Ruth B Petri

  Research Notes:

1. [ 16 Apr 2018 ]

Armena history book, entry by Ingri Movold Alexander re; Tommy Movold family
- Tommy Movold's wife was Ruth Petri had an aunt who was a school teacher, Anna Almgren ... and Ruth and two of her brothers (Hendrick and Arvid) were sent by their parents in Denmark to live with this aunt (during the outbreak of WW I); when Canada joined the war, the three children went back to Denmark
- when the war was over, Ruth came back to Armena and Ruth married Tommy Movold who she had met previously

on page 136, there is an entry for Rev Almgren Family - but the given name for Mrs Almgren is not recorded.

Ruth married Thomas Movold, son of Ole Tobiasen Movold and Ingrid Estensdtr Sæther. (Thomas Movold was born on 22 Oct 1881 in Tordenskjold Twp, Otter Tail Co, Minnesota, United States,²⁰⁰² died in 1936 in Armena, Alberta, Canada ²⁰⁶⁸ and was buried in Scandia Cemetery, Armena, Alberta, Canada ^2068,2069.)