Sidney Jensvold |
| Posted 2009-04-18 by Pat R |
| Wickenburg (AZ) Sun Friday, August 1, 1958, p 1 W R Jensvold's Brother Is Killed W R Jensvold left last Saturday for Buffalo Center, Iowa, to attend funeral services for his brother, Sidney Jensvold, which were held in that town Monday of this week. The brother, 45 years old, was killed in an automobile accident near Madrid, Ia, July 25. ************************** Buffalo Center (IA) Tribune Thursday, July 31, 1958, p 1 S B Jensvold Killed When He Misses Highway Curve Funeral services for Sidney Benjamin Jensvold, 48, prominent citizen and businessman of Buffalo Center, were held Monday afternoon, July 28, 1958, at the Winter Funeral Home in Buffalo Center followed with services in the Zion Lutheran Church at Rake with Rev Mostul and Pastors Richard Hollesque and Orville Olson officiating. Burial was in Graceland Cemetery, Buffalo Center, with C B Olson, Irving Larson, Irwin Wossels, John Benjamin, C L Peterson and Oscar Ellingson, members of the Bethlehem Lutheran Building Committee (of which, the deceased was a member) serving as pallbearers. Special music was by a quartet from Rake composed of the following: Ernie Halvorson, Orville Erdahl, Victor Larson and Glenn Larson. The deceased met his untimely death about 12:30 o'clock, Saturday morning, July 26, a few miles south of Madrid, Iowa. He had been to Des Moines that day to attend a meeting of the state Board of Farm Machinery Directors of which he was a member. Enroute home on Highway 80, he failed to make one of the many sharp curves in that highway and his car went off the road into a corn field killing him instantly. He leaves to mourn his untimely death his wife and five sons, Bryant, George, William, Marcus and Richard; his brother, William R Jensvold of Wickenburg, Arizona and many other relatives and friends. Sidney Benjamin Jensvold, son of Sever and Bertha Jensvold, was born February 9, 1910, at Rake, Iowa. He was baptised and confirmed in the Christian faith in the Lincoln Lutheran Church of Rake. He attended Buffalo Center High School, Luther College in Decorah, Iowa and graduated from the Luther Academy in Albert Lea, Minnesota. On January 8, 1938 he was united in marriage to Ethel L Nesheim. In 1937 he moved to Buffalo Center where he lived until his death, with the exception of three years in Denver, Colorado. He was an active member of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Buffalo Center. At the time of his passing, he was serving as chairman of the Building Committee for the new church now being erected. See Also: Find A Grave |
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