Continuation of tree (5th child of Pierre Pitre/2nd Wife Marie Angelique Bergevin); all known surname descendants:
9 Joseph Gaspard Lajambe b: 23 March 1882 St. Timothee, Beauharnois, QUE; d: 17 November 1937 Crookston, Polk, MN (killed when his automobile skidded off an icy road)
+Adeline Langlois b: 16 October 1884 Minnesota; m: Abt. 1904 Red Lake Co., MN [William/Adeline Fradet]; d: 22 December 1918 Lambert, Red Lake, MN
10 Joseph Albert Lajambe b: 7 April 1905 Lambert, Red Lake, MN; d: 16 November 1996 Saskatoon, SASK
+Dorothy Isabella Stringer b: 25 July 1914 Arborfield, SASK; m: Abt. 1931 [Joseph Benjamin/Mildred Parcher]; d: 9 July 1998 Saskatoon, SASK
10 Ida 'Ada' Lajambe b: 4 July 1906 Lambert, Red Lake, MN; d: 2 May 1912 Lambert, Red Lake, MN
10 Rena Lajambe b: 24 June 1907 Lambert, Red Lake, MN; d: 9 September 2009 Anchorage, Anchorage, AK
+Thomas Culhane b: 18 December 1903 Renfrew Co., ONT; m: 26 December 1933 Seward, AK [Thomas/Bridget O'Brien]; d: 31 May 1997 Anchorage, Anchorage, AK
10 Edmund Lajambe b: 26 May 1908 Oklee, Red Lake, MN; d: 5 January 1999 Thief River Falls, Pennington, MN
+Doris Laverne Riel b: 17 October 1921 Lambert, Red Lake, MN; m: 24 October 1939 Oklee, Red Lake, MN [Robert A./Winnifred Hanson]; d: Aft. October 2012
10 Rose Lajambe b: 22 June 1909 Lambert, Red Lake, MN; d: 7 October 1998 Portland, Multnomah, OR
+Hector Edward Varin b: 25 January 1903 Brooks, Red Lake, MN; m: 18 August 1925 Red Lake Co., MN (divorced) [Joseph Remi/Georgianna D'Aoust]; d: 25 August 1973 Hemet, Riverside, CA
*2nd Husband of Rose Lajambe:
+Ralph J. Booth b: Abt. 1910 Kansas; m: c26 January 1949 Clark Co., WA [Amesia/Florence Gresh]
10 Joseph Edward Lajambe b: 9 June 1910 Brooks, Red Lake, MN; d: 17 July 1910 Lambert, Red Lake, MN
10 Evelyn Cecelia Lajambe b: 27 August 1911 Lambert, Red Lake, MN; d: 30 October 1985 Hibling, Saint Louis, MN
+Olaus Loiland b: 18 February 1905 Minnesota; m: 29 May 1931 Red Lake Co., MN [Nels/Kari Gunderson]; d: 4 September 1978 Gonvick, Clearwater, MN
10 Joseph Walter George Lajambe b: 5 November 1912 Lambert, Red Lake, MN; d: 26 April 2008 The Pas, Manitoba
+Hazel Anie Harness b: 5 August 1914 Oakville, Manitoba; m: 24 May 1934 [Walter/Martha ---]; d: 8 January 1969 The Pas, Manitoba
10 Marie Bernadette Lajambe b: 10 May 1914 Lambert, Red Lake, MN; d: 21 September 1996 Portland, Multnomah, OR
+Oscar Adolph Torgerson b: 20 October 1903 Oklee, Red Lake, MN; m: 26 June 1933 Red Lake Co., MN [Torge/Gunda Rierson] (divorced); d: 14 June 1959 Froid, Roosevelt, MT
*2nd Husband of Marie Bernadette Lajambe:
+Maurice Albert Howden b: 7 March 1908 Golva, Billings, ND; m: 19 July 1947 Vancouver, Clark, WA [Samuel John/Florence Dunn]; d: 29 January 1989 Portland, Multnomah, OR
10 Antoinette Lajambe b: 29 August 1915 Brooks, Red Lake, MN; d: 27 September 2005 Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai, ID
+Carl Henry DeLoney m: 30 September 1935 Red Lake Co., MN (divorced)
*2nd Husband of Antoinette Lajambe:
+Earl A. Alexander b: 6 October 1915 Coeur d'Alene, ID; m: 15 April 1940 Superior, Mineral, MT [George H./Nora M. Clevenger]; d: 26 May 1993 Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai, ID
10 Lester Lawrence Lajambe b: 16 October 1916 Lambert, Red Lake, MN; d: 21 April 1995 Brooks, Red Lake, MN
10 Alice Lajambe b: 21 October 1917 Lambert, Red Lake, MN; d: 15 December 2012 Bemidji, Beltrami, MN
+Edward Paul Morrisette b: 11 January 1918 Plummer, Red Lake, MN; m: 8 April 1940 Oklee, Red Lake, MN [Wilfred/Katie Brooks]; d: 26 March 2009 Bemidji, Beltrami, MN
Notes for Joseph Gaspard Lajambe:
Census
- 1910 Lambert, Red Lake,
Minnesota: Gasper Lajame 28 (farmer), wife of 5 years Adelin 26, Albert 5,
Ida 4, Rena 3, Elmer 2, Rose 10 months.
