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Overlie, Bjarne
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Dates of existence
1908-2009
History
Born in Pasco, (Wash.) in 1908, Bjarne was the first of six children to Norwegian immigrants who met and married in the U.S. His father, an employee of the Northern Pacific Railroad, uprooted the family and moved them to eastern Montana, where he filed a homestead claim near Terry, (Mont.) in 1910. By 1922, drought, crop failures and grasshopper plagues finally forced sale of the homestead and a return to Pasco. Bjarne graduated from Pasco High School in 1928. After high school, Bjarne followed his father into work for the Northern Pacific Railroad. He began as a section laborer and gradually worked his way into management. His work included stops in Pasco (Wash.), Glendive (Mont.), and finally Spokane (Wash.) where he retired in 1973 from the Burlington Northern Railroad Company as a highly respected expert in track work.
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WaBuPNRA
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Describing Archives - A Content Standard (DACS) 2nd Edition 2013
Status
Revised
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Partial
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Sources
Donor files at Pacific Northwest Railroad Archive and Lewiston (Idaho) Tribune obituary dated March 25, 2009.