1901–1984

Introduction

Born: Ap­ril 1, 1901, Stock­holm, Swe­den.

Died: May 2, 1984, Seb­ring, Flo­ri­da.

Buried: Lake­view Me­mo­ri­al Gard­ens, Avon Park, Flo­ri­da.

Biography

Carl was the hus­band of Ev­elyn An­der­son.

His fa­mi­ly emi­grat­ed to Am­eri­ca in 1907, and joined the Swed­ish Pil­grim Church (Co­ve­nant) in Brook­lyn, New York.

He worked at the Chase Na­tion­al Bank for four years af­ter high school, then stu­died at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­van­ia.

He gra­du­at­ed from the North Park Theo­lo­gic­al Sem­in­ary, Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois, in 1926. He did gra­du­ate work at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Chi­ca­go, and be­came an or­dained min­is­ter in 1928.

He served Mis­sion Co­ve­nant con­gre­ga­tions in Lin­coln, Ne­bra­ska; Lan­yon, Io­wa; and Youngs­town, Ohio.

He trans­ferred to the Pres­by­ter­ian de­nom­in­ation in 1948, and ev­en­tu­al­ly retired in Chau­tau­qua, New York.

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