Peg Ostrander
Walt
sibling of Margaret
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born Sep 14, 1951 · 75 on Oct 5, 2026
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16 records, oldest first2011
Jan 8
Jan 15
Skein Lake, Ice-Out
Oil on canvas by Walter Kivisto of Arbor Vitae. Bought at Paddle & Easel Gallery two summers after we bought the cabin. Over the cabin fireplace. Appraised by Russell Tegtmeier in 2021 from photographs.
2014
Feb 6
At Bethel Ridge by 8:30 this morning. She is in the bed by the window, very sma…
…ll, with the oxygen hissing. Her hands are cold and her feet are warm, which Judy says is the wrong way round.
She woke about eleven and looked at me for a while and said, "Margaret. You have your coat on. Are you coming or going?" I said I was staying. She said, "Well, take it off, then."
That is the most she said…
Feb 8
Third day. She has not woken since yesterday afternoon. The breathing stops and…
…starts; I have caught myself holding mine until hers comes back.
Walt sat with her this morning and read her the farm report out of the paper, milk prices and all, as he used to do for Dad. Pastor Lindquist came at two, and we sang, the four of us, without a book: Judy on the melody, Walt a third below as always, I…
Feb 9
Mom died this morning at twenty minutes to seven. February 9, 2014. She was eig…
…hty-seven.
Judy and I were both there. Judy had the night, and telephoned Walt's a little after four because the breathing had changed, and Walt and I drove over on empty streets before the heater was warm. At half past six he went down the hall for coffee. He was gone ten minutes, and those were the ten minutes. I…
Feb 11
Two days of arrangements. The funeral is Friday at eleven at Our Saviour's, whe…
…re she was a member for sixty-five years and where R. and I were married. Burial at Coon Prairie beside Dad afterward. Walt asked whether the ground would allow it. The sexton says they have a way of thawing it. Friday is Valentine's Day. Nobody had noticed until the florist said so.
Judy wrote the obituary and I wa…
Feb 14
We buried Mom today.
About 140 people at Our Saviour's, which for a woman of eighty-seven, on a Friday in February, at four below zero, is a compliment she would have noted. What is left of the Ladies Aid sat together in the fourth pew on the left, where they always did. Vi came from Bethel Ridge in the van with two aides.
Judy read the…
Feb 23
Mom's things: who has what, agreed among the three of us yesterday in her room…
…at Bethel Ridge, in four hours, without a cross word.
To me:
- her engagement ring (white gold, the one Dad bought in Viroqua)
- her pearls
- Grandma Ingeborg's locket, with the curl of Mom's baby hair still in it
- Uncle Einar's watercolor of the home farm, which hung in her kitchen for fifty years and in her room…
Mar 3
Mom's death certificates - 4 certified copies left, grey box. Walt has the othe…
…rs.
Mar 24
Check the proof for Mom's date on the stone
Dec 26
Christmas here, everyone but Kate, who was with Samir's people in Michigan and…
…comes at New Year's. I made the gravy Mom's way.
R. gave me a photograph, framed. Walt found it among the farm pictures: Mom at about thirty on the porch steps with a dishpan of peas in her lap, squinting at whoever held the camera. I had never seen it. I had to go and stand in the pantry for a minute.
I have been…
2015
Feb 9
A year. I was up at four, as I have been most mornings since, and this time I m…
…ade the coffee and sat with it and watched the clock go to twenty to seven and past.
Judy called at seven. We did not say much. Walt will not call.
Aug 9
Gave R. his birthday present ten weeks late, because the painter was slow: a wa…
…tercolor of a musky by Walter Kivisto, long and narrow, every scale accounted for. From Paddle & Easel. He hung it in the cabin hallway himself, with a level.
He is sixty-two and sixteen pounds lighter than in March, and yesterday he walked to the landing and back for no reason.
Aug 10
Musky
Fish study by Walter Kivisto, a late present for Ray's 62nd birthday. Cabin hallway. Value is the gallery's price for a similar one in 2024.
Aug 10
Watercolor, "Musky" by Walter Kivisto
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Facts
| First name | Walter |
|---|---|
| Last name | Haugen |
| Nickname | Walt |
| Date of birth | 1951-09-14 |
| Gender | Male |
| Comments | My brother. Wife Nancy. |
Phones
- number: '6085550110' variant: Home
Addresses
- variant: Home street_address_1: 1420 Kvamme Hill Road city: La Crosse state: Wisconsin postal_code: '54601'
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q146 Who are my brothers and sisters?