DeLendrecies | DeLecdrecie Department Store | Killing Albert Berch

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: Helen DeLendrecie in a photo published by the Fargo Souvenir in 1897 when Helen would have been 49 years old, though it is unknown if the photograph was current at the time. In Carroll Engelhardt’s book, Gateway to the Northern Plains, the photo is captioned as: “Helen deLendrecie campaigned for women’s suffrage and served on the Fargo School Board.”

: O.J. and Helen DeLendrecie in front of their Los Angeles home, with Helen holding her great-grandniece, Almarian Berch, age 9 months (November 1922) (from the Hollingsworth family collection)

: The Los Angeles retirement home of O.J. and Helen DeLendrecie (no longer standing), located in the 500 block of South Kingsley Drive. The back of the photo notes: “Albert Berch was raised here.” (from Hollingsworth family collection)

: In 1879, O. J. DeLendrecie founded his department store in Fargo, North Dakota as the Chicago Dry Goods House (photo courtesy of Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University)

: DeLendrecie’s in 1897, before the top three floors were added (photo courtesy of Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University)

: The O.J. DeLendrecie Company in its heyday (photo courtesy of Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University)

: DeLendrecie’s Interior (photo courtesy of Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University)

: Judson Flora, custodian, sweeping floor at DeLendrecie’s in 1953 (photo courtesy of Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University)

: Window display at DeLendrecie’s, date unknown (photo courtesy of Institute for Regional Studies, North Dakota State University)

: Today, the DeLendrecie Building is referred to as Block Six, apartments and retail, listed in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places (photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons).

: Interment certificates for Josephine Helen DeLendrecie (1926) and O.J. DeLendrecie (1924) in the Hollywood Mausoleum (the Catholic Mausoleum of what was then called “Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery”)