Charles E LARSEN

1868 - 1941  (73 years)

• Name	Charles E LARSEN
  Birth	8 Aug 1868	Oslo, Norway
  Gender	Male
  Death	6 Dec 1941	Cook, Chicago IL USA
  Burial	Oakridge-Glen Oak Cemetery, Westchester, Cook, IL, United States
  Person ID	I18	Fisher
  Last Modified	26 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Peter LARSEN,   b. 10 Nov 1827, Oslo Norway
  Mother	Thea Helene HANSDATTER,   b. 11 Jan 1825, Oslo Norway
  Family ID	F90	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah Bertena Olsen LARSEN,   b. Apr 08 1869, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States d. Dec 06 1960 (Age ~ 90 years)
  Marriage	Jul 16 1892
  Children	1. Lois Eunice LARSEN,   b. May 24 1904   d. Oct 17 1977 + 2. Eugene Milton LARSEN,   b. 12 Jul 1895   d. 16 May 1972 (Age 76 years) + 3. Alice Camille Larsen PETERSON,   b. 20 Mar 1894, Illinois USA d. 1965 (Age 70 years) + 4. Paul Vernon LARSEN,   b. 27 Nov 1901   d. 10 Feb 1978 (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F114	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2014

  
  

• Event Map

  Burial - - Oakridge-Glen Oak Cemetery, Westchester, Cook, IL, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Headstones

  Charles E Larsen Grave Plot: Section 3 Lot 365

  
  

• Notes

  Memories by Nadine Gunn Fisher Grandpa Larsen was one of five children who came from Oslo, Norway with his parents in 1870. He was two years old when he boarded the sailing ship bound for Chicago by way of Quebec and Detroit, Michigan the beginning of a journey that took six weeks to complete. â?? According to family records, his brother George Larsen lived close to the palace in Oslo. He used to walk past the palace basement windows and remembered seeing the kitchen staff juggling or tossing oranges. The children had never seen oranges before and were impressed. In later years a relative (Joan Larsen, Nadine Gunn Fisher's cousin by marriage) visited Norway and she walked up the hill to the palace. There was no fence around it and she really could walk past the basement windows and as she did so, imagined seeing oranges being tossed by the kitchen staff. The small houses down the hill described by George Larsen were no longer there. But an old cashier in one of the nearby shops confirmed that there used to be lots of small homes down the hill from the palace. It was a rare treat to be able to go up to Grandpa Larsen's room at 628 North Laramie, sit on his lap and read his encyclopedias while he shared his Smith Brothers black cough drops with me. One Christmas Grandpa Larsen gave me a celluloid reindeer with a dollar bill wrapped around it and I am reminded of him every year when we hang that treasured gift on our Christmas tree. Grandpa died almost twenty years before Grandma Tena died. He was 73 years old when he passed away on December 6, 1941, the day before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and World War II began for America. Grandma died on December 30, 1960 at the age of 91. They are both buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery in Westchester, Illinois in the same area where Lois and Asa Gunn, and Milton Larsen are buried.