JENS “BILL” JENSEN
The Haxtun Herald Feb 12, 1987
Jens “Bill” Jensen
Final rites for Jens “Bill” Jensen of
Sterling, will be conducted today, Feb. 12 at 1 pm at the Fairfield
Covenant Church the Rev. Timothy Goettel, officiating. Burial will
follow in the Fairfield Cemetery. Mr Jensen died Saturday Feb 7, 1987 at
the Logan County Hospital. He was 88.
Jens ”Bill” Jensen was
born May 21,1989 in Nysted, Neb, the son of Hans and Annette
(Christoffersen) Jensen, attended schools in Nysted and came to the
Fairfield community in 1920 and began farming. He married Mable Bjorklun
May 16, 1923 in Haxtun. The couple retired from farming in 1976 and
moved to Sterling.
In the early 1950’s, Mr. Jensen was
proclaimed “Corn King” of the annual Haxtun Corn Festival.
He
was a member of the First Baptist Church and former member of the
Fairfield Covenant Church.
Mr. Jensen is survived by his wife
Mable Jensen, a son Carlyle Jenson, a daughter Thelda O’Toole all of
Sterling, two sisters Beulah Castile and Alice Puchett both of
Vancouver, Wash; five grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Tennant-Hettinger Funeral Home of Sterling is in charge of arrangements.
MABEL DORA (BJORKLUN) JENSEN
Holyoke Enterprise,
Holyoke, CO, April 11, 1996
Mabel Dora Jensen of Sterling was
born June 7, 1907 in the Fairfield Community northwest of Holyoke to
Belle Woodhams and August Bjorklun. She died April 7, 1996 in Sterling
at the age of 88. Mabel was raised on the homestead in the Fairfield
Community, attending school in Fairfield.
She married Jens
"Bill" Jensen on May 16, 1923 in Holyoke. The couple farmed until they
retired in 1976 when they moved to Sterling. Mabel enjoyed raising
flowers and canning. She also loved to spend time with her
grandchildren.
She was the former treasurer of the Fairfield
Friends Club, a former member of the Fairfield Community Church and
belonged to the First Baptist Church in Sterling at the time of her
death.
Mabel was preceded in death by the husband and three
brothers.
Survivors include son Carlyle Jensen and wife Lillian
of Sterling; daughter Thelda O'Toole and husband Jim, of Sterling;
brother Frank Bjorklun of Haxtun; sister Maude Shannep of Holyoke; five
grandchildren, and four great grandchildren.
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