Individual Details
Helen Margaret Jenson
(3 Mar 1913 - 14 Sep 1987)
BURIAL: Cremated, ashes buried in Anah Cemetery.
HSO, 22Mar1934, p1
Hudson friends of Miss Helen Jenson, a student at the River Falls Teachers College, are pleased to hear of the splendid record she is making in her studies. Miss Jenson is a graduate of Hudson High School and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Jenson, Jr. of North Hudson.
Mr. Jenson this week received the following letters from J. H. Ames, president of River Falls College:-
"I have before me a report upon the work of students during the winter term just closed. I find that your daughter, Helen, made the unusual record of receiving an A in each of the courses taken. This record is equalled by only five other students in the entire college for this term".
HSO, 30 May 1935, p3
Two Hudson Students Among Graduates at R.F. Teachers College
Among 73 degree graduates and 38 diploma graduates of the River Falls State Teachers College this year are Helen Jensen and Albert Linder of Hudson.
Helen Jensen [sic], who graduated from the Hudson High School in 1930, has made a very worthy record during her four years at River Falls College. She is graduating from the English-History Department. [there is more to the article, listing mbsps, etc] .. Miss Jensen has also been past chairman of the History Club.
HSO, 9 Sep 1937
Helen Jensen Weds Dr. T H. Williams
Mr. and Mrs. Nels Jenson announce the marriage of their daughter, Helen Margaret, to Dr. T. Harry Williams of Hazel Green, Wisconsin. They were married September 2 at Dubuque, Iowa. They will live in Green Bay where Dr. Williams is an instructor of history in the University Extension Department.
In the "Centennial Edition, HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of Washburn County and The Surrounding Indianhead Country, Volume III", Edited by Kay Brown Winton, 1983, Helen wrote; "I can claim a place in this volume only because I am one of those who have helped preserve Washburn County history.
My husband Lester Bethel bought our home here in 1951 because he loved this country. As a commercial food salesman, he had often stayed at Pierce Donovan's hotel in the 1930's and became well acquainted there.
I was born in Hudson March 3, 1913, the third of nine children born to Nels and Gurina Jenson--including twins and triplets as a grand finale.
I graduated from River Falls Teachers College in the bottom of the depression years, spent a year at home studying astronomy with a borrowed 3-inch telescope, then applied for a scholarship and in 1937 was granted a Master's
degree in American history at the U of Wisconsin in Madison. I also married another history student, Dr. T. Harry Williams.
We went through the rest of the depression years with my husband teaching in the University Extension Division in northeastern Wisconsin and summers at the U of West Virginia and the U of Wis at Madison. Then we moved to the U pf
Omaha, Nebraska, and finally, as war broke out, to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
There I completed the pre-medical courses at the university and as a war volunteer worked in a day-care center and in surgery at the local hospital. In 1947 we were divorced and I took nurses' training at the hospital and became an
R.N.
I taught nursing students at Denver General Hospital until I was called home to help my mother when my father died. I worked as a nurse at the U of Kansas hospital in Kansas City and later, after my second marriage, in Alexandria,
Minnesota until our son Jim was born.
Our twins, Glen and Gene, were born in Shell Lake and the boys grew up in the town of Casey. Jim and Gene still live in Washburn County, both working for the CNW railroad.
By 1960, when my husband died of lung cancer, I had become interested in local government and served ten years as town treasurer. Then I served briefly as town supervisor, a position which I again hold.
I helped support our family by teaching for the Spooner school, the vocational school, and Spooner Hospital, where I was director of their education program. I set up the first Health Careers class in the area.
When I retired in 1976 I decided to return to my interest in American history, and to concentrate on collecting and preserving the local history, particularly the town of Casey. I take pride in knowing the local history almost as well as the natives. I have been a member of the county historical society ever since we moved here, and served as its secretary till this year when I resigned to take the late Robert Ramsdell's position as treasurer."
