Gerda Martine Vadsager (Wadsager), confirmed in Bethany Lutheran Church, Spencer, Iowa, 1921
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Gerda Martine Vadsager (Wadsager), confirmed in Bethany Lutheran Church, Spencer, Iowa, 1921.
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Confirmation: Coming of Age in Denmark and the USGerda was born in 1905 in Bjergby parish, Hjørring County, the daughter of laborer Jens Christian Pedersen and Ane {Martinussen} Vadsager. She immigrated with her pregnant mother and 5 siblings in 1911 to join Jens Christian, who had gone ahead. A few years after her graduation Gerda moved to Chicago, where she met her future husband, Waldo Starr, and lived the rest of her life, an active member of Siloam and Our Savior's Danish Lutheran Churches. The keepsake certificates presented to confirmands often contained a Bible verse of special meaning for the confirmand, such as the one shown here.
Gerda's daugther Betty is also featured in the exhibit.
