Pictures
I also found this folder with a few pictures from Myrtle Okapiec. She wrote a note and added it in with the pictures --
"Gudni Olason, Born June 30, 1846 in Vallenes Parish, Sudur Mulasjsla Iceland"
I don't know about the spelling because it was a little difficult to read - sorry
Here are the latest pictures from Aunt Winnie. I have uploaded all the pictures as far as I know. I included the caption from the back of the picture if there was one.
- Ron and Winnie - Some birthday party picture
- Ron and brother - "Brother Buddies in Oak Point" - picture of them in front of a wooden water tower it looks like.
- Bill and Stena - "In Piney Bill, Stena, Ferdie, Annie, Albert, David, Eddie, Brian, Brenda, Bobbie" -- group picture in black and white
- Ron, Lorne and Keith's Dad - group picture at some festive moment
- Ron, Annie and Someone - "Some Happy Occasion" - the third person looks very familiar
- Emma and Helgi 50th - "1965 - Emma and Helgi's 50th Wedding Anniversary. - Mom and Dad, Runa and Toti, Cousin Runa and Bertha, Emma and Helgi, Barney Bjornson"
- Grandma Olason Calgary - "In Calgary at Senior home where Gramma lived" - Grandma Olason, Ron, Lorne, Al, David and Kids
- Marg, Winnie and Kids -- "Marg, Brenda and Brian, Winnie and Diane 1952"
- Group Picture in Piney - "In Piney" - lots of people
- Brian and Brenda - "Brenda and Brian at Ester Sande's"
- Brian, Brenda and Albert - "Albert, Brenda, Brian at the farm in Oak Point"
- Group B and W - "Helgi, Toti, Dad and Bertha"
- Coach Bill - "L to R - Mike Beyak - pitcher, Bill Bjornson - catcher, Bill Olason - coach, Freeman Asmundson = first base"
- Grave - "Grave at Vidalin N.D. USA - Grampa and Gramma, Aunt Anna"
- Grampa Olason - "Church at Vidalin N.D. where Grandpa Olson is burried"
- Doug, Gareth and Brandi - "Doug Bean, Gareth Loveridge, Brandi Johnson at Ron's Boxing Day"
- Bill and Albert -- "Bill and Albert Bean - July 1st 1946. 11 months"
- Matt Olason - "4 Aug 1993 - Sander's County Fair and Parade - Matt Olason - Matt's grandfather was a brother to out grandfather"
- Family Sunday Piney - "This was taken when Mr. and Mrs. Bean, Margaret and Ron and children, Winnie and Lorne and Neil were all out one sunday"
- Lorne and Brian -- "David's Wedding - Lorne J and Brian B"
Pictures from Auntie Anne Beck. I have scanned them in and down sized them a little so that your dial up will load them fairly quickly. Take a look at them and let me know which ones you want -- and then what you'd like me to name them. Some of them I have no clue who is in the picture.
- USE - 1966 - Grandma Olason
- USE - Group Picture - Auntie Anne's 1984 Birthday
- NO - Anne and Grandma Olason - and someone else
- USE - Aunt Bertha and Loraine - Aunt Bertha is great grandpa Olason's sister
- USE - Bean Family - Younger pictures of the bean crew
- USE - Uncle Dave's Family
- USE - Uncle Dave's Wedding
- USE - Family picture - Sally, Grandma Olason, Margaret, Winnie, Annie and Dave
- USE - Ferdi Christianson Great Grandma Olason's brother
- USE - Group - the caption ont he back said "We found a snake!"
- USE - Grandpa Olason - cousin Loraine, Patsy and Lloyde
- NO - Grandma Olason & Anne - I think that the guy is one of Anne's sons
- USE - Grandma Christianson - the caption on the back said "Grandma Christianson Caliento 30's" Great Great Grandma on Olason side
- USE - Group Picture 1 - Anne, Winnie, and others???
- USE - Group Picture 2 - Grandpa and Grandma Olason and Dave
- USE - Group Picture 3 - Margaret and her siblings
- USE - Group Picture 4 - Sept. 58 on the bottom of the picture -- I think that it is Grandma Olason and the Bean kids when you were all younger
- USE - Group Picture 5 - Margaret, Grandma Olason, Annie, Winnie and Sally
- USE - Group Picture 6 - Anne, Dave (and wife I guess), Ron, Marg, Winnie, Lorne, Grandma Olason and Grandpa Olason I guess
- NO - Group Picture 7 - Marg and Ron when they were younger (colour picture)
- USE - Kid - Brian as a child
- USE - Kid 2 - Brenda as a child
- USE - Kids - Al and Brenda as children
- USE - Marg and Kids - Brian and Brenda
- USE - Marg and Winnie - with Grandpa Olason in Winnie's kitchen
- NO - Margaret - a younger picture of her (black and white)
- NO - Marie Galloway - caption on the back says "Marie Galloway and us three, got one for all of us" -- looks like Winnie, Grandma Olason and Margaret
- NO - McCreary First Time - Caption on the back says "At McCreary when we first went to the park - Aunt Margaret holding you Wayne fooling around, Winnies Diane Holding baby Kim, Lorne Neil and Kerry in back?"
- NO - Person and a horse - the picture is really blurry so it is hard to tell who it is -- don't know if it is worth using or not?
- NO - Ron - a picture of Grandpa. I touched it up a little because there were spots all over it -- didn't play with the brigthness of anything like that
- USE - Ron in a dress - I think that it is Grandpa -- the caption says "A girlfriend of mine I forget her name!"
- USE - Ron and Margaret - a picture of them at the curling rink
- USE - Winnie and Group - Grandpa Olason
All of these pictures came from Earl Sande and most are taken in Oak Point.
- USE - Grandma and Grandpa & Earl's parents
- NO - Earl at 5 months and Al Bean
- NO - Earl and Al in a boat
- NO - Marg Bean -- blurry picture -- probably not useful.
- NO - Earl 3rd B-day -- Al and Bill
- NO - Earl at 17 months and Al
- NO - Earl, Al and Ron -- winter shot (kind of misses grandpa completely
- USE - Marg with a fish in each hand?? -- not a great source file to deal with though
- USE - Earl at 3 yrs old, Marg and Al
- NO - Earl, Al and Artie Mason
- NO - Earl and Al
Don't know whether these are any good, but I thought that I would place them online so that you could decide. I reduced the size of them so that they would load better - but didn't touch them up at all.