Windh/Freise/Maurstad genealogy - Person Sheet
Windh/Freise/Maurstad genealogy - Person Sheet
NameRev. Jens Christian KJAER
Birth14 Oct 1908, Vamdrup, Kolding Kommune, Syddanmark, Denmark
Death30 Sep 1961, Seattle, Washington
Birth14 Oct 1908, Vamdrup, Denmark
OccupationPastor: A.B., B.D., M.A.,PhD
OccupationPastor. A.B., B.D., M.A., PhD
ReligionClick his name to see an obituary
Educationfour brothers and four sisters in Denmark in 1961
FatherMartinus KJAER
MotherJohanne GRUNDAHL
Misc. Notes
The Seattle Times Monday October 2, 1961
Funeral services for the Rev. Dr. Jens C. Kjaer, 52, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church and a history instructor, will be at 2 o'clock tomorrow in the church. Burial will be in Pacific Lutheran under the direction of the Columbia Funeral Home. Dr. Kjaer died Saturday of a heart attack. He had been pastor of St. John's ten years.
Born in Denmark, Dr. Kjaer came to this country in 1927. He attended Grandview Theological Seminary, Des Moines, Iowa: the Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary; Midland College, Fremont, Neb., and the Central Lutheran Theological Seminary in Fremont.
DR. KJAER received a master's degree in history from the University of Oklahoma and a doctorate from the University of Washington in 1952. From 1931 until 1942 Dr. Kjaer was a pastor in Clinton, Iowa. In 1942 he became an Army chaplain. For the past ten years he had been a chaplain in the Army Reserve and was active in the Reserve Officers' Association. Dr. Kjaer had been an instructor in Scandinavian Ianguages and literature at the University of Washington from 1948 until 1950 and in 1954. He was the author of various historical books on Danes and the Danish church.
Dr. Kjaer was president of District 9. American Evangelical Lutheran Church, and a member of the Lutheran Pastors' Association and the Ecumenical Council and the Home Mission Board of the American Evangelical Lutheran Church.
DR. KJAER is survived by his wife, Maria, and a daughter Sonja Kjaer, at the home,; a son Capt. George Kjaer, an Army physician at Fort Bragg, N.C.; his father, Martinus Kjaer, and four brothers and four sisters in Denmark, and two grandchildren.
Funeral services for the Rev. Dr. Jens C. Kjaer, 52, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church and a history instructor, will be at 2 o'clock tomorrow in the church. Burial will be in Pacific Lutheran under the direction of the Columbia Funeral Home. Dr. Kjaer died Saturday of a heart attack. He had been pastor of St. John's ten years.
Born in Denmark, Dr. Kjaer came to this country in 1927. He attended Grandview Theological Seminary, Des Moines, Iowa: the Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary; Midland College, Fremont, Neb., and the Central Lutheran Theological Seminary in Fremont.
DR. KJAER received a master's degree in history from the University of Oklahoma and a doctorate from the University of Washington in 1952. From 1931 until 1942 Dr. Kjaer was a pastor in Clinton, Iowa. In 1942 he became an Army chaplain. For the past ten years he had been a chaplain in the Army Reserve and was active in the Reserve Officers' Association. Dr. Kjaer had been an instructor in Scandinavian Ianguages and literature at the University of Washington from 1948 until 1950 and in 1954. He was the author of various historical books on Danes and the Danish church.
Dr. Kjaer was president of District 9. American Evangelical Lutheran Church, and a member of the Lutheran Pastors' Association and the Ecumenical Council and the Home Mission Board of the American Evangelical Lutheran Church.
DR. KJAER is survived by his wife, Maria, and a daughter Sonja Kjaer, at the home,; a son Capt. George Kjaer, an Army physician at Fort Bragg, N.C.; his father, Martinus Kjaer, and four brothers and four sisters in Denmark, and two grandchildren.
Spouses
Birth12 Jun 1911, Vesper, Kansas
Death25 Nov 1988, Seattle, Washington
OccupationOrganist/ Choir master
EducationB.A. in music, major in organ
OccupationOrganist and choirmaster
FatherRev. Jens Lauritsen Jensen DIXEN (1876-1956)
MotherCarrie (Karen) Elisabeth RASMUSSEN (1889-1961)
Marriage5 Jul 1931, Columbus, Nebraska
ChildrenGeorge Christian Dixen (1932-2005)
Sonja Kathleen (1935-2012)