Bernice Bakken

   Another name for Bernice was Elnore Bernice Bakken.

  Research Notes:

1. source: "Each Step Left its Mark", Hay Lakes community history book, 1982; pages 731-734

- teacher; husband, Charlie Alridge (not childern's father) live close to Gwynne, AB
- son - Michael, married, lives in Edmonton
- Claranne Dixon, married (Jim) live in Lacombe


Note: some family information from the obits .... added 27 Oct 2024
.. haven't found anything on William/Bill Halvorson and nothing further on her son Michael or daughter Claranne


2. Obit, Bernice Edmonton Journal, issue 26 June 2002, page 20

- died 20 Jun 2002, Lacombe Alberta
- born 23 Sep 1918, Hay Lakes ... on the farm ... went to CLC and Normal School at Edmonton ... teacher
1st married to Bill Halvorson of Metiskow, AB in 1941 ...
son Michael b in 1945 and Claranne born in 1946 [assumed to be born at Metiskwdon
.. remarried in 1966 to Charles Aldridge
.. predeceased by husband Charlie, parents Michael and Olava Bakken, and siblings
Lill, Clara, John Gilbert, Haldis, Gladys and Mernille


Charles Aldridge obit Edmonton Journal, issue 11 Jan 1995, p 25
- died on 7 Jan 1995 at Lacombe, AB; age 84 .. born at Rimbey, AB
- survived by wife Bernice ... son Brian of Calgary, son Tim of Dartmouth, NS
...stepson, Michael Halvorson [June] of Edmonton and their sons, Brett and Lee ...
stepdaughter, Claranne Dixon (Jim) of Lacombe and their children Jim, Elizabeth, Stephanie, and Veronica ... predeceased by his parents Clay and Nettie Aldridge, brother Walther and is first wife, Gwen Aldridge

Bernice married Charles Aldridge. (Charles Aldridge was born in 1910 in Rimbey, Alberta, Canada, died on 7 Jan 1995 in Lacombe, Alberta, Canada and was buried in St Joseph's Lutheran Cemetery, Hay Lakes, Alberta, Canada.)

Bernice next married William Halvorson.