Mary Broadbent

Brief Life History of Mary

When Mary Broadbent was born on 8 March 1913, in Heber City, Wasatch, Utah, United States, her father, David Albert Broadbent, was 41 and her mother, Mima Melissa Murdock, was 33. She married Martin Cornelius Ostvig on 17 July 1939, in United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Orono Township, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States in 1940 and World for about 10 years. She died on 11 April 1976, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, at the age of 63, and was buried in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States.

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Family Time Line

Martin Cornelius Ostvig
1908–2003
Mary Broadbent
1913–1976
Marriage: 17 July 1939
Jack Dempsey Ostvig
1928–1999
Georgia Alberta Ostvig
1947–1994
Grant David Ostvig Sr
1950–2022

Sources (27)

  • Mary B Ostvig, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Mary Broadbent, "Utah, Birth Certificates, 1903-1914"
  • Mary Broadbent Ostvig, "United States, Obituary Records, 2014-2023"

World Events (8)

1914 · The Man With The First Air Conditioned Home

Charles Gates was the first person in the United States to install air conditioning in his home. Funny thing was, Gates died a year before it was installed.

1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

1931

The Star-Spangled Banner is adopted as the national anthem.

Name Meaning

English (northern): habitational name from a minor place in Lancashire, near Oldham, named Broadbent, from Old English brād ‘broad’ (see Broad ) + beonet ‘bent grass’.

English: occasionally a variant of B roadbelt, from Middle English brod, brad ‘wide, broad’ + belt ‘belt, girdle’, used for a stout man, i.e. someone who wore a ‘broad belt’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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Ham, Peas, And Twenty Below Zero by Georgia Ostvig Johnson

It was twenty degrees below zero that night in Minneapolis when my family, all eight of us, went to a church dinner thirty miles away. Although my nine year old brother, Bud , hadn't been feeling well …

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