Spooner Advocate, 17 Sep 1987, p13, c1
Helen J. Bethel, age 74, a resident of the town of Casey, passed away Monday, Sept. 14, at the Spooner Community Memorial Hospital. The former Helen Jenson was born March 3, 1913 at Hudson. She graduated from the River Falls Teachers College in the early 1930's and in 1937 she received her master's degress in American History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She later became a registered nurse, taking her training at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. She practiced and taught nursing at Denver, Kansas and Alexandria, Minneosta prior to moving to the Spooner area in 1951. She taught nursing and health career for the Spooner school system, WITI and the Spooner Comunity Memorial Hospital. She retired in 1976 and concentrated on collecting and studying local history. She has been a member of the Washburn County Historical Society since the 1950's, and had previously served as it's secretary, and was serving as treasurer at the time of her death. She frequently wrote historical articles for the newspaper. She had also served ten years as treasurer for the Town of Casey, and was a former supervisor of the township.
She is survived by three sons, James of Spooner, Gene of Chicago and Glen of Antigo, four grandchildren, five sisters, Anne Lester and Laura Kinney, both of River Falls, Ruth Lund of North Hudson, Leila Christensen of Wessington Springs, S.D., and Jane Rasmussen of New Richmond.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lester A. Bethel, on June 13, 1960. She was also preceded in death by two brothers, Ole and John, a sister, Janet, and three grandsons, Max, Zachery and Lukas Bethel.
In accordance with her wishes, there will be no funeral serices. Memorials may be directed to the Washburn County Historical Society. Arrangements are being handled by the Scalzo Funeral Home.
St. Paul Pioneer Press, 26Jun1991
WISCONSIN TOWN PROUD OF ITS FIGHT OVER PESTICIDES
Peggy Ryan, correspondent
Casey, Wis.
Helen Bethel can rest in peace. Two years after the former town board supervisor died of cancer, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the town of Casey can regulate the use of pesticides.
Before she died, Bethel, a registered nurse, vehemently opposed the county's aerial spraying of undergrowth in pine forests in the town about 10 miles or Spooner.
"She had this gut feeling that all of this spraying was not good," said Mary Emerson, Casey Town Board Clerk.
The board and many of the town's 400 residents agreed, and on Friday, six years after the ordinance was passed, the court ruled unanimously that townships can regulate the use of pesticides above and beyond federal regulations with which the county compiled.
"For the little town of Casey, it's quite an accomplishment," said Randall Slabaugh, town chairman.
"We were elated," said Richard Johnson, former town chairman who was on the board when the ordinance was adopted.
Much of the property in the township is county forest land, and Washburn County was using aerial spraying to control the undergrowth in pine plantations, Johnson said.
But Johnson said the county's methods of application showed little regard for adjacent private property, and after repeated appeals to the forestry department, the town board took official action.
"We wanted to put the kibosh to some of this," Johnson said. The ordinance did not ban aerial spraying. It simply required that sprayers apply for a permit so that residents knew when and where spraying was going to occur and
what was being applied in the spray, Johnson said.
"We just wanted a handle on this thing," Johnson said.
Slabaugh said his support of the ordinance strikes some people as unusual.
"It's kind of ironic because I'm a farmer," he said, noting that he does not use aerial spraying on his crops.
The case was not costly for the township, Slabaugh said, noting that the same attorney has worked with the township on the case from the start for a minimal fee.
"Every year, at the annual meeting, someone would ask now much this was costing the town, and we'd say we still have money in the fund," Slabaugh said.
Part of the money used for the lengthy court battle was donated on behalf of Bethel after her death, and was called the Helen Bethel fund.
"She was one of the original board members who got this thing going," said Slabaugh. "She was madder than all get out."
"Bethel died from cancer. So have a lot of other people from up in this neck of the woods. Makes you wonder," Slabaugh said.
The most frustrating part of the case was that the county and the state simply would not believe that the people of Casey were smart enough to know what was good for the town, Emerson said.
Spooner Advocate, 28 Jun 2001, p15A
Remembering Helen Bethel by Sharon Tarr
My biggest concern in writing about my friend, the late Helen Bethel, is that I won't be able to properly tell all that she contributed to this area through her dedication to educating its young people, researching its history, and keeping its government officials on their toes.
Helen Bethel was a very intelligent, well-educated woman. She earned a bacholor's degree from what is now the University of Wisconsin-Rver Falls and a master's degree in American history from UW-Madison, and was also a registered nurse.
Left a widow by the death of her second husband in 1960, she supported herself and three sons by teaching. She was employed by the Spooner school systesm, by the area vocational school system, and at the Spooner hospital where she was the director of their education program and set up the first health careers class in the area.
Beginning in 1976, the year she retired, Helen took on the task of recording local history, particularly that of the town of Casey where she lived. She knew that her friends and neighbors there had many fascinating and colorful stories to tell about earlier times, and she wanted to be sure that they were written down.
