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Ruth Eleanore. Duesler. Aurness Salisbury. Mother of actors Peter Graves and James Arness. 1. 1910 CENSUS: Hennepin Co, MN 4/18/1910 DUESLER, H.G. 50, born in NY, a clerk at the Gas Co.; wife Mabel 36, born in WI, married 12 years, having 3 living children; Ruth 11, Dorothy 8 and Marjorie 5, the girls born in MN, were living in Minneapolis, MN. 2.
When Ruth Eleanore Duesler was born on 26 February 1899, in Minneapolis, Hennepin, Minnesota, United States, her father, Hess Graves Duesler, was 39 and her mother, Mabel A Schraudenbach, was 25. She married Rolf Cirkler Aurness on 30 August 1920, in Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons.
Apr 28, 2022 · September 14, 1986 (87) Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States. Place of Burial: California, United States. Immediate Family: Daughter of Hess Graves Duesler and Mabel Duesler. Wife of Rolf Cirkler Aurness. Mother of James Arness and Peter Graves. Sister of Majoire Ann Duesler.
James Arness. Actor: Gunsmoke. American leading man famed as the star of one of the longest-running shows in U.S. television history, Gunsmoke (1955). Born of Norwegian heritage (the family name, Aurness, had formerly been Aursness) in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Rolf and Ruth Duesler Aurness. His father was a traveling salesman of medical supplies and his mother later became a newspaper ...
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- June 3, 2011
- May 26, 1923
Peter Graves was born Peter Duesler Aurness on March 18, 1926, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the younger son of Rolf Cirkler Aurness (1894–1982), a businessman, and his wife, Ruth (née Duesler, died 1986), a journalist. Graves's ancestry was Norwegian, German, and English.
Jun 3, 2011 · When the show premiered in 1955, mother Ruth Aurness told the Star Tribune that she was distressed about the kind of character her son had signed up to play. "But I suppose I have to think about ...
When Gunsmoke premiered in 1955, Arness's mother Ruth Aurness said she was distressed about the kind of character her son had signed up to play. "But I suppose I have to think about his career," she said. Arness credited much of his success in playing tough characters to his Minnesota upbringing.
