Published in The Enterprise, July 1, 1965

P. C. SORENSEN, ONCE MAYOR, DIED SATURDAY

WAS ACTIVE IN ESTABLISHING THE GOOD SHEPHERD HOME

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P. C. Sorensen, long time Blair resident who had served as City Councilman and Mayor of the City of Blair, and who had a long record of constructive work in connection with the First Lutheran Church, died here Saturday, June 26th. He was 90 years old.

Peter Christian Sorensen was born October 20, 1874, at Gjording, near Ribe, Denmark. He came to America as a youth of nineteen years of age and went first to Staplehurst, Nebraska, where he had a brother, Peter, living. Five years later he married Miss Dema Svendsen, at Staplehurst on December 27th, 1898. The couple lived on a farm at Staplehurst for four years.

Mr. Sorensen then bought a flour and feed mill at Marysville, Nebraska and he operated that until 1910 when he decided to move to Blair and take up work at Dana College and Trinity Seminary. He studied two years and then decided to return to the business world. He bought the Blair Flour Mill which at that time was still manufacturing the famous Maintop Flour. He ran the mills, manufactured both flour and feeds until 1940 when he decided to retire and sold the business to his nephews Carl and Harry Sorensen, sons of his brother, the late Hans Sorensen.

During that time he purchased his home on Park street, which by coincidence was the first classes of Trinity Seminary were held when the seed was planted to develop into the present Dana College.

During his years in business he took an active interest in the affairs of his church and his community. For twenty years he was a Deacon of First Lutheran Church. Much of that time he was a member of the Church Council and for a time was chairman of the board. He was also an active and long time Sunday School teacher at the church.

It was also during that time that the founding of the Good Shepherd Home was conceived and he joined with several other men in getting the Home established. He served as the first chairman of the board of the Good Shepherd Home.

He and Mrs. Sorensen were residents of the Home at the time of his death.

Mr. Sorensen is survived by his wife, Dema, who is 88 years old; and by two daughters, Esther, Mrs. Martin Kuhr, Sr. and by Eleanora, now Mrs. Schriver Nielsen. There are seven grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at 2 o’clock P.M. Wednesday afternoon at the First Lutheran Church with the Rev. George Pallesen conducting the service. Burial was made in Blair cemetery under the direction of the Bendorf Funeral Home.

Pallbearers were Rev. Harold C. Jorgensen, Harry Sorensen, Gudmond Sornsen, Arthur Gudmond Sorensen, Arthur tin Kuhr, Sr.

(The names of the pallbearers seem to be mixed up. Typed as printed in the newspaper. )