Anna Margrethe Lommen & Ole T. Lommen were parents to the following children:
THORA MARGRETHE– March 5, 1882- 1965. Thora attended Breckenridge School in Decorah. Thora was married to Ben Nelson. On retiring from farming they moved to Decorah: 305 E. Broadway.
BARBRA MATHILDA – March 5, 1882-1957. Barbra attended Breckenridge School. She later learned dressmaking at Mrs. Evenson’s Dressmaking Shop, Decorah. For quite a number of years she did much dressmaking.
LAURA – March 6, 1884-Sept. 16, 1937. Laura attended Breckenridge School at Decorah and one year at Lutheran Normal School, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She had first grade certificate and taught school for 18 years. She was married to Andrew Nelson.
GULBRAND OLAI – April 13, 1887-Oct. 4, 1954. Olai attended Valders Business College and Normal School in Decorah one winter. In the fall of 1906 father (Ole T.) was hurt in a run-away making him an invalid for the rest of his life. From that time on Olai did most of the managing of the farm. He was in the first draft of World War I and was stationed at Camp Dodge.
ANNA OLAVA – August 31, 1889-March 10, 1979. Olava attended Lutheran Normal School at Sioux Falls, South Dakota for four years. She graduated as valedictorian of the Class of 1910. Taught 10 years. Married at Little Rock, Arkansas April 6, 1918 to Solomon Hammersland who was killed in action at Chateaux Thierry, France on July 22, 1918. Attended Harwell Business College in Little Rock and worked as steno and bookkeeper for Brandon and Turner Wholesale Stove Works. Finished course as Laboratory Technician at Glomset Laboratory, Des Moines and worked as Tech. in Jewish Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky fall of 1923. Attended Chicago Lutheran Bible School 1927-28. Spring of 1927 did Parish work for Moreland Lutheran Church, Chicago. Kept books for Hoffman Hardware Store on Madison Street, Chicago.
Olava then left Chicago because it became necessary for her to return home to help on the farm. She spent much of her life caring for her ailing parents and family.
AGNES THEODORA LOMMEN - March 21, 1898- August 23, 1971. Agnes was baptized by Rev. Krog and confirmed in the Norwegian language at Stavanger Lutheran Church. . She went to a rural school near her home south of Ossian. She attended Lutheran Normal School in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, graduating in 1917. She also attended Upper Iowa University at Fayette, Iowa. Agnes taught for several years in the rural schools in Winneshiek County until 1920 when she was married March 30 to Harold Martin Hammersland. They were parents to seven children: Ada, Harold Hanford, Clarice, Alice, Sylvia, Norma, and Agnes Marie.