Original sentence: Bio from the Norwegian-American Historical Association.Both Lars and Helen Fletre were prominent members of the Chicago Norwegian colony from 1954 when he and his wife settled there with their 3 children in Logan Square.He and his family returned to the United States in 1954, where he resided in Chicago until his passing while on vacation to Norway in 1977.He immigrated to Chicago in 1923 and attended the technical night school at the Chicago Art Institute.Lars Fletre (June 22, 1904 in Voss, Norway – 1977) was a prominent Norwegian sculptor
Edited sentence: Additional he worked on churches and missions in Las Cruces, New Mexico  and El Paso, Texas.Both Lars Fletre and Helen Svensson Fletre were prominent members of the Chicago Norwegian colony from 1954 when he and his wife settled there with their 3 children in Logan Square.He and his family returned to the United States in 1954, where he resided in Chicago.He was the son of Ola Oddson Fletre and Kristine Olsdatter ytre Kvårmo.Lars Fletre (June 22, 1904 – 1977) was a prominent Norwegian-American sculptor.Lars Fletre immigrated to Chicago in 1923 and attended the technical night school at the Chicago Art Institute.Lars Olavson Fletre was born in  Vossestrand, Voss, Hordaland, Norway.Norwegian Americans.One of his more prominent works was a monument sculpted from granite for the fallen soldiers from the Fjord Regiment, which included solders from Voss, Sogn, Hardanger, Sunnfjord and Nordfjord.Some of Fletre's other work includes restored buildings in Florence, Italy as well as work on the National Cathedral in Washington, D.The Vossing Correspondence Society of 1848 and the Report of Adam Løvenskjold.This memorial was unveiled at Bømoen, in Voss on August 1,1948