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Emma JENSEN

January 5, 2009

JENSEN (NEE WEIGUM) Emma May 21, 1910 - January 2, 2009 Emma Jensen passed away in hospital at the age of 98. She had been living at Westpark Lodge for a number of months, after leaving Victoria Park, where she lived for the past eight years. She was the last alive of six brothers and sisters who came to Canada with their parents in 1916. She was born in Java, South Dakota. Her family settled near Trochu, Alberta in 1918, where her father bought a farm. Emma's first husband, Dan Weiss, died young in 1952. Her second husband, Jens Jensen died in 2000 at the age of 95, and her only daughter, Ella Mae, died in 2005. She leaves behind two grandsons, four great grandchildren and six great great grandchildren. In accordance with Emma's wish there will not be a funeral. She will be cremated and her ashes buried with her daughter and husbands in the Delburne cemetery. This will occur in the spring and friends and family with be notified.