Vincent Joseph Thyng
b. Aug. 8, 1918 Minneapolis Mn.
d. July 24, 1973 Seattle Wa.

m. Margret Amanda Gadbois May 1 1943
b. June 22, 1919 Minneapolis Mn.
d.
Father: Emile Joseph Gadbois
Mother: Kathleen Rochford

her 2nd m. Warren White about 1990

Vincent's father had been in World War I.  His father had bouts of amnesia that were thought to be caused by being gased during the war.  He headed by train to Califoria to find treatment for this where his mother (Axie) was living. She was to pick him up at the train.  He never showed up !! This is a real mystery. Clara his wife never saw him again.  By the 1920 census they were living in Ohio where Norris was a Real Estate person.  They moved back to Minneapolis Mn. to be by Clara's family and maybe other members of the Thing family.  His father was dead and Axie was in California.  Clara raised Vince by herself by working in her fathers grocery store (that now was her brother Joseph's after his fathers death).  Vincent went to College in Minnesota and got a job at Boeing Airplane Company.  This was War time so they needed all the workers they could get.  He meet Margie at a dance where he was an instructor in Minneapolis.  She came out to Seattle to marry him.  Margie's family followed her to the west coast.  All her sibling's and parents.  Clara came out to Seattle to be near Vince, Margie and grandson Michael.  Both Vince and Margie worked hard so in time they could travel all over the world.  Although Vince was not feeling up to par Vince and Margie took a trip to China.  He became very ill in China and they came home to figure out what was wrong.  Finally he was diagnosed with bone cancer. 

Margret Gadbois Thyng, interview 2006 by Cheryl Grubb Christenson
Photos from the collection of Margie (Gadbois) Thing White

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