Ruby
Jensen, 80
Stephen
- Ruby Jensen, 80, died on January 21, 2004 at
the Tufte Manor - Valley Memorial Home in Grand
Forks, N.D.
Funeral
services were held on Saturday, Jan. 24, at First
Lutheran Church in Stephen. Interment was held at
Stephen Cemetery in Stephen.
Ruby
Homberg was born on August 16, 1923 in Nelson Park
Township of Marshall County, the daughter of Jons
and Gunda (Nelson) Hamberg. She spent her early
years in Nelson Park Township and attended school
in Karlstad.
On July
3, 1941, she married Norman Jensen at Salem
Lutheran Church in rural Stephen. They made their
home in rural Stephen where they farmed. They
retired from farming in 1981 and moved into
Stephen. Norman died on July 2, 1982.
She was a
member of the First Lutheran Church and the St.
Petri Circle and a former member of the St. Petri
Lutheran Church.
Ruby
loved spending time with her grandchildren and
great-grandchildren. She also enjoyed gardening.
Survivors
include five children, Allan (Judy) of Dalton, Jo
Ann (Curtis) Krabbenhoft of Elk River, Jerry
(Susan) of Lake City, Ronald (Jane) of Stephen, and
Bruce of Stephen; 19 grandchildren; six
great-grandchildren; three sisters, Ann Merdink of
Stephen, Nan Hamberg and Verna Hvidsten, both of
Thief River Falls; one brother, Roy Hamberg of
Staples; and many nieces and nephews.
She was
preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one
son, Robert; and four siblings, Nels, Blenda, Harry
and Grace.
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