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  • Married: Aug. 29, 1898

    Fairfield (IA) Ledger, Page 3, Column 8: Trommer-Grove. Married, at the residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Grove, six miles east of this city, Monday evening, August 29th, by Rev. Wm. J. Funkey of Fairfield Lutheran church, Mr. John E Trommer, of Chester, Montana, and Miss Zana Olive Grove. The nuptial tie…

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  • Mrs. Trommer has gone to her Heavenly home

    Sandra Olivia was born on November 4th, 1868, in Marka, Skaraborg, Sweden. She was the fourth child and the first daughter of Anders and Maja Christina Grov. When she was about a year and a half, in the summer of 1870, her family emigrated to Jefferson County, Iowa. In the 1890s, when Zanna Olive Groves…

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  • You be the judge (2)

    To the left. Maja Christina’s granddaughter Florence Grove, born in Iowa in 1905. To the right, Johanna’s great granddaughter, me, born in Stockholm in 1961.

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