Lee JORGENSEN

JORGENSEN, LARSON, GEARHART, RASMUSSEN, DUHAMEL, WILSON, MESSERLY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/30/2006 at 11:29:19

Lee Jorgensen, 84, died Friday, August 5, 2005 following a brief bout with pancreatic cancer. Funeral services were held on Wednesday, August 10th at the Park Church of Christ in Goldfield. Former Pastor Tony Brandt officiated at the 10:00 a.m. service. Burial was in the Glenwood Cemetery, Goldfield.

Lee Jorgensen was born October 21, 1920, in Holmes, the son of Otto and Laura (Larson) Jorgensen. He lived in the Holmes/Goldfield area his entire life, attending rural Wright County schools. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II as part of the 601 Field Artillery Battalion Mule Pack in both the European and Pacific Theaters. He was present at the liberation of the Dachau Concentration Camp near Germany. In 1955, he married Florence Rasmussen DuHamel at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. Florence is living at the Humboldt North Care Center. They would have celebrated 50 years of marriage on Thursday, August 11th. Lee owned a welding shop in Goldfield for a number of years. He also worked for an area hatchery and the Co-op Elevator in Goldfield before retiring in his 50's due to disability from rheumatoid arthritis. He enjoyed woodworking, gardening, having office coffee with his friends, and especially fishing.

Lee is survived by his wife, Florence; four children, Judy Wilson and husband, Bob of Eagle Grove, Joyce Messerly and husband, Jim of Fort Dodge, Galen Jorgensen and wife, Sheryl of Havelock and Gary Jorgensen and wife, Pat of Moorland; two brothers, James Jorgensen of Eagle Grove and Glen Jorgensen of Tacoma, Washington; five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; brothers, Harry and his twin Leo; and two sisters, Harriet Gearhart and Esther Larson.

August 11, 2005
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