Henry Albert Bjorkman

1877 - 1961  (84 years)  Submit Photo / Document    Has no ancestors but 10 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Henry Albert Bjorkman
  Birth	15 Jan 1877	København, Hovedstaden, Kongeriget Danmark
  Gender	Male
  Initiatory (LDS)	19 Dec 1900	LOGAN
  FamilySearch ID	KWCZ-FVN
  Death	9 Mar 1961	Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States
  Burial	13 Mar 1961	Grace Cemetery, Caribou, Idaho, United States
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  Person ID	I126163	mytree
  Last Modified	25 Feb 2024

  
  

  Family	Karen Sophia Hansen,   b. 5 Feb 1880, Newton, Cache, Utah, United States d. 6 Sep 1962, Logan, Cache, Utah, United States (Age 82 years)
  Marriage	19 Dec 1900	Logan, Cache, Utah, United States
  Children	1. Lorena Bjorkman,   b. 3 Oct 1901, Newton, Cache, Utah, United States d. 4 Aug 1986, Idaho, United States (Age 84 years)   2. Leonard Henry Bjorkman,   b. 6 Oct 1903, Newton, Cache, Utah, United States d. 3 Dec 1993, Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States (Age 90 years)   3. Eleda Bjorkman,   b. 22 Nov 1905, Newton, Cache, Utah, United States d. 14 Jun 1978, Billings, Yellowstone, Montana, United States (Age 72 years)   4. Flora Bjorkman,   b. 13 Nov 1907, Newton, Cache, Utah, United States d. 27 Jun 2003, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States (Age 95 years)   5. Francis Bjorkman,   b. 18 Feb 1910, Newton, Cache, Utah, United States d. 13 Feb 1997, Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States (Age 86 years)   6. Arnold Bjorkman,   b. 13 Feb 1914, Newton, Cache, Utah, United States d. 26 Dec 1985, Emmett, Gem, Idaho, United States (Age 71 years)   7. Albert Milton Bjorkman,   b. 15 Jan 1916, Central, Caribou, Idaho, United States d. 24 Mar 1994, Emmett, Gem, Idaho, United States (Age 78 years)   8. Naomi Bjorkman,   b. 24 Nov 1918, Central, Caribou, Idaho, United States d. 30 Mar 2006, Grace, Caribou, Idaho, United States (Age 87 years)   9. Norman Allen Bjorkman,   b. 5 Feb 1922, Central, Caribou, Idaho, United States d. 7 Jun 2017, Pocatello, Bannock, Idaho, United States (Age 95 years)   10. Jesse Harold Bjorkman,   b. 2 Aug 1925, Central, Caribou, Idaho, United States d. 22 Dec 2014, West Valley City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 89 years)
  Family ID	F10608	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	5 May 2024

  
  

