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Agnes Lillian Graewe

Agnes Lillian Graewe

November 13, 1882, Chicago, Illinois — September 20, 1947, Seldovia, Alaska

Buried in Seldovia City Cemetery Plot #58

AGNES LILLIAN NOLAN GRAEWE was born in Chicago, Illinois November 13, 1882 to Joseph W. and Rachel Ford Nolan. She married Oscar Graewe (1887-1952) in Los Angeles on December 17, 1923. Oscar was from Itzehoc, Germany, near Hamburg and he became a naturalized US citizen while living in Seldovia in 1940.

The Graewes lived in Seattle, Washington in the late 1920s where Oscar is listed as a steelworker and were still there in 1930 (carpenter) and 1931.

By 1940 they lived in Seldovia where Oscar was a watchman at a salmon cannery.

Agnes died September 20, 1947 in Seldovia. She was 61 years old. They do not seem to have had any children.

Oscar died in Anchorage, Alaska on May 19, 1956 and is buried in Angelus Memorial Park in Anchorage.