Our Family History (Mehl and Styve)
Norman Melvin Imbertson
1897 - 1975 (78 years)
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Name Norman Melvin Imbertson Birth 11 Jan 1897 Gender Male Death Oct 1975 Person ID I158 Mehl and Styve Last Modified 5 Apr 2020
Father Martin Imbertson, b. 21 Feb 1870, Vik In Sogn, Norway 
d. 12 Jun 1910 (Age 40 years) Mother Sunnøva Mehl, b. 1 Jan 1870 d. Jun 1956, Hibbing, St. Louis, Minnesota, USA (Age 86 years) Marriage 1892 Family ID F50 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 June Lily Ostling Children 1. Living Family ID F70 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 28 Jun 2011
Family 2 Cora Elvira Wassberg McAlpine Marriage 25 Aug 1945 Family ID F71 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 28 Jun 2011
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Notes - When Norm retired from the dept. of water & power, Los Angeles, he w as in charge of over 900 men. After retirement he was honored to recieve t he Franklin Institute Award for the "Best Invention of the Year" in his fi eld which was a rubber-like fabric dam which could be inflated or deflat ed with water to be used for flood control. (About 1962)
Norm also early in his career spent 7 years in the Californian-Arizona des ert heading the first survey party on the Colorado River in order to bri ng water from the river to the Los Angeles area.
- When Norm retired from the dept. of water & power, Los Angeles, he w as in charge of over 900 men. After retirement he was honored to recieve t he Franklin Institute Award for the "Best Invention of the Year" in his fi eld which was a rubber-like fabric dam which could be inflated or deflat ed with water to be used for flood control. (About 1962)