Fergus Falls Minnesota og fra Verdal ( Leksdal ) Nord Trøndelag

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Ruth F Fagan

Wisconsin Death Index, 1959-1997

death:

23 May 1994

, Peirce, Wisconsin

residence:

23 May 1994

Pier, Wisconsin

 

 

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Ruth F Fagan

United States Census, 1930

Name Ruth F Fagan Event Type Census Event Date 1930 Event Place Lignite, Burke, North Dakota, United States Gender Female Age 31 Marital Status Married Race White Race (Original) White Relationship to Head of Household Wife Relationship to Head of Household (Original) Wife Birth Year (Estimated) 1899 Birthplace Minnesota Father's Birthplace Norway Mother's Birthplace Norway Sheet Letter B Sheet Number 1

HOUSEHOLD ROLE GENDER AGE BIRTHPLACE

 

Arthur J Fagan

Head M 32 Minnesota

 

Ruth F Fagan

Wife F 31 Minnesota

 

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XKJT-ZHR

 

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Ruth F Fagan

United States Census, 1940

Name Ruth F Fagan Event Type Census Event Date 1940 Event Place Lignite, Lignite Village, Burke, North Dakota, United States Gender Female Age 43 Marital Status Married Race (Original) White Race White Relationship to Head of Household (Original) Wife Relationship to Head of Household Wife Birthplace Minnesota Birth Year (Estimated) 1897 Last Place of Residence Same House

HOUSEHOLD ROLE GENDER AGE BIRTHPLACE

 

Ida Christensen

Head F 81 Norway

 

Arthur J Fagan

Son-in-law M 43 Minnesota

 

Ruth F Fagan

Wife F 43 Minnesota

 

Ralph Notman

Lodger M 57 Scotland

 

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Esther Bromley

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Birth: 1900Death: 1970

 Burial:

Bethany Cemetery 

Lignite

Burke County

North Dakota, USA

Plot: 

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Created by: Herb Schwede

Record added: Oct 09, 2005 

Find A Grave Memorial# 11920228

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• ID: I531674526
• Name: Esther Mildred CHRISTENSON
• Given Name: Esther Mildred
• Surname: Christenson
• Sex: F
• Birth: June 9 1900 in Ward County ND
• Death: April 7 1970 in Washington DC

 

Father: Ole CHRISTENSON b: February 13 1857 in Norway 

Mother: Ida GRONDAL b: September 29 1858 in Norway

 

Marriage 1 John G BROMLEY b: March 10 1909

• Married: October 21 1928 in Washington DC
• Divorced: Yes in

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1591963&id=I531674526

 

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John G Bromley

District of Columbia Marriages, 1811-1950

birth:

1907

 

marriage:

21 October 1928

District of Columbia, United States

spouse:

Esther M Christensen

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Julia Charlotte Christensen Found 10 Records, 9 Photos and 724,653 Family Trees

Born on 1888 to Ole Christensen and Julia Kyllo. Julia Charlotte married Arvid Gilbert Landeen and had 2 children. She passed away on 19 May 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/julia-charlotte-christensen_99785923

 

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Stanley Landeen

New Jersey State Census, 1915

birth:

September 1912

New Jersey

residence:

1915

Newark, 8 ward, 14 district, Essex, New Jersey, United States

other:

Arvid Landeen, Julia Landeen

 

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Stanley Landeen

Son

United States Census, 1930

birth:

1913

New Jersey

residence:

1930

Caldwell, Essex, New Jersey, United States

father:

Arvid Landeen

mother:

Julia Landeen

other:

Charlotte Landeen

 

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Stanly Landeen

Son

United States Census, 1940

birth:

1913

New Jersey

residence:

1940

Caldwell Borough, Essex, New Jersey, United States

mother:

Julie Landeen

other:

Charlotte Landeen

 

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Stanley A Landeen

United States Social Security Death Index

birth:

13 September 1912

 

death:

15 February 1999

Sonoma, California

 

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Stanley Arvid Landeen

United States Public Records

Name Stanley Arvid Landeen Residence Date 30 Dec 2000-01 Feb 2001 Residence Place Brunswick, Ohio, United States Birth Date 13 Sep 1912 Phone Number (707) 579-0378 Phone Number Recorded Date 01 Dec 2002 Address 4141 Sterling Station Dr Address Continued Brunswick, Ohio 44212 Address Date 30 Dec 2000-01 Feb 2001 2nd Address 3570 Aaron Dr # A 2nd Address Continued Santa Rosa, California 95404 2nd Address Date 01 Sep 1989-01 Dec 2002 Record Number 231164242

