R. Paul JENISON

JENISON, NORDSCOW, HUBBARD, ERSLAND, RICHARDSON, PFALZGRAF

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/8/2008 at 10:01:36

R. Paul Jenison, 84, of Belmond, died Thursday (Feb. 19, 1998) at the Winterset Care Center in Winterset. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the United Methodist Church in Belmond, with the Rev. Ken Fineran officiating. Interment will be in the Belmond Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 3 to 7 p.m. Sunday at the Tenold Funeral Home in Belmond, and one hour prior to services on Monday at the church.

R. Paul Jenison was born on May 21, 1913, to Ralph Hamilton and Mabel (Hubbard) Jenison at their farm home in Pleasant Township, Belmond, Iowa. He attended and graduated from Belmond High School with the Class of 1933. On June 30, 1935, he married Maxine Nordscow at her parent’s home in Mason City, Iowa. To this union, two sons and one daughter were born. Paul was engaged in farming until 1965, when they moved to California to help care for Maxine’s mother. Paul worked for the Mill Valley School District as a maintenance supervisor until 1973. In 1973, Paul and Maxine moved back to their home place and farmed again until 1983. Since then, they moved into Belmond where they have resided in the same home. Paul was an avid fisherman. He loved the outdoors and enjoyed hunting and reading. Grandpa always had time to teach all the grandchildren how to get a fishing pole ready. He also enjoyed family gatherings, where he always had a lap full of grandchildren, while Maxine was in the kitchen happily preparing food for them all.

Paul is survived by his wife, Maxine, of Belmond, Iowa; son, Marlin Jenison and his wife, Ardith, of Urbandale, Iowa; daughter, Meredith Ersland and her husband, Gary, of Belmond, Iowa; daughter-in-law, Lois Jenison, of Belmond, Iowa; brother, C. Phil Jenison and his wife, Betty, of Roseville, Calif.; nine grandchildren, Michelle, Gregory, Melissa, Terri, Jody, Christine, Paula, Mark and Jeff; 12 great-grandchildren, Taylor, Jordan, Christopher, Brianne, Kaitlyn, Rachael, Ryan, Alex, Kelley, Jenae, Benjamin and Phillip; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; one son, Merrill; grandson, David; one brother, Delbert Jenison; and three sisters, Arline Richardson, Ina Pfalzgraf and Lorraine Jenison.

February 21, 1998
Mason City Globe Gazette