Henry Christopherson was born in Manitoba, Canada. He married Thelma Dale Bradford, she was born in 1921, daughter of William F. Dale Jr. (1926-1979) of MS.

Father: Kjartan Christopherson
Mother: Gudrun Runa 'Thorsteinsson/Stoneson' Christopherson

Individual Facts:
Residence: 1906 in Townships 19, 20, 21 in Ranges 25 To 29 Inclusive, West of The
2nd M, Assiniboia West, Saskatchewan, Canada

Children: Gary Christopherson
Hank is grandfather of two. Hank lent Roy a calendar of Gary, his wife and children. If a family member (cousin) and would like email picture, Roy could email it direct. He respects his cousins privacy and not posting any of the photos at this site without their permission.

Hank served in China during WWII (Map). During their flight past over The Hump, a Japanese Zero was tailing them.

From Nelson Gerrard
Henry Ellis Christopherson (b.Jl.1.1924 north of Baldur, Man.) was named for his maternal uncles, the Stoneson Brothers. Henry married Thelma and took over the family real estate business in San Francisco

Hank met Thelma at a party. She worked for the government and a wiz with numbers. She did all of the accounting. See the Dale Research.

Henry Christopherson
Added by skitang6 on 12 Nov 2007
Information from "Come into our Heritage RM of Argyle 1882-1982"
Henry lives in the San Francisco area and is carrying on his father's business.

By Roy Einar Christopherson
Henry has gone by the name of Hank as long as Roy has known him. Roy used to visit Hank and his father, Ted, up at Christopherson & Sons office in San Francisco, which was owned by Hank and Gary until recently, sold due to taxation. They now have an office south of San Francisco. Roy remembers May who headed up the office and their right arm woman. Hank said May was the nicest and most efficient person he had ever met. Sadly she has passed away. Ted would take Roy over to the Red Roof Restaurant down the block on Ocean Ave. for lunch. Ted separated from Pauline when Roy was about eight, with Ted moving up to La Grange, which is just past Modesto, California. Roy last recalled Hank and one of his brothers stopping by the house saying Ted had passed away on July 4th, 1979. Us four kids signed off a paper and had an incident during dad's wake.

Suffice to say, all that is 'water under the bridge'. Roy has since had dinner with Hank and his son's family and since then numerous times with Hank. Hank was kind enough to show Roy a large white bin filled with old photos from his brother Sig, which was from their father Kjartan and Gudrun and some of Sigs. Estatic, Hank lent Roy all the photos and the Sig & Hank Collection was created from high resolution scanning. Roy now believes an album of Haldor and Ranka Christophersons is included. All were cleaned and placed into an archival photo album(s), and returned to Hank. Hank has told Roy many stories of the family, Ted, and about his beloved wife, Thelma Dale Christopherson, who recently passed away, and a few of WWII. In a way, "Hank gave Roy back a piece of his father and helped him understand many things, for which Roy is forever in his debt." Like one quote "You could take the boy off the farm, yet you cannot take the farm out of the boy" Hank Christopherson 2010. Hank's reasoning why Ted wanted to sell property at lake Camanche and Lake Don Pedro, Modesto, as opposed to San Francisco was to be back out in the country. Personally Roy was very disappointed that Ted's family did not come first, luckily he was too young and just learned to become more independent by working at age 10, then full-time at 15 1/2.

Hank agreed to be on tape and since Roy respects his privacy, the lens cap was left on and it will NOT ever be placed online. That was a very personal recording. Hanks mind is like a steel trap at 86. Roy has hard time remembering last week, let alone 30-50 years ago. Hank has allowed Roy to voice record some conversations and on the drive home, Roy records notes on certain details which need to be placed online in regards to general family info. One instance was the "mentoring of Kjartan Lorne Christopherson, known as Lorne. Hank described the event when the Stonesons came up for a visit and Lorne left with them to go to San Francisco. When transcribed, Roy will place online so as to be succinct. Another is his long lunch with Mrs. Stoneson (Bertha?) when she was about 96. I sure wish I was there with a voice recorder. We have lost so many of the older generation and the knowledge within them is vast. Unfortunately, some were too young to remember events at the time.

Roy's only memory of Hank's mother, Gudrun was in her open casket. Kay by that time had started to become frail and developed Parkinsons disease. Now with dozens of scanned photos of Kjartan, known as Kay or 'K', and Gudrun, their memories are forever preserved as long as the images remain available. Maining this website is in Roy's Will. Hank visted roy in the Hospital and gave him a copy of the Oval Stoneson family portrait. More pending...

Donors to the Seton Health Service Foundation

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Paste MP3 of Hank saying his fathers name Pending

append to page on Bill. To date Roy has only had contact with Bill once in a noisy restaurant.
Nelson Gerrard wrote:
I) William ‘Bill’ Halldor Christopherson (b.Ap.24.1933 at Baldur) was
named for his father’s brothers.He lived in San Francisco and Yuma,
Arizona. Bill is Hank's youngest brother.
Ch:
1. Jana
2. Sue
3. Kathy.

Hank served in WWII, first training on the east coast then going to China. Roy will get those notes online.
Roy only started with a photo of his dad's crashed plane in a Texas field and of the engine down field, which he meticulasly drew in pencil for a college art class in 80's. Roy now has 6,000 family photos which grows thanks to all of his cousins world-wide.

