Pawtucket Oct 22, 1952

Dear Selma and husband,

God´s peace!

I wrote a letter the first week of April and I wonder if you got it. I wasn´t so sure of the address. It was about the death of Jophn on March 30. He died from a heart dicease. Yes, had he only visited a doctor he might have still lived. Buit we didn´t succeed in getting him to go. The children as well as I tried in vain to force him. He stopped working in 1949 and then he looked well and happy. We went to Florida and he liked it. He talked about going back there but it never happened. We also talked about going to Sweden and he thought of that. I told him to go in April, but he didn´t answer to that.

Linnea, our daughter, wrote to him to come and help them with the appletrees. They had many that needed to cut the branches. So that´s what he did and put them on carriages and drove them away. So it was no heard work. He got sick in the night the 25th and he died on Sunday after he´d had his dinner.

Lin brought the doctor on Tuesday when he fell ill nd he was there 2 or 3 times a day and also droppedby every now and then. I wasn´t there with him. I wanted to clean a little when he was gone and he had planned to stay there until Saturday. Then we used to go there when the apples were ripe to pick. I have now been there for three weeks and helped. They wanted me to stay over the winter but I still have my old house and I liked it best here. There it was in the countyside and far from the city. They have to cars, he one and Lin one but no tramway. Lin works for a laywer from 10 to 3 in the afternoon.

Yes it´s so lonely without John. He was always so kind. And it looks worse and worse since I came back home. I´ve been with my sister a time and ????? and the Flodins. I think it´s so unfair that he should go before me. But my ways are not your ways, says the Lord. He died in peace.. everybody who knew him loved him. He has a very nice resting place and we out up a nice monument. He left 2 boys Alden and George, Anna and Lin and 6 grandchildren. Lin´s daughter is 20 so she is the last year in university. Alden´s oldest boy is 16 and the first year in university. He got his school for free because he was the best student among several hundreds in the univeriy where he studies. He skipped one year of the high school.

I have finnish now. Hope that you are all well. Let me get some lines from you. Greetings from me and the children. Justin

PS How is George and Bertil.? They were not in USA for a long time. but they are better off in Sweden. Here the boys are drafted from 18 years of age.

Excuse me for bad writing. Hope you can read. I´m gettng old.