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Name
Arnold Eric Sevareid   #15610
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Sex
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Born
26 Nov 1912
Place
Velva, North Dakota
Source
Died
9 Jul 1992
Place
Washington, D.C.
Source
     approx. age 80


Buried

Father
Mother

Spouse
Date
abt 1933
Place
Source
  1  Peter Sevareid 1940
  2  Michael Sevareid 25 Apr 1940

Spouse 2
Date
28 Feb 1963
Place
Source
  1  Christina Sevareid

Spouse 3
Date
Place
Source


Found him on the 1940 Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota census (dist 89-35 img 22) as Eric Sevareid age 27. Radio news correspondent. He and his wife Lois are living with her widowed mother, Lois Finger.

CBS commentator Eric (born Arnold Eric) Sevareid, 49, was divorced in August 1962 by Lois Finger Sevareid 51, after a 27-year marriage and twin sons now 22. ..-And now Eric, 50, has done gone and got himself another wife — married Feb. 28th to Belen Marshall 31, composer of Afro-Cuban songs - Rockingham Post-Dispatch Richmond County, North Carolina March 14, 1963

...Arnold Eric Sevareid was born to parents of Norwegian heritage on Nov. 26, 1912, in Velva, N.D. He spent his first years on the prairie wheatlands, but when drought struck in the 1920's, the family moved to Minneapolis.

...At the age of 18, Mr. Sevareid worked as a copy boy and reporter for The Minneapolis Journal while attending the University of Minnesota. After being laid off from his reporting job in 1936, he and his first wife, the former Lois Finger, sailed for Europe. He studied political science at the London School of Economics, then attended the Alliance Francaise in Paris. Europe During World War II...

He is survived by his wife, Suzanne St. Pierre, a former producer for the CBS News broadcast "60 Minutes"; three children from two previous marriages, which ended in divorce, and six grandchildren. His two sons, Peter, of Swarthmore, Pa., and Michael, of Mount Joy, Pa., were born during his first marriage to the former Miss Finger, and his daughter, Cristina Kennedy, of Frederick, Md., was born during his second marriage, to Belen Marshall.


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