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Hope A. (Arnholm) Loso

also: Hope Arnholm · Hope A. Loso · Hope Loso

Second child of Charles Arthur Arnholm Sr. and his second wife Merena Fisher. Born in Barre, Vermont on September 9, 1925. Married Robert Fred Loso at First Presbyterian Church of Barre on her twenty-fifth birthday in 1950. Bookkeeper for the granite economy: 25 years at Granite City Creamery, then over 40 years at John R. Miles Supply Co., continuing part time into her early eighties. Member of First Presbyterian Church of Barre for 74 years; sang in the choir; was the longest-serving congregant at the time of her death. Cared for Robert at home through the last seven years of his life until his death in 2012. Died at Menig Nursing Home in Randolph VT on 2024-04-27 at age 98. Survived by two children, three grandchildren (one predeceased), three great-grandchildren, and one surviving sibling, her younger brother Ronald Arnholm of Athens, Georgia.

Occupations

bookkeeper, Granite City Creamery (25 years)
bookkeeper, John R. Miles Supply Co. / Miles Supply (40+ years, part time into her early 80s)

Events in this life

1925 · birth
Place: Barre, Barre, Vermont, USA
1950 · marriage
Hope's 25th birthday. 61.5-year marriage that lasted until Robert's death in 2012.
Place: First Presbyterian Church of Barre, Barre, Vermont, USA
With: Robert Fred Loso Sr.
2024 · death
Place: Menig Nursing Home, Randolph, Vermont, USA

Stories

Hillcrest Lot 43

1944 to 2024

Hope Cemetery in Barre is internationally famous for granite carving. The markers there are art. Inside one lot, Hillcrest 43, three generations of Arnholms lie together with the Loso son-in-law who married into them: Charles Arthur Arnholm Sr. (d. 1944), his second wife Merena Fisher Arnholm (d. 1984), their daughter Merena M. Arnholm (d. 1999), Robert Fred Loso Sr. (d. 2012), and presumably Hope Arnholm Loso (d. 2024). Robert had his own family plot at Plainmont Cemetery in East Montpelier, where his parents and grandparents are buried. He chose Hope Cemetery to lie alongside his wife.

Source: Find a Grave Memorial #87208885: Robert Fred Loso Sr. (1927-2012)

The birthday wedding, September 9, 1950

1950 to 2012

Robert Fred Loso, 23, and Hope A. Arnholm, 25, were married at First Presbyterian Church of Barre on September 9, 1950, Hope's twenty-fifth birthday. The marriage lasted 61 years and 6 months until Robert's death in 2012. Hope cared for Robert at home through the final seven of those years. They are buried in the same plot.

Source: Hope A. Loso obituary

Ninety-eight years in central Vermont

1925 to 2024

Hope A. Arnholm was born in Barre, Vermont on September 9, 1925. She died at Menig Nursing Home in Randolph VT on April 27, 2024. Ninety-eight years, central Vermont. Inside that single life: a 25th-birthday wedding at First Presbyterian Church of Barre, a 74-year membership at that same church (longest-serving member at her death), a 25-year bookkeeping career at the Granite City Creamery, and a 40-plus-year career at John R. Miles Supply Co. that she refused to fully retire from until her early eighties.

Source: Hope A. Loso obituary

A Danish father and a French-Canadian mother

1862 to 1925

Hope Arnholm Loso's two sides of family come from opposite directions. Her father, Charles Arthur Arnholm Sr., was born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1891 and emigrated as a young man. The Arnholm surname is Danish, not Swedish as first guessed. Her mother, Merena Fisher, was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1903 to Joseph Fisher and Aurelia Trombly, whose maiden name is the anglicized form of the French-Canadian Tremblay. The cluster of Fisher-Trombly siblings around Burlington fits the late-nineteenth-century French-Canadian migration into the Champlain Valley. Hope's life sat between an Atlantic-crossing Danish immigration and a Lake Champlain-crossing French-Canadian one.

Source: Find a Grave Memorial #90349318: Merena Fisher Arnholm (1903-1984)

Granite-town work

1940s to 2000s

Across two generations the family worked every part of Barre's granite-town economy. Hope kept the books for the Granite City Creamery and then for John R. Miles Supply Co., the granite-industry equipment supplier. Her half-brother Charles Jr. ran the Barre-Montpelier Road auto body shop, and was Vermont Auto Enthusiasts president in 1961. Her husband Robert ran his own Loso's Body Shop in East Montpelier and then Blake & Loso used cars. Granite, dairy, auto body, used cars. One town's full economy, one extended family.

Source: Hope A. Loso obituary

From Hope to Pearl Hope

1925 to 2024

The line from Hope Arnholm Loso runs through her daughter Kathie Loso, who married Barry MacInnes and moved to West Lebanon, New Hampshire. Their daughter Kerrie MacInnes partnered with Jason Hindman. When their daughter was born, they named her Pearl Hope Hindman, carrying Hope's name into the fourth generation while Hope was still alive to know it.

Source: Hope A. Loso obituary

Documents and artifacts

obituary

Hope A. Loso obituary

Current location: https://www.whitcombfuneralhome.com/obituaries/hope-loso

obituary

Robert F. Loso obituary

Current location: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87208885/robert-fred-loso

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Loso x Arnholm wedding announcement, September 9, 1950

census

1940 US Census, Barre VT, Arnholm household

census

1950 US Census, Barre VT, Merena Arnholm household

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Thirteen Find a Grave memorials for the Arnholm and Loso families of central Vermont

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