Well Known Fresco Painter Passed Away Yesterday
Richard Jensen passed away yesterday morning at 7:00 o'clock, after a brief illness at the comparatively early age of fifty-five. He was of high stature, powerful build and seemed destined to reach and pass the limit alloted to man. He was a painter, a superior workman, an artist. He has done much of the best fresco work in public and private buildings in Burlington and neighboring cities. While in the employ of the Burlington Route he did the finest work on the passenger couches and sleepers.
He was of a gentail, sunny, disposition, a "good comrade," well read, well educated, had seen much of the world; a good talker and again a good listener; a staunch, true friend; the very best kind of neighbor, and a throughly honest and honorable man. His home life was very pleasant, and he bought up good children, who are a credit to their parents and who will keep his memory green.
Richard Jensen was a native of Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and was fifty-five years of age. He crossed the sea some thirty years ago and came to Burlington tow years thereafter making his permanent home. He is survived by his widow, ten children; Bernard, Richard, William, Peter, Agnes, Dora, Laura, Mary, Bertha, all of this city and Mrs. F.H. Niemeyer of Cedar Rapids and a very large circle of friends and acquaintances to morn his untimely death. Source: Burlington Hawkeye August 11, 1901
Well Known Fresco Painter Passed Away Yesterday
Richard Jensen passed away yesterday morning at 7:00 o'clock, after a brief illness at the comparatively early age of fifty-five. He was of high stature, powerful build and seemed destined to reach and pass the limit alloted to man. He was a painter, a superior workman, an artist. He has done much of the best fresco work in public and private buildings in Burlington and neighboring cities. While in the employ of the Burlington Route he did the finest work on the passenger couches and sleepers.
He was of a gentail, sunny, disposition, a "good comrade," well read, well educated, had seen much of the world; a good talker and again a good listener; a staunch, true friend; the very best kind of neighbor, and a throughly honest and honorable man. His home life was very pleasant, and he bought up good children, who are a credit to their parents and who will keep his memory green.
Richard Jensen was a native of Husum, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany and was fifty-five years of age. He crossed the sea some thirty years ago and came to Burlington tow years thereafter making his permanent home. He is survived by his widow, ten children; Bernard, Richard, William, Peter, Agnes, Dora, Laura, Mary, Bertha, all of this city and Mrs. F.H. Niemeyer of Cedar Rapids and a very large circle of friends and acquaintances to morn his untimely death. Source: Burlington Hawkeye August 11, 1901
Family Members
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Bernhard R. Jensen
1871–1950
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Louise Jensen Niemeier
1872–1958
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Agnes Ann "Ann" Jensen Canny
1874–1959
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Dora E. "Dorothy" Jensen Schroeder
1879–1924
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William F. Jensen
1880–1942
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Mary Louise Jensen Chandler
1881–1962
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Bertha "Birdie" Jensen Johnson
1884–1964
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Francis Jensen
1885–1885
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Laura Agnes Jensen Schwieger
1886–1988
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Peter George Jensen
1891–1977
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