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Peaceful Valley Friendship Quilt
Minneapolis; Minnesota; United States
This friendship quilt is 75 years old in 2022. It was dated April 21, 1947 and given in September 1947. Clara Gregerson Score (Mrs. Pete Score) pieced it together after neighbors in the Peaceful Valley School area embroidered their names and birth dates on the cloth squares given to them. Clara’s daughter, Phyllis Score, probably helped her mother sew the quilt.
In September 1947, Dorothy Ulicny Kopas and John Kopas Sr. hosted a neighbor’s farewell coffee party at their home. This very special, handmade quilt was given to Susana ‘Susie’ Yurik Michalik (Mrs. Mike Michalik) when she and Mike left the farm to move to Minneapolis in September of 1947. The Michaliks and Scores were neighbors. To get to the Michalik farm, up on the hill, you had to go through the Score farm.
At some point, Mrs. Michalik gave the quilt to one of her daughters – Mary Michalik Mickelson. Years later, Mary’s daughter Pat Mickelson Squires found the quilt in her mother’s cedar chest. Pat felt that she didn’t know many of the people on the quilt. She decided to pass it on to her cousin, Rieta Wallen Kopas, and her husband John. John and Rieta know the names of everyone on the quilt. It includes several of their relatives.
In October 2019, John visited with Phyllis Score and Diane Score Brown at Phyllis’ home in Menomonie. John showed them the quilt and they discovered that Phyllis had a bed covering made of the same fabric on her bed.
What a fun time they had talking about the 75-year-old quilt!
John Kopas Jr., son of Dorothy Kopas, who hosted the coffee party, David Score, and Diane Score Brown, grandchildren of Dorothy Kopas, and Clare Score who made the quilt, nephew and niece of Phyllis Score who helped her mother make the quilt. Photo taken at the memorial service for Phyllis Score, held April 2, 2022 at Hay River Church.
The "APRIL" font is tiny embroidered flowers
Phyllis Score's block.
Phyllis, Raymond, Clayton, Peter, Clara Gregerson Score
Phyllis Score (March 26, 1922-March 26, 2022)
Dunn County News, September 17, 1947.
John and Dorothy Ulicny Kopas about 1946
Mike and Susie Yurik Michalik on their farm
Clara Gregerson Score, 1961
Michalik Friendship Quilt (1947), displayed at the home of Rieta and John Kopas, April 2022
John and Rieta Wallen Kopas, vacationing at Lake Tahoe
Robert Schlough March 10
Henry Mickelson May 4
Oscar Johnson April 13
John Kopas December 15
Arlene Sirotiak (January 5)
Dorothy Kopas December 26
Mrs. Floyd French September 3
John Talmage September 18
Susan Sirotiak November 1
Bertha Mickelson February 12
Peter Score March 1
Beverly Olson January 6
Marie Talmage April 3
Dan Sirotiak January 6
Gerda Schlough September 8
Agnes Johnson August 2
Ronald Olson January 29
Mary Ann Olson May 10
Center April 21, 1947 Peaceful Valley
Elenore Talmage January 23
Peter Olson November 24
Myrtle Olson June 5
Judy Kopas September 17
Gerald Schough October 14
Edna Hamann (March 9)
Phyllis Score March 26
Clara Score January 10
George Talmage January 11
Mrs. Fred (Ellen) Hamann October 26
Jim Schlough September 14
Leonard Kopas December 24
Bertha Strom and Henry Mickelson at their home in Connorsville, WI, 1940’s
Myrtle Mickelson and Peter Olson’s 50th wedding anniversary, April 1981, children L to R: Beverly Olson Tudahl, Ronald Olson, Mary Ann Olson Roos and Janet Olson McDonough
Judy Kopas Halvorson 1952
Leonard Kopas 1956
John & Rieta Wallen Kopas at a Back to the 50’s contest, 1987
Area map
Written by Minnesota Quilt Project (2023)
Minnesota Quilt Project
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Minnesota Quilt Project Documentation Project
Minnesota Quilters Inc.
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1930-1949
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