My Grandmother Amanda Died Fifty Years Ago This Month

Amanda Malm entered Lowell School in 1896 soon after her August, 1896 immigration to Tacoma with her mother and younger sister.  They joined Amanda’s father, who immigrated to Tacoma from Finland in 1887.  She was eleven, her sister Johanna Maria about nine or ten.  In 1955 Lowell School celebrated a reunion, and Amanda and her children, among them my mother, appear in the newspaper article as the family with the most Lowell School pupils from the past in attendance.  It was in April 1966, that my grandmother died.  She was seventy-nine.  My grandmother died fifty years ago this month.