Tama County

 
Odette Jensen

 

Dysart -- Odette Jensen, Wave, of Boulder, Colo., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jenen, has been commissioned ensign and granted a few days leave. She came to Des Moines by plane to visit her mother there and arrived in Dysart Wednesday evening for a short stay with her father and relatives there. Ensign Jensen is en route to Northampton, Mass., for further instruction at Smith College.

Source: The Courier, Waterloo IA -- October 12, 1944

Dysart Girl to Return Monday From Orient

Miss Odette Jensen, daughter of F.T. Jensen, Dysart, and who has spent a year in Japan with the intelligence department of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's staff, will leave Japan Monday on the return trip to the States.

Source: The Courier, Waterloo IA -- October 19, 1947