When Iida Loviisa Räisänen was born on 20 July 1889, in Taivalkoski, Finland, her father, Påhl Henriksson Räisänen, was 24 and her mother, Anna Beata Jakobsdotter Väisänen, was 22. She married Karl Aleksander Nevala on 5 October 1911, in Taivalkoski, Finland. She died on 19 January 1963, in her hometown, at the age of 73.
Some characteristic forenames: Finnish Arvo, Niilo, Reino, Toivo.
Finnish (Räisänen): variant of Räsänen, possibly from a short form of the Russian personal name Gerasim (see Gerasimov ) + the surname suffix -nen. It occurs chiefly in central and eastern Finland.
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