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- The Daily Astorian newspaper
Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon
Tuesday, Nov. 26, 1957
Page One
DEAD MAN PIONEER IN REGION
The body of Edward Grotting, 79, was found Monday morning about 700 feet from the point where he had left his small skiff in which he went duck-hunting early Sunday.
Sheriffs Deputy Carl Bondietti, who assisted in the search for the aged man, said Grotting had apparently succumbed to a heart attack after walking the distance on Marys Island above the maritime base on the Columbia.
Grottings gun was fully loaded and had not been fired, indicating that the hunter collapsed and died shortly after he started on the hunt, Bondietti said.
PIONEER HERE
Grotting was a pioneer troll fisherman, being one of the first who ventured across the bar in their gillnet boats. Grotting and a handful of other fishermen, made their own spoons and tackle for the infant industry which has since grown to its present size.
A native of Lensvik, Norway, he was born there, the son of Christopher and Marit Ysland Grotting, and grew to manhood there and in 1902, came to Brainard, Minn., where he worked in logging camps and on farms for about tow years.
Grotting came to Astoria in 1904 when he began gillnet fishing in the old sailboat days. It was about 1907 when he and a few other hardy and daring fishermen ventured out across the Columbia river bat to pioneer the present troll fishing industry.
Grotting was married in Astoria on January 7, 1905, to Margaret Wahl and with her established their home in Astoria. In 1914, the family moved to the John Day district, becoming one of the early settlers in that area. Mrs. Grotting died here in1953.
A fisherman during most of his lifetime, Grotting has fished several seasons in Alaska. He made two trips with his daughter, recently returning from their five-month trip. [Probably this meant a trip to Norway, not Alaska.] He was a member of the Sons of Norway lodge.
Surviving are the daughter, Mrs. Lloyd (Marna) Forseth, route 2, box 70, Astoria (John Day), with whom Grotting had lived in recent years; five sons, Peter and Edward, Morro Bay, Calif; Isak, John and Arne Grotting, Eureka, Calif., three brothers, Chris Grotting, Astoria; Ole Grotting, Portland, and Martin Grotting, Trondheim, Norway; two sisters, Mrs. Kristine Grotting and Mrs. Elizabeth Ysland, also in Trondheim; 13 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Among more distant relatives is a nephew, Helger Kverndal of Astoria.
Details of services which are being planned for Friday afternoon, will be announced by the Hughes-Ransom Mortuary.
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The Daily Astorian newspaper
Astoria, Clatsop County, Oregon
Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1957
OBITUARIES, Page 2
EDWARD GROTTING
Services for Edward Grotting, 79, who died Sunday while duck hunting, will be held Friday at 1:30 p.m. at the Memorial Chapel of the Hughes-Ransom mortuary.
The Rev. H. Storaasli, pastor of the First Lutheran church, will officiate and burial will be beside his late wife, Margaret, in the family plot in Ocean View cemetery.
Serving as casket bearers will be Einar Moen, Eugene Kverndal, Elmer Forseth, Leonard Forseth, Stanley Lizon and Dennis Grotting.
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