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  Birth - 15 Jan 1877 - København, Hovedstaden, Kongeriget Danmark Initiatory (LDS) - 19 Dec 1900 - LOGAN Marriage - 19 Dec 1900 - Logan, Cache, Utah, United States Death - 9 Mar 1961 - Soda Springs, Caribou, Idaho, United States Burial - 13 Mar 1961 - Grace Cemetery, Caribou, Idaho, United States  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  My mother writes in her book of remembrance that she gave to all of he r c hildren and grandchildren about her grandfather Bjorkman. " Several times a year we would go to grace, Idaho to visit my grandma a n d grandpa Bjorkman. Grandpa had come from Denmark when he was about six te en and he still had a strong accent. He was rounded out and when he sa t d own there was not much of a lap left for me to sit on. He used a magn ifyi ng glass to read which fascinated me. Grandma was a little lady an d had l ong hair that she braided and wrapped around her head. One time s he too k her braids out so I could see how long it was. She could actuall y sit o n her hair it was so long. IN their basement they had shelves an d shelve s of books. I liked to go down and choose a book to read while w e were vi siting. My Aunt Rena (Lorena) lived with them and I thought sh e was the b est cookie maker in the whole world. We would look into the c ookie jar an d to our delight always find homemade cookies that seemed t o be waiting j ust for us to eat. Grandpa and Grandma had a little woode n fridge and th e iceman would regularly deliver a big chunk of ice to pu t into it to kee p their food cold." I am grateful for this small entry in my mother's book of remembrance. These are my great grandparents that I never met, but were sealed in t h e temple on the same day that I was sealed in the temple, but 89 year s ea rlier. They were sealed in the Logan Temple I was sealed in the Sal t Lak e Temple. I am sure they were happy that day. I am their Great Granddaughter, Valerie Ward Smith Here are a few more memories from my mother, as I talked to her about h e r Grandfather and Grandmother Bjorkman . Karen Sophia Hansen (S long O F long I a) Bjorkman, this is how I rememb e r her name being said. My Grandpa and Grandma Bjorkman both passed away while my husband, Spenc e r was on his mission. Karen Sophia Hanson’s mother was born into royal t y in Denmark., Anne Margarethe Sorensen. My grandmother was a tiny litt l e lady. She wore her hair in a braid and then put it up on top of her h ea d. One time when I was there, I felt like I was one of the lucky grand chi ldren. She asked if I would like her to unbraid her hair for me. Sh e unbr aided it and combed it out and tucked it under and sat on it. He r hair wa s grey at that time. She was a true grandma. Their daughter Lor ena (Rena ) lived with them. She never married. The awesome thing about R ena is tha t she was such a good cook and she would always have homemad e cookies i n the cookie jar. The other thing we liked to do when we wer e there was g o downstairs and see all the bookcases and books. I could a lways go fin d a book that I could read. I would usually do that while m y mom and da d visited. That would be my entertainment while they visited . We would g o maybe once a month or so. It would be quite an event. The y lived in Gra ce Idaho. We didn’t really play there. Lots of times we wo uld just sit an d listen to everyone visit, but we also had permission t o go downstairs a nd find a book or go in the kitchen and have some cooki es . About their house, I think they had 2 homes, one an older one and th e n a newer one. The way they kept their food cold was they had the icem a n come and deliver ice and they would put it in a cooler. It was a bro w n cooler a little bigger than the coolers they make now. It had woode n do ors that were like a mini refrigerator size. I was fascinated to wat ch th e iceman when he came to bring the ice. They had a big clock that y ou cou ld always hear ticking in the house. It was very ornate and ha d a loud ti ck. I could hear it tick all the while I visited. They also h ad a lot o f books in their front room. It always smelled like fresh bake d cookies . To me Grandma was rather somber, quiet and serious. That's why I thoug h t it was so neat for her to do her hair for me because she always seem e d so predictable and serious to me. She was always really a nice lady a n d so kind to me. Grandma’s house was always very clean. It was always t id y. She was neat and tidy to look at and neat and tidy to go into her h ome . It was just really nice. She always wore a dress. I never saw her in slacks. She always had a cu t e little cotton patterned dress on. They would have a waistline and a s tr aight skirt that always went past her knees. The top might have some p lea ts or little bits of lace. and these cute shoes that were kind of for mal , you slipped them on and they had little square heels . My dad always said that she would make their butter and ice cream in a c o ntainer and store it underground in a root cellar to keep it cool. Sh e wo uld also make cottage cheese and other dairy products . I came home from college to go to their funerals. We stayed all nigh t a t their house when Grandpa passed away, they passed away about a yea r apa rt from each other. Grandpa came back to grandma after he passed and told her what he want e d at his funeral. He told her who he wanted to speak and what he wante d f or the whole funeral. I heard her telling this to my father when we w er e staying overnight. It was a pretty ride over to Grace, at least an hour. It is past Downy . I t is a really pretty place. Grace is by Soda Springs. Soda Springs i s a r eal place and there really is a spring that gurgles water that is c arbona ted. n that same era of time that Grandma let her hair down for me, I woul d g o sit on Grandpa’s lap and he was so heavy and such a big man that wh en h e sat down his lap would go clear to his knees. He would say come an d si t on my lap and I would think well there isn’t enough room. He alway s wor e a suit with a pocket watch and was pretty formal . My Grandpa Bjorkman used to be a bishop and there was no time limit on t h e meeting or sermons. My dad used to go to church all day long. They wo ul d stay at church for hours. Grandpa was the bishop for a long time an d h e would preach really really long sermons. There wasn’t a time limi t to t he church sermons. He was a busy person going to meetings all th e time. H e got used to getting dressed up and stayed dressed up all th e time. He still had his Danish accent. A really strong Danish accent. You ha d t o listen carefully to understand him. They were a quiet, refined an d rese rved family. Polite conversation was the normal atmosphere, inform ational , kind and careful. He was sponsored by a church man from Newton to come to the US. The ma n g ot them 3 train tickets to come to Newton, Henry, Walter and Victor . Gran dpa worked in the canyons to get wood to supply Cache Valley Schoo ls wit h heat. He met Grandma at a dance in 1901 they got married. She wa s a pos t office mistress in Newton. He had come to Central in Idaho an d homestea ded a farm of 160 acres of sage brush 1898. In 1910 Grandpa se rved a miss ion to Denmark and left, when he came back home, my dad, Arno ld, was th e first child born after he got home . They went broke on their potato crop. They never sold a sack of potato e s but fed them to the pigs. Wheat sold for 18 cents a bushel and potato e s for 10 cents a hundred. They were low so they just fed them to the pi gs . Arnold and Albert worked really hard on the farm and did a lot of wo r k for their dad, my grandpa. The depression was hard on the family. Gra nd pa went to work for a machinery company. He worked for 50 - 100 cent s a d ay. Grandpa’s mom came to Logan from Denmark. Her name was Marie. She live d i n a house really close to the Logan temple. It is a little green 2 st or y house now. She did a ton of temple names. Her husband didn’t com e - Got tfred- because he was a connoisseur of wine and cigars for the ki ng and h e wouldn’t/couldn’t leave his job. Marie and her daughter are bu ried in t he Logan cemetery. Her daughter’s name Allie/Otte.