Richard Jensen

JENSEN, NIEMEYER

Posted By: Richard Harrison (email)
Date: 9/19/2012 at 10:56:52

RICHARD JENSEN DEAD--Well Known Fresco Painter Passed Away Yesterday Morning

Richard Jensen passed away yesterday morning at 7 o'clock, after a brief illness at the comparatively early age of fifty-five. He was of high stature, powerful build and seemed destined to reach and pass the limit alloted to man. He was a painter, a superior workman, an artist. He has done much of the best fresco work in public and private buildings in Burlington and neighboring cities. While in the employ of the Burlington route, he did the finest work on the passenger coaches and sleepers.

He was of a general, sunny disposition, a "good comrade," well read, well educated, had seen much of the world, a good talker and again a
good listener, a staunch true friend, the very best kind of neighbor, and a throughly honest and honorable man. His home life was very
pleasant, and he brought up good children, who are a credit to their parents, and who will keep his memory green.

Richard Jensen was a native of Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and was fifty-five years of age. He crossed the seas some thirty years ago
and came to Burlington two years there-after making his permanent home. He is survived by the widow, ten children: Bernard, Richard, William,
Peter, Agnes, Dora, Laura, Mary, Bertha all of this city and, Mrs. F. H. Niemeyer of Cedar Rapids, and a very large circle of friends and
acquaintances to mourn his untimely death.

Burlington Hawk-Eye, Sunday morning, August 11, 1901