Born: 17 Sep 1885, Trysil, Hedmark, Norway
Married: 13 March 1906, Minneapolis, Hennepin Co, Minnesota
Died: 20 Sep 1958,Kenmare, Ward co, North Dakota
Buried: Bowbells cemetery, Bowbells, Burke Co, North Dakota
Spouse: Gunnar Olsen Opseth
Parents: Halvor Jonsen Myrsjøberget & Inger Olsdtr Hammersgaard
From the Burke Country county, ND history book. The excerpt was written by Harold and Ingrid:
Mrs (Helga) Opseth was born in Norway. She came over 3 years later & they were married in Minneapolis at the Ness home, an aunt & uncle of the couple. They homesteaded in North Star Township 5 miles east of Northgate. They were naturalized in 1911.
In the early 1900s, the only way of getting across the Des Lacs Lake was by a ferry which was operated near their homestead. Ingrid (Mrs. Palmer Nelson) was born November, 1912, and Harold in April, 1915.
The Opseths moved to a farm 3 miles southwest of Coteau in 1927. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.
Excitement ran high in Coteau and Bowbells in August, 1955, when oil was discovered at the Opseth well. The Opseth oil well was called New Field. Bowbells was bulging with oil brokers. The well was plugged 3 or 4 years later.
They were active in church work both in Kopperud Church across the Canadian line by Northgate and in the Coteau Zion Lutheran Church.
They moved to Bowbells in 1956. Mrs. Opseth passed away in September, 1958, and Gunnar in May, 1964.
Children:
Gerda Helene, born 12 Sep 1911; died 23 Feb 1912
Ingrid, born 29 Nov 1912; died June 1994.
Olaf, born 1913; died 1913
Harold O., born 8 Apr 1915; died 15 Jul 2002