Hasse Söderström was a person you wished you could spend more time with. He was positive, happy and reflective. Our thoughts are especially with those in Lannavaara, sister Jenny, and father Agne.

Obituary

Hans Agne Söderström (1978-2024)

Hasse Söderström was a person you wished you could spend more time with. He was positive, happy and reflective. He had the unique ability to address serious topics as naturally as the funny topics. “So it is,” he often philosophized and concluded, ever since he was a young man.

Hasse was the youngest in the Söderström family, who with minerals, gold panning and Kristallen AB have put Lannavaara on the map for many. If you can make it in Lannavaara, you can make it everywhere. For Hasse, it was just as natural to work with minerals in Ghana as in Norrbotten, and to have friends in Africa as in Sweden.

On Friday 9 August, Hasse died in a car accident in Namibia.

On the same day, Lyngen Kven-Finn association, Kven Finn Association and Kvenland association organized a hiking march to The Three Border Point from Kilpisjärvi. We are working to create a pilgrimage route from Tornio/Haparanda to Storfjord/Lyngen. The following day we hiked down the Skibotn valley. We then finished with a walk from Polleidet, where the Læstadians landed and got their first foothold in Norway, to the church at Lyngseidet.

Hasse helped map the possible pilgrimage route through the Torne valley some 15 years ago. We have used this pioneering work in Arktinen Pilgrim.

We have been given yet another reason to complete the pilgrimage route through the Torne valley.

Hans Agne Söderström is now a shining and guiding star in the heavens.

Our thoughts are especially with those in Lannavaara, sister Jenny, and father Agne.

Rest in peace Hasse.