Sigga's History
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Sigga's History |
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Sigga was born on July 22, 1907 and spent her
"growing up years" on a farm on the Birch Bay Lynden Road near Blaine.
She attended the California Creek School and graduated from Blaine High
School in 1926. She married Adolph Anderson on December 29, 1926 and
moved to the Anderson farm on the then Barney Johnson Road. |
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Sigga with her older brother Johnny, and younger brother, Steinie. |
Sigga, circa 1926 |
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As a wife, mother, and farm woman, Sigga's days were filled with baking,
cleaning, washing, sewing, canning, helping with farm chores such as
cutting wood, gardening, and haying and of course, raising children.
In addition to her many responsibilities at home, Sigga was very active in the Free Church Unitarian almost from the beginning. She taught Sunday School, sang in the choir, and was active in the Women's Alliance, serving as president at one time. Her children remember anecdotes about her religious and philosophical nature such as sending them to Vacation Bible School and taping religious and philosophical sayings inside her kitchen cupboard doors. |
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| Sigga, teaching her Sunday School class in the 1940s. Students left to right are Beverly Anderson, Audrey Anderson, Leona Freeman, and Bud Gudmundson. | |||
| Sigga's life wasn't all work and
responsibility.
Her children remember playing "Hide the Thimble" as well as Chinese checkers and caroms. Playing cribbage after the chores were done was also common. Playing "crib" is still a family tradition enjoyed by most of the kids and grand kids. In her later years, in addition to lovingly nurturing her grandchildren, Sigga enjoyed crossword puzzles. Her dictionary was
always at hand to check on a word. |
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Sigga and Adolph in the 1960s. |
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