We go to the gorgeous church each time we visit Sunne

Allan Borg and his wife goes to the Sunne church
everytime they visit Sunne. Magnus, Kristina 
and numerous relatives are buried there.

When Olof arrived at Elis Island with twenty-five dollars in his pocket, he was required to have fifty dollars, but was passed through anyway because he had a brother waiting for him. His occupation was listed as farm hand. 

He ended up in Chicago working for a munitions factory. As a young man in the 1920’s in Chicago during prohibition, he would go to a speak easy and on one occasion he was beaten almost to death while being robbed. He had a ring that his father, Magnus, had given him and he had begged them not to take that ring, but they continued the beating and took the ring. 

Later, Olof was hired by Paul Lehman as a farm hand. Olof and Mary (Paul Lehman’s daughter) were smitten. They married in 1930 and had 2 children, Harry and James “Jimmy”, They farmed together but had a very hard go of it. 

Mary was burned badly in a cook stove accident and was kept in the hospital for a year or so. Olof obtained a job on the Great Northern Railway. He later became a section foreman and was moved around to various parts of South Dakota and Minnesota. Nine years after Jimmy had been born, they were blessed with six more children:  Donald, Marianne, David, Steven, Julie and Mike. 

We go to the Sunne Church each time we visit and each time we meet my cousin Jan there. The Sunne Church grounds are beautiful. We are always impressed with the gardens and park feel of the place. 

The church itself is old world gorgeous. We sign in the book; light a candle and I imagine all the times my ancestors filled the place. Magnus, Kristina and numerous relatives are buried there. 

/Allan Borg