Mom’s maiden name was Oman. Sponberg is the family on Mom’s mother’s side. The last remaining Sponberg family farms and businesses in Minnesota, far as I recall (which isn’t far enough) are around New Richland. But I’m sure there are plenty of Omans, Ohmans (another spelling) and Sponbergs scattered around the prairie.

Mom and her sibs grew up in Napoleon, North Dakota. Only her brother Arlie stayed around, working most of his life for the state highway department. His three kids grew up in Hillsdale. That generation and the ones following are now on the coasts. (The best known is Andy Heck, co-captain of the last Notre Dame football team to win a national championship, and now a 20-year veteran of the NFL, coaching with the Jacksonville Jaguars.) The three sisters, including Mom, scattered to Persia, Alaska and Seattle, then got married and settled in California, New Jersey and North Carolina — before all of them gathered in Graham, NC after retiring.

I’m not sure why they picked Grace Methodist to get married in. I’m guessing that Mom was staying nearby with family while preparing to move to New Jersey after she got married, and it was central for all the relatives on her side.

I guess from your report that the church they got married in could have been either of the ones on Lowry. While we have a copy of the invitation, it doesn’t give the location. And none of the pictures show much of the church exterior.

On Aug 17, 1946, I was fresh out of high school, living at 2117 22nd Ave. N.E., Mpls — two blocks from the church at 2510 Cleveland — a church that I attended for awhile — except I think that it was a United Brothern Church back then.

The Taylor location was about a mile away. Both of those locations were on Lowry Avenue (same as 25th Ave) — a primary crosstown bus route.

BTW, do you know where your mother lived and her maiden name??