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Show Attends Final Rites For Brother In Salte Lake City Mrs. Amelia J. Topham and Mrs. Eulala T. Orton traveled to Salt Lake City last Friday to attend at-tend the funeral services for P. Joseph Jensen, a brother of Mrs. Topham and an uncle of Mrs. Orton. I Mr. Jensen, 87, a native and former resident of Parowan, died at the LDS Hospital In Salt Lake City on June 4. He was born In Parowan Dec. 31. 18G9 to Peter M. and Mary M. Jensen and spent his early life here. Mr. Jensen married Artimesia Snow of St. George in the St. George Temple in 1898, and they moved to Salt Lake City. He was an educator, teacher and singer and active church worker. He taught In the Sevier Academy at Richfield, the Brigham Young Academy and the LDS Universi-ty. Universi-ty. He graduated from Brigham Young University and did post graduate work at University of California and Michigan State Normal College at Ann Arbor. Mr. Jensen was one of the oldest old-est members of the Tabernacle choir, singing in it for 40 years. He had been associated with the church historian's office for 27 years. Funeral services were conducted In the Grand Ward in Salt Lake City on June 8 at 1 p. m. and burial was In the city cemetery. Speakers at the funeral services serv-ices were Elder Bryant S Hinckley Hinck-ley and Apostle Joseph Fielding Smith. Musical numbers included includ-ed songs typical of Mr. Jensen's life, "The Teacher's Work Is Done," by a male quartet; a violin vio-lin selection by Reginald Beales. a son-in-law and a student of the deceased sang "Where Ere I Walk. Mr. Jensen is survived by his second wife, Emma Smith Jensen, Jen-sen, sister of Apostle Joseph Fielding Smith; a son and three daughters and four brothers and sisters with Mrs. Topham being one of the sisters. |