April 02, 2012: Hank verified off a map Roy brought to dinner that near Manor Drive in Pacifica, California, that in fact, Lory Lane was named after Lorice Costello by Sig Christopherson. Sig brought a deal to Hank and they both "created" Lory Lane decades ago. Sig has since passed away and Hank said another developer was developing the other side, while Hank and Sig the slope side.


SAT Maps Google, image compilation by Roy Christopherson

Unfortunately Roy's Cell Phone storage was full and missed recording him saying 'Kjartan', his fathers name!
He enjoyed immensly a WWII photo (right) from a negative he had of a bivouac [Temporary Camp: semi-permanent facility for the lodging of an army.] possibly in New Jersey at Fort Monmouth whereby he recognized Murray in the top back row, NO. 3, and another fellow (FT. Row NO. 5. We dined over BBQ chicken Roy brought and conversed for a few hours. The long list of questions Roy had was too late to address.
Roy looked over Hank & Thelma's wedding album which has some great photos of Henry Stoneson, along with a pristine copy of the group shot on the Clan page with all the wives are on husbands laps, and two addition ones in same setting. Being late, Roy forgot to ask to borrow and scan along with his tavel mug...next visit.

Hank confirmed people in a photo of Thelma as Minister Thorlakson (Icelandic) and his daughter sitting in front of him. To be precise, Rev.S.OctaviousThorlakson, confirmed from source image from Logberg.
Image here. Thelma standing to the right of the Reverend. Unsure of the women, Hank did think the couple to the right sitting was Icelanders, possibly Dr. Eymondsson (standing 2nd from Right) and Thorlaksson's wife. The large fellow in the back IS NOT Willy Dale SR.! Vern Austman thinks the back row, 2nd from right might be related.
In a photo of Roy's father of Ted holding three horses, Hank identified them as 1. Bessie, Bobbie and Queenie, then Queen, from their farm, and Ted was probably visiting the farm or whomever now owned them. This was the Image of the Month awhile ago, part of Ted's teenager album.

We discussed Andy Oddstad's death which I will not print here, and Lorne's, as Roy was suprised to find out it was 1982?. There are conflicts which I have been trying to go over. Gave Hank a great photo of himself, which he identified as...about age 13 at Joost ST, SF with Al and Leslie visiting, graciously photographed during stay in B.C. last year. includes Lilja, Caroline and Dorothy 'Dot'.

Used Cell PH to photograph a few great photos of Willy Dale Jr., along with letter Hank sent to Dot regarding her and Bill's birth at the "Stone" farm house " outside of Belmont, Manitoba. We discussed iPhones and Google maps. Roy spent one night vortually trolling every house in Belmont now realizing the stone house was outside that perimeter. Hank also showed Roy their property they just finished renovating south of Daly City. A beautiful view from the San Bruno Mountain all the way to San Mateo on a clear day, which is rare for that area. Roy now agrees with him, the Realtor should be let go. There should have been a line of buyers that day.
Discussed GF Kays horse, which did not ring any bells. Roy now believes the horse is in MANY photos and the blurry rider, that of Kay. The B.C. cousins have some beautiful ones of Kay on the horse.
Did not get anywhere on the research of Sig's 100th Division tour in Germany. Roy wrote down Training: Fort Jackson SC?, Graduation: FT. Brag, NC?, Africa (Pith Helmet photo), Germany, Lorne and Ted and SEPT 1944, Fort Brag Closes. Hank did not comment.


Just one of the photos from Hanks wedding album

OLD STONE FARM HOUSE OUTSIDE BALDUR
Hank wrote a letter to sister Dottie about the old stone house,
"about 1 1/2 miles from Baldur, where you (Dot) were born". Also William. B&W photos taken about 1982. These are in the Grund visit set. Couple from AUS were owners at that time. "It was probably considered a fancy farmhouse in it's day but I remember it as being cold in winter because the only heat we had during the 40 degree cold in winter was one Pot Belly Heater on the main floor that constantly had to be stoked with wood. I can't recall any kind of heat upstairs.". Hank mentioned Kjartan would place coals in a foot warmer that he would rest his feet onin the seigh then cover their legs with blankets in the dead of winter.
"I remember the house had a fairly small rat infested dirt celer that produced plenty of rats. Brother Sig and I used to trap the rats and sell the tails to the town of Belmont for maybe a nickel each which was a program to try to curb the rat population. I am sure that we didn't make any "big money" but it was better than nothing during the depression.
While living there, I had a thrill that I have never forgotten when I heard a double wing bi-plane in the distance. I ran as fast as I could to the house screaming that an airplane was coming following the thrill of my young life when the open cockpit "aviator" circled our pasture and landed right behind the house so he could go to the little town of Belmont as well as some neighbors from adjoining farms to come over to "see an airplane."
A great thrill for a six year old kid that has never been forgotten...." Hank Christopherson
Circa 1931
Photo of the stone house is in the Hank Christopherson Collection (Grund Visit)-scanned and Ted Christopherson Collection in Roy's possesion

Roy hopes Hank may consider upgrading to an iPhone4S.