Obituary Record

D. Elaine (Nielsen) Jensen
Died on 11/6/2014

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Posted on line: Wednesday, November 12, 2014; Published in The Enterprise, Friday, November 14, 2014

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D. Elaine Jensen, 86

D. Elaine Jensen, 86, of Olympia, Wash., died Thursday, Nov. 6, 2014.

A private memorial service with burial was planned at Tahoma National Cemetery in Kent, Wash.

Elaine was born Sept. 7, 1928, in Moorhead, Iowa, the daughter of Dora and Harold Nielsen. She graduated from Blair High School.

Elaine married Robert L. Jensen on Jan. 21, 1947, in San Francisco, Calif. He preceded her in death on November 19, 2001.

Elaine was a buyer for Bullocks Department Stores. Upon retirement, they moved to Olympia, and wintered in Palm Gardens, Mesa, Ariz. In June, 2013, Elaine returned from Arizona to Olympia where she enjoyed living at Artesian Place Assisted Living.

Elaine and her husband were members of Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Olympia and St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Mesa. She loved her friendships, her card groups, her bowling team, and her beautiful grandchildren, great-grandchildren and her kids.

She is survived by her son and wife, Bill and Judith Jensen, Daytona Beach, Fla.; daughters and husbands: Kris and Greg Smith, Jamie and Bruce Schultz and Julie and Bob Estergard, all of the Olympia area; five grandchildren: Jason Smith, Kara Skinner, Chelsea Gutfeld, Justin Allison and Drew Jensen; eight great-grandchildren: Allison, Krista, Oliver, Helen, Jack, Carson, Zachery and Aubrey; sisters: Pearl May of Nicholasville, Ky., and Marilyn Alexander of Colorado Springs, Colo.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Jensen; and granddaughter MacKenzie Jensen.

In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be directed to The Karen Hilburn Cancer Fund, P.O. Box 1462, Shelton, WA, or Mayo Clinic Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~

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