 Yogi was originally a Hindu mystic from Stockholm, but in time his crystal ball act was abandoned in favor of more homespun humor; Stewart nonetheless deliberately tried to make Yorgesson more intelligent than the stereotype of the naive rubes that other Scandinavian dialect comedians were using.Harry and his wife, Gretchen Ida (Sissell) Ross (1909-1998) moved to Chicago in 1939, where he became a script writer.He kept the Yorgesson character alive, touring occasionally.