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Sine Golf
Sine Ougendal had left for America as an 18 year old in 1916, and graduated to be a nurse.
In America she met Mandius Golf, who came from Ombo, an island just north of Stavanger.
Mandius was a widower, and had two daughters from his marriage. Together, Sine and Mandius
got a son in 1934, Mandius David, but just a year later tragedy struck as Mandius died.
To survive as a single-mother with 3 small children in those days was hard, let alone impossible,
so Sine returned to Åvendal in 1935 and stayed there for two years until 1937.
Mandius David and Ruth were left to grow up at Åvendal with Georg and Johanna, while their
sister Lillian grew up with her fathers family at Ombo.
Sine returned to the US and Chicago where she worked at a hospital as a midwife.
When she retired in 1963 she returned to Åvendal where she lived until she died in 1976, aged 78.
A curiosity is that when Mandius David met Inger, his wife to be, her mother originated from the same small island as Mandius David's father, so the two of them must have known each other.
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