Thanks to her, these stories were soon being published in the Spooner Advocate on quite a regular basis and woud later also be included in the third volume of the "Centennial Edition Historical Collections of Washburn County and the Surrounding Indianhead Country, Volume III," published by the Washburn County Historical Society in 1983.
I first met Helen when I was working at the Spooner Advocate and she was starting this project, which would fill much of the rest of her life. Coincidentally, I had just began self-publishing a series of Spooner history booklets when Helen dropped in to look through the files (bound copies) of the old Advocates to do some local history research of her own. We became friends almost immediately because of our common interest in Spooner area history.
Sometime earlier I had discovered that the Advocate office's vault held more those old Advocate files, which dated back to 1901 when the paper began. In some long-unopened old drawers down close to the floor of the vault, there were also bound versions of the The Spooner Register, a newspaper published in Spooner from 1893 to 1904. They were there because The Register's office burned in the big main street fire of 1904.
Tugging on the handle of one of those vault drawers one day, I had managed to pull it open just far enough to see the raggedy-edged front page of a newspaper. I don't even know if I saw the paper's name. "Yuck," I said. "It's falling apart. I don't want to try to get that out of the drawer. I think a mouse has been chewing on those old papers!"
I'm so thankful that Helen came in soon afterward. She was used to digging for history. She wasn't like me. She wasn't afraid of mice. She wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty if she was after something worth digging for. Helen pulled the drawers open further and found that only the edge of the pages were ragged. The rest were in fine condition.
Because of her, a hidden treasure trove of local history was brought to light. She spent hours poring over both the old Registers and Advocates. While she was primarily interested in learning all she could about the early days in the town of Casey, she came across much else that equaly intrigued her and me.
While I continued to work on more Spooner history booklets, Helen was always there to help mee--doing research, contributing information, putting the books together, distributing them, selling copies to friends and family members, and giving support as someone who understood my love for this work, because she loved it, too.
Often I felt she loved it even more than I did. Of course, she was retired and I wasn't, but she would spend hours looking over old books, newspapers and other materials. She would drive endlessly all around the county and even further to interview an old-timer or look at the site of some happening.
Sometimes when I was able to get off work, she would take me along on her research outings. Once we went over to inspect what was then just a hole in the ground north of Webster. Today it is the living history park known as Forts Folle Avoine.
Another time, one morning in early spring, Helen and I joined George Greenfield for a tramp through fields and forests just west of Trego so that George could show us the path of the elusive olf Veazie Trail. As he led us on our way, George would stop from time-to-time to point out some clue he had found as to where the trail had gone.
Helen would nod knowingly as she looked it over. I would try to do the same, while hoping neither of them noticed that I had no idea of what it was they saw. The two of them continued stepping along at a good pace as I lagged further and further behind. Not only were those two people in better condition for a trip through the woods than I was (even though I was about 30 years younger than either of them), but I was overdressed for the weather and was soon certain that I was going to pass out. About that time we got back to the cars. I went home to rest, and they went off to the Dinner Bell to have coffee and talk about what we had been looking at that morning.
Just as she worked tirelessly to record history, Helen Bethel was dedicated to looking after the present, and thus the future, too. She spent 10 years as the town treasurer in Casey and later served as a board supervisor, too. Her voice was also heard at the county level when necessary, for example, when environmental safety issues arose.
Helen Bethel was a woman of great knowledge, great strength and caring, boundless energy and courage.
She died in the fall of 1987, and I still miss her today.
HSO, 22Mar1934, p1
Hudson friends of Miss Helen Jenson, a student at the River Falls Teachers College, are pleased to hear of the splendid record she is making in her studies. Miss Jenson is a graduate of Hudson High School and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Jenson, Jr. of North Hudson.
Mr. Jenson this week received the following letters from J. H. Ames, president of River Falls College:-
"I have before me a report upon the work of students during the winter term just closed. I find that your daughter, Helen, made the unusual record of receiving an A in each of the courses taken. This record is equalled by only five other students in the entire college for this term".
HSO, 30 May 1935, p3
Two Hudson Students Among Graduates at R.F. Teachers College
Among 73 degree graduates and 38 diploma graduates of the River Falls State Teachers College this year are Helen Jensen and Albert Linder of Hudson.
