SERVICES FOR MRS. JENSEN HELD TODAY

PROMINENT IN CIVIC AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS HERE MANY YEARS

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Ora Odessa Carter was born on December 2, 1882, at DeSoto, Washington County, Nebraska to Oliver Dion Carter and Mary Leach Carter, and her death occurred in San Francisco, California on March 7, 1959, at the age of 76 years. She was reared in the loving home of her parents and their eight children. When she was 12 years of age, on August 18, 1894, she was baptized by Elder C. H. Porter into the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the faith of five generations of her family.

She attended the Blair City Schools, from which she was graduated in 1898. After her graduation she taught in the rural schools of Washington County until her marriage to James Peter Jensen on May 10, 1902. The couple moved to the Stewart farm north of Blair, where they farmed for several years, then to a residence on the Dana College campus and later to their home at 2007 Park Street, which has been the family home for 45 years. The others of their family of four sons and two daughters were reared in this home.

Mr. Jensen died on January 14, 1938. Mrs. Jensen is survived by her son, John Philip of Kearney, Nebraska, and his family; son Alfred of San Francisco, California, with whom she was visiting at the time her death occurred; her daughter Edythe, Mrs. Eldred Larson of Omaha, Nebraska, and her family; daughter Dorothy, Mrs. Warren Baller of Lincoln, Nebraska, and her family; and the families of her sons Howard, and Soren, who preceded her in death, Soren in October 1947 and Howard in August, 1953.

She is also survived by two sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Cy Croxin, (Zoe) of Hyannis, Nebraska; and Mrs. E. T. Heidaman (Catherine) of Derby, Colorado; Dine Carter of Blair and John Carter of Rockford, Illinois.

Mrs. Jensen’s interests extended in to the community. She was a member of the Red Cross; the American Legion Auxiliary; the Golden Rule State Mothers Committee; the Rebekah Lodge No. 27 for over 50 years; the Royal Neighbors Lodge No. 2288; the Federated Women’s Club; and was for many years a member of the State Democratic Central Committee.

Her love and devotion and warmth spread out across the paths of her life to inspire the lives of those who knew her, loved her and mourn her passing.

The Elders Albert Livingston and H. A. Merchant of Omaha, ministers of the Reorganized Church of Christ of Latter Day Saints conducted the services at the funeral at 2:00 P.M. on Thursday at the Campbell Mortuary.

Mrs. Albert Livingston accompanied by Mrs. Millard Gollehon of Omaha was soloist.

The Campbell Mortuary was in charge of interment in the family lot at the Blair cemetery.

Pallbearers were: Stanley Jensen, Merton Jensen, J. Merton Kuhr, Merle Wardell, Peter Stricklett Jr., and Carroll Carter, all nephews of the deceased.