Construction work offered local couple good P.G. life

“My good friend Erling Skuggedal owned Norsemen Construction in Edmonton. He had invested in companies in Prince George and then started Viking Construction. The economy in Prince George was booming so we packed up and moved there in 1965. I hired on to Viking Construction for the next 13 years as Erling’s superintendent of job sites and then I started my own company, Lindquist Masonry and retired 12 years later in 1995 at the age of 65.”

Egil likes to work at staying fit and he enjoys the outdoors. He cross-country skis in the winter and goes biking in the summer. On his 85th birthday his family members got together and presented him with a new bicycle complete with a helmet.

In conclusion Egil said, “It was the right choice to come to Canada and in particular Prince George. Bjorg was very homesick for many years because she had to leave her family in Norway. I don’t think she ever completely got over being homesick but she stayed, we had 60 years of a good marriage and we raised a great family.” ***

July Birthdays that I know about are: Bonnie Pauley, Scott Pauley, Marilyn Shelest, Jack Tremblay, Meg Imrich, Joan Buchi (88), Fred Buchi (94), Evie Padalec, Armand Denicola (96), Gloria Thorpe, Della Walker, Mildred Green, Lavinia Ouellet, Gary Kwast, Roy Green, Bernice Carrier, Carole Pitchko, Helen Sarrazin, Henri LeFebvre, Richard LeFebvre, Eugene Fichtner, Delores Baza, Joan Castle, Phil Girard, Catherine Gladwin, Karen Kryzanowski, George Lipke, Barbara Mulock, Mary Taschner, Pat Sexsmith, Alice Westra, Red McKenzie, Karen McKenzie, Leonard Duperron, Doris Bolduc, Eileen Slusarenko, Isobel Blair, Carmen Foucher, Mary Taschner, Bob Collison, Mary Radke, Elmer Braun, Dyanne Hoff, Pam Hoechrel, Reina Mcafee, Gail Gromball, Gervin Halladay, Ben Wilson, Kathleen Boyes, Shirley Dewald, Leo Denis, Joyce Kennedy, Alan Nunweile, Norma Raycraft, Pete Goodall, Lwone Sadowick, Ta Mackay, Carol Hunter, Garry Doucette, Robert Whitehead, Dorus Raines, Ernestine Schreiner, Linda Moore, Delores Baza and Linda Letawski.

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July Anniversaries: 63 years for Wil and Elsie Wiens, 60 years for Heinz and Ruth Kwiatkowski, 57 years for Rudy and Velma Wortman, 56 years for Don and Joyce Grantham, 52 years for Dawn and Clarence Wigmore, 53 years for Walter and Joyce Hanik, 47 years for Linda and Andy Horwath, 39 years for Chuck and Sue Chin and 15 years for Eugene and Hilda Fichtner.