Helen Jensen [sic], who graduated from the Hudson High School in 1930, has made a very worthy record during her four years at River Falls College. She is graduating from the English-History Department. [there is more to the article, listing mbsps, etc] .. Miss Jensen has also been past chairman of the History Club.
HSO, 9 Sep 1937
Helen Jensen Weds Dr. T H. Williams
Mr. and Mrs. Nels Jenson announce the marriage of their daughter, Helen Margaret, to Dr. T. Harry Williams of Hazel Green, Wisconsin. They were married September 2 at Dubuque, Iowa. They will live in Green Bay where Dr. Williams is an instructor of history in the University Extension Department.
In the "Centennial Edition, HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS of Washburn County and The Surrounding Indianhead Country, Volume III", Edited by Kay Brown Winton, 1983, Helen wrote; "I can claim a place in this volume only because I am one of those who have helped preserve Washburn County history.
My husband Lester Bethel bought our home here in 1951 because he loved this country. As a commercial food salesman, he had often stayed at Pierce Donovan's hotel in the 1930's and became well acquainted there.
I was born in Hudson March 3, 1913, the third of nine children born to Nels and Gurina Jenson--including twins and triplets as a grand finale.
I graduated from River Falls Teachers College in the bottom of the depression years, spent a year at home studying astronomy with a borrowed 3-inch telescope, then applied for a scholarship and in 1937 was granted a Master's
degree in American history at the U of Wisconsin in Madison. I also married another history student, Dr. T. Harry Williams.
We went through the rest of the depression years with my husband teaching in the University Extension Division in northeastern Wisconsin and summers at the U of West Virginia and the U of Wis at Madison. Then we moved to the U pf
Omaha, Nebraska, and finally, as war broke out, to Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
There I completed the pre-medical courses at the university and as a war volunteer worked in a day-care center and in surgery at the local hospital. In 1947 we were divorced and I took nurses' training at the hospital and became an
R.N.
I taught nursing students at Denver General Hospital until I was called home to help my mother when my father died. I worked as a nurse at the U of Kansas hospital in Kansas City and later, after my second marriage, in Alexandria,
Minnesota until our son Jim was born.
Our twins, Glen and Gene, were born in Shell Lake and the boys grew up in the town of Casey. Jim and Gene still live in Washburn County, both working for the CNW railroad.
By 1960, when my husband died of lung cancer, I had become interested in local government and served ten years as town treasurer. Then I served briefly as town supervisor, a position which I again hold.
I helped support our family by teaching for the Spooner school, the vocational school, and Spooner Hospital, where I was director of their education program. I set up the first Health Careers class in the area.
When I retired in 1976 I decided to return to my interest in American history, and to concentrate on collecting and preserving the local history, particularly the town of Casey. I take pride in knowing the local history almost as well as the natives. I have been a member of the county historical society ever since we moved here, and served as its secretary till this year when I resigned to take the late Robert Ramsdell's position as treasurer."
Spooner Advocate, 17 Sep 1987, p13, c1
Helen J. Bethel, age 74, a resident of the town of Casey, passed away Monday, Sept. 14, at the Spooner Community Memorial Hospital. The former Helen Jenson was born March 3, 1913 at Hudson. She graduated from the River Falls Teachers College in the early 1930's and in 1937 she received her master's degress in American History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She later became a registered nurse, taking her training at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. She practiced and taught nursing at Denver, Kansas and Alexandria, Minneosta prior to moving to the Spooner area in 1951. She taught nursing and health career for the Spooner school system, WITI and the Spooner Comunity Memorial Hospital. She retired in 1976 and concentrated on collecting and studying local history. She has been a member of the Washburn County Historical Society since the 1950's, and had previously served as it's secretary, and was serving as treasurer at the time of her death. She frequently wrote historical articles for the newspaper. She had also served ten years as treasurer for the Town of Casey, and was a former supervisor of the township.
She is survived by three sons, James of Spooner, Gene of Chicago and Glen of Antigo, four grandchildren, five sisters, Anne Lester and Laura Kinney, both of River Falls, Ruth Lund of North Hudson, Leila Christensen of Wessington Springs, S.D., and Jane Rasmussen of New Richmond.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lester A. Bethel, on June 13, 1960. She was also preceded in death by two brothers, Ole and John, a sister, Janet, and three grandsons, Max, Zachery and Lukas Bethel.
