SERVICES FOR WILLIAM JENSEN TO BE THURSDAY

Services for 77 year-old William C. Jensen will be held on Thursday, December 7th, 1978, at the First Lutheran Church in Blair. Rev. John Petersen will officiate at the 2 p.m. service with Campbell Funeral Home in charge of arrangements and burial at the Blair Cemetery.

Mr. Jensen passed away at the Blair Memorial Community Hospital on Tuesday, December 5th. Mr. Jensen, and his wife Lillie, resided on Route 2, Blair. Mr. Jensen was a farmer by trade. He farmed in the Blair vicinity all of his life and retired in 1966.

Mr. William Jensen was born on October 17, 1901 at Blair, Nebraska. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. Soren C. Jensen.

Surviving Mr. William C. Jensen is his wife Lillie, of Blair; son Ronald R. Jensen, of Blair; daughter Mrs. Irwin (Lila) Idso, of St. Paul, Minnesota; nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Brothers and sisters surviving are as follows: Oscar P. Jensen, Blair; John G. Jensen, Fort Calhoun; Mrs. Anna Olson, Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Mrs. Adina Raabe, Blair.

Pallbearers will be Rolland Smith, Jr., Ivan Larsen, Wilfred Stork, Edgar Short, Dick Svendgaard and Eggert Wulf.

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

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