Jensen, Robert Loraine Warren (1925-2006)

JENSEN, BILLMAN, FLEIG, NORBERG, FLECK

Posted By: Jane Adams (email)
Date: 7/11/2007 at 21:51:57

Fairfield Ledger
Mon., Feb. 6, 2006

Robert Loraine Warren JENSEN, 80, of Ollie, formerly of Iowa City, died at his home Friday morning, Feb. 3, 2006.

A service is set for 10 a.m. Wednesday at Raymond Funeral Home in Fairfield, with the Rev. Danny Cary officiating. Interment will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Memory Garden Cemetery in Iowa City.

Family visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to Hospice of Keokuk County or to the American Cancer Society.

Mr. JENSEN was born March 15, 1925, in Voltaire, N.D., the son of John and Pauline Borg JANSEN. He married Iota Frances Bixby BILLMAN Aug. 17, 1963, in Bureau, Ill.

Mr. JENSEN attended school in North Dakota. He then worked on farms there, on the railroad and in a silver mine in the western states. He retired as a janitor form the Iowa City schools in 1979. He lived in Iowa City from 1961 until 1979, North Dakota from 1979 to 2001, and Ollie from 2001 until his death.

Mr. JENSEN was a member of Lutheran Church of Turtle Lake, N.D. and a longtime member of the Moose Lodge. He enjoyed playing music on his accordion and the organ and attending dances.

Survivors include his wife; two step-children, Charlotte Fleig and husband Merrill of Fairfield and Larry Billman in Florida; six step grandchildren; 11 step-great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Arlene NORBERG of Minot N.D., and Betty FLECK of Tacoma, Wash.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by one brother, Victor.
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