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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 6, 1914

R. S. OWEN

By R. S. OWEN

ANDERSEN.—Miss Lena Antoinette Andersen was born at Norland, Norway, March 27, 1867, and died at National City, Cal., June 27, 1914. Her birthplace was in almost the extreme northern part of Norway, in the land of the midnight sun. Here she spent her early life, and here she accepted Christianity and became a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church at the age of twenty. Three years later she came to America with Elder O. A. Olsen, and was graduated from the nurses' course at the Battle Creek Sanitarium in 1893. During her training she spent some time in slum work in the city of Chicago, where she contracted tuberculosis, to which disease she has, after a fight of twenty-one years, fallen a victim. After graduation, she returned with one of her classmates to Norway, where she started the treatment room work in the city of Christiania. Here she labored for five years. Broken in health, she returned to Battle Creek, and later went to Boulder, Colo., where she lived for six years, working a part of that time in the Boulder-Colorado Sanitarium. About five years ago she came to the Paradise Valley Sanitarium. For a time she was much improved in health, but later she began to fail, and during the past year was confined to her bed. She was a great sufferer, but was upheld by an unwavering trust in God. Her last few months of life were especially marked by a spirit of complete consecration. She bowed in perfect resignation to the Master's will, and died with a bright hope of a part in the first resurrection. Her eternal reward awaits her on that day. Funeral services were conducted by the writer in San Diego. About fifty of the Paradise Valley Sanitarium family were present, the nurses in attendance being in full uniform.