Kathleen (Kate) Eilertsen
Minnesota minister's daughter who went east and then west to make her career as an artist and museum administrator
Judith Bennett Eilertsen
Little sister of the Montana Bennetts married Minnesota minister Ed Eilertsen and raised three daughters.
Ed Eilertsen tribute puzzle
Ed loved crosswords, so Dan Ruby created a tribute puzzle for his memorial. Kate and Twyla were the clue crew.
Spoiler alert: puzzle solution
22 words and phrases that describe the man we knew and loved
Roads taken, lives touched
Download the Ed Eilertsen tribute puzzle
Was this the old Eilertsen home in Brooklyn?
In the second image above, we see Ed Eilertsen's 1943 draft registration, filed in Minneapolis where he was attending seminary at age 18.
He lists his father, Jack Eilertsen, as the person who will always know his whereabouts, and he gives Jack's address as 2256 Plumb 2nd Street in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Presumably, this was the family home where Ed grew up and where his parents still lived.
The Stetson family’s manifest destiny
From stalwart Yankee roots, Herbert and Hattie Stetson went west with the country
Norwegian patronymics, or how the Eilertsens got their name
Not knowing much about Scandinavian surname etymologies, I was surprised to learn that Eilert is actually a given name and that Eilertsen was a surname assigned to someone who was a son of Eilert.
This becomes quickly clear when you review the ancestry of Jacob Eilertsen, the Norwegian-born father of Edwin and Clarence Eilertsen. Jacob's ancestry going back several generations is readily discoverable using vital records and family trees on Ancestry.com,