In accordance with her wishes, there will be no funeral serices. Memorials may be directed to the Washburn County Historical Society. Arrangements are being handled by the Scalzo Funeral Home.
St. Paul Pioneer Press, 26Jun1991
WISCONSIN TOWN PROUD OF ITS FIGHT OVER PESTICIDES
Peggy Ryan, correspondent
Casey, Wis.
Helen Bethel can rest in peace. Two years after the former town board supervisor died of cancer, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the town of Casey can regulate the use of pesticides.
Before she died, Bethel, a registered nurse, vehemently opposed the county's aerial spraying of undergrowth in pine forests in the town about 10 miles or Spooner.
"She had this gut feeling that all of this spraying was not good," said Mary Emerson, Casey Town Board Clerk.
The board and many of the town's 400 residents agreed, and on Friday, six years after the ordinance was passed, the court ruled unanimously that townships can regulate the use of pesticides above and beyond federal regulations with which the county compiled.
"For the little town of Casey, it's quite an accomplishment," said Randall Slabaugh, town chairman.
"We were elated," said Richard Johnson, former town chairman who was on the board when the ordinance was adopted.
Much of the property in the township is county forest land, and Washburn County was using aerial spraying to control the undergrowth in pine plantations, Johnson said.
But Johnson said the county's methods of application showed little regard for adjacent private property, and after repeated appeals to the forestry department, the town board took official action.
"We wanted to put the kibosh to some of this," Johnson said. The ordinance did not ban aerial spraying. It simply required that sprayers apply for a permit so that residents knew when and where spraying was going to occur and
what was being applied in the spray, Johnson said.
"We just wanted a handle on this thing," Johnson said.
Slabaugh said his support of the ordinance strikes some people as unusual.
"It's kind of ironic because I'm a farmer," he said, noting that he does not use aerial spraying on his crops.
The case was not costly for the township, Slabaugh said, noting that the same attorney has worked with the township on the case from the start for a minimal fee.
"Every year, at the annual meeting, someone would ask now much this was costing the town, and we'd say we still have money in the fund," Slabaugh said.
Part of the money used for the lengthy court battle was donated on behalf of Bethel after her death, and was called the Helen Bethel fund.
"She was one of the original board members who got this thing going," said Slabaugh. "She was madder than all get out."
"Bethel died from cancer. So have a lot of other people from up in this neck of the woods. Makes you wonder," Slabaugh said.
The most frustrating part of the case was that the county and the state simply would not believe that the people of Casey were smart enough to know what was good for the town, Emerson said.
Spooner Advocate, 28 Jun 2001, p15A
Remembering Helen Bethel by Sharon Tarr
My biggest concern in writing about my friend, the late Helen Bethel, is that I won't be able to properly tell all that she contributed to this area through her dedication to educating its young people, researching its history, and keeping its government officials on their toes.
Helen Bethel was a very intelligent, well-educated woman. She earned a bacholor's degree from what is now the University of Wisconsin-Rver Falls and a master's degree in American history from UW-Madison, and was also a registered nurse.
Left a widow by the death of her second husband in 1960, she supported herself and three sons by teaching. She was employed by the Spooner school systesm, by the area vocational school system, and at the Spooner hospital where she was the director of their education program and set up the first health careers class in the area.
Beginning in 1976, the year she retired, Helen took on the task of recording local history, particularly that of the town of Casey where she lived. She knew that her friends and neighbors there had many fascinating and colorful stories to tell about earlier times, and she wanted to be sure that they were written down.
Thanks to her, these stories were soon being published in the Spooner Advocate on quite a regular basis and woud later also be included in the third volume of the "Centennial Edition Historical Collections of Washburn County and the Surrounding Indianhead Country, Volume III," published by the Washburn County Historical Society in 1983.
I first met Helen when I was working at the Spooner Advocate and she was starting this project, which would fill much of the rest of her life. Coincidentally, I had just began self-publishing a series of Spooner history booklets when Helen dropped in to look through the files (bound copies) of the old Advocates to do some local history research of her own. We became friends almost immediately because of our common interest in Spooner area history.
Sometime earlier I had discovered that the Advocate office's vault held more those old Advocate files, which dated back to 1901 when the paper began. In some long-unopened old drawers down close to the floor of the vault, there were also bound versions of the The Spooner Register, a newspaper published in Spooner from 1893 to 1904. They were there because The Register's office burned in the big main street fire of 1904.
