Ruth Sæterdal

1925 - 2013  (88 years)

• Name	Ruth Sæterdal
  Born	3 May 1925	Sedalen, Vaksdal, Bruvik
  Gender	Female
  Died	17 May 2013	Wasilla, Matanuska Susitna, Alaska
  Person ID	I31671	Tofterå Slettemoen
  Last Modified	20 Nov 2021

  
  

  Father	Anders Ols. Sæterdal,   b. 26 Apr 1886, Sedalen, Vaksdal, Bruvik ,   d. 25 Aug 1925, Sedalen, Vaksdal, Bruvik  (Age 39 years)
  Mother	Ragnhild Johnson,   b. 11 Aug 1897, Mansfield, Freeborn, Minnesota ,   d. 1942, Sedalen, Vaksdal, Bruvik  (Age 44 years)
  Married	2 Sep 1920	Northwood, Worth, Iowa, USA
  Family ID	F8899	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Ruth became deaf at age 12 due to a childhood illness, but this did not stop her from forging ahead in life. At age 30, she moved to Minnesota where other family lived. Not knowing English, she taught herself the language by reading the newspaper. In the early 1960s, she joined her Uncle, Carl Saterdal, in Wasilla, who had been working in the mines. Carl passed away in 1978, but Ruth stayed on, going home to Norway for a few years in 1980. Ruth fell in love with Alaska, loving to pick berries in summer and skiing in the winter. Ruth was a hard worker, and a kind and generous person. She dearly loved her family and was especially fond of children. Her working years were mostly homemaking for people and some with children who she lovingly cared for. She made great breads and doughnuts, among other things like knitting beautiful items. Her friends and family have many great stories to share about Ruth, some funny, others scary as in her driving days. Overall, everyone agrees that to know her was to love her, and she will be greatly missed by many abroad and here in the Valley (Wasilla).