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Stan A Landeen

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Birth:  1912 Death:  unknown

 

Inscription:

FRIENDS FOREVER   Burial:

Sunset Memorial Park 

North Olmsted

Cuyahoga County

Ohio, USA

Plot: Pinewood Garden Mausoleum  

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Created by: Bryan Fields

Record added: Sep 14, 2014 

Find A Grave Memorial# 135891063

 

 

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Charlotte Landeen Found 10 Records, 10 Photos and 1,665 Family Trees

Born on 1916 to Arvid Gilbert Landeen and Julia Charlotte Christensen. Charlotte married Lloyd Beckand had 4 children.

http://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/charlotte-landeen_73942964

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Charlotte Landeen Beck

United States Social Security Death Index

Age 94 Given Name Charlotte Middle Name Landeen Surname Beck Birth Date 27 Mar 1917 State California Last Place of Residence Yavapai, Arizona Previous Residence Postal Code 86305 Event Date

15 Jun 2011

 

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Charlotte Joko Beck, Zen teacher, author and founder of the Ordinary Mind Zen School, has died peacefully today, June 15, 2011 at 7:30 a.m., at age 94.

Born on March 27, 1917 in New Jersey, Beck studied at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and taught piano for a time. She married and raised four children before separating from her husband and working as a teacher, secretary and assistant in a university department. She came to Zen practice in her forties and studied with the late Hakuyu Taizan Maezumi roshi. For many years she commuted between San Diego and Los Angeles to practice with the roshi. Of her experiences, Beck said in an interview with Shambhala SunSpace (http://www.shambhalasun.com/), “I meet all sorts of people who’ve had all sorts of experiences and they’re still confused and not doing very well in their life. Experiences are not enough. My students learn that if they have so-called experiences, I really don’t care much about hearing about them. I just tell them, “Yeah, that’s O.K. Don’t hold onto it. And how are you getting along with your mother?” Otherwise, they get stuck there. It’s not the important thing in practice.” Asked what is the important thing in practice, she replied, “Learning how to deal with one’s personal, egotistic self. That’s the work. Very, very difficult.”

Joko Beck also studied with both Haku’un Yasutani roshi and Soen Nakagawa roshi. She became one of Maezumi’s twelve Dharma successors in 1978 and went on to establish the Zen Center of San Diego in 1983 (where she served as head teacher until July, 2006). She is the founder of the Ordinary Mind Zen School, a loose fit organization of her Dharma successors which is non-hierarchical. As a teacher of Zen, Joko Beck was free from the patriarchal trappings of Japanese Zen. Joko’s approach to Zen teaching was greatly informed by Western culture, and she discontinued shaving her head, seldom wore robes and seldom used titles.

Joko was the author of two very important books that are frequently recommended by interviewees at Sweeping Zen— Everyday Zen (1989) and Nothing Special (1993). Her first book, Everyday Zen, is a book in which she described what meditation is and, more importantly, what it is not. Author Ruthann Russo writes, “…she says it is not about producing psychological change, achieving some blissful state, cultivating special powers or personal power, or having nice or happy feelings. She does say that meditation practice is simple, and it’s about ourselves. To practice effectively, we need to remove ourselves from all external stimuli. Then we experience reality, which is challenging for most of us.”

Her second book, Nothing Special, is, as Maezumi himself once remarked, very special. In it Joko expresses what is the original essence of Zen—unencumbered by some of the formal practices and activities we’ve come to associate with Zen practice over the years. For Joko, Zen is simply being right here in the moment, with nothing extra. Zen practice will yield us nothing other than this moment. In the book she answers her students questions and helps highlight, again, what Zen practice is really about. She says, “Practice has to be a process of endless disappointment. We have to see that everything we demand (and even get) eventually disappoints us. This discovery is our teacher.”

In 2011 Joko began eating less and was rapidly losing weight. Her family placed her under the care of hospice. She is survived by her four children: Eric, Helen, Greg (Dharma name Tando) and Brenda (Dharma name Chiko).

Dharma successor Barry Magid says, “One of her great virtues as a teacher was that she did not try to clone herself. She let us digest her teaching and grow in our own different directions. Her Dharma seeds are scattered far and wide. They will go on sprouting in ways we cannot predict and cross-fertilize with other lineages. The Ordinary Mind School may grow or wither, but her influence is now everywhere.”

