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Elmer Roll was born on September 27, 1891, in Norway. He immigrated to the United States with his family in 1892, eventually finishing all four years of high school in Glenwood, MN. By 1920, Elmer was living in Thief River Falls, MN. He and his wife Cecilia would send postcards and letters to his niece Katherine Hinz. Cecilia died young in January of 1919. At the time of his death in 1945, he and his second wife, Hannah, were living in Grand Forks, North Dakota where he was working as a bartender. There is unfortunately very little that I’m able to find on Elmer beyond this. There is very little reference to him in any records I’ve been able to find, but my grandma Kay saved all the postcards that he sent her during her youth.

Christie was born on April 5, 1896, in Minneapolis, MN. He left school after 8th grade and worked on the railroad before he was inducted into service during World War I. He served as a Private in the army until he was killed in action in Argonne, France during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in which 26,000 American soldiers lost their lives. He departed for the war on June 22, 1918, from Boston, MA, and died between October 8-12, 1918. He was originally buried in Fleville, France before his body was returned home and to be buried in Glenwood Luthern Cemetary.