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Show Local Woman Is Reunited With Entire Family Nineteen years ago Mrs. Jo hanne Madsen and her late brother. Finer Thomson, ar-ive -i in Mt. Pleasant immi -.an; from their native D.nmaik. Th's week for the first rime in those 19 years. Mrs. Madsi-i greeted her parents, Mr. an-Mrs. an-Mrs. Emil Thomson u ho a--rived in Salt Lake city We:l- j nesday from tho. family home j in Silkeborg. Denmark. I Also in on the reunion wei. other relatives of Mrs. Madsen' who have come to Ameri since she and her brother immigrated im-migrated in 1920. Tho entire family are members of ih: Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. -They include Mrs. Madsen'i sister, Mrs. Seth Larson o American Fork who came to th. United States in 19 10; tv. io sis ; ters. Mrs. Alvin Chris' ;nscn of! Vaughn. Mont., and M:s. Wil- ! liam Petersen of Salt Lake city 1 immigrants of 19 it), and a broth, er. Orvill Thomsen, who wa. featured in a story in the Pyra mid last January when he anr1 his wife and their three daughters daugh-ters arrived hero from overseas Mrs. Madsen's yourges' brother, Arly Thomsen. throughout through-out World War II an active fighter in the Danish underground, under-ground, was killed by Germans May 7, 19-13, two days afte: Nazi resistance in Europe had officially ceased. Einer Thomsen died in Salt Lake nine years ago; his widow and two children now live ! Canada. The Thomsons hav seventeen grandchildren, twelve of whom they had never se.n AH' were on hand to welcome them Wednesday exoept t!u two who live in Canada. Mr. Thomson has been branch president of the L. D. S. Church in Silkeborg for thirty-eight vears during which time his wife has served as relief society-president. society-president. Mrs. Thomsen has worked 40 years as a compositor on leading Danish newspapers. They will visit in Mt. Pleasure this week with Mis. Madsen and family and later will establish estab-lish their "home in Salt Lake. |