Emil and Florence Akerlund…”Small people live longer.”

By Eva Hallam Solberg

Published in the PCN on January 18, 1979

Emil and Florence Akerlund of Havre, formerly of the Harb Community, will celebrate their 60^th wedding anniversary on January 26, 1979. It could have been their 70^th if theirs had been a short engagement. Getting established in a new land took time, and “Man proposes, but God disposes.”

Emil was born in Uppsala, Sweden, one of the middle children in a family of six boys. His father had a small farm and a saw mill. One Sunday in his youth, Emil fell through the ice while skating. His brother brought a long board from the saw mill and held it out to him so he could be pulled to safety. He went home, took off his wet clothes, and crawled into bed with a sheepskin coat to keep warm until his parents returned.

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