Linnea Gord's Diary 1930: … and Eight Years Later

 Eight years later, Linnea Gord went back to Malax. 


Convention Center Vancouver, B.C.

She worked as a secretery and as piano player with The Gord Family Orchestra.  In 1931 she attended the Runeberg Convention in Vancouver, British Columbia.  (In the autumn of 1931 Charles Gord, Linnea's father, died.)  The choir director Martin Carlson retired in 1934, and Linnea Gord became director as well as accompanist for the Tacoma Runeberg Choir. 

At the Coit Tower 1937

In 1937, August, during her vacation, she traveled by Train and Bus to encourage Lodge members from Eureka, California, to join the choir in a Choir Tour to Finland organized for 1938.   In Eureka she met her Grandmother's nephew - John Mattson was the son of Matt Lågas, the brother of Marie, Emelia and Alina Lågas, cousins visited by Marie Malm during the visit in 1930. 

Far left, John Mattson





Anna (Koping) and Bror



Linnea and Molly, Hoquiam 1937

To return, Linnea Gord took the bus along the coast and stopped in Hoquiam, where she visited Amelia Hendrickson again.   Amelia was married and with her husband ran a store in Hoquiam.   

Lise and Isak
Lars' child Håkan

The Gord Family Ochestra performed with the 1938 Excursion to Finland, they were the Suomi Band on the Lancastria.  Their arrival at Helsinki was described inthe newspaper in Helsinki. 


 In Malax, traveling in 1938 with her mother, Amanda Gord, she became reacquainted with her cousins Lars, Paul, and Bror, who had married.