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John I. Aspbakken (born 1955) is the son of Ivar Aspebakken. Ivar Aspebakken (1921-2009) was born in Biristrand, Norway on October 11, 1921. As a young man he worked on various fox farms and served in the Norwegian military. In 1948 he immigrated to the United States. He worked on wheat farms near Williston, North Dakota and Froid, Montana. In 1953, he married Marit Nordheim, from ?yer, Norway. In 1955, they moved to the Missoula, Montana area, where Ivar hired on for the Northern Pacific Railway. In 1969, he was transferred to Spokane, Washington, where he worked as a roadmaster for the Burlington Northern Railroad until his retirement in 1985. He was a member of the Northern Pacific Railroad Historical Society.
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Donor files at Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive, Ivar Aspebakken obituary in the Spokane Spokesman-Review, September 2, 2009.