Photos: Paulsen Siblings

The P.V. Paulsen Family: Back row, from left, Clara Paulsen Brown, Gilbert Paulsen, Lillian Paulsen Miller, Richard Paulsen, Marie Paulsen Peterson; front row, from left, Thora Paulsen, Karen Paulsen, Paul V. Paulsen, Edna Paulsen Martin. (Taken in 1947, at the time of the funeral of Richard's wife, Marcella Boe Paulsen.)

Edna and Thora, above and below, playing outside at the Paulsen place in the early 1920s. (Edna was born in 1922, and she appears to be about two years old in these pictures.)

Above, Karen Paulsen with Edna and sheep on the Paulsen place in the mid-late 1920s. (Edna appears to be about five years old.) The picture below, with chickens, appears to have been taken on the same occasion.

Edna Paulsen, right, with Dorothy Ditelfsen, daughter of neighbors Eddie and Agnes Ditlefsen, in the late 1920s. Dorothy  (1922-2005) was Edna's playmate and classmate. The baby may be Dorothy's sister Marion (1926-2001). There were three other Ditlefsen children, Kenneth (1920-1991), Harvey (1924-1999) and Carol (1930-).

Edna, left, and Thora Paulsen with their mother, Karen Paulsen, in 1941, at the Paulsen home place, possibly at the time of Edna's high school graduation.

Clara Paulsen (1914-2007), in the early 1930s, perhaps a high school graduation portrait.

Edna with an unidentified baby in the late 1930s or early 1940s.

Thora with a baby, possibly Bonnie Paulsen, in the 1940s.

Edna and Thora Paulsen as Cadet Nurses' Corp trainees at Ancker Hospital, St. Paul, in the mid 1940s.

Edna and Alex Martin, right, with Jerry Peterson, center, and Edna's friend Norma Turgeson on a visit to Cortez, Florida, in 1947.

Clara Paulsen Brown at her home in Cortez, Fla., in the 1940s.

Clara and Millard Brown at Elm Glen Farm in 1956.

Millard and Clara Brown in the Cortez, Fla., kitchen in 1958.

Early 1950s: A game of Shoot the Moon (a form of Hearts). From left are Orville Framsted, Millard Brown, Richard Paulsen and John Skow. The shingles on the building in the background indicate that the get-together was at the P.V. Paulsen place. 

Sometime in the 1960s: Back row, Thora Framsted, Richard Paulsen, Marie Richter and Edna Martin; front row, Clara Brown, Lillian Miller and P.V. Paulsen. Taken at Elm Glen Farm.

Sometime in the 1970s: Back row, Edna, Gilbert and Clara; front row, Thora, Lillian and Marie. Taken at Elm Glen Farm.

Sometime in the 1980s: Edna, Thora (with Danish flag), Gilbert, Clara and Lillian. Taken at the annual Paulsen picnic at Coon Lake Park, Frederic.

July 1987: Lillian, Clara, Edna, Marie, Thora. Taken at the Paulsen picnic, Frederic.

October 1987: Thora, Edna and Lillian at Edna's 65th birthday celebration, Elm Glen Farm.

1989: Standing, Clara, Thora and Edna; seated, Maria and Lillian. Taken at Elm Glen Farm.

1999: Lillian, Edna and Thora at Elm Glen Farm.

2000: Lillian, Edna, Thora and Clara at the Yellow Lake Inn, Webster (George and Pat Martin 40th anniversary celebration).