When Thelma Sonstegaard was born on 3 March 1908, in Grenora, Williams, North Dakota, United States, her father, Elling Halvorsen Sonstegaard, was 27 and her mother, Dorothea M Watten, was 25. She married Chester Johannes Trulson on 31 August 1929, in Plentywood, Sheridan, Montana, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Daneville Township, Divide, North Dakota, United States for about 5 years and United States in 1949. She died on 18 December 1991, in Williams, North Dakota, United States, at the age of 83, and was buried in Grenora Cemetery, Grenora, Williams, North Dakota, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1910: Divide, North Dakota, United States
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First used by the novelist Marie Corelli for the heroine of her novel Thelma ( 1887 ). She was supposed to be Norwegian, but it is not a traditional Scandinavian name. Greek thelēma (neuter) means ‘wish’ or ‘(act of) will’, and the name could perhaps be interpreted as a contracted form of this.
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