His mother, Inga Henrikson, never remarried, and was a seamstress while they lived in a house in Arendal she collected the insurance money from his father's death and also had a sewing school. His father, Anders Henrikson, was a seaman-skipper in the merchant marine, and died when a British ship torpedoed his ship during WWI. Arne Hendrickson was born Arne Henrikson on in Kolbjørnsvik, Aust-Agder, Norway, the oldest of three children.
