May, Dolph and Adolph Lundholm

This is Dolph with his mom and dad, May and Adolph. It was taken about 1946 when Dolph was a freshman in high school.

May was born in Sweet Home Oregon on July 17, 1907. Adolph was born on August 29, 1900 in Oakley Idaho. Dolph came along on January 5, 1932 in Lebanon, Oregon. I have been trying to remember how they met...I think there was some land dealing between the Browns and the Lundholms (who had moved from Hamer Idaho to the Sweet Home area). Dolph thinks that Adolph went with his dad to see the Browns about "something" and his mother and dad met then. This is a lesson for you...ask questions before everyone who knows the answers is gone!

May had 12 brothers and sisters and Adolph had six. I'll get to the family stories on some later post.

 Dolph helped me with this post…and he wrote “Mom was a school teacher and started her teaching career in Agnes, a one room school in a community so remote she had to get there by boat.” (Agnes is 20+ miles up the Rogue River from Gold Beach Oregon…there is now a road!) “She lived there with a local family, since she was a single woman. She taught in several other one room country schools, then in Waterloo (7 miles from Lebanon) and in Sweet Home Jr. High School. She retired after teaching seventh grade in the Lebanon School System for many years.”  Dolph's mom was a good teacher, but she struck fear into the hearts of many of the kids who were entering her classes. She demanded the best work that the student was able to give. We still hear comments from people who were her students and they almost always end with, "I really liked her. She was a good teacher"

May had really beautiful dark brown hair and brown eyes. When Karen was little, she said to May, "Grandma, you have such pretty eyes...just like Bella's". Bella was our Airedale! After Dolph was born, May couldn't have more children and she absolutely doted on Karen, which was probably lucky. She wouldn't have thought this was so cute coming from someone else.

May passed away on January 29, 1972 in Eugene Oregon at age 64 from heart problems.

Adolph worked his adult life at Crown Zellerbach paper mill in Lebanon and retired from that job. Adolph was a great story teller and an all around nice guy. An example of one of Adolph’s stories.

Dolph was a little boy and it was summer time with the windows open. It was evening and he was in bed. He heard a “sort of a whistling noise” outside his window. He called his mom and asked her what it was. Well, May didn’t know, so she called Adolph. He came in and listened and said “Oh, that’s nothing to worry about…that’s a Mileormore Bird”.  Dolph said, “What’s a Milormore Bird”. His dad replied, “That’s just a bird that’s sitting over there on the fence. He whistles through his butt and you can hear him for a mile-or- more”!!!!

One of Dolph's cousins interviewed Adolph when he was about 90 years old. In later blogs I will add some of his stories that he told.  Adolph died on October 6, 1991 in Lebanon from causes of old age.