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Knud Jensen
KNUD JENSEN 1917—1987
When Knud Jensen ascended to the Abhá Kingdom on 30 April 1987, the Bahá’í community mourned the passing of the first native believer in the Virgin Islands. Born 10 December 1917 in Denmark of a Danish father and a St. Croix, Virgin Islands, mother, Knud was brought to the Islands while still an infant, and he was raised and educated in the Virgin Islands. He declared his belief in Bahá’u’lláh in 1957.
Knud was one of the nine believers who formed the first Local Spiritual Assemb1y in the Virgin Islands, in St. Thomas, and remained active in the Administrative Order of the Faith throughout his life. He later moved from St. Thomas to St. Croix and went to work for the Cruzan Rum Bottle Company. Finding the making of alcohol incompatible with his beliefs, he resigned and accepted a position With the Martin Marietta Alumina Company. Concerned always with brotherhood, he wrote articles from the Bahá’í viewpoint for the company publication.
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When Knud died, he left behind his wife, Louise, and children, Knud Christian, Eric, Audie, Olive, Sandra and J ean. His daughter, Olive, described her father as “very true to the Bahá’í Faith, and always wi11ing to perform any task for his fellow Bahá’ís. He loved the Faith and his Bahá’í brothers and sisters very much.”
Adapted from an article in the J u1y/August 1987 issue
of the Island Bahá’í', published by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the Virgin Islands.
