Not buried locally.

ANE KIRSTINE JESSEN, 96

Ane Kirstine Jessen, 96, died Friday, August 21, 1992 at the Good Shepherd Home in Blair. Services were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, August 25, at Grace Lutheran Church in Lexington, Nebr. with the Rev. Dale Barnett and the Rev. Kenneth Jensen officiating. Burial was in the Greenwood Cemetery. Reynolds-Love Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Ane Kirstine was born February 1, 1896, at Dalbyover, Denmark to Peder and Dorthe Thomassen Kragh.

After finishing her elementary education, she attended Lyngby High School in Copenhagen.

On May 23, 1919, she married Boy H. Jessen at Dalbyover. Five of their children were born in Denmark before the family emigrated to the United States. The family arrived in 1926 at Cozad, Nebraska. In 1933 the family bought a farm northwest of Lexington which was their home until 1987 when Mrs. Jessen moved to Good Shepherd Lutheran Home in Blair.

She will be remembered for her radiant smile, her beautiful singing that rang throughout the home, her constant caring spirit and devotion to her family, her hobbies of flower gardening and crocheting, her enjoyment and satisfaction in hospitality and her exemplary faith.

Mrs. Jessen was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church of rural Cozad, the Trinity Lutheran and Grace Lutheran churches in Lexington.

Survivors include six sons and wives, Nis and Irene of Lexington, Henry and Joyce of Lodgepole, Dr. Arne and Meryl of Chicago, Illinois, Alfred and Marilyn of Minden, Carl and Beverly of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Harald and Connie of Wheatridge, Colorado; five daughters and husbands, Dorthea and Clarence Yueter of Lexington, Marie and Quentin Johnson of Ceresco, Dagny and Erik Duus of Brainerd, Minnesota, Helga and Dr. Verlan Hanson of Blair and Elna and Merla Knuth of Des Moines, Iowa; 38 grandchildren, 50 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren; a cousin, a niece, three nephews and families living in Denmark.

She was preceded in death by her husband in 1977; a daughter, Johanne Olsen of Sidney, Montana; a sister, Maren Bugge, and a brother, Jens Kragh of Dalbyover, Denmark; a grandson, John Jessen and a great-granddaughter, Jessica Duus.

Memorials are suggested to the Good Shepherd Lutheran Home in Blair or Dana College.