Anna Stenberg Family

by: Charles Young

Anna was born in Pedro, Wyoming near Newcastle, and moved to Oregon in the mid 1940's.

Anna

Parents

m.(1943) Jesse Edward COLE (1916-1947)

m.(1946) Floyd POWELL ( - )

Anna writes about her children;

Childhood memories; I remember the December I was 5 years old & Mother & I went down to Denver with Mr. & Mrs. Fred Schloup in an open touring car. Blankets were hung between the front & back seats for protection against the cold. Mrs. Schloup sat in the back seat with mother & me. The only Vourhies boy went with us. Somehow gravel got into the wheel & we were stalled. Someone came by & took the women to - must have been a restaurant as I remember we had some raisin pie. Have searched for a recipe like that but have never been able to duplicate it. While we were at Aunt Annies, I got bronchial pneumonia. Since Aunt Annie never had any children, she wasn't very tolerant of a fussy kid & called me a name in Swedish that I don't think was very nice.

I don't know how long we were there, but probably before I got sick Mother took me down town to see all the Christmas decorations but the only thing I remember was nothing to do with Christmas decorations. It was a taffy machine in a window with 3 arms going around with taffy on them. I was very fascinated by it. I remember coming home & being so buried in quilts to keep warm, I could hardly get out. I was so anxious to see my sister Betty.

I reveled in washing dishes for Aunt Annie because she had running water. She gave me a beautiful cup with a rectangle type handle. It said "For a good girl".

Here is Anna's 1998 Christmas letter.

Dear Family and friends,
I really enjoy the lights around. Icicles seem to be very popular. I don't drive many places at night. I see them on the way home from prayer meeting & I came home from town the other night & saw a lot of lights. Some people are discouraged in putting out lights because vandals have stolen many.
This Wednesday a bus load is going up to Portland to tour the Pittock mansion, go to the spaghetti factory for dinner and then tour the lights. We did it last year too except we only saw the lights outside the mansion.
For Thanksgiving I took the train up to Sedro Worlley, WA and spent the weekend with Ted and his family. Actually I took the train to Seattle and stayed over night with Brian. Then we went up Thursday morning. They had a storm that knocked down some trees right close to his house so he hadn't had any power for 3 days. Just got it hooked up 9 PM Wednesday. He lives right under a big power line that's humming all the time.
While I was up there the city came out and cut down a big spruce tree in her front yard (with permission) to set up in the center of town for the town Christmas tree. That was interesting to watch.
Jennifer has had health problems since last Christmas. I've helped her as much as I could. They've finally figured out what all her problems are and she's working on correcting them. She's never broken her nose, but it apparently got bent one time when she dove into the pool and hit bottom. She had surgery to correct the problem.
They needed some help in the library at the church school. The librarian is only there on Tuesdays, so I come in then. Last year they switched over to computer, but it is not working now and even if it was, most of us don't know how to use it, so we're switching back to cards. There are very few volunteers, so it needs to be something anybody can do. I enjoy going.
Signs all around us point to the near return of Jesus. There is so much violence. On the other hand there are some wonderful stories of individuals accepting Jesus. Here in Salem we've had 2 evangelistic crusades this year and many have accepted Jesus. The last one went all around the world on satellite and thousands accepted Jesus and want to be ready for His soon return. We must be ready.
Love, Anna

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