On June 24th, Dorothy Twesme celebrated her 100th Birthday with her family and many friends at Las Ventanas at Summerlin, Las Vegas, NV.
She looks forward to receiving the Cashton Record every week and enjoyed the article that highlighted the Petersen”Mapltwin Farms” during June Dairy Month. It brought back memories of her early life.
Her grandparents Joseph & Olava Lee immigrated to Wisconsin from Norway
and acquired land southeast of Portland in 1872. Joseph cleared the land, built a log cabin and later built the home that is pictured in the Petersen Farm article. In a letter to relatives in Norway in 1882 Olava wrote “We have good health and live well for we have 4 horses, 9 cows 20 hogs and of chickens and turkeys we have no number”
Dorothy and her mother, Stella Andersen, lived on that farm for two years, while her father, Fred, traveled Wisconsin selling Procter and Gamble products. This is the same farm Jon Petersen bought in 1956, and they now milk 550 cows 3 times a day!
She attended High School in Cashton, where she was a cheerleader, band member and salutatorian of the class of 1941, and continued her education at LaCrosse State Teachers College. After graduation in1945, she moved to Galesville, teaching English and Latin at the High School. It was there she met and married Attorney A.L. Twesme.
During the time in Galesville, they raised 4 children, “Bud” Twesme became a judge and Dorothy continued to teach, later becoming the Librarian. After the judge’s death in 1995 she remained in the Twesme home until moving to Las Vegas to be near two of her sons and her brother.
