Lars Jensen (1888-1926)

JENSEN, WINTHERS

Posted By: Dorian Myhre (email)
Date: 11/15/2013 at 17:18:51

From Nevada Journal October 20, 1926

LARS JENSEN DEAD; FUNERAL THURSDAY

WILL BE HELD AT MEMORIAL LUTHERAN CHURCH--INTERMENT BY LEGION

Funeral services for Lars Jensen, 38, who died at his ome on Third street at an early hour Tuesday morning, will be held at Memorial Lutheran church Thursday afternoon at 2:30 with Rev. C. E. Lookingbill preaching the sermon. Interment will be in the Nevada cemetery in charge of Nevada Post No. 48, American Legion.

Mr. Jensen had been failing for some months and in Auigust was at Rochester, where he went through the Mayo clinic and was told that he had a cancer of the stomach. After returning home he went to Des Moines and in September submitted to an exploratory operation.

He remained in the hospital for a few weeks, when he returned to his home in this city and had been failing gradually since.

Lars Jensen was born at Horsens, Denmark, September 11, 1888, son of Mr. and Mrs. Soren Jensen. With his cousin Millard Jensen he came to America in 1908 and came directly to Nevada where their uncle, Lars Jensen and family lived.

His home had been in Nevada since with the exception of the time that he was in the United States army, he being overseas for about nine months.

He was married in 1920 to Mrs. Sarah Goodin of this city and had just completed a fine new home on Third street, when he was taken ill.

He leaves besides his wife his father Soren Jensen and one sister in Denmark a cousin Millard Jensen of Des Moines, Paul Winthers of this city and his uncle Lars Jensen and family of near this city.

His one brother Martin Jensen, was killed in an accident in Nevada during the Armistice Day celebration, November 11, 1913. Another cousin Jens Jensen met his death in an accident in August of this year, when he fell from a high smokestack upon which he was working, in Milwaukee, Wis.

During his residence in Nevada Mr. Jensen had worked as a brick mason and cement worker and was fine mechanic. He was a man well respected and had a wide circle of friends in the community and his untimely death is regretted by all.