Rev. Carl JENSEN

JACOBSON, SCHOBERT, BISHOFF, JENSEN, HAWKE, BALL, YOUNG

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/30/2006 at 01:30:49

Rev. Carl Jensen, 96, of Clarion, passed away Friday, January 21, 2005 at the Wright Medical Center in Clarion. Funeral services were held Wednesday, January 26th at the First United Methodist Church in Clarion. Rev. Don Morrison officiated at the 10:30 a.m. service. Burial was in the Sheffield Cemetery.

Carl Jensen was born April 29, 1908, in Lake Forest, Illinois, the son of Carl J. and Karen Jensen. Carl attended Simpson College in Indianola, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree. He attended Garrett Theological Institute at Northwestern University and received his Bachelor of Divinity. Carl served Methodist Churches at Parkersburg from 1937-1940, Greeley Oneida from 1940-1944 and Traer from 1944-1945, before becoming a chaplain in the U.S. Navy. While in the Navy during World War II he served for 15 months as a chaplain stationed in the Philippine Islands. After serving his tour of duty he returned to civilian life as a Methodist minister in LaPorte City from 1946-52. Then he was recalled into the U.S. Navy, serving overseas duty onshore in Japan for two years. Then his duty was on board military troop transport ships in the Atlantic between Brooklyn, New York, and Bremerhaven, Germany, and duty in the Pacific and Mediterranean. Other shore duty included Williamsburg, Virginia, Chaplains' school, Naval Training Center at San Diego, California; Naval Training Center at Great Lakes, Illinois, Camp Pendleton, California and the Naval Air Station, Grosse Ile, Michigan. After Carl's discharge from the Navy he returned to the ministry at the United Methodist Church in Lake City from 1960-1966 and served as Clarion's First United Methodist minister for seven years. He retired from the Clarion church in 1973. Carl and Maxine moved to Quincy, Illinois for five years where Carl was the Methodist parish interim minister from 1973-78. Carl and Maxine returned to Clarion. Carl enjoyed singing and was a member in each of the church's choirs he ministered.

Carl is survived by his wife, Maxine (Hawke) Jensen of Clarion; two daughters, Jeanie Ball and husband, Alan of Sandpoint, Idaho and Nancy Young and husband, Bill of Ankeny; four grandsons; three great-grandsons; and three brothers, Stanley Jensen, Wesley Jensen and his wife, Pauline and Harold Jensen. He was preceded in death by his parents; three sisters, Marian Jacobson, Carolyn Schobert and Elsie Bishoff.

January 27, 2005
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