Seattle Times April 18, 1974
Masonic services will be held tomorrow at Wiggins & Sons for Svend J. (Jorgy) Jorgensen, 83, a long time Seattle police officer and judo expert and three time candidate for King Co. Sheriff. Mr. Jorgensen died Tuesday after a brief illness. Born in Denmark Mr. Jorgensen came to the United States aboard a sailing schooner when he was 16. He came to Seattle four years later after sailing around Cape Horn. Mr. Jorgensen joined the Seattle police department in 1919 and remained until his retirement in 1951. He worked eight more years as a deputy in the King County Sheriff's Dept. Mr. Jorgesen began learning jujitsu and judo when three fellow police officers, untrained at disarming dangerous criminals, were killed by a gunman in 1921. Although he held 127 sharpshooting medals, Mr. Jorgensen was proud of having arrested more than 200 criminals, 68 of them armed, without ever firing a shot. For more than 31 years, Mr. Jorgensen distributed flowers to women patients at Haborview Medical Center on Mother's Day. The custom began when Mr. Jorgensen was guarding a prisoner at the hospital on Mother's Day. Feeling sorry for the women patient's at the hospital, he bought flowers and handed them out. In retirement years he worked as a security guard at the Seattle Center and later operated a mail-order judo-literature business from his home. Survivors include his wife Edith; two daughters Mrs. Norma Dahlby and Mrs. Garnet Nikanorov; two sons Larry, Seattle and Bill, Orlando, FL; two brothers Ib Jorgensen, Seattle and Hans Jorgensen, Ocean Shores. Burial will be in Evergreen.
Masonic services will be held tomorrow at Wiggins & Sons for Svend J. (Jorgy) Jorgensen, 83, a long time Seattle police officer and judo expert and three time candidate for King Co. Sheriff. Mr. Jorgensen died Tuesday after a brief illness. Born in Denmark Mr. Jorgensen came to the United States aboard a sailing schooner when he was 16. He came to Seattle four years later after sailing around Cape Horn. Mr. Jorgensen joined the Seattle police department in 1919 and remained until his retirement in 1951. He worked eight more years as a deputy in the King County Sheriff's Dept. Mr. Jorgesen began learning jujitsu and judo when three fellow police officers, untrained at disarming dangerous criminals, were killed by a gunman in 1921. Although he held 127 sharpshooting medals, Mr. Jorgensen was proud of having arrested more than 200 criminals, 68 of them armed, without ever firing a shot. For more than 31 years, Mr. Jorgensen distributed flowers to women patients at Haborview Medical Center on Mother's Day. The custom began when Mr. Jorgensen was guarding a prisoner at the hospital on Mother's Day. Feeling sorry for the women patient's at the hospital, he bought flowers and handed them out. In retirement years he worked as a security guard at the Seattle Center and later operated a mail-order judo-literature business from his home. Survivors include his wife Edith; two daughters Mrs. Norma Dahlby and Mrs. Garnet Nikanorov; two sons Larry, Seattle and Bill, Orlando, FL; two brothers Ib Jorgensen, Seattle and Hans Jorgensen, Ocean Shores. Burial will be in Evergreen.
Seattle Times April 18, 1974
Masonic services will be held tomorrow at Wiggins & Sons for Svend J. (Jorgy) Jorgensen, 83, a long time Seattle police officer and judo expert and three time candidate for King Co. Sheriff. Mr. Jorgensen died Tuesday after a brief illness. Born in Denmark Mr. Jorgensen came to the United States aboard a sailing schooner when he was 16. He came to Seattle four years later after sailing around Cape Horn. Mr. Jorgensen joined the Seattle police department in 1919 and remained until his retirement in 1951. He worked eight more years as a deputy in the King County Sheriff's Dept. Mr. Jorgesen began learning jujitsu and judo when three fellow police officers, untrained at disarming dangerous criminals, were killed by a gunman in 1921. Although he held 127 sharpshooting medals, Mr. Jorgensen was proud of having arrested more than 200 criminals, 68 of them armed, without ever firing a shot. For more than 31 years, Mr. Jorgensen distributed flowers to women patients at Haborview Medical Center on Mother's Day. The custom began when Mr. Jorgensen was guarding a prisoner at the hospital on Mother's Day. Feeling sorry for the women patient's at the hospital, he bought flowers and handed them out. In retirement years he worked as a security guard at the Seattle Center and later operated a mail-order judo-literature business from his home. Survivors include his wife Edith; two daughters Mrs. Norma Dahlby and Mrs. Garnet Nikanorov; two sons Larry, Seattle and Bill, Orlando, FL; two brothers Ib Jorgensen, Seattle and Hans Jorgensen, Ocean Shores. Burial will be in Evergreen.
Masonic services will be held tomorrow at Wiggins & Sons for Svend J. (Jorgy) Jorgensen, 83, a long time Seattle police officer and judo expert and three time candidate for King Co. Sheriff. Mr. Jorgensen died Tuesday after a brief illness. Born in Denmark Mr. Jorgensen came to the United States aboard a sailing schooner when he was 16. He came to Seattle four years later after sailing around Cape Horn. Mr. Jorgensen joined the Seattle police department in 1919 and remained until his retirement in 1951. He worked eight more years as a deputy in the King County Sheriff's Dept. Mr. Jorgesen began learning jujitsu and judo when three fellow police officers, untrained at disarming dangerous criminals, were killed by a gunman in 1921. Although he held 127 sharpshooting medals, Mr. Jorgensen was proud of having arrested more than 200 criminals, 68 of them armed, without ever firing a shot. For more than 31 years, Mr. Jorgensen distributed flowers to women patients at Haborview Medical Center on Mother's Day. The custom began when Mr. Jorgensen was guarding a prisoner at the hospital on Mother's Day. Feeling sorry for the women patient's at the hospital, he bought flowers and handed them out. In retirement years he worked as a security guard at the Seattle Center and later operated a mail-order judo-literature business from his home. Survivors include his wife Edith; two daughters Mrs. Norma Dahlby and Mrs. Garnet Nikanorov; two sons Larry, Seattle and Bill, Orlando, FL; two brothers Ib Jorgensen, Seattle and Hans Jorgensen, Ocean Shores. Burial will be in Evergreen.
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