Hillmanns 59 1941 Married

THE HILLMANNS OF BROOKLYN

CHAPTER 59

1941

Wedding, Jekyl Island and Lake George

In June of 1941 Marian married Will Lindquist. They honeymooned in Jekyl Island, Georgia and visited Lake George later in the Summer.

Marian and Will ice skating in 1941.

 It was Marian's second marriage, and Will's first.

 I don't know who the man is, but I am sure that's Mary Behrens who was in San Francisco with Marian in 1937 (Hillmanns 54). I wonder if Mary was also a New Yorker getting divorced in Reno in 1937? Or had Mary been a friend before that and accompanied Marian to Reno for the Summer for her divorce? Did Mary also teach school?

Mary Behrens from Album #54 in San Francisco in 1937 during the Divorce Trip.

Do you see the pattern?  In 1931 Herman and Rose took a trip alone to DC (#43). Marian followed with her 1935 honeymoon (#50). Marian saw her parents off on their trip to Savannah in 1936 (#51), so off she goes to Jekyll Island for Honeymoon #2.

Was this Marian's first trip in a plane?

The newlyweds

In 1941 Chattanooga Cho Cho was a hit song.

Cheerios came out, as CheeriOats

1941 births include Joan Baez, Neil Diamond, Dick Cheney, Ryan O’Neal, Helen Reddy, Beau Bridges, and Ann-Margret

Charles Lindbergh advocated for the United States to enter into a neutrality pact with Hitler.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt criticized Lindbergh by comparing him to the Copperheads of the Civil War period. In response, Lindbergh resigned his commission in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve

Marian and Will married in June of 1941.  That same month Albania declared war on the Soviet Union.  In July Japan called up One Million Men for military service.  No one knew it then, but Will's brother, Evert, would end up serving in that war that was coming.

In July of 1941 under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring orders S.S. General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question".

August 18, 1941 Adolf Hitler orders a temporary halt to Nazi Germany's systematic euthanasia of the mentally ill and handicapped due to protests. However, graduates of the T-4 Euthanasia Program are then transferred to concentration camps, where they continue in their trade.

September 1941 The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.

At a September 11, 1941 rally in Des Moines Charles Lindbergh, accuses "the British, the Jewish, and the Roosevelt administration" of leading the United States toward war. October 1941 saw the Disney release of the movie "Dumbo".

On December 2, 1941 Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

This is Will's mother, Martha. She spent ten days in the same cabin at Lake George every Summer.

This is Martha in Sweden in the early 1920s (during a visit) at a Swedish Summer Resort. It looks like Lake George doesn't it?

The newlyweds with Martha.

Here they are with Martha's friend, Inga. Almost all of Martha's friends were other Swedish immigrants.

Marian became pregnant in August of 1941.

Martha, on the right, is with her friend Ruth, also a Swedish immigrant.

While Marian spent the summer with the Lindquists, her parents, Rose and Herman, vacationed in Maine.

This is Rose and Herman's postcard to their daughter.  This is the only communication we have between them in all 60 albums. Don't they speak to each other just as you thought they would? Hillmanns albums come out on Tuesday. Join us next week when it's 1942 and Marian has her baby.