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Albert Linus Colberg

Albert Linus Colberg

April 24, 1896, Mo i Rana, Helgeland, Norway — January 03, 1942, Seldovia, Alaska

Buried in Seldovia City Cemetery Plot #126

ALBERT LINUS COLBERG, a younger brother of John Colberg, Sr, was born in Helgeland, Norway on April 24, 1896. He became a naturalized US citizen in Seward, Alaska in 1929 and was living on his own in Seldovia in 1930, working as a fisherman. He was a First Mate on the oil ship Discoverer, arriving in Seattle from Ketchikan in 1937. In 1940 Albert was in Seattle and listed as “divorced”. He died of pneumonia in Seldovia, January 3, 1942. He s buried in the Seldovia City Cemetery, Plot #126.