Our Family Hero: Ole Amble by Annette Lind
in the United States, except my parents, are buried. In the April issue of the Before I was born my grandparents had passed on, Sisterhood News our editor so a visit to Sidney was always a visit to that cemeLauren Nielsen requested tery. submissions from While I never lived there the names on so our membership. She sugmany of the tombstones are familiar to me, and the gested articles or stories on stories of so many of those names are my family Denmark and the Danes or stories. But there is one name that seems to make an article about a famous its way into so many of the stories, Ole Amble. or historically significant It is his name that appears on my grandparDane/Danish American in ents wedding certificate. His name is on my mothyour lodge or family. I hope er’s baptismal and confirmation certificates. It was many of you are giving a sadness in my mother’s life that Ole Amble had some thought to this request. For me it brought retired from his duties just before she married my to mind a man—not a family member, not a lodge dad, a Danish immigrant who, on his way around member, in fact, not even a Dane—but a man’s the world, stopped in Sidney to earn money workwhose influence in the lives of many, many Danish immigrants in the United States was significant. He ing on the Madsen family farm, met my mother and has even influenced my life although he died twelve never did get around the world. Of course I also knew the name of Reverend years before I was born. Kildegaard who did marry my parents and bury my Having been born and raised in the suburbs of Milwaukee where I still live, it is a bit strange that going home for me has included a place in Michigan known as Sidney. It was in Montcalm County, Sidney, Michigan that my Danish grandfather, Hans Peter Hansen (Sailor Pete), purchased farmland with the money he had earned as a sailor on the Great Lakes. It was to Sidney that my Grandmother Mette Nielsen came to marry her childhood sweetheart in 1900. It is there that my mother Anna and her brother Viggo were born and it is in the little cemetery that surrounds the North Sidney church that all of the deceased relatives I have My grandmother Mette Hansen with Ole Amble and the Ladies Society.
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Danish Sisterhood News, June 2021
