North 
Hollywood, Calif.; one brother, Laurence Nepsund of North Hollywood; a 
brother-in-law, Maurice Bjorge of Puget Island, and sister-in-law, 
Gidskin McCormic of Bainbridge; nine grandchildren and five great-
grandchildren.
  Services were held Friday at Our Saviour’s Lutheran church on Puget 
Island with Rev. Glenn Larsen officiating.
  Dowling Funeral Home was in charge. 


Marie A. (Nepsund) Bjorge
Greenwood Cemetery-Cathlamet, Wa.
16 Feb 1904-16 Sep 1975
(As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society Museum)