Ivar and Hulda Aas/Aus family papers, 1938-2021

Biography/History:
Records of the Ivar and Hulda Aas/Aus family. Includes information on Ivar, Hulda, and children Hans and Berit. Ivar Asbjørn Aas (1906-1993) was born in Ski, Norway, on December 2, 1906. He married Hulda Unhjem in 1938. Hulda was born in Ørsta, Norway, on December 20, 1909. They had two children, Hans Magnus Aas who was born in Ørsta on March 14, 1941, and Berit Marie Aas, who was born in Mysen on March 6, 1947.

In 1947, the family immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, where Ivar was an associate pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church. In the 1950s, the family moved from Brooklyn to settle in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For many years, Ivar Aus was the pastor at the Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church (Mindekirken) in Minneapolis, Minnesota. 

Ivar Asbjørn Aas
Name change to Ivar Asbjørn Aus at the time of Naturalization to United States Citizenship, December 18, 1956, Kings County, New York.

Born: Ski, Norway, 12/2/06

Education: Hamarkatedralskole, University of Oslo, Menighetsfakultet, Union Theological Seminary

Employment: Norway: Santal Misjon Norway, State Church

of Norway; United States: Trinity Lutheran Church, Brooklyn, New York, Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church (Mindekirken,) Minneapolis, Minnesota; Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran, Edina, Minnesota; Central Lutheran, Minneapolis; Nile Nursing Home, Minneapolis.

Death: September 26, 1993, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Interment Central Lutheran Columbarium, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Hulda Unhjem Aas
Name change to Hulda Unhjem Aus at time of Naturalization to United States Citizenship, December 18, 1956, Kings County, New York

Born: Ørsta, Norway, December 20, 1909

Education: Ørsta skole, Volda middleskole, Volda gymnas, Ullevål sykepleskole

Employment: Norway: Ørstabruk, Ullevål Skyehus; United States: none

Death: March 3, 1999

Interment: Central Lutheran Columbarium, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Hans Magnus Aas
Name change to Hans Magnus Aus at time of Naturalization to United States Citizenship, December 18, 1956, Kings County, New York

Born in Ørsta, Norway, 3/14/41

Education: Public School 102 Brooklyn, New York, Fort Hamilton High School Brooklyn, New York, University of Minnesota, University of New Mexico, University of Arizona.

Employment: Newspaper boy, Brooklyn Eagle, University of Minnesota student employment, Sandia Corporation, Albuquerque, University of Colorado, Fort Collins, Colorado, Max Planck Institute, Goettingen, Germany, University of Wuerzburg Germany.

Death: May 26, 2018, Karman, Cyprus

Buried: Karman, Cyprus

Scope and Content:
Collection of personal family papers for the Aas/Aus family. Contains photographs, correspondence, film, notebooks, cookbooks, and other records.