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Seldovia remembers
Hans Martin Antonsen

Hans Martin Antonsen

June 24, 1895, Gronnoy, Norway — September 16, 1965, Anchorage, Alaska

Buried in Seldovia City Cemetery Plot #195

HANS MARTIN ANTONSEN was born in Green Island (Gronnoy), Norway June 24, 1895. He was the son of Anton Johansen, and sailed from Liverpool, England on the SS Adriatic, as a seaman, arriving in New York City on April 25, 1917.

Hans came to Alaska in November 1931 and was living in Seldovia in 1940 where he worked as a cook for the cannery.

He first declared his intention to become a US citizen in Anchorage courts became a US citizen in 1950. He never married.

He died, while in Anchorage, on September 9, 1965 and is buried in the Seldovia City Cemetery in Plot # 195.