Elsie was born in Sweden in about 1906. She is the daughter of Johan Granström and Elisabet Borgström.
She immigrated to Midwest USA where she married Herbert Engstrom, and they eventually moved to Nome, Alaska with their children.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K93X-M1W : 16 March 2018), Helga Engstrom in household of Herbert Engstrom, Tract R-3, Seattle, Seattle Election Precinct, King, Washington, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 40-309, sheet 17B, line 71, family 452, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 4383.
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