Minden resident Hazel E. (Christensen) Jepsen, 84, died Tuesday, June 1, 2004, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney.
Services were held on Friday at United Methodist Church in Minden with the Rev. Dr. Bill Hunter officiating. Burial was in Minden Cemetery.
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Mrs. Jepsen was born Aug. 25, 1919, to Peter C. and Ruth (Maucher) Christensen in Minden. She was raised on the family farm and attended Minden Public School. On Oct. 4, 1942, she married Elmer Jepsen. They lived in Long Beach, Calif., from 1942-45, where she worked at McDonald-Douglas Aircraft.
They returned to Minden in 1945 and owned and operated the East Side Grocery Store from 1960 to the early 1970s. She also worked at Bethany Home.
Her husband died in 1989.
She was a member of United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women and Rebekah Lodge, all in Minden, and Danish Brotherhood. She volunteered at Bethany Home where she started the "never forgotten birthday party."
Survivors are two daughters, Mary Miller of Gering and Betty Shiers of Minden; one brother, Edwin of Minden; one sister, Dorothy Taylor of Northglenn, Colo.; and five grandchildren.
She also was preceded in death by one brother and two sisters.
Services were held on Friday at United Methodist Church in Minden with the Rev. Dr. Bill Hunter officiating. Burial was in Minden Cemetery.
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Mrs. Jepsen was born Aug. 25, 1919, to Peter C. and Ruth (Maucher) Christensen in Minden. She was raised on the family farm and attended Minden Public School. On Oct. 4, 1942, she married Elmer Jepsen. They lived in Long Beach, Calif., from 1942-45, where she worked at McDonald-Douglas Aircraft.
They returned to Minden in 1945 and owned and operated the East Side Grocery Store from 1960 to the early 1970s. She also worked at Bethany Home.
Her husband died in 1989.
She was a member of United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women and Rebekah Lodge, all in Minden, and Danish Brotherhood. She volunteered at Bethany Home where she started the "never forgotten birthday party."
Survivors are two daughters, Mary Miller of Gering and Betty Shiers of Minden; one brother, Edwin of Minden; one sister, Dorothy Taylor of Northglenn, Colo.; and five grandchildren.
She also was preceded in death by one brother and two sisters.
Minden resident Hazel E. (Christensen) Jepsen, 84, died Tuesday, June 1, 2004, at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney.
Services were held on Friday at United Methodist Church in Minden with the Rev. Dr. Bill Hunter officiating. Burial was in Minden Cemetery.
*****
Mrs. Jepsen was born Aug. 25, 1919, to Peter C. and Ruth (Maucher) Christensen in Minden. She was raised on the family farm and attended Minden Public School. On Oct. 4, 1942, she married Elmer Jepsen. They lived in Long Beach, Calif., from 1942-45, where she worked at McDonald-Douglas Aircraft.
They returned to Minden in 1945 and owned and operated the East Side Grocery Store from 1960 to the early 1970s. She also worked at Bethany Home.
Her husband died in 1989.
She was a member of United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women and Rebekah Lodge, all in Minden, and Danish Brotherhood. She volunteered at Bethany Home where she started the "never forgotten birthday party."
Survivors are two daughters, Mary Miller of Gering and Betty Shiers of Minden; one brother, Edwin of Minden; one sister, Dorothy Taylor of Northglenn, Colo.; and five grandchildren.
She also was preceded in death by one brother and two sisters.
Services were held on Friday at United Methodist Church in Minden with the Rev. Dr. Bill Hunter officiating. Burial was in Minden Cemetery.
*****
Mrs. Jepsen was born Aug. 25, 1919, to Peter C. and Ruth (Maucher) Christensen in Minden. She was raised on the family farm and attended Minden Public School. On Oct. 4, 1942, she married Elmer Jepsen. They lived in Long Beach, Calif., from 1942-45, where she worked at McDonald-Douglas Aircraft.
They returned to Minden in 1945 and owned and operated the East Side Grocery Store from 1960 to the early 1970s. She also worked at Bethany Home.
Her husband died in 1989.
She was a member of United Methodist Church, United Methodist Women and Rebekah Lodge, all in Minden, and Danish Brotherhood. She volunteered at Bethany Home where she started the "never forgotten birthday party."
Survivors are two daughters, Mary Miller of Gering and Betty Shiers of Minden; one brother, Edwin of Minden; one sister, Dorothy Taylor of Northglenn, Colo.; and five grandchildren.
She also was preceded in death by one brother and two sisters.
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