Clarence was born in Moorhead, Minnesota, on May 31, 1900, and grew up in McLean County, North Dakota, where he homesteaded and farmed for several years. Anna Jamtgaard was born in Vermillion, South Dakota, on July 17, 1904, and grew up in Hankinson and Douglas, North Dakota. She attended Minot State Teachers College and taught in a rural one room schoolhouse prior to her marriage to Clarence on July 3, 1926. On March 30, 1929, Marvin was born to them in Underwood, North Dakota.
In 1932, the Linder family moved to the Hannaford area and began farming near Karnak. In the depression year of 1936, they packed their belongings up in a Model T and headed west to work near Orting, Washington, and later near Tualatin, Oregon. Preferring the wheat farms of the Midwest to the truck farms of the Pacific Northwest they once again loaded the Model T and moved back to the farm in the Hannaford area in 1939. A daughter, Judi, was born on March 11, 1946, in Valley City.
In 1948, they bought a farm 2 1/2 miles west of Hannaford which would be their home until their retirement in 1971. At that time they built a home on the west side of Hannaford. They were members of Faith Lutheran Church where Ann was active in Altar Guild and Ladies Aid. Ann died on January 21, 1975, at home. Clarence died on March 29, 1980, in Sheyenne Valley Nursing Home in Valley City.
Marvin graduated from Hannaford High School, served in the Army in Korea in 1954-56, and on May 29, 1956, married DeLores Grinager. They farm east of Walum and have two children, Keith, born June 8, 1957; and Denise, born December 10, 1959. Denise and her family farm east of Dazey and Keith farms in the Hannaford area.
Judi graduated from Hannaford High School and received a BA from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota, and an MA from the University of Minnesota. She has worked in continuing education programs with the Minnesota Extension Service, Minneapolis Technical Institute, Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon, and is currently at the University of Minnesota. In November 1985, she traveled to La Paz, Bolivia, South America to adopt Erika, who was born November 17, 1981. They live in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Source: Hannaford Area History North Dakota Centennial 1889 - 1989 Page 196