Genevieve Leone Jensen (Plainview)

Funeral services for Genevieve Jensen age 94 of Plainview will be held at 11:00 A.M. Thursday, November 20th at the Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Plainview. Visitation will be from 4-6 PM. Wednesday at the Ashburn Funeral Hme in Plainview. Burial will be in the Pleasant View Cemetery in Plainview.

Genevieve Jensen passed away on the evening of November 14 at Plainview Manor in Plainview, Nebraska. She was born in Blair, Nebraska to Andrew and Emma Skau on June 30th 1920. At the age of 8 her mother passed away. At the age of 10 her father remarried to Betty Neilsen from Denmark. Genevieve graduated from Blair High School in1938 then had 1 year of college at Dana College in Blair. She worked in the office at Dana and at the Publishing House. In 1944 she married Donald Jensen who farmed near Plainview. One child (Betty) was born to this family. Four months after marriage Donald went into the Army and served for two years. During the two years while Donald was in the Army, Genevieve returned to Blair and stayed with her parents. While Donald was gone she worked at the Welfare office they farmed for fifteen years west of Plainview then moved into the town of Plainview. Last move for Genevieve was to Whispering Pines then into the manor. She belonged to Bethany and then to Our Saviors Lutheran church.