Patterson Cemetery District, Stanislaus County, CA 

Submitted by Gale Stroud and Burta Herger 26 Aug 2007

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Gustafson John E 401227 p1
J. E. Gustafson Passes Away Christmas Day; John E. Gustafson, Colony resident since 1916, passed away at a Modesto
hospital early Christmas morning following a long illness. A native of Sweden, he came to Minnesota at the age of 14. He
came to Patterson in 1916 to take a construction contract on the Patterson & Western Railway, running up Del Puerto
Canyon to the magnesite mines, and purchased an Almond Avenue ranch, where he has resided ever since. He is survived
by two brothers, Charles Gustafson of Patterson and P. M. Gustafson of McIntosh, Minnesota; and one sister, Mrs. Ingrid
Olson of Phoenix, Arizona. Funeral services will he held this afternoon at 2 o'clock from the Davis & Evans Chapel, with
Rev. Orlando Ingvoldstad in charge, followed by interment in Del Puerto Cemetery.