Carol “Carrie” Swanhilde Knutson-Jorgensen was a Charter Member of Juneau Igloo No. 6.
She was born on April 5, 1902, in Idaho, along with her twin brother, Clarence Knutson. Her parents were Anna Faulkner-Scott-Knutson-Webster and Swan Knutson. Her father died in 1901, and the family, including her twin half-sisters Mabel Scott and Minnie Scott, relocated to Douglas, Alaska, in 1904.
Her mother remarried Edward Webster on August 10, 1910.
Carol graduated from Douglas High School and completed two years of college.
She married Martin Sverre Markus Jorgensen on January 21, 1926. They had two daughters: Myrtle Joanne, born July 1928, and Jean Marie, born in 1935 in Alaska.
Carol died in April 1957 and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Juneau, Alaska.
Sources
1920 U.S. Federal Census, Juneau
1930 U.S. Federal Census, Fairbanks
1940 U.S. Federal Census, Seattle
Biographies of Alaska Yukon Pioneers 1850-1950, Vol. 3, pp. 318-320, Ed Ferrell
Alaska Daily Empire, November 18, 1925
Alaska Daily Empire, January 22, 1926
