Karin Andrewa Pehrsson

   Another name for Karin was "Kajsa".

  Noted events in her life were:

• Moved: to the United States, Abt 1950, Göteborg, Sweden.

• Social Security Number: 574-10-5294.

• Occupation: Swedish weaver, 1953, Santa Barbara, CA.
Hans Haakonsen married Karin Pehrsson in the fall of 1953 just before he died of cancer. Karin went to Santa Barbara to live just as she and Hans had planned and set up a weaving studio. His daughter Anne visited there and was introduced to weaving when Karin asked for help in translating a book entitled "Weaving Patterns by a Swedish weaver named Malin Selander. A year or so later, Anne visited Karin with all five children and painted the sign telling about her weaving studio. Karin set up a loom and had Anne weave a beautiful white boucle wool shawl.

• Occupation: instructor at the Devereux Schools for the handicapped, After 1954, Goleta, CA.

• Physical Description: a 5'3" tall adult, weighing 125 lbs. and having white hair and gray eyes, Jan 19, 1982, Santa Barbara, CA.

• Religion: a member of the First Baptist Church, Jan 19, 1982, Santa Barbara, CA. John F. Bruce, Associate Pastor.

• Residence: The Samarkand of Santa Barbara, from January 1982 until her death, Santa Barbara, CA.

Karin married Hans Haakonsen, son of Hans Østanius Haagensen and Claudina Cecilie M. L. Jondahl, fall 1953 in Oakland, CA. (Hans Haakonsen was born on Sep 17, 1893 in Stavanger, Norway, died in Dec 1953 in Oakland, CA and was buried in Oakland, CA.) The cause of his death was cancer of caecum.

Karin also married Carl-Enok Melander, son of Karl Julius Johansson and Hanna Bengtsdotter, on Aug 18, 1956 in Burbank, CA. (Carl-Enok Melander was born on Dec 25, 1899 in Sölvesborg, Sweden and died on Feb 24, 1990 in Santa Barbara, CA.)