Ken Sorensen
| Ken Sorensen | |
|---|---|
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| Sex | M |
| Birth date | 1965 |
| Birth place | Arvada Center |
| Spouse | Judith Niven |
| Father | Chet Sorensen |
| Mother | Lydia Sorensen |
Ken Sorensen is a lead male character in The Next Generation. He is the younger son of Chet and Lydia Sorensen and has an older brother, Tom. Ken grew up with the understanding that the family farm in Arvada Center would go to Tom. Ken was studying agricultural business administration at Western State when events required he drop out in the spring of 1985. One of his friends is Bob Watson who often helps out on the Sorensen farm.
Ken was is persuaded by Lori Mattson to take Judy Niven to the Willow Lake high school prom, despite the fact that she was crippled in a car accident a number of years before and in a wheel chair.TNG01 They start dating and while visiting his family's farm she surprisingly saves the life of Ken's father.TNG03
Ken graduated from High School in the spring of 1983 and commuted to Hinckley Junior College for a year before transferring to Western State in 1984. Ken and Judy marry over the 1984 Thanksgiving weekend- and made a point of walking down the aisle despite the pain caused by her her leg braces. They return to Athens to an apartment they share while attending college.
Tom Sorenson died in late February, 1985TNG12, so Ken and Judy left college at the end of the semester to work the farm. The couple moved into the house formerly owned by Ken's Uncle Ed, across the road from the farm. Chet died later that fall.TNG14 The farm is in financial trouble and the only way Ken can keep it going is to abandon a lot of the methods and procedures that his father and brother had been doing.
By the fall of 1986, the farm is in much better financial shape and they are expecting their first child. Before they are done they have three children Phil Sorensen, Chet Sorensen and Tom Sorensen, plus were expecting another child.RM10 In the winter of 1993, Phil is a first grader.RM10 As Judy announces that she is pregnant at the end of The Next Generation, Phil is born mid 1987.TNG19
Sometime in the next decade, the Sorensen family combine with the Watson's in a combined operation to raise cows for the Griswold milk factory. Judy and Ken also work with Spearfish Lake Outfitters, leading kayak trips to locations including Isle Royale.FtS18
