A Good Life in a Good Land

Mary Alice (Linn) Tudor was born 5 September 1880 in Lindstrom, Minnesota. Her parents, John and Mary Linn were charter members of the Chisago Lake Evangelical Lutheran Church, which became the center of the Swedish-American Chisago Lake immigrant community. Alice Tudor lived a full and happy life. She grew up in the Chisago Lake community, helping her family run the farm on Linn Lake. She lived with her mother, brothers and sisters while they homesteaded wheat farms in South Dakota. She acquired her teaching certificate and taught in several schools in Minnesota. When her brothers and sisters moved west to Washington State, she followed them and there she met Roy Tudor, the man who would be her husband for the next 63 years. Alice and Roy raised a family while experiencing life at its fullest in the beautiful state of Washington. Alice Tudor died 12 March 1983 in Seattle at 102 years of age.This personal history is an account of the events, large and small, happy and sad, which are ties binding one generation to the next-a loving gift to her family, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren in the hope it will serve as a record of and a tribute to their family heritage.