In Memoriam: Charlotte Joko Beck

It is not too much to say that Joko Beck transformed the nature of Zen in America. At a time when a focus on kensho experiences and becoming enlightened after the manner in which we imagined our Japanese masters led to a dismissive attitude to problems that were “merely” psychological, Joko restored a sense of emotional reality to a scene increasingly plagued by scandal and misconduct by our allegedly enlightened role models. She had the courage to say that her own teacher’s training had done little to curb his own alcoholism or deal with his character problems. Furthermore, his wasn’t merely an unfortunate exception but that it pointed to a deeply ingrained tendency to enshrine emotional bypassing into the very heart of traditional Zen training. She put dealing with anger, anxiety, pride and the self centered sexual exploitation of students into the center of what we must deal with in practice.

Joko does not leave behind a institutional legacy. There is no central Ordinary Mind training center. There is no hierarchy among her Dharma heirs, no single voice that clearly continues her message. Her legacy is broad and cultural, a sea-change in how our generation thinks about the nature of practice and its relationship to our personal psychological make-up. Even back when her Dharma successors still attempted to get together for an annual Ordinary Mind School meeting, they seemed designed to prove Wittgenstein’s dictum that members of a group could bear a certain family resemblance to one another without necessarily having having any single thing in common.

One of her great virtues as a teacher was that she did not try to clone herself. She let us digest her teaching and grow in our own different directions.

Her Dharma seeds are scattered far and wide. They will go on sprouting in ways we cannot predict and cross-fertilize with other lineages. The Ordinary Mind School may grow or wither, but her influence is now everywhere.

Barry Magid
Ordinary Mind
New York

 

 

Ifirst met Charlotte Joko Beck in 1972. In April the ice plant bloom along the highways in San Diego. I passed many fields of vibrant  purple and violet blossoms on my way to the small sitting group in the home of Ray Jordan, where I came face-to-face with another vibrant flower. Joko’s page boy haircut, her dark cat’s eye glasses and her rather large breasts would be enough to make her stand out. There was also the  fact that she was the only middle aged woman in the sitting group. We became fast friends.

 

Joko drove every Saturday for two hours to the  Zen Center of Los Angeles to have dokusan with Maezumi Roshi and then she drove two hours back to San Diego. Together we would drive every  month to sesshin and laugh all the way home on  the two hour drive. That was her routine until she moved to ZCLA in 1977 when she retired as the  administrator in the chemistry department at  University of California San Diego. Since I also worked at UCSD, Joko and I would regularly meet for a sack lunch and walk around the campus talking about Zen. She would often comment on  how unreal everything seemed. She had recently had an awakening experience at a sesshin with Yasutani Roshi. She would stick her finger out  and say that she felt that she could poke right through everything to another realm.

Joko and I arranged to have Maezumi Roshi come to San Diego for a weekend sesshin at a house I was  renting in La Jolla. He brought two young  monks, Joshin and Tesshin. Joko and I arranged  everything from the meals to procuring all the  implements. When it came time for chanting  service, we only had a bell. I still smile when  I think of Joko beating out the rhythms on a  thick phone book using a large wooden spoon as  our make-shift mukugyo. The umpan was a pot lid  which we struck with a large metal spoon. When  the toilet gave out from over use, we all  scurried down to the corner gas station to use the bathroom.

Joko was my best Dharma friend. Her dedication as a student of Zen was inspiring. Her devotion as a teacher of Zen is awesome. I feel fortunate to have known her in her formative years and to have witnessed how she matured into one of the most influential Zen teachers of our time. It is  amazing that she started on the Zen path at an age when most people think of retiring and that  she has accomplished so much in the second half  of her life and touched the lives of so many people.

Gerry Shishin Wick
Great Mountain Zen Center
Colorado

http://sweepingzen.com/charlotte-joko-beck-dies-at-94-american-zen-pioneer/

Endret Februar 17, 2016 av Ann-Mary Engum

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New Year's Day, 1982, at Nyogen Senzaki's grave
Participants included, among others, Soen Roshi, Eido Roshi, Maezumi Roshi, Charlotte Joko Beck, Mr. and Mrs. Tanahashi, Stanley Landeen, Rosemary Kiefer, Elihu Genmyo Smith, Elizabeth Yuin Hamilton, Coen de Souza, and Ronald Leyva.

 

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