Elvira and Gus divorced in 1919 after nearly thirteen years of marriage. He remarried nurse Jeanette W. Johnson that same year. Eventually, Dr. Egeland and Jeanette moved to San Marino California where he continued to practice medicine after serving as an officer in the medical corps in WWI. They had three sons. Egeland died from a heart attack in 1936 at age fifty-nine. His body was shipped from California for burial in at Bayside Cemetery in Sturgeon Bay. His nephew was Dr. Dan Dorchester, who also had a hospital named for him in Sturgeon Bay.

Visit the Anderson Store to seephotographs and several artifacts related to Elvira Anderson’s story.

Submitted by Emily Irwin, EHF Curator and Marketing Coordinator in 2019. Updated with additional information by EHF Educator Kathleen Harris in 2024.