Thude, Gunar

He appears in the 1932 Phoenix Telephone Directory, Chandler section, as living on a ranch in Tempe. His phone number was 81-R2.

• Thude Park (Coronado and Galveston streets)
  Thude Park is named for the Thude family, immigrants from Denmark in the early 1900s. The park itself was once part of the dairy owned by Frands and Bodil Thude. Gunnar Thude, who arrived first, began farming near Ray and Price Roads, and eventually went into the sheep ranching business. He ran a large operation from the 1940s until the 1970s. The Thude family sold the land around the basin to homebuilders, who began construction of their subdivisions in 1997 and 2001. Thude Park was developed in 2001.