- 1920 Lambert, Red Lake, Minnesota: Widower Gaspard La Jambe 37 (farmer),
Albert 14 years 9 months, Rena 12 years 9 months, Edmund 11 years 8 months,
Aveline 8 years 6 months, Joseph W. 7 years 2 months, Marie 5 years 6 months,
Antoinette 4 years 6 months, Joseph L. 3 years 3 months, Alice 2 years 3 months.
- 1930 Lambert, Red Lake, Minnesota: Widower Gaspard Lajambe 48, Edmund
21, Bernadete 15, Antonette 14, Lester 13, Alice 12, Evelyn 18.
- 1940 Lambert, Red Lake, MN: Lester Lajambe 23 farmer/farm, sister Alice 22. [$400 house value]
WW1 registration record: Gaspard Lajambe, res. Red Lake, MN; b. 22 Mar 1882; contact wife Adeline Lajambe; medium height, medium build, brown eyes & black hair.
Death Notice: The Minneapolis Journal (Minneapolis, MN), Wednesday, 17th November 1937: Car Skids on Icy Road, Kills Driver - Crookston, Minn., Nov. 17 - Gaspard Lajamb, 56, farmer and stock buyer near Oklee, was killed when his car skidded on an icy highway seven miles north of Gully, in eastern Polk county. His death was the eleventh automobile fatality in Polk county in 1937.
Tombstone Inscription: St. Francis Xavier Cemetery, Oklee, MN: Gaspard / Lajamb / 1882 - 1937 / Father
Obituaries for the children:
Joseph Albert Lajambe: Star Phoenix (Saskatoon, SASK), Monday, 18 November 1996: Lajambe - The passing of Mr. Albert LaJambe, age 91 years of Saskatoon, SK, occurred on Saturday, November 16, 1996 at St. Paul's Hospital, Saskatoon, SK. Funeral arrangements are pending and will be announced at a later date. Arrangements are in care of Park Funeral Chapel.
Ida 'Ada' Lajambe: The Evening Times (Grand Forks, ND), Saturday, 4 May 1912: Red Lake Falls Gazette: The 6 year old child of Gaspard LaJambe was burned to death last week. She was sent to throw some rubbish from the yard into a pile of burning straw, and the flames caught her dress. The mother was badly burned about the face and arms and succeeded in extinguishing the flames in the child's clothing; but death mercifully ended the little one's suffering about 6:30 the same evening.
