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Show itr l- '-''lW'Sr - y.yA-M-.'r' . ' rt. ret" t;- ;; eh-lrrV7''.'! 'i i t i ' :v. -.v.: -' -.:..:: M ! ' 1 ' 1 $ . x i I - ' 1 I N 3 . t " ,,'") Vv :' L .1 ' 1 x '? v ' ' ' l' r j EDIE ELIZABETH (N. JENSEN 75th Birthday Anniversary Is Being Observed Mrs. Edie Elizabeth - N. Jensen, Jen-sen, widow on' the late F. C. Jeieieier oentral U.h banker iand wool grower, will obeervie her seventy-fifUh birtihday anniversary anni-versary on March 31, at the Alessandro Hotel in Hemet, California, where she has spa.it the past lA'injer. Mrs. Jensen is a daughter of N. B. and Eliza Olsen Neilson, early Utah pioneers, and was 'Dora, here March 31, 1867, the second of their three daughters. She became one of the nine original students of Wasa-eh Academy founded in 1875, and she received her entire formal education of grade and high school work at Wasatch, supplemented sup-plemented with piano lessons' irom John Hasler, early Utah musician, ar.d daguerreotyppe painting from a French' pain.er. She i a as married in 1885 to F. C. Jensen and together tbey founded 'their home at 215 South First West on a site which has oeir.! con; inuously in the Jensen Jen-sen family since 1864. For .ior.y yuars their home was the rendezvous (for many J church, club and 'social activities. activi-ties. Tbe same welcome has. been extended to hundreds, j whatever creed or political1 faith they migh. hold, also after I the husband's death seventeen years ago, many struggling! students lound help and inspiration inspira-tion in their (name. The need ae ar.y worthy person always' found an opera hear, and hand, j She is the mot'tier of three ! daughteries, Mrs. Winnifred J. 1 Stediman of Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. Frances J. Gill of Mt. Pleasant, and Mrs. Carol J. I Persons of Ely ria, Ohio. She ' I has eeven grandttviMren and a Isister, Mrs. Hikna N. Becker of San Francisco. Her interests have been many and varied. She is president of ;.he Consolidated Furniture Co., lue oldest business institution in this city, and of the Jensen-Gill Jensen-Gill Sheep Company, and has many banking and business in-vt-imenu. She has 'been a member of the Firs. Presbyterian Church almost al-most all her life, and has served many years on its board of trustees. She is a member of Ivy Chapter No. 10, O. E. S., the Wornar.'si LVIissior.ary Society, Twentieth Century Club, he Home Culture Club, and of Chapter A. of the P. E. O. of Salt Lake Ci;y. She has served many years on the women's board of Westminister College, Salt Lake City, and is s.iil sponsoring spon-soring the annual F. C. Jensen Literary Contest which her husband hus-band founded forty years ago. In later years, Mrs. Jensen r.as spent much time in travel and jus. bo. ore her husband's death in 1 925, tr-.y and .their etaagh.er Mrs. Gill spent some time in the land of their forefathers, fore-fathers, Der.i.r.urk, on their return re-turn ot a tour of the Holy Land and Continental Europe. She has coll.cted many unusual art ebjec.s and antiques during her travels. Tne pa. t win.er she has sreer.t in California because oe fai.mg hjet'.th. She has a rare gift for friendship friend-ship and in honor of her sev-nty-flf h birthday many hun-' hun-' id-red friends are sendtr.g their greetings. |
