First generation - Person Sheet
First generation - Person Sheet
NameLucy Anderson
Birth22 Dec 1892, Talsi, Latvia
Death28 Jun 1982, Fresno California
FatherYuris Anderson (1847-1934)
MotherEda Schonster (1851-1903)
Spouses
Birth4 Jul 1887, Talsi, Latvia
Death7 Aug 1983, Roseburg, Oregon
BurialChapel of the Light, Fresno CA
ReligionSDA
FatherAnns Akmens (1845-)
MotherTrine Okmane (1844-)
Marriage7 Jan 1912, Portland, Oregon
ChildrenMiriam Edith (1917-2016)
Warren (1914-2005)
Harold Stephen (1920-2005)
Lucy Esther (1912-2011)
Mary (1919-2017)
Philip (1916-1999)
Notes for Lucy Anderson
Lucy Malvina Anderson was born Dec. 22, 1892 in Riga, Latvia. When Lucy was 8 years old, her parents, Eda Schönster and Yuris Anderson sent Lucy to Boston. She traveled with a mother of three who had two daughters and one son. The SS Servia left Liverpool and docked at Ellis Island, New York on Wed. July 3, 1901.
In Boston she lived with her sisters Emily and Lina. When Lucy arrived, Emily was 26 years old, married to Fred Lakewitz and had been in the US for 11 years. Lina was 19 years old and had been in the US for two years.
Lina Anderson enrolled Lucy in the Ruggles Street Baptist Bible School. On 20 December 1902 Lucy was age 9 years old when her sister Lina sent her to Martin School, 3rd grade in Roxbury, Boston.
1905 - In 1905 her future husband Krish amens came to the Lakewitz home in Boston and lived as a boarder. He came with a picture of Lucy and two of her sisters that he had received from a nephew who had known the Lakewitz family before he returned to live in Latvia. Lucy and Krish soon became close friends.
1906 - age 14 - Lucy quit Martin school after 3 years of formal education. She also left the boarding house at 80 Frances Street, Roxbury and moved to 3 Waldorf Street, Dorchester. Here she lived and worked at this house and in surrounding houses from 1906 to March 1911.
In 1906 Edward Kurzit came to Boston from Latvia and became good friends with Krish Akmens. Krish and Lucy got engaged and Edward Kurzit and Lucy’s sister Elizabeth became engaged to Edward.
In 1910 Krish and Edward left Boston for Chicago and in 1911 they moved to Portland, Oregon. On Monday morning, March 13, 1911, Lucy and Elizabeth Anderson boarded a train in Boston to Portland. Lucy and Elizabeth arrived in Portland four days later on Friday Mar 17, 1911.
Lucy and Christopher were married on Sunday January 7, 1912 in a retired SDA preacher's house in Cornelius, Oregon. Saturday, February 10, 1912 Edward , age 26 and Elizabeth were married in the White Temple Baptist Church in Portland.
Over the next few years Christopher and Lucy had six children, Lucy, Warren Phil, Miriam, May and Harold
In the summer of 1917 Edward Kurzit, developed thrombocytopenia. He died in the home he built at 1774 Minerva Street on 3 November 1917. Lucy, Christopher and their children were living in that house with Edward when he died.
Lucy and Christopher Ottman purchased 5 acres of land on the outskirts of Portland. There their raised their six children.
Lucy Malvina Anderson (Ottman) was 88 years old when died from cardiac coccidioidomycosis on Tuesday June 28, 1981 in Community Hospital, Fresno, CA. Daughter Miriam Edith Ottman (Vinnard) was by her side. Christopher and Lucy had lived together for 70 years.
Her cremated ashes are buried outside behind the Chapel of Light, Fresno, California. Christopher Anss Ottman is beside her.
In Boston she lived with her sisters Emily and Lina. When Lucy arrived, Emily was 26 years old, married to Fred Lakewitz and had been in the US for 11 years. Lina was 19 years old and had been in the US for two years.
Lina Anderson enrolled Lucy in the Ruggles Street Baptist Bible School. On 20 December 1902 Lucy was age 9 years old when her sister Lina sent her to Martin School, 3rd grade in Roxbury, Boston.
1905 - In 1905 her future husband Krish amens came to the Lakewitz home in Boston and lived as a boarder. He came with a picture of Lucy and two of her sisters that he had received from a nephew who had known the Lakewitz family before he returned to live in Latvia. Lucy and Krish soon became close friends.
1906 - age 14 - Lucy quit Martin school after 3 years of formal education. She also left the boarding house at 80 Frances Street, Roxbury and moved to 3 Waldorf Street, Dorchester. Here she lived and worked at this house and in surrounding houses from 1906 to March 1911.
In 1906 Edward Kurzit came to Boston from Latvia and became good friends with Krish Akmens. Krish and Lucy got engaged and Edward Kurzit and Lucy’s sister Elizabeth became engaged to Edward.
In 1910 Krish and Edward left Boston for Chicago and in 1911 they moved to Portland, Oregon. On Monday morning, March 13, 1911, Lucy and Elizabeth Anderson boarded a train in Boston to Portland. Lucy and Elizabeth arrived in Portland four days later on Friday Mar 17, 1911.
Lucy and Christopher were married on Sunday January 7, 1912 in a retired SDA preacher's house in Cornelius, Oregon. Saturday, February 10, 1912 Edward , age 26 and Elizabeth were married in the White Temple Baptist Church in Portland.
Over the next few years Christopher and Lucy had six children, Lucy, Warren Phil, Miriam, May and Harold
In the summer of 1917 Edward Kurzit, developed thrombocytopenia. He died in the home he built at 1774 Minerva Street on 3 November 1917. Lucy, Christopher and their children were living in that house with Edward when he died.
Lucy and Christopher Ottman purchased 5 acres of land on the outskirts of Portland. There their raised their six children.
Lucy Malvina Anderson (Ottman) was 88 years old when died from cardiac coccidioidomycosis on Tuesday June 28, 1981 in Community Hospital, Fresno, CA. Daughter Miriam Edith Ottman (Vinnard) was by her side. Christopher and Lucy had lived together for 70 years.
Her cremated ashes are buried outside behind the Chapel of Light, Fresno, California. Christopher Anss Ottman is beside her.