Gin began her life in West Bend, Iowa, on Feb. 25, 1927 and joined John on Nov. 16, 2022.
She lived on a farm with her parents, Thorston and Vivian [Sloan] Satern and 6 siblings. The family moved to Idaho before Gin started her senior year in high school, so she stayed behind and graduated in West Bend. She enlisted in the Cadet Nurses Corps of the U. S. Army in 1945 and graduated in 1948. Her parents found it too hard on her father to irrigate, so the family moved back to West Bend. She remained behind to finish her nurses training.
Gin told me of how she met John. It was in the summer of 1947 and she was at the nursing corp. She saw some horses that were pintos that she had never seen before. She went up to the man and asked what kind they were. They talked about the horses and then she went back in the building. The next Saturday she was called to the front door, and there was John, the man she had asked about the horses. John wanted to know if she would like to go for a ride with him. And that was the beginning of their 57 year marriage. He showed up on weekends and in March they eloped. The marriage was kept quiet as the students were not allowed to marry or they would be kicked out of the Cadet Nursing program.
Gin was a nurse until she retired in ????. Along with being a nurse she was a farmer's wife and after working all day, came home to tend the garden, and put up the crops, along with the housework.
Gin was a full Norwegian and enjoyed painting. She did a lot of rosemaling which is a Norwegian art.
Gin was very close to her siblings and wrote a round robin letter each month. She was the first born and the last living sibling. Her siblings were Robert Lyle, Eileen Mae, Ronald Dean, Juanita Jane, Conrad Lee and Wayne Lloyd Satern.
She had 3 children: Robert, Steven and Joann; 7 grandchildren: Robert, LouAnn, Nora, Jesse, Anna, Chris and Brian; 12 great grandchildren: Ryan, Robert, Drake, John, Tiffany, John, Sam, Luke, Melissa, Lily, Ella, and Remmi; and one great great grandchildren: Lyla.
She will be laid to rest along side John in the Melba Cemetery, Melba, Idaho.
She lived on a farm with her parents, Thorston and Vivian [Sloan] Satern and 6 siblings. The family moved to Idaho before Gin started her senior year in high school, so she stayed behind and graduated in West Bend. She enlisted in the Cadet Nurses Corps of the U. S. Army in 1945 and graduated in 1948. Her parents found it too hard on her father to irrigate, so the family moved back to West Bend. She remained behind to finish her nurses training.
Gin told me of how she met John. It was in the summer of 1947 and she was at the nursing corp. She saw some horses that were pintos that she had never seen before. She went up to the man and asked what kind they were. They talked about the horses and then she went back in the building. The next Saturday she was called to the front door, and there was John, the man she had asked about the horses. John wanted to know if she would like to go for a ride with him. And that was the beginning of their 57 year marriage. He showed up on weekends and in March they eloped. The marriage was kept quiet as the students were not allowed to marry or they would be kicked out of the Cadet Nursing program.
Gin was a nurse until she retired in ????. Along with being a nurse she was a farmer's wife and after working all day, came home to tend the garden, and put up the crops, along with the housework.
Gin was a full Norwegian and enjoyed painting. She did a lot of rosemaling which is a Norwegian art.
Gin was very close to her siblings and wrote a round robin letter each month. She was the first born and the last living sibling. Her siblings were Robert Lyle, Eileen Mae, Ronald Dean, Juanita Jane, Conrad Lee and Wayne Lloyd Satern.
She had 3 children: Robert, Steven and Joann; 7 grandchildren: Robert, LouAnn, Nora, Jesse, Anna, Chris and Brian; 12 great grandchildren: Ryan, Robert, Drake, John, Tiffany, John, Sam, Luke, Melissa, Lily, Ella, and Remmi; and one great great grandchildren: Lyla.
She will be laid to rest along side John in the Melba Cemetery, Melba, Idaho.
Gin began her life in West Bend, Iowa, on Feb. 25, 1927 and joined John on Nov. 16, 2022.
She lived on a farm with her parents, Thorston and Vivian [Sloan] Satern and 6 siblings. The family moved to Idaho before Gin started her senior year in high school, so she stayed behind and graduated in West Bend. She enlisted in the Cadet Nurses Corps of the U. S. Army in 1945 and graduated in 1948. Her parents found it too hard on her father to irrigate, so the family moved back to West Bend. She remained behind to finish her nurses training.
Gin told me of how she met John. It was in the summer of 1947 and she was at the nursing corp. She saw some horses that were pintos that she had never seen before. She went up to the man and asked what kind they were. They talked about the horses and then she went back in the building. The next Saturday she was called to the front door, and there was John, the man she had asked about the horses. John wanted to know if she would like to go for a ride with him. And that was the beginning of their 57 year marriage. He showed up on weekends and in March they eloped. The marriage was kept quiet as the students were not allowed to marry or they would be kicked out of the Cadet Nursing program.
Gin was a nurse until she retired in ????. Along with being a nurse she was a farmer's wife and after working all day, came home to tend the garden, and put up the crops, along with the housework.
Gin was a full Norwegian and enjoyed painting. She did a lot of rosemaling which is a Norwegian art.
Gin was very close to her siblings and wrote a round robin letter each month. She was the first born and the last living sibling. Her siblings were Robert Lyle, Eileen Mae, Ronald Dean, Juanita Jane, Conrad Lee and Wayne Lloyd Satern.
She had 3 children: Robert, Steven and Joann; 7 grandchildren: Robert, LouAnn, Nora, Jesse, Anna, Chris and Brian; 12 great grandchildren: Ryan, Robert, Drake, John, Tiffany, John, Sam, Luke, Melissa, Lily, Ella, and Remmi; and one great great grandchildren: Lyla.
She will be laid to rest along side John in the Melba Cemetery, Melba, Idaho.
She lived on a farm with her parents, Thorston and Vivian [Sloan] Satern and 6 siblings. The family moved to Idaho before Gin started her senior year in high school, so she stayed behind and graduated in West Bend. She enlisted in the Cadet Nurses Corps of the U. S. Army in 1945 and graduated in 1948. Her parents found it too hard on her father to irrigate, so the family moved back to West Bend. She remained behind to finish her nurses training.
Gin told me of how she met John. It was in the summer of 1947 and she was at the nursing corp. She saw some horses that were pintos that she had never seen before. She went up to the man and asked what kind they were. They talked about the horses and then she went back in the building. The next Saturday she was called to the front door, and there was John, the man she had asked about the horses. John wanted to know if she would like to go for a ride with him. And that was the beginning of their 57 year marriage. He showed up on weekends and in March they eloped. The marriage was kept quiet as the students were not allowed to marry or they would be kicked out of the Cadet Nursing program.
Gin was a nurse until she retired in ????. Along with being a nurse she was a farmer's wife and after working all day, came home to tend the garden, and put up the crops, along with the housework.
Gin was a full Norwegian and enjoyed painting. She did a lot of rosemaling which is a Norwegian art.
Gin was very close to her siblings and wrote a round robin letter each month. She was the first born and the last living sibling. Her siblings were Robert Lyle, Eileen Mae, Ronald Dean, Juanita Jane, Conrad Lee and Wayne Lloyd Satern.
She had 3 children: Robert, Steven and Joann; 7 grandchildren: Robert, LouAnn, Nora, Jesse, Anna, Chris and Brian; 12 great grandchildren: Ryan, Robert, Drake, John, Tiffany, John, Sam, Luke, Melissa, Lily, Ella, and Remmi; and one great great grandchildren: Lyla.
She will be laid to rest along side John in the Melba Cemetery, Melba, Idaho.
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