Obit: Jensen, Anna (1901-1983)

Contact: Kathleen E. Englebretson

Email: kathy@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Jensen, Claybough, Patitz, Zimmerman, Marshall

----Source: Marshfield News-Herald (14 November 1983)

Jensen, Anna C. (14 July 1901 - 12 November 1983)

OWEN - Mrs. Lee (Anna C.) Jensen, 82, Owen, died Saturday night at St. Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield. She had been a patient there since Wednesday.

Services will be Wednesday at United Church of Christ in Owen. The Rev. Ralph Claybough will officiate, with burial in Pine Hill Cemetery, Curtiss. The American Legion of Owen will conduct graveside military rites. Visitation will be at the Maurina Funeral Home, Owen with an Eastern Star service.

The former Anna C. Patitz was born July 14, 1901 in Curtiss, to the late Mr. and Mrs. John (Amelia Zimmerman) Patitz. She was married to Lee Jensen December 10, 1919 at her home in the Town of Mayville.

After their marriage, they farmed in the Town of Mayville. Later they moved to Janesville and in 1943 moved to Chicago. They worked for a time on a ranch in Montana, he as a foreman, and she as a cook and then moved to Curtiss. In 1956 they moved to Owen.

She was a member of the Owen American Legion Auxiliary and the Owen Eastern Star, of which she served as past matron and chaplain for many years.

Mrs. Jensen is survived by her husband; one son, Corliss of Medford; eight grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and one sister, Mrs. Reginald (Leona) Marshall of Mountain Home, Arkansas by a son, Verlyn in 1972, three brothers, two brothers, two sisters, four half-brothers and four half-sisters.