Tugging on the handle of one of those vault drawers one day, I had managed to pull it open just far enough to see the raggedy-edged front page of a newspaper. I don't even know if I saw the paper's name. "Yuck," I said. "It's falling apart. I don't want to try to get that out of the drawer. I think a mouse has been chewing on those old papers!"
I'm so thankful that Helen came in soon afterward. She was used to digging for history. She wasn't like me. She wasn't afraid of mice. She wasn't afraid to get her hands dirty if she was after something worth digging for. Helen pulled the drawers open further and found that only the edge of the pages were ragged. The rest were in fine condition.
Because of her, a hidden treasure trove of local history was brought to light. She spent hours poring over both the old Registers and Advocates. While she was primarily interested in learning all she could about the early days in the town of Casey, she came across much else that equaly intrigued her and me.
While I continued to work on more Spooner history booklets, Helen was always there to help mee--doing research, contributing information, putting the books together, distributing them, selling copies to friends and family members, and giving support as someone who understood my love for this work, because she loved it, too.
Often I felt she loved it even more than I did. Of course, she was retired and I wasn't, but she would spend hours looking over old books, newspapers and other materials. She would drive endlessly all around the county and even further to interview an old-timer or look at the site of some happening.
Sometimes when I was able to get off work, she would take me along on her research outings. Once we went over to inspect what was then just a hole in the ground north of Webster. Today it is the living history park known as Forts Folle Avoine.
Another time, one morning in early spring, Helen and I joined George Greenfield for a tramp through fields and forests just west of Trego so that George could show us the path of the elusive olf Veazie Trail. As he led us on our way, George would stop from time-to-time to point out some clue he had found as to where the trail had gone.
Helen would nod knowingly as she looked it over. I would try to do the same, while hoping neither of them noticed that I had no idea of what it was they saw. The two of them continued stepping along at a good pace as I lagged further and further behind. Not only were those two people in better condition for a trip through the woods than I was (even though I was about 30 years younger than either of them), but I was overdressed for the weather and was soon certain that I was going to pass out. About that time we got back to the cars. I went home to rest, and they went off to the Dinner Bell to have coffee and talk about what we had been looking at that morning.
Just as she worked tirelessly to record history, Helen Bethel was dedicated to looking after the present, and thus the future, too. She spent 10 years as the town treasurer in Casey and later served as a board supervisor, too. Her voice was also heard at the county level when necessary, for example, when environmental safety issues arose.
Helen Bethel was a woman of great knowledge, great strength and caring, boundless energy and courage.
She died in the fall of 1987, and I still miss her today.
Events
| Birth | 3 Mar 1913 | Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin | |||
| Graduation | 1930 | Hudson High School - Hudson, St. Croix, Wis |  | ||
| Marriage | 2 Sep 1937 | Dubuque, Iowa - T. Harry Williams | | ||
| Marriage | 1949 | Lester Almen Bethel | |||
| Death | 14 Sep 1987 | Spooner, Washburn, Wisconsin | |||
| Divorce | T. Harry Williams | ||||
| Burial | , Washburn, Wisconsin, Anah Cemetery |
Families
| Spouse | Lester Almen Bethel (1900 - ) |
| Child | James Bethel |
| Child | Glen A. Bethel |
| Child | Gene W. Bethel |
| Spouse | T. Harry Williams (1909 - 1979) |
| Father | Nels Johan Jenson (1886 - 1947) |
| Mother | Gurina Hallanger (1883 - 1968) |
| Sibling | Olaf John "Ole" Jenson (1907 - 1974) |
| Sibling | Anna Katherine Jenson (1909 - ) |
| Sibling | Ruth Hallanger Jenson (1915 - 1989) |
| Sibling | Leila Jensina Jenson (1918 - 1999) |
| Sibling | Laura Jenson (1918 - 1998) |
| Sibling | Jane Mary Jenson (1924 - 2007) |
| Sibling | Janet Ida Jenson (1924 - ) |
| Sibling | John Robert Jenson (1924 - 1980) |
Endnotes
1. Miller, Willis H. and Benoy, Marian Thorson, Hudson High School Alumni Directory Star-Observer Publishing Co., Hudson, Wis., 1973, p23.
2. Willis H. Miller, Hudson Area Biographical Index.