Rena Lajambe: Anchorage Daily News (AK), Saturday, 12 September 2009: Rena Culhane. June 24, 1907 - Sept. 9, 2009: Longtime Alaskan Rena Culhane, 102, died peacefully Sept. 9, 2009, at home. A Mass of Christian burial will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Holy Family Cathedral. Archbishop Francis T. Hurley will preside, assisted by the Rev. Michael Hornick. Burial will follow at noon Tuesday at Anchorage Memorial Park. She was the oldest of her 11 siblings. On Dec. 24, 1933, Rena came by boat to Alaska and met her fiance, Tom Culhane, in Seward. Tom and Rena went on to raise their family and build their family business, Anchorage Refuse. Rena had many hobbies: award-winning flower gardens, paintings, and crafts including ceramics and doll making. Rena loved gardening and often had an award-winning flower garden when she lived on Ninth Avenue in Anchorage, but when she and Tom moved in 1962 to Boniface Parkway, she turned her interests to vegetable gardening. This worked very well with her other great love, cooking. No one ever left her house hungry. Rena is survived by her sons, Thomas Culhane of Anchorage and Gerald Culhane of Sequim, Wash.; her daughter, Marguerite Culhane of Eagle River; her granddaughters, Heather, Sabrina, Jerrica, Corena, Tanya, Saran and Tricia Culhane; grandsons, Tim and Brian Culhane; sister, Alice Morresette of Bemidje, Minn.; 23 great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. Rena was preceded in death by her husband, Tom; son, Jack; grandchildren, Patrick and Katya; and great-granddaughter, Mara Culhane. Rena was also preceded in death by her brothers, Albert, Walter, Lester and Edmond La Jambe; and her sisters, Marie, Rose, Evelyn, Bernadette, and Antoinette. Arrangements are under the direction of Janssen's Evergreen Memorial Chapel.
Tombstone Inscription, Anchorage Memorial Park Cemetery, Anchorage, AK: Tom / Culhane / December 18, 1903 / May 31, 1997 // Rena / Culhane / June 24, 1917 / Sept. 9, 2009
Edmund Lajambe: Thief
River Falls Times (MN), 5 January 1999: Oklee
- Edmund "Ed" LaJambe, 90, died Tuesday, January 5, 1999 at Northwest
Medical Center in Thief River Falls. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m.
on Saturday, January 9 at Zion Lutheran Church in Oklee with Reverend Robert
Paulson officiating. Marian Marquis was the organist, and vocal music was
provided by Donna Sherman and LaVonne Enerson. Casketbearers were Edmund's
grandsons: Wade Piccolo, Jason Knutson, Brett Gonsior, Benji Hofstad, Eddie
Piccolo, Ryan Gonsior and Darrin Hofstad. Honorary casketbearers were
his granddaughters: Jacquie Knutson Kuennen, Angele Gonsior Stewart, Kelli Jo
Hofstad, Danielle LaJambe and Haley LaJambe. Burial was in Zion
Cemetery near Oklee. The Petterson Funeral Home of Oklee was in charge of the
arrangements. Edmund LaJambe was born on May 26, 1908 in Lambert
township of Red Lake county, the son of Gaspard and Adeline (Langlois)
LaJambe. He grew up in Lambert township and attended country school.
Ed worked at several jobs and later worked in Anchorage, AK for sometime.
On October 24, 1939 he married Doris Riel in Oklee. The couple
lived on a farm near Trail for nine years. In 1948 they moved to Oklee
where Ed worked for the Red Lake County Highway Department for 23 years.
Ed's interests included horses and gardening. He enjoyed playing cards,
telling stories and spending time with his family. He was a member of Zion
Lutheran Church. Survivors include his wife, Doris of Oklee; four
daughters, Barbara (Terry) Knutson of Bloomington, Betty (Joe) Piccolo
of Becker, LaVonne (Gene) Gross of River Falls, WI, and Ardis (Rene)
Hofstad of Oklee; two sons, Robert LaJambe of Red Lake Falls and
Jon (Karen) LaJambe of Eagan; 12 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren;
three sisters, Rena Culhane of Anchorage, AK, Antoinette Alexander
of Coeur d'Alene, ID, and Alice (Edward) Morressette of Bemidji; and one
brother, Walter (Gladys) LaJambe of "The Pas" Manitoba, Canada. Ed
was preceded in death by his parents; an infant son; an infant grandson,
Jeremy; five sisters, Ada LaJambe, Evelyn Loiland, Rose Varin, Bernadette
Howden and Marie LaMout; and three brothers, Albert LaJambe,
Edward LaJambe and Lester LaJambe.
