Solveig Alyssa Ensign trusted Jesus as her savior. On January 21st at 12.15 am, the uncreated life of God who indwelled her carried her home to be with Him.
Solveig was born July 22, 1978 at her parents home in the Swan Valley. She attended
the one room country school at Salmon Prairie and then moved to Bigfork when she was in the 4th grade. She graduated from Flathead Highschool and went to one year at FVCC.
She married Joseph Swenson. They had a beautiful baby girl named Nilla. Joe and Solveig parted ways soon after.
Solveig was an excellent jeweler, watercolorist and potter. She had a successeful jewelry business called “way of the sun” which was inspired by her Norwegian name Solveig.
Solveig loved any outdoor sport. She was physically gifted and very graceful. She was a great skiier, swimmer, and paddled with the Bigfork Outrigger team. She loved being at any lake in the summertime to bask in the sun. Dancing and music was her passion and found enormous comfort in spending time with people of any sort. She loved to laugh, her laugh was contagious to all that were around her. Solveig had a strong will, courage and unconditional love for all.
Solveig made her home in Whitefish with her daughter and her partener Tocatta. Solveig was a breath of fresh air and a ray of sunshine to everyone she met.
Solveig is survived by her parents Dave and Linda Ensign of Ferndale. Her sisters Signe Ensign of Bigfork, Astrid Ensign of Portland Oregon, Liv Ensign of Kalispell, her brother Haakon Ensign of Ferndale, her daughter Nilla Swenson and her loving partener Tocatta Spearman of Whitefish, her grandpa Eugene Nilsen of Henderson, NV.
Memeorials for Solveig: Nilla Swenson college fund-Glacier Bank
This is a great sorrow for Solveig’s family and friends but it is also a day of rejoycing. Solveig is absent from the body and present with the Lord Jesus. 2 Corinthians5:1-8