This 1969 photo includes left to right Bob, Lyla, Helen Betty Horner Liljestrand and Paul Howard Liljestrand (who preferred to be called Howard.  All are Liljestrands.  Howard and Betty lived in Honolulu since 1937 where he interned at Queens for 2 years and then practiced medicine in a small Dole Pineapple plantation hospital for workers which he bought from Dole.  When Howard retired he sold the Leeward Hospital and land for $1.  It is now a Kaiser Permente clinic.  It was located just up in back of Pearl Harbor where Howard nd Betty had a house.  December 7, 1941 brought some nearby direct bomb hits during the attack on Pearl Harbor but neither their house or the hospital were hit by bombs.  Howard and Betty (pregnant with their first child Robert who came later that December.  Howard and Betty were on the big island at the time of the December 7 attack.

We do not have many photos of Cousin Bob Liljestrand or his mother Helen Betty but we have memories of many visits from the family to our house in St Paul and in Ohio.  Cousin Bob was at Ohio Wesleyan while I was at Ohio State and saw each other also periodically.  When Jim was at Northwestern Medical School in downtown Chicago (1962-1966) his Aunt Betty was President of the Womens Auxiliary of the American Medical Association and in Chicago where the AMA headquarters were. She would stay at the Drake where her national meetings were (a block from my dorm on the near north side of Chicago) and she would miraculously find time to take Jim out to dinner. It was a great time and she was always very nice.

Once in 1979 at a AAPMR (American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation) in Honolulu where Jim was to  present a paper he got a call from ‘Aunt Betty” saying why are you staying down at that horrible Waikiki beach when you could be up here with us.  So Jim checked out, rented a little stick shift Fiat and moved up to Tantalus Drive house.  One can see the house today - see the Liljestrand Foundation website for more details.  Their guest bedroom overlooked Pearl Harbor, Punch Bowl and off to the left Diamond Head.  She did daily laps in their pool with 25 pebbles and moved them from one pile to another to keep track of her laps.  Howard was a night owl and be up to 2 am working on his documentary films in the basement with classical music blaring,  Trudy (still working for the Liljestrand Foundation in 2023) was the office manager and facilities manager and looked after the guests needs like towels and sheets. It was on one of these trips to Honolulu where we spent on a Saturday 2 hours listening to Garrison Kielor from Prairie Home Companion on NPR.  He never missed a broadcast and after that neither did we.

Reunion at The Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, 1987

Boston Globe, Family copy