Obit: Dixen, Jens L .J.  #2 (1876 - 1956)

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Surnames: Dixen, Rasmussen, Kjaer, Borge, Wojahn

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 08/09/1956

Dixen, Jens L.J. #2 (9 APR 1876 - 7 AUG 1956)

Funeral services were held August 10^th at one-thirty o’clock from the home of the late Rev. J.L.J. Dixen and at two o’clock from the Nazareth Lutheran Church at Withee, with the Rev. W. Clayton Nielsen officiating, assisted by the Rev. J. C. Aaberg of Minneapolis.  Rev. Aaberg was ordained into the ministry at the same time as Pastor Dixen, on Aug. 16, 1908.  The Rev. Olaf G. Borge spoke for the family.

Interment was in the Nazareth Lutheran Cemetery.

Serving as pallbearers were F. M. Miller, Richard Nielsen, Sam Andersen, Carl Petersen, Jens A. Jensen and Andrew Olsen.  C. B. Andersen was honorary pallbearer.

Flower girls were Mrs. V. A. Hansen, Helga Andersen, Karen Holm and Dorothy Nielsen.

Rev. Dixen passed away at three o’clock Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 7^th, 1956, at his home.  He was 80 years of age.

He was born April 9, 1876, near Kolding in the country of Denmark.  When a lad seven years of age he came to America with his parents, settling in Franklin County, near Hampton, Ia.

He attended Grand View College and Seminary in Des Moines, Ia., graduating in 1908.  He was ordained into the ministry of the American Evangelical Lutheran Church on Aug. 16, 1908.

On July 10, 1910, he was married to Carrie Elizabeth Rasmussen of council Bluffs, Ia., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lars Rasmussen.

He served pastorates in Denmark,, Vesper, Kansas, Withee, and Big Flats, Wis.; Ludington, Mich., and Lindsay, Neb.

During his ministry he served many years as president of the districts in which he resided.  He was also, for a number of years, a member and later president of the Board of Examiners of Grand View Seminary at Des Moines, Ia.

For many years he served as editor of "Kirkelig Samler," the official Danish paper of the American Evangelical Lutheran Church.

On his retirement he returned to Withee (Clark Co., Wis.), where he made his home until the time of his death.

Besides his wife, he is survived by three daughters: Mrs. J. C. Kjaer (Maria), Seattle, Wash.; Mrs. Olaf G. Borge (Sara), Shelby, Mont., and Mrs. Carl J. Wojahn (Esther), Savage, Minn.; and two sons, Scott of St. Paul, Minn., and Alfred of Ellendale, Minn.