Rose Lajambe: The Oregonian (OR), Monday, 12 October 1998: Rose L. Varin - A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13, 1998, in Ascension Catholic Church for Rose L. Varin, who died Oct. 7 at age 89. Mrs. Varin was born June 22, 1909, in Brooks, Minn. Her maiden name was LaJambe. She moved to Oregon in 1941 and worked as a welder in the Portland shipyards during World War II. She later worked as a baker in Alaska for 15 years until retiring and moving back to the Portland area during the mid-1970s. She attended the church. She married Hector E. in 1924; he died in 1973. Survivors include her sons, Ren of Portland, Paul of Thousand Palms, Calif., and Tom of Gresham; daughters, Theresa Hansen of Hernet, Calif., and Beatrice "Bea" Hazlett of Portland; brothers, Ed LaJambe of Oaklee, Minn., and Walter LaJambe of Canada; sisters, Alice Morrissette of Bemidji, Minn., Toni Alexander of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and Rena Culhane of Anchorage, Alaska; nine grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. Entombment will be in Portland Memorial Mausoleum. The family suggests remembrances to the American Cancer Society. Arrangements are by Gable & Parkrose Funeral Chapel.
Evelyn Cecelia Lajambe: Tombstone Inscription, Valle Lutheran Cemetery, Trail, Polk, MN: LOILAND / Mother / Evelyn / 1911 - 1985 / married May 29, 1931 / Father / Olaus / 1905 - 1978
Joseph Walter George Lajambe: Tombstone Inscription, Lakeside Cemetery, The Pas, Flin Flon-Northwest Census Div., Manitoba: Father / Walter J. La Jambe / Nov. 5, 1912 - Apr. 26, 2008 // Mother / Hazel A. La Jambe / Aug. 5, 1914 - Jan. 8, 1969
Antoinette Lajambe: Tombstone Inscription, Forest Cemetery, Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai, Idaho: Alexander / Earl A. / Oct. 6, 1915 - May 26, 1993 / Antoinette / Aug. 29, 1915 - Sep. 27, 2005
Lester Lawrence Lajambe: Grand Forks Herald (ND), Monday, 24 April 1995: Lester LaJambe, 78, Brooks, died Friday, April 21, 1995, in a fire in his home. Lester Lawrence LaJambe was born Oct. 16, 1916, in Lambert Township, Red Lake County, Minn., the son of Gaspard and Adeline (Langlois) LaJambe. He served with the U.S. Army during World War II. He worked in construction in Alaska for several years, then returned to farm the home farm. He retired in 1991. He is survived by brothers, Albert, Saskatoon, Sask., Edmund, Oklee, Minn., and Walter, The Pas, Man.; sisters, Rena (Mrs. Tom) Culhane, Anchorage, Alaska, Rose Varin and Bernadette Howden, borth of Portland, Ore., Antoinette Alexander, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and Alice (Mrs. Edward) Morrisette, Bemidji; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by sisters, Evelyn, Marie and Ada; and brother, Edward. Services: 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church, Oklee. Visitation: 4 to 7 p.m. Monday, with a 7 p.m. prayer service, in Petterson Funeral Home, Oklee. The VFW of Trail, Minn., will present military honors. Burial: St. Francis Xavier Catholic Cemetery, near Oklee.
Alice Lajambe: Olson-Schwartz Funeral Home: Alice Morrisette, 95, of Bemidji, MN, died Saturday, December 15, 2012 at Havenwood Care Center, Bemidji. Funeral Services will be 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, December 18, 2012 at Olson-Schwartz Funeral Home, with Fr. Craig Vasek officiating. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. Interment will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Bemidji. Alice LaJambe was born October 21, 1917 in Brooks, MN to Gaspard & Adeline (Langlois) LaJambe. She grew up and attended school in Brooks, MN. On April 8, 1940, she married Edward Morrisette in Oklee, MN. They lived in Bemidji where she raised her family. She enjoyed making quilts, baking, cooking and gardening. She is survived by her daughter, Diane (Gerald) Giese, of New Boston, MI; 3 grandchildren and 5 great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Edward; son, Raymond; brothers and sisters.
Tombstone Inscription, Holy Cross Cemetery, Bemidji, MN: Alice Morrissette / beloved wife mother & / grandmother / Oct. 21, 1917 - Dec. 15, 2012 / Edward P. Morrissette / PFC US Army / World War II / Jan. 11, 1918 - Mar. 26, 2009
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