JANSEN, Betty Jane 1932-1950

JENSEN, WILLIAMS, REISER

Posted By: Diane Johnson (email)
Date: 1/21/2003 at 06:40:09

JENSEN, BETTY JANE 1932 - 1950
Girl is Killed in Accident at Wall Lake
Two companions Hospitalized for Injuries from Hot-Rod Mishap

A 17 year old Larchwood, Iowa girl was killed early this morning and her two companions hospitalized as a result of a hot-rod accident in the Wall Lake vicinity.

Dead is Betty Jensen, who with Dick Hanson, 20, Pickstown, and Bob Schmidt, 16, 2806 South Norton Ave, Sioux Falls, was injured when the 1932 hot rod coupe in which they were riding left the road and rolled over three times.

Sheriff Barney Boos in reporting the accident said that Miss Jensen's two companions were taken to Sioux Valley hospital for treatment of head wounds but that Miss Jensen was dead upon arrival at the hospital.
After 3 a.m.

Boos said the accident occurred at 3:15 a.m. near Wall Lake between the roller skating pavilion and the dance pavilion. Hanson was the driver of the cut-down and high powered car, Boos said. The car apparently traveling at an excessive rate of speed, left the road on a curve and rolled over, throwing the trio from the car. The car came to rest more than 150 feet from the road.

State Motor Patrolman Kenneth Chamberlain investigated the accident with Sheriff Boos.

Miss Jensen, a 1950 graduate of Larchwood High School, was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lars C. Jensen, Larchwood, and was born November 16, 1932, in that city. For the last two summers she had been employed at the Cutler Drive-in on East Tenth street and was living at the home of Mrs. H.F. Reiser, 211 North Prairie Ave.

Today was to have been the last day of employment for Miss Jensen at the drive-in. She was to go to Cedar Falls, Iowa next week to enroll as a freshman student at Iowa State Teachers college.

Besides her parents she is survived by a brother, Earl Jensen, Fresno, California, and two sisters, Mrs. Gordon Williams, Lake Andes, and Mrs. Lloyd Larscheid, Brookings.

The Miller Funeral Home is in charge of funeral arrangements.

Services were held at the Miller Funeral Home in Sioux Falls, The Rev. France Erickson officiated. Mrs. C. B. Van Ausall was organist and Mrs. C. J. Swanson was organist. Pallbearers were Paul Hohman, J. Anderson, Robert Reink, Merle Waagmeester, George Shapiro, and Blaine Carlson, Burial was at Inwood, Iowa