Rev Thomas Gunderson Sandeno

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Rev Thomas Gunderson Sandeno BIRTH 15 Apr 1881 Rogaland fylke, Norway DEATH 16 Jul 1962 (aged 81) Rochester, Olmsted County, Minnesota, USA BURIAL Kenyon Cemetery Kenyon, Goodhue County, Minnesota, USA

Thomas Sandeno was born close to Stavanger, Norway to Gunder T. Sondenaa and Kari Lamriksdtr Urdahl. He was the only son, with four sisters, Berthe, Britta, Louise and Nilla.

Thomas emigrated out in 1901, immigrating via Canada into the US at St. Albans, VT, settling in the Midwest. He studied to become a Lutheran pastor at Red Wing Seminary in Red Wing, MN, graduating in 1912.

Thomas married Bertine Aarsvold April 27, 1910 at Winona, MN. He graduated from Red Wing in 1912, took a call to Grand Meadow; then South Zumbro Lutheran Church. They had six sons who survived infancy. They had two sons, Adolf and Clifford, perhaps their first two, and one daughter, born about 1925, who did not survive infancy.

Bertina died of TB on August 16, 1931, at the age of 46, at Shingebee, Cass County, MN at the TB Sanitorium.

Rev. Sandeno accepted a call to serve in Armstrong, Iowa in 1930, then to Geddes, SD in 1935, Floodwood, MN in 1945 and Webster, MN in 1949.

Thomas married Anna Berg on August 2, 1934 at Goodhue, MN.

Thomas served as a pastor in Iowa and Minnesota, his longest term at South Zumbro Lutheran Church, Olmsted Cty, MN, where his sons Harris and Harvey (teenagers) and Carl Sandeno are buried.

Rev. Sandeno was widowed twice. His 2nd wife, Anna Berg died in 1955. He is buried next to Anna.

He continued providing pastoral services well into his 70's.

His son, Carl, married my relative Edna Knutson Sandeno. Rev. Sandeno performed the marriage of my grandparents; and baptized my mother and her sister. He died at St. Mary's Hospital at age 78, having lived at the Red Wing Nursing home 3 years prior to his death.

Family Members

Spouses

Anna M. Berg Sandeno 1885–1955 (m. 1934)

Bertina Aarsvold Sandeno 1885–1931

Children

Carl Amos Sandeno 1912–1998

Gordon Theodore Sandeno 1914–1971

Palmer Clifford Sandeno 1916–1988

Harvey Sandeno 1918–1934

Harris Sandeno 1918–1935

Morris Thomas Sandeno 1921–1999

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