He boarded the Titantic on 10 April 1912, traveling with a family friend, Anna Salkjelsvik. He shared a cabin with Olaus Abelseth.
Adolf did not survive and was buried at sea from the recovery ship CS Mackay Bennett on 24 April 1912.
For each victim Canon Hind, assistant priest at Halifax Cathedral, offered the following prayer:
"For as much as it has pleased Almighty God to take unto Himself the soul of our dear brother departed, we therefore commit his body to the deep to be turned to corruption: looking for the resurrection of the body (when the sea shall give up her dead) and the life of the world come, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto His glorious body, according to the mighty working whereby He is able to subdue all things to Himself"
∼Died in the Titanic Disaster
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
St. Louis, Missouri
28 April 1912
Page: 6
He boarded the Titantic on 10 April 1912, traveling with a family friend, Anna Salkjelsvik. He shared a cabin with Olaus Abelseth.
Adolf did not survive and was buried at sea from the recovery ship CS Mackay Bennett on 24 April 1912.
For each victim Canon Hind, assistant priest at Halifax Cathedral, offered the following prayer:
"For as much as it has pleased Almighty God to take unto Himself the soul of our dear brother departed, we therefore commit his body to the deep to be turned to corruption: looking for the resurrection of the body (when the sea shall give up her dead) and the life of the world come, through Jesus Christ our Lord, who shall change our vile body, that it may be like unto His glorious body, according to the mighty working whereby He is able to subdue all things to Himself"
∼Died in the Titanic Disaster
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
St. Louis, Missouri
28 April 1912
Page: 6
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