Sarah Rode Jensen
1876-1911

 

 

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DEATH OF MRS. CHRIS JENSEN
FUNERAL IN FREMONT FRIDAY

From Thursday’s Daily.
Mrs. Chris Jensen, a former resident of Fremont, Neb., died in a hospital in Omaha Thursday night.  The body will be brought to Fremont for interment and services will be held at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow at the Danish Lutheran church, Rev. E. R. Andersen officiating.

Mrs. Jensen had been residing at Wakonda, S.D., and was taken from that place to Omaha by her husband for treatment.  Prior to her removal to South Dakota she had spent practically her whole life in Fremont.  The family resided on Washington street and Mr. Jensen for many years was in the employ of the Fremont Milling Company.  Mrs. Jensen’s maiden name was Sarah Rode.  She was a member of the Danish Lutheran church.  The husband and children survive. 

Source: From a Fremont, Nebr., newspaper - April 1911

[Family notes & further explanation of where they lived in Clay County SD -- The Wakonda Monitor, Thursday, Aug. 11, 1910: Local: Mr. and Mrs. Chris Jensen, living on the Mike Ryan farm, are the proud parents of a fine baby girl born Sunday, July 31st.

Miss Sarah Rode was born September 1876 to Corfax & Elsie Rode, Fremont, Nebraska. Sarah Rode married Christen Jensen in Fremont, Nebraska, on January 10, 1892.]

 

Submitted by: Family researcher, L. Ziemann