Karl and Randi (Ilseng) Thommessen

Randi (Ilseng) Thommessen was born on January 11, 1900 in Skien, Skien County, Telemark Norge to Augusta Marie (Buer) Ilseng, and had a brother Ivar Ilseng. She married Karl Fredrik Albert Thommessen, and had children Ivar Ilseng Thommessen and Kari (Thommessen) Dirdal. Randi Thommessen died at age 75 years old on October 20, 1975 in Oslo, Oslo, and was buried at Vestre gravlund in Oslo. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Randi (Ilseng) Thommessen.

Karl Thommessen was born in 1898 in Oslo, Norway. At the beginning of the 1920s, he worked in a bank in Frankfurt, Germany. Later Karl Thommessen founded an import company together with Rolf Lauritsen in Oslo, Norway, the firm was named Lauritsen & Thommessen. In 1928 he married Randi Ilseng from Porsgrunn, Norway. Together they got two children, Ivar and Kari. The summer of 1945, he traveled first to London and then to New York, to work for the Norwegian Ministry of Supply and Reconstruction to buy car and car parts in order to get the transportation up and running after the war. He returned to Oslo in April 1946, and lived there until his death in 1992.