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Show Services today at Mapleton for Chris Jensen Funeral services will be conducted con-ducted today at 11 a.m., in the Mapleton Ward Chapel, for Neils Christen Jensen, 80, a farmer and former Mapleton town marshall, who died Monday, Mon-day, October 19, 1964, at his home in Mapleton. Friends may call at the Wheeler Mortuary Mor-tuary before the services. Burial Bur-ial will be in the Evergreen Cemetery. Mr. Jensen was born Sept. 17, 1884 in Spanish Fork, a son of Hans Peter and Karen Marie Nielsen. He married Ovilla Whiting June 28, 1905, in Mapleton and their marriage was later solemnized in the Salt Lake LDS Temple. Mrs. Jensen died in 1948. Mr. Jensen had been a farmer farm-er most of his life. He had lived in Utah all his life with the exception of three years spent in Idaho. An elder in the LDS Church, he had worked as superintendent in the MIA and Sunday School while in Idaho and Mapleton. Mr. Jensen was an ardent baseball player and fan and an outdoorsman. Surviving are five sons and two daughters, Ruel Jensen, Bernell Jensen, Verl Jensen, Mrs. Clark (Gladys) Johnson, and Mrs. Earl (Irene) Freeman all of Mapleton; Delles Jensen of Orem; and Kelly Jensen of Springville; 22 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren. There is a nation-wide and state-wide shortage of pharmacists. |