My Aunt Marlene moved to Sweden back in the 1950's. She married and had a kids who are my cousins. The cousin that Leslie and I have had the most contact with is pictured above, Jan Andersson. We met as small kids in NY and again on our three trips to Sweden in 2001, 2018 and 2024. He is a great guy and a great son to his recently departed mom, my Aunt Marlene. She only passed away recently and we had told her that we were going to stop by while we were in Copenhagen. We went to see Marlene's memorial site which is in a most beautiful forest. Before Marlene passed away she told one of my second cousins, Anders Andersson, the grandson of my grandfathers brother, that we were going to visit. He met us way back in 2001 and joined us at the memorial site. Anders told her that he wanted to see us again so he came out as well and he showed us a book that was my grandfather's diary. There were entries about the Spanish Flu from 1918 in the diary Two more relatives joined us there, Marie and Goren. We all traveled to different cemetery where some of my mothers ashes were placed. We paid her our respects and left flowers and lit a candle. Then we headed out for lunch. No pictures of our meal as we were too busy talking.
Our breakfast room in the Elite Stora Hotel
It is a Harley!
A picture from my Grandfathers diary
A fine church on the outskirts of town
The forest where Marlene's ashes are
Her marker
The site is very eco friendly with low impact memorial sites scattered throughout this forest
We are so glad that we were able to pay our respects
A very lovely place
A scattering of rain started to fall
Next we went to another memorial site where my mothers ashes were placed
It is a more traditional site
the balckbirds were singing us a welcome
the grounds were immaculate and some gravesites had roses growing
The flowers we left
Lighting the candle
We were able to travel to Sweden with Dorothea in 2001 just before she passed away
So many flowers
To Dorothea and Marlene
We went to Gamla Linkoping for lunch after wards
Funky old buildings
A fun traditional restaurant
Anders! Long time no see.... 23 years.
The whole gang is here
Old Linkoping
A cute little building
Industrial sized beautiful building
Back on the train
The land here is very pretty
Rolling hills
Different kinds of trains on the side tracks
Tiny towns
An old warehouse
