It has now been almost 2 weeks since I returned to the US from my research trip to Norway. I had to spend most of last week sorting through receipts in order to complete my expense reports.

I have also spent time trying to figure out the last piece of the mystery but the intrigue just seems to deepen. Currently this is where the "investigation" is:

Hammerfest Police - NO war records (confirmed by the police department themselves as well as the archives in Tromsø)
Hammerfest Hospital (Finnmark Sykehus) - First email to them indicated no information but now waiting for an email from the actual archivist there (I also do realize this hospital wasn't extent after the war)
Hammerfest Parish Church - Here is the email response from the vicar;

The register for the parish of Hammerfest shows that “Thor Jensen, banfullmektig, ugift” (“Thor Jensen, bank representative, not married) born in Oslo 13th of march 1904 died 6th of October 1941 and were buried 20th of October 1941.

It is not written any cause in the column “Cause of death” in this record. The death is reported to the court 13th of February 1942. The field for “remarks” says “Domprosten, Tr.heim” (The Dean of Trondheim cathedral), my guess is that this refers to a notification from the Deans office in Trondheim about the death or a cremation/sermon that was held in Trondheim.

This is as much information that I was able to find in our records.

Hammerfest Historielag (History Team) - Waiting for a reply about possible other avenues to find information on Thor's cause of death. Also, there is a possibility I discovered the relatives of the woman Thor was engaged to before his death, Ruth Haagensen (Hågensen). This information was sent to my contact at the Reconstruction Museum in Hammerfest who has been trying to help me. The information is from a book called the "Tverrelvdalen Relatives". I am trying to track down anyone who might be related to Ruth (not sure if this is the right person even but her name and birth/death dates are realistic).