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In Memory

Gene Jensen - Class of 1939

Gene Richard Jensen, 72, died December 29, 1992 in a local medical center.  He was born March 18, 1920 at Montpelier to Leo E. and Amy Margaret Harris Jensen.  He graduated in 1939 from Montpelier High School.  He attended Idaho State College for two years and then entered the US Army Air Corps.  He served from 1941 to 1946.  He was employed as a sheetmetal worker with the Union Pacific Railroad until retiring in 1980 after 35 years.  He married Elsie Lillian Gill November 5, 1948 at Pocatello.  He enjoyed hunting, fishing and woodworking.  He was a member of the LDS Church.  He was a member of the Sheetmetal Workers Union.  He is survived by his wife, a daughter and one grandchild.  Funeral services were conducted Monday in the Henderson Funeral Chapel in Pocatello followed by burial in the Montpelier Cemetery.  Military honors were provided by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.