Esther Wiirre Rinne OralHistory Interview 1981

Wiirre family

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Wiirre, Antti

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Rinne, Sulo

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Rinne, Esther

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Esther Rinne was born on January 7, 1901 in Pyhajoki, Finland to Antti and Sophia Wiirre. Esther had five older siblings, but most of them had immigrated to Eureka, CA in the 1890s. When Esther was two years old, her mother passed away. Her father, who was a carpenter, tried to take care of her but had to board her out to different families for ten years while he worked. When Esther was nineteen, one of her sisters sent her a ticket to America. By the time Esther arrived in Californ...

Wiirre, Sophia

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Wiirre, Anne

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Rinne family

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Lusitania (Steamship)

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The Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on May 7, 1915 by a German U-boat off the southern coast of Ireland; 1,198 passengers and crew died. The Cunard Line launched Lusitania in 1906. When RMS Lusitania left New York for Britain on May 1, 1915, German submarine warfare was intensifying in the Atlantic. On the afternoon of May 7, a German U-boat torpedoed Lusitania inside the declared war zone. A second, unexplained, internal explosion, probably that of munitions she was carrying, ...

Peace Lutheran Church (Astoria, Or.)

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Germans, Finns and Swedes; the Suomi synod, Augustana and ULCA; buildings of frame, concrete and brick – all these plus faith and hope, patience and hard work, and more than one hundred years, went into the making of what is now Peace Lutheran in Astoria. There were also leaders like veteran missionary Peter Carlson in 1880, young Seminary graduate J. J. Hoikka in 1883, and Pastor G. K. Andeen in 1929, plus many others who preceeded and prayed, organized and merged the various congregations that...