SEVENTH GENERATION

118. Earl Mattis Bengtson Rev was born on 28 Mar 1921 in Chicago, Illinois. He was confirmed on 5 May 1935 in Chicago, Illinois. He was ordained on 16 Jun 1946 in Duluth, Minnesota.

He was married to Deloris Louise Hansen (daughter of Rev Frederick Chirstein Marinus Hansen and Carrie Egidia Hansen) on 3 May 1952 in Chicago, IL. Earl and Deloris were married in Golgotha Lutheran Church on the south side of Chicago, where her father was then the pastor. Both of their fathers were pastors, and both participated in the service with the bride's father actually officiating. Married in First Lutheran Church, Blair, Nebraska, Rev L H Kjoller, officiating. Deloris Louise Hansen was born on 12 Feb 1926 in Audubon, Iowa. Earl Mattis Bengtson Rev and Deloris Louise Hansen had the following children:

141 i. Thomas Earl Bengtson was born on 13 Mar 1953 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was confirmed on 27 Oct 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. Tom was confirmed by his father in Concordia Lutheran Church, 3855 N. Seeley Ave, Chicago, Illinois. He received a red Bible imprinted with his name. He graduated in Jun 1981 in San Diego, California. Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of California San Diego under the supervision of Audrey Terras. Thesis "Special functions and harmonic analysis on the Riemannian symmetric space Pn." Augustana College 1971-1975, BA 1975
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975-1979
came out 1977
University of California San Diego, 1979-1981, PhD 1981
Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1981-1984
Delaware County Campus, Penn State, Media, Pennsylvania, 1984-1988
Augustana College, 1988-
associate professor 1994
+142 ii. P4
+143 iii. P5

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