For Your Sake! My memories of Pastor Anders O. Aasen 1874-1974

1. JPEG scan, by Pastor and Mrs. Aasen's granddaughter Lois Eid, of A.O. Aasen's Biographical Record form for Clergy of the American Lutheran Church. It notes Marith's mothering of their own children and 27 orphans for whom they found foster homes.

   

2. PDF scan of Janesville Gazette Wisconsin 1969 article with picture about Pastor Aasen. Scan is from newspaperarchive.com, courtesy of Mary Lee Foley.

3. Link to my boyhood album of photos of my walking in the Miles for Millions march best viewed on laptop or desktop by left clicking on each:

   https://photos.app.goo.gl/cGELrGE2LE2zw1jo9

4. Link with + sign for zooming in, documents on page 6, from April of 1970, that Pastor Aasen kept on walking in the Miles for Millions march:

   F.W. Woolworth staff hosted a free pancake breakfast, indoors at their main street Camrose store, to kick off the Miles for Millions march. Pastor Aasen, 96 years plus, promised to walk a few miles. Mr. D. Gordon, aged 80 pledged to complete the walk for the second consecutive year.

   
   https://issuu.com/camrosebooster/docs/20200428_booster

5. PDF scan of Camrose Lutheran College program and picture of Pastor Aasen for his 100th Birthday Festival of Thanksgiving and Biography, January 1974, biography read by Rev. Dwight J. Boe at the Festival. Used by permission from:

Anders O. Aasen Papers. Undated. SIE 4.100 Scandinavian Immigrant Experience Collection. Archives & Special Collections, Pacific Lutheran University Library, Tacoma, WA.



HTML version of the Biography of Pastor A.O. Aasen, courtesy of Nathaniel Morck Beaver.

6. History of Dunbar Lutheran Church in Vancouver, B.C., Canada.

   In response to interest from the adults, Pastor Anders Aasen of First Lutheran offered to undertake the task of organizing church services as a personal home mission project. He rented a store at 5640 Dunbar Street for $30 per month. This was transformed into a chapel.

   https://www.dunbarlutheran.com/history-of-dunbar-lutheran

7. Link of pictures of Aasen wedding and cemetery markers for Marith, Anders, and their daughter Adel:

   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/157783463/anders-o-aasen

Messiah Lutheran Church of Camrose records show that Pastor Aasen died February 28, 1974.

He was commended to our Lord Jesus about six weeks after the Festival of Thanksgiving in Celebration of his One Hundredth Birthday held at Camrose Lutheran College.

On the front of the folder for that Festival of Thanksgiving is written under his picture:

Home Mission Pastor, Evangelist and Chaplain of Lutheran Churches in the United States and Canada for 75 years