i found myself googling “gulbranson”. seems aside from playing sports, joining the military, and dying, there was ellen, who was a famous norwegian opera singer in the 40’s, and barbara, who is a self-help spirtual-awareness type author (look out depak), and Andrew, a teen blogger that likes to use the word “tight,” as in “that was tight, man.” Also a cross-country snowmobile racer in Minnesota and a born again preacher for a big church near Seattle.
http://wotan.liu.edu/~pj/gulbranson.html
http://www.barbaragulbranson.com/
http://www.midwestauctions.com/gulbranson/_private/
http://www.aracnet.com/~pdxavets/gulbrans.htm
http://www.amsoil.com/testimonials/gulbranson.htm
http://www.placesnamed.com/g/u/gulbranson.asp
also, randomly came across that “angel” was the 90th most popular name for baby boys in the 1990’s. isn’t that weird… derek was 54. (margaret didn’t even make the top 100).
Heh, fun to google such a rare name. Don’t forget our ancestor Dale-Gutbrand, or Elsa Gulbranson, or me… google me and you get ghosts, haiku, Steely Dan, post-apocalyptic fiction, and MEL.