Family tree – Link to the Gunardson Family Tree in Ancestry.com The Gunardson branch of the family has been and continues to be a relatively small and ever dwindling group. For several reasons, a lot of the family history is shrouded in mystery. My Grandfather, Charles Johan Gunardson (1879-1940), passed away before I was bornContinue reading “The Family Story….or so it goes…”
Category Archives: Part 1 – Introducing the Main Character
Prologue – 2017
Although I’m not planning on checking out anytime soon, following quadruple bypass surgery I’ve begun to seriously contemplate my own mortality. And so, before the final chapter is closed I decided to write this autobiography particularly for my children, Jill and Jim. But expressly for Jill since over the past several years she’s developed aContinue reading “Prologue – 2017”
Hal Gunardson – In His Own Words
Who is Harold Henry Gunardson? At the age of seventy two after more than a decade in retirement, I can look back in retrospect over the past seven decades and say it’s been a pretty good run. The poet laureate of Key West, Jimmy Buffett, summed it up pretty well; “Some of its magic andContinue reading “Hal Gunardson – In His Own Words”
Who am I? And why should you care?
Jill Marie Gunardson-Johnston — Medford, NJ Many of you might have known that my dad, Hal Gunardson, was quite a story teller. But you might not have known that prior to his passing last November, he wrote a collection of stories about his life experiences. A few years ago while he was recovering from a medicalContinue reading “Who am I? And why should you care?”
Long Story Short: A Collection of Stories by Hal Gunardson 