Inger
Inger Gundersen
d. June 21, 2011
Obituary for Inger B. Gundersen
Durango resident Inger Bergliot Gundersen died Tuesday, June 21, 2011, at Four Corners Health Care Center. She was 92.
Known as “Mossa,” she was born to Leif and Gudrun Forsth on Feb. 17, 1919, in Ostre Baerum, Norway. She was the middle child of five and the only girl. Mrs. Gundersen grew up as a tomboy, enjoying sports and music, skiing and going on weeklong ski vacations to the high country with her family.
In 1935, Eivind Gundersen, an engineering student from Moss, a small town across the fjord from her hometown of Horten, spotted the 16-year-old Inger Forsth on the beach with her girlfriends.
It was love at first sight, her family said, and Mr. Gundersen took a weekly boat trip across the fjord to court her that lasted for nine years before the couple married in 1944, at the Borre Church outside Horten.
“Eivind had a wanderlust,” Mrs. Gundersen’s family wrote, “longing to see America, he saved up the money by going on a whaling expedition, and in 1949, Inger left Norway with her husband and 2-year-old daughter to make the trip across the Atlantic on the maiden voyage of the Oslofjord Ocean Liner, leaving all of her relatives behind.”
America was good to the Gundersens, her family said, and the couple had a “long and fruitful life together,” living in Chicago, Wisconsin, California, Seattle, Phoenix and finally Colorado.
“She spent the last three years comfortably and happily at Four Corners, never losing her indomitable spirit and good humor to the end,” her family said. “Her sweet countenance and interesting stories of life in Norway gained her many new friends in the last part of her life. She will be greatly missed.”
Mrs. Gundersen was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Eivind Gundersen, in 2006.
She is survived by her daughter, Anne Gundersen, of Oxford; one grandson; two great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Cremation has occurred. A celebration of life will be held at Mrs. Gundersen’s home later this summer. Burial will take place next summer in Horten.
Reprinted from the Durango Herald - 7/6/2011.
Known as “Mossa,” she was born to Leif and Gudrun Forsth on Feb. 17, 1919, in Ostre Baerum, Norway. She was the middle child of five and the only girl. Mrs. Gundersen grew up as a tomboy, enjoying sports and music, skiing and going on weeklong ski vacations to the high country with her family.
In 1935, Eivind Gundersen, an engineering student from Moss, a small town across the fjord from her hometown of Horten, spotted the 16-year-old Inger Forsth on the beach with her girlfriends.
It was love at first sight, her family said, and Mr. Gundersen took a weekly boat trip across the fjord to court her that lasted for nine years before the couple married in 1944, at the Borre Church outside Horten.
“Eivind had a wanderlust,” Mrs. Gundersen’s family wrote, “longing to see America, he saved up the money by going on a whaling expedition, and in 1949, Inger left Norway with her husband and 2-year-old daughter to make the trip across the Atlantic on the maiden voyage of the Oslofjord Ocean Liner, leaving all of her relatives behind.”
America was good to the Gundersens, her family said, and the couple had a “long and fruitful life together,” living in Chicago, Wisconsin, California, Seattle, Phoenix and finally Colorado.
“She spent the last three years comfortably and happily at Four Corners, never losing her indomitable spirit and good humor to the end,” her family said. “Her sweet countenance and interesting stories of life in Norway gained her many new friends in the last part of her life. She will be greatly missed.”
Mrs. Gundersen was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Eivind Gundersen, in 2006.
She is survived by her daughter, Anne Gundersen, of Oxford; one grandson; two great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Cremation has occurred. A celebration of life will be held at Mrs. Gundersen’s home later this summer. Burial will take place next summer in Horten.
Reprinted from the Durango Herald - 7/6/2011.
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