Death Notice:
BREKKE--Thursten Brekke, 875 Harcourt Street, Seaside. November 22, 1949. Age 74 years. Native of Austin, Minnesota. Survived by his wife, Martine Brekke of Seaside; two sons, Palmer Brekke of Berkeley, California and Jorvey Brekke of Seaside; daughter. Mrs. Mildred Kumre of Seaside; brothers, Benjamin Brekke of Longview, Washington, Ed Brekke of Austin, Minnesota, Andrew Brekke of Clayton, Wisconsin; sister, Mrs. Ida Sherwin of Minneapolis, Minnesota; nine grandchildren. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, November 25, 1949 in the TAA. Dorney Funeral Home. The Reverend James Johnston officiating. Interment at the Monterey City Cemetery. T.A. Dorney in charge of funderal arrangements.

[This is not my family, and I have no further information.]

Thursten Brekke is my great grandfather. Is there any more information regarding this family available?

Hi, Sheri. I posted your g-g'father's obit because it happened to be on a microfilmed newspaper page I had printed out for a client. (That was a good obit in that it named a lot of family connections and places.)

I'm not sure what additional information you might be interested in. Monterey area genealogy/history resources are available at our local libraries. You may be familiar with databases and other research resources online.

Mary Thiele Fobian

Thanks for the info. I had done a google search for my grandfather (Thursten's son Jorvey) and your obit popped up. My aunt has been trying to track down where/when Thursten ( or his father?) came here from Norway. The only name I had to start with was my grandfather's & I think it was Thursten (as opposed to his father) who came from Norway to Minnesota but my family hasn't been able to find evidence of this. At least now I have Thursten's name to work with. Thanks!

Sheri, I did a quick check of databases, and one item that I can pass along to you is the following URL, where you may find one of your cousins, who is also curious about Thursten:

http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/an/localities.nort...

sheri,
its your cousin SCOTT....AUNT MARGE AND I HAVE FOUND QUITE A BIT OF INFO,,,,,,CALL AUNT MARGE OR E-MAIL ME DIRECT TO SHARE INFO.......

Hey Scott,
Just looking at things online with kids thought we would say hi so hi

tyler brekke