Bertha Pauline Lindquist ^{2 3}

  General Notes:

A short remembrance from grandson Donald C. Wallace III, 28 Aug 2011:
"She sang folk songs in Swedish, read us Swedish folk tales (wish I could remember from where), and there seemed to be a story about our Sami or Lapp ancestors who herded reindeer. That would make us First World People.

"Bertha was the top high school English teacher before she married Don. She took each of us in hand and corrected our elementary school essays. She also would roll out butcher paper on the hallway walls and give us all crayons and paintbrushes, and then tell us we were going to paint a mural. This would take a whole weekend, sort of an ongoing project. The subject I enjoyed painting most was the Greek Myths, which she made sure we painstakingly researched.

"Quite a wonderful lady. Ferocious intellect, progressive and a bit of a feminist (quietly). She took over 200 adult education classes at UCLA, and they actually held a special ceremony for her (and Grandpa, who took a lot of them with her). She took the equivalent of 2 masters in adult ed--anthropology was one. She read literature at the highest level. When looking at her bookshelves six years or so after she died, I found the same books I'd been reading at college and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. William Gaddis' The Recognitions, Gravity's Rainbow, Joyce's Ulysses... I felt considerably humbled and really frustrated not to have had her around. (I like to think I was her favorite, but I'm sure some cousins would give me an argument there.)"

  Research Notes:

Although the family name was spelled "Lundquist" in the 1910 U.S. Census, Bertha and other members of her immediate family spelled their last name "Lindquist."
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Obituary of Bertha (Lindquist) Wallace, from an undated newspaper clipping, probably a Long Beach newspaper:

Bertha Wallace rites Thursday

Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Dilday Family Chapel for Bertha L. Wallace, patron of the arts in Long Beach who died Sunday at the age of 72.
Mrs. Wallace was a director of the Long Beach Symphony Association, served on the committee which obtained the International Sculpture Symposium in 1965 at California State College at Long Beach, was a member of PEO and Long Beach Museum of Arts. She held leading posts in the Assistance League.
A ham radio buff, she was a licensed amateur under the call letters W6MA.
Surviving are her husband, Donald C.; sons, Donald C. Jr., William H. II; daughter Mrs. Betty Jean Green; brother, John V. Lindquist Jr.; sister, Esther Ramsdell, and nine grandchildren.
The family suggests memorial contributions to the Long Beach Museum of Art.

  Birth Notes:

Her birthplace was given as South Dakota on the marriage certificate of her son William. All other sources have North Dakota, and that is what family notes have as well.

Family notes state that she was born in Mud Lkae, North Dakota. However, Betty Jean's marriage certificate gives Bertha's birthplace as Fargo, North Dakota.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Census: U.S, 1910, Moorhead, Clay, Minnesota, United States. As transcribed at FamilySearch.org
Household:
John B Lundquist M 54y
Hilda Lundquist F 40y
Annie C Lundquist F 14y
Bertha P Lundquist F 12y
Esther G Lundquist F 8y
Lillian I Lundquist F 3y
John B Lundquist M 0y
Annie Gunderson F 20y
Bert Gray M 27y
Eberhart Johnson M 50y

Bertha married Donald Clare Wallace [Sr.], son of William Havelock Wallace and Mabel Clare Gold, on 24 Nov 1921 in Saint Paul, Ramsey, Minnesota, United States.¹ (Donald Clare Wallace [Sr.] was born on 10 Jul 1898 in Belview, Redwood, Minnesota, United States,⁸ died on 25 May 1985 in Los Angeles, California, United States ⁹ and was buried in Sunnyside Cemetery, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States ¹⁰.)