When Sgt. Chester Earl Knudsen was born on 21 August 1910, in Split Rock, Shawano, Wisconsin, United States, his father, Adolph Fredrick Knudsen, was 43 and his mother, Nicoline Hedvig Jensen, was 34. He married Betty Jane Baumheier on 16 February 1946, in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States. He lived in Fairbanks, Shawano, Wisconsin, United States in 1920 and Mitchell, Davison, South Dakota, United States for about 5 years. He died on 14 April 1969, in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States, at the age of 58, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Sioux Falls, Minnehaha, South Dakota, United States.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Knud, Niels, Holger, Jorgen, Ove, Alf, Alfhild, Anders, Baard, Berger, Einer.
Danish, Norwegian, and North German: patronymic from the Danish personal name Knud, derived from Old Norse Knútr meaning ‘knot’. Knud was a Danish royal name, Latinized as Canutus.
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