Juel Fridtjof Friestad

Baptised: March 6, 1911, Glenwood Lutheran Church, Crosby Co., ND [U.S., Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Records, 1875-1940]

Juel Friestad was born January 29, 1911 at Wildrose, ND, the son of Ole and Oline Friestad. Juel had a twin brother, Wesley, who passed away. The Friestad family moved to the Kintyre area in 1919 and settled on a farm 4 miles southeast of Kintyre. Juel attended one year of high school in Kintyre before the family moved to Valley City in 1925. He graduated from high school in Valley City in 1928. He attended college at Valley City off and on from 1929 to 1933, where he was an outstanding distance runner on the track team. His conference record for the mile run stood for 30 years.

During the '30s he taught school in rural schools north and east of Napoleon. He also taught the upper grades in Cando, ND. Juel worked for a time on the Fort Peck Dam in Montana and also in the state of Washington. Later he worked at the A.S.C. office in Napoleon. Juel Friestad and Mabel Feigum were married September 23, 1940 and lived in Fargo for a time while Juel worked for the State A.S.C. office. In the spring of 1941 they moved to their present farm, a mile southeast of Kintyre. (The homestead of the late Ole Hansons.) Juel and Mabel had 5 children: Ronald, a civil engineer in Virginia. Dennis, a teacher in Valley City. Judy (Woods), lives in Omaha, Nebraska. Soren, a trucker who lives at Jamestown. Douglas, the youngest, lives in Kintyre and farms the home place. [Kintyre, North Dakota 75th Anniversary, 1904-1979, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ndemmons/historykintyre.pdf]

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