Daisy Samuelson obituary from the Newspaper 

Falu Kuriren, Falun. Sweden

Daisy Samuelson in Minneapolis has died 8 November 2012 at the age of 94 years.

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Daisy Samuelson in Mora Costume, in a photo from 1997 when Vasaloppet in Mora, Minnesota, 25-årsjubilerade (25 years jubilee?). The Chief Sheri Douglas, left.

Photographer: Lars-Erik Klockar

She had roots in Litullgården in District Heritage on Sollerön and Hold Farm in Langlet Mora was born February 12, 1918 in America Dalarna, Isanti County, Minnesota, where she grew up on a farm.

It founded her interest in Sweden and the Swedish-American heritage and where she learned to speak Swedish and Dalarna by their grandparents. Their exodus took place in 1870 (the grandparents with three small children) and 1882 (grandparents and my grandfather's mother) and it was fascinating to hear Daisy 140 years later using their old language with many words and expressions that have long since gone out of use in Sweden .

As long as she could she worked voluntarily at the American Swedish Institute, where they often found her in the kitchen, where the cakes were baked for Christmas sales and midsummer celebrations and tempted visitors to the coffee house.

It was important to keep the Swedish traditions and in the Institute's women's guild, Idun Guild, she was an active member, as well as in the Twin Cities Dala compound, where she spread comfort around her at the monthly meetings and directed the table setups at Swedes' Day at Minnehaha Park every summer.

She was a good PR woman for Sweden, where she received visitors in her great grandmother’s costume. At Dala Days at the American Swedish Institute in spring 1998, which became a festive event with many participants from different parts of our landscape, she was one of the hostesses.

Daisy will be missed by many friends in Swedish circuits out there that one of the last among traditional carriers. She was proud of her origins and Dalarna had a special place in her heart.

Daisy was the widow of Mora emigrant Erick Samuelson with roots in Langlet and Utmeland.

written by Margaretha Hedblom